> A good and expensive side-gain would be repairing and/or upgrading some infrastructure (roads/bridges for the transportation, which is extra cost).
Without electricity I find it difficult to see how anything gets done
+ No mobile phones (handsets rapidly run out, base stations (is this the right term?) are fried, and if they weren't they'd be without power
+ No landline phones
+ No internet - how are you going to co-ordinate anything including crop gathering, packing, distribution, and sales? How are people going to buy anything without money, or a job to earn money if that money hadn't disappeared in a puff of no-bank-account-because the banks... see below.
+ Pumps for fuel are electric aren't they. Cash registers are electric. Banks are effectively electric these days - no electricity no action so no movement of money.
Plus if we keep using fossil fuels and don't transfer to electrical power throughout, what w ill climate change throw at us.
Without electricity I find it difficult to see how anything gets done
+ No mobile phones (handsets rapidly run out, base stations (is this the right term?) are fried, and if they weren't they'd be without power
+ No landline phones
+ No internet - how are you going to co-ordinate anything including crop gathering, packing, distribution, and sales? How are people going to buy anything without money, or a job to earn money if that money hadn't disappeared in a puff of no-bank-account-because the banks... see below.
+ Pumps for fuel are electric aren't they. Cash registers are electric. Banks are effectively electric these days - no electricity no action so no movement of money.
Plus if we keep using fossil fuels and don't transfer to electrical power throughout, what w ill climate change throw at us.