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Originally Posted by VydorScope
We are talking post-apoc here, the power NEED will be WAY less, so we can use less efficient means to bridge the gap till something better can be rebuilt.
Besides, if any of the nuke plants survive they have what 80? years of fuel.. thats enough time to build stuff.
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Oh, mostly agreed. It's the long-term "we will rebuild!!!" that I have doubts about, but that's got very little to do with the immediate post-apoc stories.
I think that, while power plants will be around, and plenty of them will be functional (enough... although tech problems & meltdowns would be a lot more interesting), the infrastructure to get that power any distance away would be broken. No more repair teams making sure the wiring is connected to the next city; those lines work until the next tornado, earthquake or rat infestation, and then they're gone.
So: little pockets of high-tech, surrounded by large areas of no electricity, with plumbing that works until it gets clogged somewhere down the line... and then you move to the next house, or the next block, because that's certainly easier than rebuilding or starting from scratch. Hmm.