An Interesting Conversation of a World Without Electricity

[AKKuya]

That scenario would be a blessing and a curse at the same time. 

Instantly, there would be crash in the financial markets placing all without money.  Industries would stop.  People would no longer be forced to work paying bills, mortgages, rent, and debts.

Within several years, tens of millions would die to lack of medical supplies that can't be manufactured.  The same for those unable to heat their dwelling in the winter cold and cool during the summer heat and vice versa in the southern hemisphere.  Worldwide panic and confusion causing break down of social order prompting survival of the strongest and most armed to the teeth.

It would revert back to prior to the 1880s.  Horses, oil lamps, washboards and sailing ships until steam powered transportation resumed. 

Can you give up this age of convenience?

[AKIron]

Read One Second After. Insulin must be refrigerated. A lot of people would die inside a month if the power suddenly went out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

[xanax]

Read One Second After. Insulin must be refrigerated. A lot of people would die inside a month if the power suddenly went out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

Insulin is good for 28 days or so outside the fridge. TLDR on the rest but thought that this fact was more than trivial. All you diabetics Get a Yeti and some Ice ASAP after an EMP event!

Get batteries and steal your neighbors' gas and gas operated generators. Most importantly, get in good with Shuffler for access to Margs!

[AKKuya]

I'm diabetic.  My insulin and pills run out.  I'm good for several months.  Eventually, I will start to go downhill.  Go blind first, then refuse to get up.  1 year to 18 months until last breath.

Everyone is different and Hollywood sets a bad example for dramatic purpose.

[AKIron]

The effectiveness of an EMP attack is debatable. If it is as effective as some believe imagine living in a city of millions and the lights go out to stay. No more supplies coming into the city. There would be a mad scramble to grab and hoard whatever food and supplies wherever you can find it. Sooner rather than later the water will stop flowing. No more indoor plumbing.

[Animl-AW]

AI certainly won't matter much

[CptTrips]

But something like a Carrington Event scares me. 

It's not just idea of the power being off for an extended time, but all electronic devices fried.

Including the electronics in the factory to make new electronics.

Every single thing in our entire tech chain being bricked all at the same time.  It would be years before you could even begin to manufacture the things you'd need to reproduce just to get the power back on.

No communications.  How long on horseback to get a written message from DC to Dallas?

[AKKuya]

No communications.  How long on horseback to get a written message from DC to Dallas?

It would be faster on a bicycle using the interstate system.  A week of pedaling.

[Animl-AW]

2 weeks

[xanax]

It would be faster on a bicycle using the interstate system.  A week of pedaling.

I've ridden 5 or 6 double century's in the past so I think that's about right. I think it'd be a tad longer on a horse. That written message better be pretty dense and informative however as I ain't riding back for "what are you talking about?" or "say again?."

[hazmatt]

I remember as a kid some places still had the telegraph wires up. I'm guessing all those got recycled for copper once they started taking the precious metals out of our coins.

[Eagler]

Civil unrest would have half our big cities on fire within a month...

Marshall law would be our best bet but that would fail eventually...power grid hacks are definitely a way to destroy us from within..without firing an actual weapon..

Eagler

[uptown]

If the powers to be came up off the Tesla files, we wouldn't have this problem. I'm convinced that the pyramids were built using similar lost or hidden technology. 

[CptTrips]

I remember as a kid some places still had the telegraph wires up. I'm guessing all those got recycled for copper once they started taking the precious metals out of our coins.

Wouldn't matter in a big enough Carrington Event. 

We were barely industrialized during the first one thankfully.  Still it fried hundreds of miles of early telegraph line  setting forests on fire.  Telegraph wire would simply be a great induction coil to absorb the energy and and fry and burn every it touches.  It all had to be replaced.

[DmonSlyr]

They were able to build far more beautiful buildings and write much more eloquently than people now, soo, perhaps they were doing something right before 1880 

If something like that ever did happen. It would be absolute chaos. Complete and total anarchy with military intervention. Hard to imagine. It would take atleast 2 decades but probably longer to get humanity back into some kind of civil society. Just speculation.