When I moved from Colorado to Florida, my wife and I itemized almost everyting we owned. We numbered every box and recorded (within reason) everything we put in the box. This served several purposes. First, imagine your house or apartment (or moving truck....IT HAPPENS!) burns to the ground, the insurance company (presuming you have it...) Asks you to list all your belongings so they can settle with you. They generally give you a couple of opportunities to revise the list. A statistic that I saw once stated that even after a third revision only half of the belongings get listed. It is a difficult time of tragedy and tough to remember everything. The packing list would serve as itemized proof of belongings. The second benefit came when we were holed up awaiting the construction of our house. Everything was in a storage unit for 8 months. When we needed something we looked it up and searched for that one box. 95% of the boxes were never opened because we didn't have to hunt it down. The third benefit was that we were able to spend an hour mapping where every box would go... Garage, Living Room, Family Room, each of the four bedrooms, three bath's and the kitchen. Made organizing the volunteer moving help a LOT easier!!!
Transmission of electricity via Airborne arc's would probably not work well for three reasons...
First, Transmitting electricity would produce such large amounts of RFI that it would likely impair communications and general electronics failures within a huge radius of any electrical transmission burst.
Second, transmitting electrical current through the air would be incredibly difficult to steer. Buildings such as high rises would act as antena's and would at the very least effect the direction of a transmission.
Third, there is no way to exactly predict the environmental ramifications of electrical transmissions. Would it lead to more destruction of the Ozone or other levels of the stratosphere?
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When I moved from Colorado to Florida, my wife and I itemized almost everyting we owned. We numbered every box and recorded (within reason) everything we put in the box. This served several purposes. First, imagine your house or apartment (or moving truck....IT HAPPENS!) burns to the ground, the insurance company (presuming you have it...) Asks you to list all your belongings so they can settle with you. They generally give you a couple of opportunities to revise the list. A statistic that I saw once stated that even after a third revision only half of the belongings get listed. It is a difficult time of tragedy and tough to remember everything. The packing list would serve as itemized proof of belongings. The second benefit came when we were holed up awaiting the construction of our house. Everything was in a storage unit for 8 months. When we needed something we looked it up and searched for that one box. 95% of the boxes were never opened because we didn't have to hunt it down. The third benefit was that we were able to spend an hour mapping where every box would go... Garage, Living Room, Family Room, each of the four bedrooms, three bath's and the kitchen. Made organizing the volunteer moving help a LOT easier!!!
Transmission of electricity via Airborne arc's would probably not work well for three reasons...
First, Transmitting electricity would produce such large amounts of RFI that it would likely impair communications and general electronics failures within a huge radius of any electrical transmission burst.
Second, transmitting electrical current through the air would be incredibly difficult to steer. Buildings such as high rises would act as antena's and would at the very least effect the direction of a transmission.
Third, there is no way to exactly predict the environmental ramifications of electrical transmissions. Would it lead to more destruction of the Ozone or other levels of the stratosphere?
Just my 2 cents...