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I’m pretty sure we can’t even black start the national grid, because it depends on so much other infrastruture that itself requires the electrical grid to be online.

That’s part of the reason why we trade electricity with other nations. I imagine in particular that France’s nuclear reactors would be very important in stabalising the voltage on…[Read more]

That is all very naive Fishy.

There wouldn’t be any food to distribute without imports, the UK doesn’t have enough land to feed 80 million people. Even if we somehow magically summoned more land into existance, we would still have to import chemicals to fertalise the land, pesticides, and machinery to farm the crops.

Fire engines aren’t much…[Read more]

Oh God….. where to start on this

Our rail network was built to transport freight not people. Few in the UK who aren’t within 20 miles of railway station. The system was mostly updated to electric over the last 40 years too.  In an emergency main stations will be used for food distribution.

For those areas outside the rail network m…[Read more]

Im sure land rovers probably have some critical uses somewhere in forestry or agriculture, but JLR is just one example, all car makers are running a limited production due to shortages.

Do we need cars to live?

In the modern world, yes.

We need cars to get to work, lorries and vans to transport goods, ambulences to take people to the hospital, ect.

Do you need a Land Rover to live?

The truth is we produce oil and gas from the north sea, float in a sea of fish and  wheat output is at 14.75 million to…[Read more]

This Daily Mail article gets the reason wrong, but it proves that production has been suspended.

Silicon is only made in a few factories, mostly in Taiwan, that all operate at 100% capacity.

The car industry underestimated demand for new cars so they canceled their orders with TSMC, so the production capacity was sold to other customers (mostly…[Read more]

Most of them?

More or less everything is still reliant on just in time manufacturing.

For example, Jaguar Land Rover has shut down most of its car production due to the global silicon shortage, which is disrupting supply chains in nearly every industry in every country.

People seem to keep demanding sources, so heres one I guess…[Read more]

Ok look at our imports.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281818/largest-import-commodities-of-the-united-kingdom-uk/

Here are our exports.

United Kingdom’s Top 10 Exports

How many are “essential” ?

Lol.

Somer took the comment out of context.  On a river bank there no time to set up forms for concrete  and there little access for delivery’s of ready mix.   Its why we only use piling.

No you have.

There are plans in place to ensure essential supplies are available.  From food to petrol, drugs to water. The UK can go 1 to 2 years without any manufacturing or imports.

If you look around at renewable  low maintenance energy projects that have pop up in the last few years you’ll have idea of the kind of planning inv…[Read more]

You missed the point again…

We only use piling on rivers…there no time for concrete to set.

See:

And due to changing environment and weather conditions, there’s large  stocks of materials in storage for use at short notice.

As for the computers, phones and more… well I hate to say this but there not really needed.  There a time saver an…[Read more]

That’s somewhat of a narrow view. No matter how much labour you put in you can’t repair anything without any tools or materials. These need concrete, wood, steel, petrol, ect.

The manufacturing of these things then depends on many other things, which depend on other things. The whole ecconomy is integrated, you can’t remove any individual part…[Read more]

That is true to a point. Most of the time we’re pushing shingle back and repairing groins.  On rivers its mostly reinforcement work and channel clearing.

We don’t use that much stuff, but it can be labour intensive.

The whole concept of lockdowns and key workers was deeply flawed from the beginning.

The ecconomy is very complex and tightly integrated, sea defenses can’t be repaired without a whole host of other products and services in their supply chains.

He better start looking for a new job then Kenty…Kier are in real trouble.  They shut down for financial reasons.

Kier launches £241m fund raise to pay down debt

Home builders like Barratt who build houses can afford to shut down for 6 months due to rising house prices.

On bigger projects they cant.  There penalty for over runs in all the contracts.

See:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/jan/11/construction-sites-are-aiding-spread-of-covid

From my own view point not repairing sea defences  or ca…[Read more]

I’ve been forced to edit ge’s reply to reflect a real conversation I had last year. Construction workers are notorious for not seeking medical help and continuing work with injury’s.

The construction industry never lockdown and worked normally throught out the pandemic.  You wont find a covid 19 ant vaccer on a building site. There too scared o…[Read more]