alt Hacker NewsIf society actually suffers a sustained "collapse," access to electricity won't even be among your top-20 problems. You're going to be more worried about how you're going to obtain water, food, and protect yourself from the roving looters and/or warlords that will immediately spring up in the absence of law and order.
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20after4 • 06/16/2025
For folks with a private well, electricity is the key to fresh water. At least for a while.
> protect yourself from the roving looters and/or warlords that will immediately spring up in the absence of law and order.
This is a hollywood meme.
The reality is that aggressive looters/warlords will be very quickly disposed of and the remaining ones will fall in line and become semi-official protective militia forces, who will labor alongside farmers in small communities if they don't want to starve.
Food scarcity will be a much bigger issue that some nutcase trying to loot my solar panels.