You should plan on life without electricity at all, as neighbors would hear your generator and come calling. Hidden solar panels or a small generator hooked up to a bicycle could power small things, like a laptop or tablet. You don't need lights at night, if you're in bed asleep. Lights would also attract unwanted attention.
If there is a nuclear EMP, a blackout would last for months or even years. Our infrastructure would be ruined. All of the huge electrical transformers would be toast. We don't manufacture them in the US any more. It would take years just to get them replaced. And that's even if they could be replaced. In one test case, a replacement transformer couldn't even be delivered because the railroad had been removed, and the transformer was too big to be trucked in.
I studied this subject over 20 years ago in depth.
You should plan on life without electricity at all, as neighbors would hear your generator and come calling. Hidden solar panels or a small generator hooked up to a bicycle could power small things, like a laptop or tablet. You don't need lights at night, if you're in bed asleep. Lights would also attract unwanted attention.
If there is a nuclear EMP, a blackout would last for months or even years. Our infrastructure would be ruined. All of the huge electrical transformers would be toast. We don't manufacture them in the US any more. It would take years just to get them replaced. And that's even if they could be replaced. In one test case, a replacement transformer couldn't even be delivered because the railroad had been removed, and the transformer was too big to be trucked in.
I studied this subject over 20 years ago in depth.