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FDP Forum / Moe's Tavern (_8^(I) / When the Grid Goes Down?
(This message was last edited by Belgarath at 12:18 PM, May 29th, 2012)
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FDP Forum / Moe's Tavern (_8^(I) / When the Grid Goes Down?
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wborys
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what do you mean the bass is too loud?May 29th, 2012 11:37 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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let's see for the 'normal' citizen-
no atm
no refridgeration
no gasoline
no supply trucks
no food stores?
no phones
limited water supply (no pumps)
limited generators (except natural gas powered)
no Dr. Phil.
I would think things would get unpleasant
very fast.
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Charlie Don't SurfMay 29th, 2012 11:39 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Not if we all have ukuleles, native American flutes, and drum circles.
Belgarath
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Back of Beyond, FLMay 29th, 2012 11:50 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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lol To paraphrase Bruce Willis in Die Hard, Kumbaya ...!
yellowrubberduck
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Vancouver, CanadaMay 29th, 2012 11:55 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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when we run out of cheap energy (and we will) paper books, acoustic guitars and such will be in high demand. this is my prediction :)
Deacon Blues
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Stay interesting my
friends.-The world's thirstiest man.May 29th, 2012 12:02 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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^ For what heating fuel?
5Strats
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Axe VictimMay 29th, 2012 12:11 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Stock up on acoustic guitars, battery-powered amps and batteries NOW!
Or we can watch blank PC, TV and phone screens waiting for something to happen . . .
yellowrubberduck
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Vancouver, CanadaMay 29th, 2012 12:16 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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or move to the coast. hydro power! however to run a hydro plan takes a lot of energy too.
and where the heck are those flying cars i've been waiting for all my life!?!?!?
shunka
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Willoughby, OH , USA
I'm arrogant and a moronMay 29th, 2012 12:47 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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And folks are getting rid of their land lines, which usually function when the power is down. I can't get 48 hours out of a charge on my cell phone.
I'm not worried about running out of electricity. When things get bad enough they'll either start burning coal again or go back to nuclear, and there is still hydro and wind and solar, but those will start to get expensive.
I keep hoping that someone will come up with another energy source. My engineer friends tell me there is nothing left, but these are the same guys who told me that SS is where it's at and tubes would soon be gone forever.
We are, after all, still using INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES that are barely more efficient than the ones Henry Ford put in the Model A.
A few years back someone claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion on a table top sized device. That got squashed pretty quickly. I remember reading about a car that could run on water and the only emissions were Hydrogen and oxygen and (maybe) ozone. Might be time to drag that stuff out of the back room.
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North GnarlyingtonMay 29th, 2012 12:55 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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People will pay me beans and gold to look things up in my 1996 Encyclopedia Britannica. I'll be like a one man Google.
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That's Mr. DoofuspompousazzMay 29th, 2012 01:01 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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"Not if we all have ukuleles, native American flutes, and drum circles."
Starvation is starting to sound better and better.
mrblues
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She loves my big 10"
record of her favorite blues. May 29th, 2012 01:28 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Zep Mk II
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the grid goes down I'll have no place to stay... "
BbendFender
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Texas
Throw in a pick and you've got a deal!May 29th, 2012 01:35 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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"I suggest "One Second After"
it will scare the bejeebers outta ya"
BB, I read that book 2 times. This could happen. When I was in the USAF, in the 70's, my missile crew discussed what would happen if the Russians detonated a couple of nukes in our upper atmosphere. That's pretty much what happens in "One Second After". Back then, it would hinder our communication and might have interrupted our power grid but today, would be much worse. It would take us back so far that we would have to pretty much start all over.
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Big DMay 29th, 2012 01:50 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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"And folks are getting rid of their land lines, which usually function when the power is down."
Not me! I still have a land line. Hooked to a wireless phone base station. That doesn't work if the power goes out.
Oh.
Tri0de
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Don't worry what
people think, they don't do it oftenMay 29th, 2012 09:36 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Food, sex, sleep.
Enough wits, firearms and cold hard valuables to ensure continuance of the above.
Everything else is mere logistics and completely relative.
If the freaking 'net and every last damn cell phone and TV station went down now and forever the world would be a better place. Read a freakin' book and/or write a letter, grab a guitar or look at the stars.....
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That's Mr. DoofuspompousazzMay 29th, 2012 10:34 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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"If the freaking 'net and every last damn cell phone and TV station went down now and forever the world would be a better place."
But then how would all of us here get to read your famous sweet, warm, and fun loving posts, Tri0de?
;-)
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Yeeeehaaaa!May 30th, 2012 02:24 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Wasn't this on the 'Some Girls' album?
5Strats
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Axe VictimMay 30th, 2012 02:33 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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i haz Whip!
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The grid doesn't matter because we are all using windmills, solar power, and geothermal.
Right?
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Axe VictimMay 30th, 2012 04:17 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Right-O!
Deacon Blues
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Stay interesting my
friends.-The world's thirstiest man.May 30th, 2012 04:35 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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The grid could go down tomorrow and everything would be hunky dory with me...as long as people stayed off my lawn.
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