Powerless life: What would it be like?

You bring up a good point. As our resources are slowly dwindling away, WHY isn't anyone trying to further develop the solar technology? Maybe they are, and I am just unaware of it. I know that they continue to develop nuclear power and are always planning new nuclear plants, but it seems as if someone would be looking at alternatives, before it's too late. Our power was out for 5 1/2 days in October after a devastating early snowstorm. It was so difficult to live without power- I couldn't believe how boring life was without TV and the Internet! At least we had phone service! It got very cold in the house because the furnace doesn't work without power, and for those of us without gas stoves, we couldn't even heat with the oven or cook. I did heat up some things on the gas grill outside, including water to make coffee! You get pretty creative in situations like this! It wasn't as if we could go anywhere else, either, because most of the region was without power- some for over 2 weeks!

It is so funny, because I was without power yesterday for one hour. I was thinking the same way. I am thinking now to get some solar battery for an emergency and some saving on daily bases.

I live in the south of Europe and electricity goes out quite often compared to other countries, like France,Germany,a.s.o. In the summer because everyone has their air-conditioning on all night and in the winter months because of the heating. So in some ways people are used to it. Nevertheless everybody is conscious how much we depend on electricity. I agree with you: we should develop solar power as an electricity supply. Our modern lifestyle requieres electricity for almost everything, so we should develop an alternative to the traditionnal manner to be able to subsist in the future.

have to go back to kerosene lamps and fire places. Kids would have to get out and play something outside be more healthy . No phone no tv no anything have to walk to neighbors to visit .Solar is good also the windmills LIke they have in Cali. that produces power

Something similar happened in my city. My grandma and mom were without power for a week. It was very cold and hard to do things. There was nothing to do. Solar would be awesome. So we could do things without power in a situation like that.

Oh I agree we should further develop this technology for sure. It would be great if it could be more affordable to the average person. I cannot imagine life without electricity but I assume we'd all get use to it eventually. It would be really hard to adjust to the problems it would cause though. I can't begin to understand how we'd be able to do simple things such as store food and such.

Yes it is very difficult to stay wihtout power and electricity.

The electricity also went out yesterday the whole town. Because of the the electricity cable had the problem. It took 3 hours to get it fixed. I couldn't not make any post at myLot. I don't earn any dime from the refferal either. I only think about the candle light enough for me. Never think about the sun power to make the electricity. I have no electricity engine at home.

I think most people would just go into shock without electricity. I mean we have come to depend on it and we take it for granted. I know I would freak out without my internet, but eventually I would overcome that. I think it would take time but we would adjust, it is human nature. I wouldn't be against using solar power or wind power or any other natural way to derive power, and I don't think most people would mine either, as long as they had their power.

I went to visit a friend last Saturday who has lived in the bush for 20 years without electricity. It would cost him $20,000 to bring in the power line and he cannot afford it. He use a generator when he needs real power... and has a couple of solar panel for the light. It is a very harsh life... particulary in winter when the days are short. Without electricity the world would simply stop. I also live in the bush... and power cuts happen all the time here... usually in the evening. When it does... all I can do is to go to bed. Cannot even have dinner or make a cup of coffee as everything is electric. I have not had television for a year because you can only get satellite television. And I would require satellite for broadband internet as well. The best I can get through my dial up connection is 28kbps. Thanks goodness... my contract here is over and I am moving out. To a more civilise place I hope.

Being without all kinds of electricity for life would be very catastrophical though, since many of our important household accessories is in need of electricity.

I have thought about this before and it is indeed an interesting thing to hallucinate about. I would like to try to be without electricity for, let's say, a week. Just to see how one would handle it and if new interests would involve. We are so wound up in our electric world now so that simple things like taking walks and playing football seems boring compared to our other media type of interests like watching television.

I actually think I could do it for quite some time. We use minimal Electricity now only fro lights and my electric dryer. I could dry my clothes on a line outside and I could use oil lamps and a generator for everything else. I don't think it woul be much different than I live now! I actually have to go a couple months without electricity because we had no money to pay the bill and we did fine! I have to say that alot of electricity is also being made by Hydro power, through very large Dams int eh US! rigt here in Arizona we have the Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon Dam! They create TONS of electricity by the movement of water!

i can't image the scean of that our life without electricity.without electricity means we can do nothing.we can't watch TV,access internet,commuinate with friends by phone who far away from us and so on.

we would all go back home earlier cos you couldn't work most places in the dark, we would spend more time talking and less time on tv and the internet and all the quality -time-with-family robbers. people would leave the deserts arid as they are supposed to be adn stay in the good green places and respect them cos then they would know it was there or nowhere and not mess with the ecology and build fancy places in the middle of the desert and waste phenomenal amounts of water and money irrigating them, or building fancy places on the sea by eating into the water mass. I for one would love to go back to those ages, don't know why we "developed" from there..

This always is the issue when we loose our power for a couple of hours but soon after the power is restored we tend ot forget about this. I like my electric and always want to have it. If you loose your power you might want to think on getting a generator they are great.

Solar power is great, and save a lot of money, but think about countries that most of the year don't enjoy the sun. They won't enjoy from this solar energy at all. I think that solar energy is a great development in our life, and I think we should use it more.

Oh I can't imagine how life will be if there is no electricity. Maybe it is hard for us born with it. Yes you are right, we must discover other sources of energy that will help us supply what we need. Developing more technology must take place to discover this resources since we cannot tell how long our supply will lasts since we depend on oil for this electricity and sometimes scarcity happened. Lets hope our scientist will do their part.

i think solar power would be the best option because of fossil fuel running out. I am pretty sure that eventually we will have to resort to solar power but until then i am just happy that we have a means of power to do what we enjoy wether it is a pc, a video game or television.

It is inevitable a day will come when the human race will be using solar power . It is predicted that we will run out of fossil-fuel . in about 25 years time.( solar. nuclear. and wind power )will be the key supplies of energy .