Best strategy for power backup in case of cuts?

It won't help with lighting up the room in a power cut, but your post reminded me of this:

Buy some Knicker Elastic. It's easy to replace the worn out stuff.

Its biodegradability in action.

Did you know the oceans are now teeming with bacteria that eat plastic?

"Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater" Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis

Minor or speculative tool. Prevention or collection far more effective.

Ah Red RJ on the party line

It's not a tool It's happening naturally as well.

Plastic-eating bacteria are specialized microorganisms that use synthetic plastics as a food and energy source by secreting unique enzymes to break down tough polymer chains.

Key Species =========== Ideonella sakaiensis: Discovered at a recycling site in Japan in

Bacillus subtilis: Genetically engineered variants of this bacterium have been embedded as dormant spores inside plastics, allowing the material to self-digest when exposed to compost.

Ocean Microbes: Recent studies show that various marine bacteria have evolved PETase-like enzymes found across a vast majority of ocean samples, adapting naturally to global plastic pollution.

If it's just "LW198" it won;t be much use now.

Effing LOL!

-- “it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984.”

Vaclav Klaus

Looking closely at one of the images on that Ebay item, it had a LW/FM switch. The tiny telescopic aerial would have been for use with the latter.