One way to charge your cellphone if shtf

IF a cell phone is part of your plan, your dead.

instead of storing info GO OUT AND PRACTICE SURVIVAL.

Obama phone - you are already dead you just don't know it.

Good idea! Might still need those things in a shtf scenario that isn't 100% total devastation.

If we knew exactly what kind of shtf was coming, we could all look like geniuses getting ready. We might even look as smart as YOU.

If there is a giant 'kaboom' on the east coast, my cell phone on the west coast may work for days, enabling me to coordinate with family and friends. If ebola starts making the rounds, the utility company may not be staffed, but the cell towers are independent of the local utilities, enabling me and my family to bug out. An earthquake could knock out power but cell phones might still work. Ditto for laptops.

OK I want to buy them!
Cool stuff
Thanks for the heads up OP

You folks know nothing about National Emergency protocals.

Cell phone service is one of the first things cut to the public.

WOW people some people doomed

Sigh. As one poster pointed out, smartphones are good for a LOT more than communication! You DO live in the 21st century, don't you?

Linky, please?

Great thanks op most interesting post

Am curious as to how it converts heat into the shocking stuff.

you folks are not even tech savoy, smart phones are easy to track with a simple netbook.

In shtf while your playing with your phone some group could be plotting your locations for a raid. Take your supplies rape your women kill you...........

you want to survive its called stealth.

Unless your cellphone can act as a HAM, there is no point. Fuel will run out of backup generators at MAX 96hours.

How do I know? Because I built them all summer, and last year, and year before that. I know cell sites in an out, from guyed wire to self supporter, to the little house that sits on the land, to co-locate...etc. It will run out, then say goodbye to your GPS, communication, internet, everything. No point in keeping your phone.


15Kw generators(4cyl diesel turbocharged with a 250GAL tank, max(MOST SITES). This will run non stop as soon as main feed is cut, 96hours max.)They run off a programmed unit as well, and will run out quicker as the tower demands more power as it's current users continue to climb.

Forgot to add, the generator supports an array of anywhere from 36-48 industrial batteries, that will last approximately 45min after generator is cut.

Thanks, that's very useful information.

to some of those idiots....many cell phone towers have battery or generator backup.

Of course some moran will throw the whole thing in the fire and wonder why is isn't working.

To THIS idiot above.....

Clearly you didn't go thru hurricane Sandy and have NO EFFING CLUE WTF you are talking about.
Wait until the batteries run dead and the generators have no fuel.....then you might have reached your FIRST clue.

Idiot.

u give me linky to said wonderful machine

but... the boiling water contraption would be handy as I boil a lot of water in power outages

(I dont have the 130 bucks for it... but still lol)

play games on your smart phone. :) it's a good way to pass the time.

...and tower batteries were dead....and tower gensets out of fuel.

Hi Dumbass, (fro the signature line on your post)

OP gave you a link to an actual working hydrogen cell generator and you are making fun ? You are a Dumbass.

Well, we've got Dumbass and now we have Dumber who misses the point of the potential usefulness of a hydrogen generator. That's OK, we'll let Dumber sit and pedal his stationary bike when he needs a few kilowatts.

boiling hard water
i give the device 6 months before it clogs up

Two blackouts in WV this year. No cell service during either one.

6 months is a hell of a lot longer than I give most so called preppers when tshtf

If the SHTF, who the fuck are you going to call genius?

Reminds me of the MASH episode where they get lost on a bus, and Frank Burns keeps calling for help on a broken walkie talkie.

Same thing here following tornadoes. No cell service for even longer than the power was out even though they brought in temporary towers.

And yes, there are temporary cell phone towers but apparently they don't work very well.