Just thinking ... (always dangerous)!
Revolution - the failure of electricity. Someone, somewhere wrote
"Government worked before electricity. Why wouldn't work without it?" If
electricity did fail and gasoline engines would not work then no transport
network and no food distribution from farm to city and from processing plant to
city. Millions would starve. Millions in care facilities, diabetics, those
waiting on organ transplants would die before a new infrastructure could
develop. The practice of medicine would devolve as stocks of medicine and
disposable everythings were used up.
On the other hand, diesel engines could work if an alternative to
electrically-heated glow plugs could be devised; I was thinking about replacing
the plugs with gas-fired elements. Steam engines for railroads could make a
comeback but would require time. The US Postal Service ... back in business ...
with steam engines and horse & buggy (requisitioned).
However, unless diesel engines would work, lots of folks in the US would
starve as our population is too large to be supported by a "man behind a plow on
140 acres of land" agricultural system. The Amish and the like would be
retraining a large part of the surviving population as it moved back to the farm
as tenants/sharecroppers. Cities would definitely downsize.
I don't know if any of this is part of the TV series as I have not
watched.
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