1) Recall the relevant class. Comment on Toxoplasma Gondii. What do you think??
I think it’s creepy cool. However, the research on how Toxoplasma Gondii affects human behavior was not conducted very well. They didn’t have a control group. You have to have a control group if you are going to use the scientific method (duh). It makes sense that Toxoplasma Gondii would affect our behavior, but I don’t think it affects it the way that poorly done research implies.
2) Add more to your project. Put the new stuff in a new blog posting. Consider new material that has some connection to Toxoplasma Gondii. Alternatively, it could have a connection to some other parasite or disease, or parasites or diseases more generally. Or it might be about something completely different...your choice!
This Toxoplasma Gondii stuff actually fits quite nicely with our zombie project. We want to come at this from a more realistic angle. For example, a disease, bacteria, or parasite that can alter human behavior. Sound familiar? The more I research this topic the more I wonder how realistic is might actually be.
This has already been covered in a previous blog so moving on to more relevant technology.
Emergency Power Systems:
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/household-safety/security/emergency-power.htm
Conventional emergency power systems are designed with a temporary power outage in mind.
Generators tend to run on gas, diesel, or propane. All of which would be exponentially more difficult to collect. For a while we could siphon gas from the abandoned cars. However, we could only retrieve gas and diesel from gas stations for as long as the grid held-out as electric pumps are used to pump gasoline out of the tanks in the ground. I am unsure about our propane resources. However, I am certain they would be limited. And of course, these are the kinds of things everyone will be grabbing up.
An inverter is another option. An inverter is an electrical device that converts 12-volt power into 120-volt power. They are usually run off of car batteries or deep-cycle batteries (designed to power the inverter). A car battery can supply about 120 watts continuously for about three hours. A deep-cycle battery can pump out the same for about 6-8 hours. Of course, any way of recharging these batteries leads us back to gas or the grid (unless we could install solar panels which I doubt).
In conclusion, I think having a generator and/or an inverter stashed away somewhere isn’t a back idea in the event of zombie apocalypse, but I wouldn’t count on them for your livelihood.
Manual Hand Generator:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/travel/hand-powered-generators.htm
Not likely to be something we can find, but a good option to have. Perhaps Sports Academy would have one? You can get a hand generator that has many different connections including a standard wall socket. To power your device just turn the crank!
If we can’t find one we can build one. All we need are some rechargeable batteries, a drill, and a handle. (Explain how to build the hand generator).
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