Are you insane or on a fishing expedition?
The Jack n Jill can provide bread for all the good people of Brighton!? To hell with it. Why wait for the flare. Let's pull the plug now.
Well, let's ask the people of Croydon and Tottenham what they would do?
Are you talking months or a day?
A day and we would survive, although our economy would be screwed as the country demonstrated its inability to keep the lights on.
Of course, certain parts of the country (and that's many...
Good God, I had not realised how removed people are from our survival needs and energy.
2-3 months with electricity may as well be a lifetime. This is the conundrum of the energy crisis! We have to have it.
2 weeks will certainly give you enough time to learn how to kill bunnies, and you'll have collected a couple of bags of rotting berries.
No, you would be dead. And sooner than you think.
Our world relies on trade, on manufacture, on movement, on supply chains. Our spread of population relies...
Without electricity ie if we run out of options, society will implode.
Take your list. Now think of everything you possibly can and add it to that list. That's what you would be without.
That is how real our energy crisis is. We're talking extinction level event if it's turned off tomorrow.
We would still have our books and our art?
Are you mad?
It would be carnage. That's why we need oil, solar, wave, bio, and wind power technologies to continue to provide energy.
Alternatively you could starve as you read your book.