The World Without Electricity; Sign of The Judgement Day
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It's about my prediction of less electricity. To live in a steading somewhere, equipped with a reliable well, vegetable patch, fireplace, maybe a wood-fired Aga.
Taking away electricity means rethinking your entire day and planning how you can function without the means of simply plugging something in. No electricity results in a complete loss of normality.
We are exploring alternative energy sources, living off the grid and how life with no electricity impacts us, to make you think, could you live without electricity?
Electricity: How Long Could We Survive Without It?
Electricity and digitalization are changing the way we live. There are lots of things that society could get along without. More automated than ever before with internet-instant communication, devices, robotics making the effects of power failure far greater and may even have artificial intelligence to support functionality.
What would life be like without electricity? What happens if all electricity “vanishes" and sends the world into the iron age or before?
Imagine life without electricity. Would you be able to get to work, cook, or heat your house? If you live in an urban area the answer is most likely no. A life without electricity may feel distant for most inhabitants. But it is not as unlikely as one might believe, and when it happens, we must be prepared.
Human civilizations are existed from hundreds of years and there was no electricity. Around 1930. If people wanted a bath, they’d have to pump the water up from a well by hand, then heat it on the stove. They can live without electricity.
We're talking about the future, not the present (2023).
No artificial electricity of any kind, meaning that not only all power plants stop working, but that all batteries, generators, dynamos and other electrical systems including bioelectricity.
The Consequences of Power Failure
Most urban citizens rely heavily on electricity in daily life. The pumps bringing water to apartments and houses are dependent on electricity. This means that the water would cease to flow in high-rise buildings in case of a power outage. On lower floors, water availability will worsen as water towers run out of water. Heating systems are also dependent on electricity, and so are fridges and freezers. In case of a power outage lighting, ventilation systems and other appliances used on a daily basis would also stop working.
There are important functions in our society that cannot function without electricity. One example is grocery stores. The most acute problems for stores of any size facing power cuts are related to cooling and heating of food products, and payment activities which are increasingly electronic. In the case of extended power cuts, problems will spread to storage management and ordering, and thereby supply chains. Hospitals are also dependent on electricity. In the absence of power, surgeries are at risk, respirators shut down, and hygiene is threatened. Waste management may also be affected if dependent on pressure piping, which requires electricity to function.
Production facilities, such as power stations producing electricity and heat, wastewater treatment plants and industrial plants face multiple challenges during power outages. Production losses can result in substantial financial costs and pose a threat to safety. For example, production plants handling chemicals requiring high temperatures and pressures is an imminent threat to the environment and personal safety when power is lost as equipment fails.
Infrastructure would also be affected by power outages. Traffic control systems and fuel distribution networks would stop working. Water would flood the streets due to inefficient and completely missing pumping. Ploughing and cleaning of the roads would also be out of order, which would result in large scale problems during the wintertime.
What Would Happen If the Electric Power Went Out Forever?
🔵 No digital currency, cryptocurrency, and NFT. FIAT will come back without paper money.
🔵 All devices and equipment will not working. It cannot be gathered, transported, transmitted, or used.
🔵 Later down the road, nuclear meltdowns would occur (no way to control the reactions) ships stranded at sea, the astronauts on the ISS die REAL soon, etc.
A country with a really unlucky nuclear power plant and really bad timing/antiquated technology could have a meltdown or near meltdown.
🔵 The singers wouldn't have microphones. Without microphones, the singers would have to have real voices. No electric guitar/synthesizer. There’d be phonograph records but no way of amplifying the sound (other than that “his masters voice” trumpet thing they had back then).
🔵 People will "subsistence survive". Practically nobody knows animal-husbandry or how to strap a small plow to a bull. Fewer would know how to make one.
🔵 Airplanes would not exist. Long distance travel would be mainly by rail, using diesel locomotives.
🔵 More significant for immediate loss of life would be medical service such as hospitals. Doctors would be rushing around hospitals trying to respond to that, but without instruments or communication systems, they'd be working slow.
Most people with specified disease can die within weeks.
There wouldn't be devices or electrical equipment. Modern medicine. ECGs, MRIs, defibrillators, electric lights for surgery and health care will turn into traditional ways. Most surgery in the traditional way would result in failure and death. Anyone on electrically based life support might die.
No more refrigeration at Blood Banks which allows for the long-term storage of vital medical supplies. It's something that we wouldn't do very well without. Can you imagine pharmacies with medication that has to be temperature regulated (Insulin for example) without refrigeration?
Medicine quickly becomes an issue, as we have to go back to moldy bread for antibiotics, therefore disease runs rampant for a while.
All pacemakers would fail, causing a rash of heart attacks.
🔵 Cars will stop running. It's not possible to drive a car or fill it up. Now we can talk about the range of a person's life shrinking to the distance that they can walk/bike/ride a horse/ use a steam train to get to the destination and that's a part of transportation loss that we can argue if it's going to be better or worse for society as a whole, but I'd be worried about Ambulances and Fire Fighters.
No more Ambulances and Fire Fighters. Which means Some casualties might occur due various health problems and injuries.
Gasoline engines would be impossible without electronic ignition, but diesel engines don’t need spark plugs. Starting a diesel engine without a starter motor could be a problem but I’m sure somebody would invent a solution.
People will walk to work or school since there is no road connection. Life was normal in fact better than what we have now.
🔵 There would be no telegraph or telephones so the postman with their bicycle, the railways and steamships would be the fastest modes of communication over long distances. Which would make the world very difficult to connect. Anyone who had a medical emergency of any kind couldn't make an emergency call as fast as the present day.
People would have to talk to each other face to face. I wouldn’t be sitting here now in front of a monitor poking at a keyboard. Social structures would be very different. I could still compute, but computers would be for computing.
We would have no long-distance communication. Morse could not have invented the telegraph, Bell could not have invented the telephone, Marconi could not have invented radio, and there would be no Internet.
🔵 The 2nd biggest impact would be the loss of cheap safe lighting. Many businesses would be very hard when the sun went down as alternative light sources. Lighting in the evening was by an oil or kerosene lamp with a wick and glass chimney. An Aladdin brand lamp used a mantle and provided lighter, equivalent to a 60-watt incandescent lamp.
Lighting would be gas lighting, but not simply by open flames. Toward the end of the gas lighting era, gas lights were equipped with “gas mantles” impregnated with materials that glowed brightly in a gas flame. Gas lighting would continue to become more efficient, are either more expensive, more dangerous, or both.
There is a reason Victorian women hired a servant to wash clothing if they could afford one.
🔵 A wind up phonograph or piano provided music. Books, board games and cards provided entertainment.
🔵 Fresh food is healthier and better for us, right? But we're not done saying goodbye to refrigeration.
🔵 Farming would exist without electricity, but we'd have a hard time feeding the population we have without it. We'd also have a much harder time getting that food from where it's produced to where it's currently needed.
Our population levels have reached a point that without modern farming (tractors, electric pumps for sprinkler systems, etc.) we'd have a hard time producing enough food to feed the population we have. We'd also be losing things like the wonderful electric mills that process raw grains into flour or other more usable forms.
No electricity at all? No lightning, then. Forest ecology and primitive agrarian areas would be very different.
🔵 Certainly some point we are now different Era. We are becoming fast.
There are thousands of people who are living happily around the world. Electricity provides energy for most of what is needed in our society. Now we are engaged with so many gadgets which run on electricity.
To live comfortably in a world without power requires many other human beings to toil without a hint of comfort. This lifestyle was accessible without power, but it's unlikely she would have reaped its benefits.
