TV series question – electric power after apocalypse?
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#2I've just read that there will be more EV vehicles in Netflix shows. And it made me wonder how will they charge EV vehicles? Who operates power plants?
Yeah, I know that gas/oil also degrades over time.
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#3Solar. Wind. The mcguffin to get electricity is lower bar post apocalypse than oil, given even current levels of deployment.
Replacement is harder, because polycrystalline manufacture depends on unbelievably precise doping of nine nines or better pure silicon. Digging oil up is probably easier but you can run a turbine on any combustible gas, even powdered coal at a pinch. So set the survivalists in Seattle and rob the Boeing factory of jet engines to run the generators.
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#4For a short time after civilisation stops some things will continue to work eventually all will break down. Petroleum fuels actually have a limited life so you would need some way to refine more. Most methods of easy refinement don't produce quality fuels which will break most modern ICE. There are ICE that can survive longer on such fuels.
Alternately you could use steam or wood combustion engines but most don't work any more and few people even know how to operate them.
A good EV and solar recharging station will last probably longer than modern ICE vehicles relying on fuel stores that are decaying.
Eventually survivors would need to revert to more primitive means of transportation such as sail, foot or horseback.
Another consideration is that the roads in most places will decay and fill with detritus making trouble for most vehicles.
Metal will rust and rubber seals will decay so finding and keeping any spares will be significant issue.
Transport you would see after the apocalypse would change over time as more and more technology breaks down.