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After the Nuke War - growning uncontaminated food
GINSBERG5150 wrote:
I have a question. Can you purify the water that has been contaminated? boiling the water? I read that a solar still would be needed but is it able to rid the water of toxic componets? and for drinking would iodine "cure" the water? This is the kind of still I was talking about: http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/surv/sstill.htm The ultra fine radioactive dust particles that take several months to reach the ground are so fine you can't even see them, but these will be very widely distributed around the world. When radioactive fallout lands on burning buildings or forest fires, some of it is put back into the air in the form of smoke and this will be ultra fine particles difficult to filter. Plus a nuke war will pretty much put a vast array of pollution into surface water from busted sewer lines to destroyed chemical plants. Even ocean water along the coast will likely be contaminated soon after coastal cities are destroyed. Charcoal (cooked wood) can absorb some things, but won't remove alcohol or petrolium products like gasoline. A solar still won't remove any chemcials in the water that can evaporate with the water like petrolium products. Almost every flood will be highly polluted. If nuclear plants are hit they will release radiation that is very persistant. The safest water will be out of water wells. Rain water or water from some wells unfit to drink (such as high mineral content) could be made drinkable using solar stills. Course it all depends on the level of contamination and polution. You'd be best off moving to an area with the least contamination. Since radioactive fallout follows weather patterns, the healthiest places in the US after it goes through a full scale nuclear war will likely be on the west coast. If only air bursts are used on its cities most of California will likely have little contamination. Why did the nicest real estate in the US have to get occupied by the weardest Americans? I rembered another thing from Kearny's video. When eating tasty animals that have ingested some fallout but are still healthy, consume only meat not too close to the bones because radiative particles tend to collect in the bones. I'm guessing internal organs are out too. Never eat a sick animal. I may be going a bit over board with minimizing elminating contamination from food and water, but it may be worth while doing it for your children and babies who are more vulnerable to poisoning. Generally it takes 30+ years for cancer from radiation to develop, so the older you are the less important. |
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