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17.01.2009, 16:38 quote

sc0ttie

All the more reason that if you own your own home, start planning on kitting it out with a renewable energy source such as solar, it will be a wise investment for when the fossil fuel crisis starts, which wont be that far away!

I suspect that in 10 years time you may be paying double what you are now for gas, if not more. Electricity less so because it is not only fossil fuel generated, but I don't think the future for fossil fuels is not bright.

 
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22.01.2009, 00:43 quote

sc0ttie

sasquirrel wrote:
Scottie... but solar power is still electrons runnig through your house wiring.


That's right, i thought the original post was asking how would we cope without an electricity supply if it was cut off at the mains. I didn't think he meant if also the infrastructure supplying it suddenly disappeared as well.

kadushu wrote:

What I'm getting at is that we could do with a backup plan or two - a bit like scottie and politegorilla have suggested - alternatives to electronics.


I don't know much about harnessing power from plants but if you can run a clock from a potato, could you not build a computer that was hooked up to a tree? Laughing

Perhaps people would also harness energy generated from animals too. Why have battery hen farms where the hens are cramped together without exercise when you could put them on treadmills to generate electricity? Laughing not only would the chickens get exercise and taste better, the owner generates extra profit from the electricity they generate. although i am probably talking shit here as i totally have not thought it through...

I would expect people to definitely start harnessing the power of the sun, using it to power the splitting of hydrogen and oxygen from water to use the hydrogen as fuel, which can power a generator or some such device. There is also solar fuel cells, which can store energy absorbed from the sun for use when you need it, i.e at night.

It might put a stop to people wasting all that electricity when they cover their houses in 10,000 Christmas lights every year UT

If electricity was turned off by the national grid i think people would find their own personal solutions to that problem by generating their own power somehow and i am sure there would some great weird and wonderful ways of doing that which nobody has explored yet.

 
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