Living energy free.

I guess Puerto Rico will be an example of how it pans out, although for them I'm sure there are more pressing issues right now.
 
Just had a horrible thought... This would descend into chaos, what the hell are we supposed to fap to in this scenario?
 
I started a thread a couple of years back asking what life would be like if internet access and TV were removed permanently. It didn't go down well I don't think people even wanted to explore the idea as it was so scary to them.

Newspapers, board games and social clubs would be big I know that.
 
I had no power when I arrived home yesterday evening and was briefly lost with what to do. I was hungry, it was going dark quickly and my phone battery was almost dead.

However, just as I had got ready to walk the dogs down to the pub, the power came back on and all was well again.

In a warmer climate I don't think I would be *too* bothered without electricity. I feel sometimes I can take or leave it, but my working life revolves around IT and therefore some of free time does with gaming etc. But I'm not married to it. I could quite happily spend my free time exploring nature, work doing some actual hard graft somewhere and go back to basics. I'd happily have a simple cosy shack in the woods and live off the land. I'm quite interested in being creative, drawing learning guitar etc so I'd happily do things like that instead.
 
Folk who take all mod cons with them on camping are the same folk who kid themselves barbecuing on a gas bbq.
 
I'd probably resort to cannibalism. I mean I wouldn't really need to start eating other people, but I've always been interested in trying new things and the end of civilisation just seems like the perfect excuse.
 
Bluecube said:
No power, no fridges and freezers, no way to keep food edible. Boom! End of the world for a few billion folk anyway.
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I didn't own a fridge for like a year.

I was fine. But I was pretty much living on diet of fresh veg rice and that kinda stuff. I had to use gas to obviously cook though.

That veg was probably also refrigerated on way to shop. I probably could have just lived off rice too.

Either way, no electricity society would collapse.
 
wilber said:
I'd manage fine, as i imagine a lot of rural folk would. It's the townies who will crumble.
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True. I know someone who lives rurally has solar panels and a river they use to generate hydroelectricity.

FortuitousFluke said:
I'd probably resort to cannibalism. I mean I wouldn't really need to start eating other people, but I've always been interested in trying new things and the end of civilisation just seems like the perfect excuse.
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I'd also just resort to cannabilism. I've got the list of OCUK posters I'd go for first in my head already. :D
 
In the event of total loss of electricity the third world countries would have the immediate edge on western societies. Would they develop faster then the West in the new world? I
 
LabR@t said:
I sit here watching TV, fiddling with my phone, with the lights on. What would life me like if we had to live without electric.
Could you cope?
Would society maintain its veil of civilization?
What would you miss the most?

I think as long as society didn't just go into melt down, I think I would like to think I would adapt quickly to no power. I guess I would miss the basic light we take for granted the most. But to be honest I think society would collapse in no time at all.
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Depends on what you mean by "No Electric"

Do you mean no electric at all, anywhere, or just no "Grid/Mains" electric?

(Makes a huge difference)
 
I think some people are going rather overboard with the doom and gloom. No, it won’t be great for us in the west and there would be some significant changes to our lifestyles required, but a Walking Dead esq future because of no electricity? Not so much.

It’s worth mentioning that around a quarter of the world don’t currently have electricity.

Things would become more difficult - no internet or phones for a start, alongside fridges and freezers (which a quarter of the world also don’t have - possibly up to a third or more just ten years ago). It would be a big change for the western world - having to go out daily to buy fresh meat, pickling and canning more products like our parents/grandparents used to do, and I’m sure we would have some issues with many of our jobs.

The biggest issue for places like the UK would be access to firewood and other resources. We would suddenly find out just how overpopulated the UK is when everyone starts trying to chop down trees to cook on! That said if it were just electricity then a significant proportion of that could be solved by reopening coal mines and moving back to steam and wind power.
 
LeeUK said:
Folk who take all mod cons with them on camping are the same folk who kid themselves barbecuing on a gas bbq.
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Unless you’ve collected your own logs and burned them to a good ember it doesn’t matter if it’s lumpwood, briquettes or gas. You’re all kidding yourself. :p
 
Land
woods
barns
few cows & sheep.
cob
still have an old horse drawn plough my grandfather used.
plenty of old farm implements like butter churns, scythes,etc as my father collects them.
Wind turbine, but tbh that would last at best a year before some kind of repair.

I'd last longer than most I guess.
 
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