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TV series question – electric power after apocalypse?

2 pointsby ExpeditKallaxover 2 years ago

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richardjam73over 2 years ago
For a short time after civilisation stops some things will continue to work eventually all will break down. Petroleum fuels actually have a limited life so you would need some way to refine more. Most methods of easy refinement don&#x27;t produce quality fuels which will break most modern ICE. There are ICE that can survive longer on such fuels.<p>Alternately you could use steam or wood combustion engines but most don&#x27;t work any more and few people even know how to operate them.<p>A good EV and solar recharging station will last probably longer than modern ICE vehicles relying on fuel stores that are decaying.<p>Eventually survivors would need to revert to more primitive means of transportation such as sail, foot or horseback.<p>Another consideration is that the roads in most places will decay and fill with detritus making trouble for most vehicles.<p>Metal will rust and rubber seals will decay so finding and keeping any spares will be significant issue.<p>Transport you would see after the apocalypse would change over time as more and more technology breaks down.
ggmover 2 years ago
Solar. Wind. The mcguffin to get electricity is lower bar post apocalypse than oil, given even current levels of deployment.<p>Replacement is harder, because polycrystalline manufacture depends on unbelievably precise doping of nine nines or better pure silicon. Digging oil up is probably easier but you can run a turbine on any combustible gas, even powdered coal at a pinch. So set the survivalists in Seattle and rob the Boeing factory of jet engines to run the generators.
ExpeditKallaxover 2 years ago
I&#x27;ve just read that there will be more EV vehicles in Netflix shows. And it made me wonder how will they charge EV vehicles? Who operates power plants?<p>Yeah, I know that gas&#x2F;oil also degrades over time.