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I’d find an industrial 2,000 watt laser, and power it with deep-cycle marine ni-cad batteries inside my armored track-vehicle. When they attack at night, I’d have plenty of spare power to slice them from any range. Wind or weather have no effect on aiming and there is not much noise. Daytime hoards would be easy to repel.

The shotgun is a satisfying tool for blowin’ zombie heads apart. But it gets hot with constant use and ammunition is heavy. It takes time to reload.

A laser can always keep cutting ‘em down.

Batteries have mass, but the energy that they store has almost no mass. The laser’s energy supply could be recharged indefinitely, which means I wouldn’t have to risk trips into urban areas to commandeer ammo.

Also, guns are noisy, and so, always give away your position. Zombies are slow, but when there’s a bunch of ’em, I want every tactical advantage.

A laser in the ultra-violet range is invisible, so unless Zombie-vision mutates to see in those ranges, they would not know where the blasts are coming from. They’d just see their zombie pals’ heads exploding for no reason. Even if they could see in ultraviolet ranges, laser blasts are short, and at the speed of light, the source would be impossible to locate. A Laser would not make noise to reveal my high-tech sniper-position.

Sure, capacitors and engines make some noise, but that could be easily muffled, especially in a heavily armored vehicle. If I forgot to recharge my batteries, or something malfunctioned, the vehicle itself could be a formidable weapon. I’d just escape by driving over them in crowds or individually, doing my best to crush their zombie-brains to oblivion on the way!

As the sole survivor, I’d drive to an unpopulated area with a flowing stream, woods (so I could rebuild with simple tools like a chainsaw) and fertile land for growing crops. Also, the chainsaw could be an effective ancillary weapon in case some random zombies were able to sneak up on me while I was building my log-fortress.

I have built log homes before. They can be very strong, weather proof, and I believe zombie-proof with a few modifications. Building cabins by yourself is hard work, so one of the first things I’d do after the major conflicts were over, is commandeer some heavy equipment like bulldozers, graders and back-hoes. Of course I’d have to also get a large stockpile of gasoline, kerosene and oil to fuel and maintain them. I figure that would be pretty easy in a post-apocalyptic America. There would be plenty of gas-stations left unattended, lots of tool stores, and probably giant building supply stores with pre-made materials! I have always wanted to buy an entire Lowes or Home Depot! Man, this is starting to sound like fun!

I like the Catskills, so if the initial attacks came from New York, that would be a good choice. But I also like Vermont, and the rolling mountains of the southern USA.

I would prefer a hillside or small mountain with a south-facing exposure. That way I could build a solar array to capture solar energy. Living near a fast flowing stream would allow a water-powered mill and generator, and the uphill walk would be harder for those slow-moving zombies that accidentally discovered my location. Having redundant energy sources seems like a sensible idea.

Another benefit of locating in the south: red neck zombies are even slower and stupider than regular zombies. That makes them easier targets. Plus, it would just be so much fun to shoot red neck zombies!

Zombies tend to congregate in urban areas, since it is a more target-rich environment. If a few remaining stragglers stumble (literally) on to my property, then I’d have plenty of time to see them, and cut ’em down with the laser from my mountainside fortress or from inside my mobile laser vehicle. A little action now and then would keep me from getting bored.

No zombie-movie has ever made it clear exactly what causes zombie-ism, but the method of contamination is always the same: contact with zombies. We never know whether zombie-ism is caused by a virus, a bacteria or some biological experiment cooked up in a government laboratory.

I wouldn’t take any chances. I’d leave the rotting corpses of zombies far away in the in remote small towns, out in the sun to bake until they were bone dry. That way, any potential infection possibility would be practically nil. If there were too many, I’d put on a haz-mat suit and bulldoze them into huge piles, then torch ’em with gasoline. Even the undead can’t walk or do much harm if their muscles are cooked off the bone, their bones are crushed to powder and their brains are vaporized.

Ahhh… I can see it now…

My impenetrable mountain fortress… A windmill, a water wheel, solar panels galore, fertile fields for raising food, and in the distance, the decomposing corpses of red-neck bible-toting zombies. Just me, an invincible sodium laser, and an armored track vehicle. Sweet!

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1. No. Solar Power.
2. Yes. When you use a rotary method(wind turbine, gas engine, hydro turbine) to generate electricity, there has to be an existing magnetic field.
3. Yes.