What If Electricity Went Out Everywhere (Minute by Minute)

What if the entire world lost power? How long would we survive? You can't miss today's insane new story that breaks down the collapse of society if suddenly everywhere across the globe lost electricity all at once!

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[Mogawty]

I think it would be more accurate if minutes were replaced with hours. How would people even know this was a global outage? They’d talk to their neighbors, and their neighbors’ neighbors, but it would take a long time to figure out it was a global thing. I’d guess most people wouldn’t even start to panic until several hours at least.

[noelomondi]

I live in a country where we have experienced countrywide blackouts, I would like to confirm that no such chaos were experienced.

[jackjones]

I’ve been in many power-outages mostly from hurricanes but simple flooding and one snowstorm. People did not panic nor turn on each other. In fact they were often nicer and more helpful than normal. Because so many people needed help folks who could went out and looked for people to help. “Rednecks” unloaded their boats then used them to go down the streets, house by house, bringing people out! Folks without boats used what they had to evacuate old ladies and invalids with baby pools or big wash tubs. Since “it would go bad anyway” everyone with a freezer started cooking and giving or sending food away! Deer steaks, sausage, sea fish and sometimes vegetables too! It felt very good to see strangers come together just because they could!

[O_look_a_names_should_be_here]

In big cities this may happen but I think a lot of people would just treat it as a common black out and it would take days for chaos to happen

[brainymaniac]

But if the traffic lights go out, we’re supposed to treat is as an all way stop right? At least where I’m from

[shadowdragon]

I find it highly unlikely that this much chaos would break out form a mere 60 minutes of no electricity.

People are used to the power occasionally going out for hours at a time. Plus people would have no way to know that it is a global power-outage so there would be no reason for most people to panic. I would give it at least 24 hours before people start looting gas stations lol

[jorgepais]

During the 70's we had the catastrophe movies. Today we have the Infographics Show.

[Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

What causes this sudden lack of electricity defines the effects. Most importantly, are electricity generators that weren't on at the time affected and was most of the energy infrastructure destroyed.

As an Energy Engineering student, I find these points the most impactful.

Most important places have diesel back up generators and at least in Finland, coal plants could be activated in an emergency.

I personally would hop into my car and drive to our family's summer cottage. During the winter it'd be a little cold, but when electric can be harnessed with both diesel and solar power and heating is done with propane and firewood, I'd be fine for the next 2 months. After those months, food would run out, in which case I hope to have found more food somewhere. Getting to the summer would mean survival, as the place is mostly self sufficient as long as food grows.

Propane and diesel would last for a few years, so unless we can find more, running out of these would force us to leave.

[CarlosFernandez-lgfw]

I’m from Puerto Rico and we spent months without power when hurricane Maria hit us. We ended helping each other up to survive instead of rioting.

[venus_de_lmao]

Research has actually shown that people drive more safely when traffic lights are out, because they pay closer attention to traffic.

[bronxishomenomatterwhereig]

I remember the city wide blackout in NY when I was a kid. All people did was hangout outside. Light some candles for visibility. Light up some grills and cooked meats that were gonna go bad.

We all just had a neighborhood wide cookout. As far as traffic went. People naturally just treated any intersection as a stop sign until police showed up to direct traffic.

I don't think full blown panic would set in until at least a few days of no electricity. And there's no indication of when it'll be restored.

[joemama]

I see what happened here, the electrons are on strike for better working conditions.

[tyrant]

Although this was interesting (albeit a bit over dramatized), you should really make a video on what would happen within 30 days with no power. This is the real deal, where society completely breaks down. German author Marc Elsberg wrote a pretty good and well informed book about that thought called 'Blackout'. Would love to see that video one day.

[ashleyblass]

I’d like to bring something to light about generators in hospitals: all hospitals in the US are required to have backup generators. In addition, they are tested weekly, monthly, and annually and are REQUIRED to come on within 10 seconds of loosing power, they are also required to have 96 hours worth of fuel on hand to sustain 80% of their load (depending on how large the generator is, it could last longer) and most larger hospitals have thousands of gallons off site for emergencies. I work in an engineering department for a hospital, the last one I worked at was a level 1 trauma center with 650 beds and 30 operating rooms. We had enough generator power to supply the whole city if need be.

[Robotic_Crafter]

I'd love to see this become a series like the "I survived a nuclear war" series and see how people would deal with no electricity at all, permanently.

[steveneff]

Hospitals are required to have backup generators that kick in instantly and provide power to the vital systems. You will notice the red outlets.

[IBHunter]

As someone who lives in an area that loose electricity for weeks at a time after a storm. The cell phone towers have in our area have battery backup and generators that will generally will work for a week. Amateur HAM radio operators routinely communicate with the ISS with their own radios, most of which can work on battery power. Gas stations have their own generators and before that, people would bring their personal generators to power the fuel pumps at gas stations. Most people have enough food in their homes for a week or two. Things will be fairly calm until the food runs out.

[jasontheron]

I highly doubt this much chaos would happen in the first 60 minutes. Unless everyone instantly knew for certain that this outage was permanent, I imagine people would give it a day or two at least to wait it out. I think it would take several days before this level of panic and destruction.

[jschudel]

I live in the Philippines. Electricity often goes out. Often for hours, sometimes for up to 12 hours, rarely longer. Around Christmas 2021, we (large parts of central Visayas) were hit by a typhoon and we didn't have electricity for 26 days.
Since then, I have installed a solar power plant and always have power, even of the grid goes down.
Truth is, sure, a lot of inconvenience, but logistics would soon be operating again, since those systems can run on low power equipment.

[Lilliankokoro]

Nah, i bet it'd be less catastrophic than this. I lived in South Aus in one of its worst blackouts - for 4 days. We were all fine and very little went wrong.