Could the world live without electricity?

Question

Specifically Americans?

how would you cope if you were told that your power would go out in 5 days and never come back on?

What would you do?

if anything that needed electricity to run was suddenly useless...

I'd probably die witout my computer too bert

We'd lose a lot of jobs.

A lot of food would go to waste.

Almost every person on the planet would miss the internet.

We'd have to go visiting more often cause the cell phones wouldnt work????

sounds complicated...

Would a nuclear war knock out power?

Answer 1

no. i think humanity has gone to a point that we need electricity. without it we could not run our factories that process food, etc. BUT i think we could prioritize on what needs electricity the most. cut down on electricity wastage. i dont think i could survive without electricity, in fact i dont think the 6 billion people of us on the planet could. id pray for electricity to come back on. ha for the guy who said that 3rd world country's wouldnt mind...im from a 3rd world country and its not like we live in trees and have kerosene lamps. the rest of the world has come a long way so dont think 3rd world countries are backward and underdeveloped

Answer 2

Well, for the first 250 or so years since the pilgirms landed in Mass., Americans did just fine without electricity.

I will assume you mean that all energy utilities would be cut-off? I do have natural gas (and electricity) running to my house.

I have a kerosene heater, so the first thing I would do with the 5-day warning is to buy large kerosene fuel tanks and fill them up, along with other things I might need for the heater. I would probably buy another heater or 2.

I would hit myself upside the head for not buying a house with a fireplace [Homer]d'OH[/homer].

I also have a portable generator, so I would buy gasoline in large drums to power it up for a while.

I would eat most of the frozen food I have stored in my freezer so it wouldn't go to waste.

I would buy alot of manual tools, kitchen gadgets, and such, that I have as powered devices, now.

I could always buy a bunch of solar panels, and run everything off of those.

That's all I can think of, right now.

Answer 3

Electricity is not that big of a deal when it comes down to it. There is other alternative sources that we would be able to use to make it. On top of that, there is no way that electricity would just go out. But if that were the case, many people would die. survival of the fittest would come to play and we would all start to live like in the olden days. Settle around water sources, use horses to ride on, I dont know. You have a very good question

Answer 4

I am 76 years now and we first had natural gas lights .U may be coaster to that than u would like. Ask North Korea they have almost no fossil fuel . Looking at it via satellite it is almost total darkness at night. The temperature in their hospitals is about 40 deg. F. and that is cold . it is not just us ugly Americans if some idiot starts a nuclear war we could get there very quickly and about 3 billion people will die . Progress is not evil ,it can make your life better.

Answer 5

yes the world could live without electricity... it did for over 1700 yrs. the biggest issue is how people would be able to survive with out heat or A/C... Most rely far to heavily on the "comforts" and don't have a clue how to make nature work for them... we are a throwaway nation and because of that we have forgotten how to do the basic things to live... The Show Survivor is proof of that.

Answer 6

I lived where there was no electric power until I was 18. We did very well. Pumped water by hand, cooked on a wood stove, used wood for heat, used well water to keep food cool, Farmed with horses, milked cows by hand, used kerosene lamps and lanterns for light. That was in north central Indiana. Interesting enough I am a retired electronics technician.

Answer 7

Seriously... are you expecting your question to be featured by yahoo? Well... good luck anyways. As for your question, I don't think so the world now is running because of electricity. Countless devices require electricity in every facets of human life. So my answer is no!

Answer 8

Of course the world can survive without electricity. What i mean is that i used to be poor once and my famely couldnt affort to pay electricity nor water. Well this was back when i was in Mexico. I of course the world can survive without electrycity. how do u think our ansestors made it 600 years ago. they didnt care about internet cause they didnt had it.
Well yes we can survive without electricity

Answer 9

I would be extreamly bored.. it would be a big life adjustment but at the same time my quilt would go away. 3rd world countries and that have no power and it just would go back to the olden days it wouldnt be so bad actually

Answer 10

The world would continue, the human race would continue, but hundreds of millions of people would die of cold and starvation, and disease, and life would be a miserable existence just as it was a couple of hundred years ago.