Spanish prepper Javier Azurmendi updates his index and defends saving with batteries
Javier Azurmendi publishes his prepping index with over one hundred entries and defends saving 100 euros a month with batteries
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Azurmendi updates his self-sufficiency index and stokes the war against AI
A man says he lives in isolation, "like Captain Nemo", fishing in underwater forests of brown algae and watching from afar the "madness" of everyone else. His name is Javier Azurmendi and he has just published the update of his prepping and self-sufficiency index, dated October 26, 2026. It contains more than one hundred entries: batteries, vegetable gardens, seedbeds, welding, cheese makers, smokers for city apartments and even an urgent plan for the collapse. The document itself is an editorial anomaly: a table of contents that works as a domestic political program.
The figure causing the biggest stir is not in the index, but in the comments. Azurmendi claims that his battery setup saves him 100 euros a month on his electricity bill, and he lashes out at those who doubted the calculation. The discussion soon drifts toward something less technical: whether an artificial intelligence program can be used to consult on an electrical installation without burning the house down. His answer is emphatic: the program "is artificial, that much is true, but of intelligence there is nothing at all".
What Azurmendi's prepping index contains
The index is a map of perfectly ordered obsessions. Food storage, medicine storage, radioactive foods, a Faraday cage for the garden and for an event, electric fences for pets, locks, windows, doors, landscaping for the escape. There is a financial section —investing in stocks, funds, metals, a precious metals tester— and another on alternative income. The underlying thesis appears in one of the entries: protecting yourself "from widespread ruin by having no debts of any kind, so that no one has us by the throat".
The author insists that the index is not the content. He complains about being judged by the list without reading the articles, and reminds readers that each entry has its full development. It is the classic complaint of the prolific author: people read the cover, not the book.
The health warning about CDS that runs through the index
Among the entries there are several devoted to CDS: deodorant, hemorrhoids, "new solution". Chlorine dioxide is the same compound used to purify water and bleach paper, and its use as a remedy in the body is not authorized as a medicine. The warnings from the AEMPS (Spain's agency for medicines and medical devices) and the FDA about its consumption —vomiting, severe diarrhea, dehydration, serious harm at high doses— are public and easy to find. Applied to skin and mucous membranes it can irritate or burn.
Azurmendi defends himself with a prior disclaimer: "I am not a doctor nor do I have a related profession". The warning does not make the content harmless, but it does delimit responsibility. There lies the underlying problem of the whole ecosystem: the border between sharing an experience and publishing a protocol.
The fight with artificial intelligence and the 100-euro calculation
The most acidic stretch of the exchange is the technological one. Azurmendi says he paid 26 euros a month for a paid version and that he nearly set his house on fire trinc an installation instruction. He adds that another tool, the free one, advised him to stop paying. The anecdote is funny and has a serious underside: domestic technical queries have moved from manuals to the chat, and the chat takes no responsibility when it gets things wrong.
On the other side, the reply is that the warning about chlorine dioxide does not deny its use as a disinfectant for water or surfaces, only its use as a medicine. And that its sale on platforms is not equivalent to health authorization. The nuance is correct, although it gets lost in the fray.
Distilled water, colloidal silver and military manuals
The conversation drifts toward water. A home distiller is mentioned, and colloidal silver as an antibacterial, with the argument that air conditioning cleaning systems already use silver. Two Army survival manuals also appear, shared via temporary links. It is the usual pattern: the practical resource circulates faster than the warning about it.
Colloidal silver is no substitute for an antibiotic and distilled water does not solve drinkability. Nobody says so in the exchange.
Collapse as a mental framework
The introductory text does not talk about specific crises, but about a "great economic and social reset" that is deliberate and calculated. The practical response it proposes is not confrontation: it is zero debt, self-sufficiency and flight. "Hide, be self-sufficient and wait prepared for its inevitable collapse", he writes. The sentence sums up an entire genre.
