Questions In Need of Answers - No. 4 - What Foods Have the Longest Shelf Lives?

I recently tweeted over on our Twitter account how honey is the only food that, if left as is, won't ever spoil. Let's pretend my wife and I were building a space in the garage to prepare for the apocalypse. (Just pretending, of course.) My question this week is:

1) What other foods do you have on your shelves that last a long time? What do you recommend we stock up on?

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Typically honey contains the botulinum toxin. This is why you can't feed it to infants or the otherwise immuno-compromized. That being said, honey has been used for ages as a wound care agent, probably the most recent large scale applications would have occurred during WWI. There have been several noteworthy clinical trials whose outcomes have confirmed the benefits that honey can play in wound care. http://ijl.sagepub.com/content/5/1/40.abstract
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Powdered Peanut Butter. Comes in 2 flavors, regular and chocolate. Just add water to the powdered portion you want to eat. Lasts indefinitely.
My dad was a Master Beekeeper and this is what he did with honey. Honey will crystallize but you can easily re-liquify it by placing the glass jar on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven at the lowest temperature an oven will go - somewhere between 150 and 200 degrees until liquid again (3-4 hrs). Or liquify it in the jar in a pan of hot water. It will take a while because you need to keep reheating the water. Don't boil the honey.
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interesting idea, good luck actually making it work. My guess is you'd have to have the kitchen and bathrooms on the main concrete core. The other rooms could rotate around them. I just don't know how you'd get water to work otherwise.
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I could see it *maybe* with some creative use of PEX. But only maybe.

I'm still confused about power generation. How can the power it takes to rotate a floor not offset any gains made by the rotation?
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how will they be powered?

"The towers are expected to generate enough electricity for themselves and other nearby buildings from solar panels and up to 79 wind turbines fitted horizontally between each floor."

it says it right there in the page.

there's a better video on the BBC news website that explains it better
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The architect claims a degree from an institution that does not exist and his publicist had made some very bizarre and non sequitar responses to such claims. This ain't gonna happen unless George Jetson is elected in November.
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"...how will plumbing and other utilities be provided to apartments?"

Electricity would be really easy to control to the point that it shouldn't even be an issue in anyones mind. Anyone who has tinkered with it before will know that "plugs" and "wires" aren't the only things one can use to control it's flow.

Plumbing, on the other hand, I have no clue how that would work.
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