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Originally Posted by Rupert
Another option is wind power. It's not reliable, so you'd use it to charge batteries on a small scale and to run industries that can use power when it's available and don't need a constant supply (making things in batches, etc.). Supplement it with hydroelectric power to run the stuff that needs a constant supply, and coal/wood if that's not enough.
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Yeah, I think that building a nuclear plant after the end should be rule of cool ... trying to make it plausible is just a distraction.
If you have a big, high-tech society for the wasteland (say a few million people) there are too many other ways to generate electricity which are easier: hydro, wind, biomass, coal from small deposits or the giant heaps left from the Golden Age ... a much smaller, poorer population in the Wasteland does not need nearly as much energy as we do.