The question that remains is the usual one. A hundred index entries are not a plan, they are a library. And a library feeds no one the day the lights go out.
A man says he lives in isolation, "like Captain Nemo", fishing in underwater forests of brown algae and watching from afar the "madness" of everyone else. His name is Javier Azurmendi and he has just published the update of his prepping and self-sufficiency index, dated October 26, 2026. It contains more than one hundred entries: batteries, vegetable gardens, seedbeds, welding, cheese makers, smokers for city apartments and even an urgent plan for the collapse. The document itself is an editorial anomaly: a table of contents that works as a domestic political program.
The figure causing the biggest stir is not in the index, but in the comments. Azurmendi claims that his battery setup saves him 100 euros a month on his electricity bill, and he lashes out at those who doubted the calculation. The discussion soon drifts toward something less technical: whether an artificial intelligence program can be used to consult on an electrical installation without burning the house down. His answer is emphatic: the program "is artificial, that much is true, but of intelligence there is nothing at all".
What Azurmendi's prepping index contains
The index is a map of perfectly ordered obsessions. Food storage, medicine storage, radioactive foods, a Faraday cage for the garden and for an event, electric fences for pets, locks, windows, doors, landscaping for the escape. There is a financial section —investing in stocks, funds, metals, a precious metals tester— and another on alternative income. The underlying thesis appears in one of the entries: protecting yourself "from widespread ruin by having no debts of any kind, so that no one has us by the throat".
The author insists that the index is not the content. He complains about being judged by the list without reading the articles, and reminds readers that each entry has its full development. It is the classic complaint of the prolific author: people read the cover, not the book.
The health warning about CDS that runs through the index
Among the entries there are several devoted to CDS: deodorant, hemorrhoids, "new solution". Chlorine dioxide is the same compound used to purify water and bleach paper, and its use as a remedy in the body is not authorized as a medicine. The warnings from the AEMPS (Spain's agency for medicines and medical devices) and the FDA about its consumption —vomiting, severe diarrhea, dehydration, serious harm at high doses— are public and easy to find. Applied to skin and mucous membranes it can irritate or burn.
Azurmendi defends himself with a prior disclaimer: "I am not a doctor nor do I have a related profession". The warning does not make the content harmless, but it does delimit responsibility. There lies the underlying problem of the whole ecosystem: the border between sharing an experience and publishing a protocol.
The fight with artificial intelligence and the 100-euro calculation
The most acidic stretch of the exchange is the technological one. Azurmendi says he paid 26 euros a month for a paid version and that he nearly set his house on fire trinc an installation instruction. He adds that another tool, the free one, advised him to stop paying. The anecdote is funny and has a serious underside: domestic technical queries have moved from manuals to the chat, and the chat takes no responsibility when it gets things wrong.
On the other side, the reply is that the warning about chlorine dioxide does not deny its use as a disinfectant for water or surfaces, only its use as a medicine. And that its sale on platforms is not equivalent to health authorization. The nuance is correct, although it gets lost in the fray.
Distilled water, colloidal silver and military manuals
The conversation drifts toward water. A home distiller is mentioned, and colloidal silver as an antibacterial, with the argument that air conditioning cleaning systems already use silver. Two Army survival manuals also appear, shared via temporary links. It is the usual pattern: the practical resource circulates faster than the warning about it.
Colloidal silver is no substitute for an antibiotic and distilled water does not solve drinkability. Nobody says so in the exchange.
Collapse as a mental framework
The introductory text does not talk about specific crises, but about a "great economic and social reset" that is deliberate and calculated. The practical response it proposes is not confrontation: it is zero debt, self-sufficiency and flight. "Hide, be self-sufficient and wait prepared for its inevitable collapse", he writes. The sentence sums up an entire genre.
The question that remains is the usual one. A hundred index entries are not a plan, they are a library. And a library feeds no one the day the lights go out.
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