Would the world be a better place if electricity didn't exist?
354835
Yes but then I would not be able to laugh by reading silly questions like the one you asked, nor would I be able to answer them.\n\nHave a nice day.
804521
Would be...When Hell Freezes Over...be too obvious?\n\nLast week somebody pointed out that when the conveyor belt at the grocery store runs too long or by vibration...we are wasting energy. It was a good point. But this world is set up to waste. \n\nI'm the one at my house trying to get all the lights turned off and all the chairs pushed in at the table! I have issues with slip and fall hazzards too! Kind of unrelated to your question...but we all got a cause!
884588
if only that could happen the world would be a nicer place......
1053859
Devices could be made smaller. Assuming the price is not a factor and the material is as versatile as Copper then electrical wiring will become very thin. potentially embedded under the paint. Strong electric fields with all kind of gravity defying contraption could be built, imagine your self floating on high magnetic field in your sleep. Where the field is generated with supper conductive electromagnet that does not need electricity since it can work in a closed loop with minimal losses. Imagine cars driven by magnetic fields.\n\nThe is one old movie that I like called BrainStorm (Metro Golden Mayer) the movie is a scifi movie (1983) that show an interesting use of Room temperature SC for use as a small Brain wave (I/O) kind of sensitive receiver and transmitter.
341206
To harness the electricity usefully would be huge, but exceedingly difficult.\n\nYou could fly a kite with a wire string in a thunderstorm. \n\nDON"T TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 100,000,000 VOLTS DOES WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH ANYTHING IN ITS PATH!
230939
probably you mean ELECTRICITY.\noil and petroleum could be used to produce electricity. There is such a thing as electrical energy.
1028717
It would actually be pretty easy to use a bike to generate electricity.  You would need a bike, wire, magnets, and some resistors to get the right current and voltage.  If you could find a way store to store the energy in some type of battery, that would be ideal.  Otherwise, you could use it to power small appliances.  Most people don't do it because they don't know it's possible, don't care, don't know how, or don't think about it.  If you are interested in that, you should design something.  It would take a lot of bike riding, but it would be possible (especially if you had a good transformer to step up the current, which would be easy to build as well).
82580
So much to do. I would first start by avoiding the waste of electricity because most of the electricity generated at home comes from gas generators that burning millions of gallons of fuel.\nthe heat generated from this generators is one of the main causes of the global waming.\nadded to that the emmissions from vehicules that is also one major problem.\ntry encouraging people and yourself :) to use vehicules that don't waste a lot of gas. take the bus when you can or ride a bicycle when you have a chance.
1112176
Not if someone or some country can find a source of energy other than fossil fuels. A source so vast that it cannot be depleted. The history of the world is dominated by search for energy. Pretty soon China or India will come up with an alternate fuel that won't require the burning of fossil fuel. With that event will come the end of corporations that are built around the fossil fuel business. And that will bring about the end of capitalism. It is all about energy and the manipulation of energy.
205067
I'd kind of like to be off the grid on a private island or the side of a mountain, I think.  Well, maybe in Montana or Wyoming.  But definitely fewer appliances and modern conveniences.  They make too much noise.  I'd like an all purpose vehicle for lugging grain, pulling a trailer, and carting the kids around.  No airplanes or rockets, no monorails, less toxic fumes, more open space.
717469
I dont understand your question.  How can things work without electricity?  Electricity is power.  And power is essential for any instrument to work.  Do you mean to ask about using alternative electricity?\n\nYeah you can put the fridge in snowpacked mountains which will make things inside cool.
994463
Life would be very different. You wouldn't even be able to ask that question online. Maybe people would spend less time on the computer though. Maybe more people would go outside and exercise and really enjoy life. But at the same time, people from across the world wouldn't be able to converse. Also, we wouldn't be able to play many of those online games. We wouldn't have email. AAHH. or instant messanger. We'd have to write letters. I think life is better with the internet.
50177
electricity those computers that run every thing wouldnt work without it
145391
I believe that you have described radio and TV transmission without cables.  If you could supe that up to practical power levels (lightning?) we would all become receivers and turn to toast.  But I do believe that Tesla had plans on how to transmit power through the air and you might want to check that out as he was an electrical genious.
1159109
There are a number of programs that could be better funded, and topping the list are research into alternative energy solutions, disease prevention and suppression, and fighting homelessness and starvation.  Could you imagine a future where renewable energy sources provide the majority of our world's power?  And a future where millions of people's lives are saved because a vaccine for malaria was developed and made available to people in poor nations all over the world?  And how about a future where farmers grow their crops and what we don't use is sent to places all over the world so that little kids don't starve to death?\n\nJust imagine our standing and credibility with the world.  People hate us because we produce so much and take so much from others without even thinking about people less fortunate.  Yet this dream probably will never happen because of our greed.  A vaccine for malaria will probably be developed, along with a cure for AIDS, but do you think that the companies producing these are just going to give them away to people who couldn't possibly afford them, or are they going to be sold to the highest bidder?  Alternative, renewable energy sources are available, and have been for some time.  The technology has finally matured enough to where these sources can be efficient, but are we making use of them?  No, because the oil companies are trying to kill these innovations off.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that until there is a significant shift in our thinking, this future isn't possible.
1179277
the importance of physics?? it is very imp cos if there wasn't pysics we wouln't know how things work. there wouldn't be neither electricity nor magnetism. you wouldn't live as comfortable as you live today...is this enough? :)
30703
I don't think the people will think it's better or worse than now.  But if one of us were to pop up all of a sudden 100 years from now we'd be in shock.  The change in the world due to technology in the past 100 years is incredible, but the advances that the knowledge we now have are going to enable for the future are going to make the world an entirely different place.  Hopefully it will get better because the alternative is probably destruction.