How does electricity affects our lives?

Answer 1

In the northern hemisphere, it gets dark outside as early as 5-6pm during the fall-winter. In olden days, people got up at dawn and went to bed shortly after it became dark in the evening-- between 7-8pm most people went to sleep. Today, however, we have many activities during daylight hours and so must continue our work during the evening. Below is a beginning list of the ways our lives would not be the same if we had no electricity:

• We'd still be using candles, which would require us to make candles at home.
• We might use gas lights (after 1880s), but risk fires and deaths.
• We'd still be beating carpets and rugs with a wire racket outside.
• We'd have to rely on manually bringing water into our homes---no treatment plants and no pumps.
• There'd be more risk of contaminated water--no treatment plants.
• Speaking of treatment plants, without those, we'd still use out-houses for toilets.
• All household chores would need to be done during daylight hours.
• We wouldn't enjoy physical safety going out because without lights we could trip, fall, etc.
• Studies and schooling would be much harder.
• More people's eyesight would suffer from reading in low light.
• We wouldn't have manufacturing or jobs.
• Mining would be set back 100 years, with using mules and donkeys.
• Oil production would suffer.
• Home heating would rely on coal, possibly gas, if we figured out how to get it from underground. If you never lived with a coal fired furnace, let me say, it is a lot of work every 2 to 4 hours just to keep warm.
• We wouldn't have electric rail, mass transit. We'd be set back to before the electric streetcar.
• No television.
• No computers or computer devices.
• No iPads.
• No stereos, Boom Boxes, other electrical devices that play music.
• No telephones.
• No DvDs, CDs, on Demand TV, or recording TV programs.
• Without electricity, manufacturing would not have developed. So, no batteries, generators, etc.
• Heat! We'd swelter in summers with no fans, no AC.
• Because there'd be no pumps to bring water to homes, we'd have to tote water to bathtubs--- lots of people would be stinky because bathing would be too much of a chore.
• Of course, without manufacturing, we wouldn't have the assortment of clothing, coats, and shoes!
• We wouldn't have washers and dryers--- lots of hand washed laundry and hanging it out to dry in the sun.
• Of course, we'd be dependent on weather! Clothes can't dry outside in a snowstorm!
• Without electricity, many machines would never have been invented. As one example, we'd be back to using a pedal sewing machine or hand sewing, or using a pedal powered organ or pitch pipe for singing.
• Look around your town, and mentally make an X over anything that requires electric.
• Look around your home and outside. Write down all the things that use electric to operate.

Answer 2

In the northern hemisphere, it gets dark outside as early as 5-6pm during the fall-winter. In olden days, people got up at dawn and went to bed shortly after it became dark in the evening-- between 7-8pm most people went to sleep. Today, however, we have many activities during daylight hours and so must continue our work during the evening. Below is a beginning list of the ways our lives would not be the same if we had no electricity:

• We'd still be using candles, which would require us to make candles at home.
• We might use gas lights (after 1880s), but risk fires and deaths.
• We'd still be beating carpets and rugs with a wire racket outside.
• We'd have to rely on manually bringing water into our homes---no treatment plants and no pumps.
• There'd be more risk of contaminated water--no treatment plants.
• Speaking of treatment plants, without those, we'd still use out-houses for toilets.
• All household chores would need to be done during daylight hours.
• We wouldn't enjoy physical safety going out because without lights we could trip, fall, etc.
• Studies and schooling would be much harder.
• More people's eyesight would suffer from reading in low light.
• We wouldn't have manufacturing or jobs.
• Mining would be set back 100 years, with using mules and donkeys.
• Oil production would suffer.
• Home heating would rely on coal, possibly gas, if we figured out how to get it from underground. If you never lived with a coal fired furnace, let me say, it is a lot of work every 2 to 4 hours just to keep warm.
• We wouldn't have electric rail, mass transit. We'd be set back to before the electric streetcar.
• No television.
• No computers or computer devices.
• No iPads.
• No stereos, Boom Boxes, other electrical devices that play music.
• No telephones.
• No DvDs, CDs, on Demand TV, or recording TV programs.
• Without electricity, manufacturing would not have developed. So, no batteries, generators, etc.
• Heat! We'd swelter in summers with no fans, no AC.
• Because there'd be no pumps to bring water to homes, we'd have to tote water to bathtubs--- lots of people would be stinky because bathing would be too much of a chore.
• Of course, without manufacturing, we wouldn't have the assortment of clothing, coats, and shoes!
• We wouldn't have washers and dryers--- lots of hand washed laundry and hanging it out to dry in the sun.
• Of course, we'd be dependent on weather! Clothes can't dry outside in a snowstorm!
• Without electricity, many machines would never have been invented. As one example, we'd be back to using a pedal sewing machine or hand sewing, or using a pedal powered organ or pitch pipe for singing.
• Look around your town, and mentally make an X over anything that requires electric.
• Look around your home and outside. Write down all the things that use electric to operate.

Answer 3

Electricity greatly impacts our daily lives by powering our homes, businesses, and communication devices. It enables us to cook food, heat or cool our living spaces, and run electronic appliances. Without electricity, the modern conveniences we depend on would be unavailable.