It's been an interesting exchange, I too am of the not putting all eggs in one basket school of thought. Which was very much driven home to me during the early 70's 3 day week during the winter when we had electricity shortages and shutdowns that not only impacted the work environment, key distribution infrastructure, shopping and domestic life. Fortunately we had other sources like coal and gas for heating and cooking. In those days our reliance on electricity was much less than today, eg computers and availability of electricity were not key to the delivery of services in nearly every facet of our lives.

I still remember going food shopping with a candle perched on the edge of the shopping trolley, and the till assistant using a manual add-lister to work out the cost of the shopping. But how would you be able to do the same today, with highly linked point of sale systems, that not only scan the item for price to add up your shopping bill, but re-order the goods for replenishing stock........these days price tags don't even appear on most food items and supermarkets don't have the same staffing levels.......I would love to see the various 'risk' registers under the subject matter no electricity supply.

This is perhaps a little unfair, but we are not in a position of having overcapacity, we are playing catch-up with a rising demand curve that may lead to shortages and at the same time we are removing alternate energy sources for basics like domestic heating and cooking making us even more dependant on electricity. We have come a long already but as Australia found out when it closed down its last coal power station, the wind does not every blow every day and they had little or no battery storage to cope with those day. Interesting times ahead.

regards

John


Last edited by JohnHarris; 22/07/21 07:50 AM.
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