I want to grind up Raiders and use them as fuel for the generators!!

Bloodbag!!

I just assumed everything was powered by SCIENCE. 馃殌I am obviously not as well informed about possible power sources as some of you, but, if the tech is still there wouldn't the odds be on someone knowledgeable enough to reverse engineer it?

Who is filling up all of those generators with fuel and keeping them running? That must be an exhausting and thankless task to do that every day.

>Generators are nuclear based
>Nuclear batteries such as fission batteries work fine even 200 years later
>Implying anyone has had to fill them up in 20+ years.

I think the portable yellow ones are gas (alcohol) powered.
But for the rest, the nuclear energy sure does go a long way.

Who's lighting all of the fires in the fuel barrels then? Or better yet, how do you find a fresh apple that's been a lunchbox for over 200 years?

Hooking wires up to fat guy's nipbles

How come no one ever sneezes?

Why don't the PC's shoes ever come untied?

You could also to potato batteries! http://www.kidzworld.com/article/4726-how-potato-batteries-work

Or maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery.

You could even turn the batteries into compost when they go flat.

EMP can certainly damage "off" electronics. It depends on the circuit shielding and grounding of the device and if has any sort of antenna structure or wired connection that can act as an antenna. They are certainly less susceptible to be effected than active circuits, but could certainly have HUGE voltages induced on them by a EMP pulse and while most circuits might have some small over voltage protection on inputs / outputs, they would never be designed (sans military grade electronics) to withstand the tens to hundreds of KV surges of very wide ranging high frequency signals that an EMP produces.

Fallout Lore indicates that Fission Batteries and Generators survived the war and are semi-maintainable sources of power that should last for centuries.

Technically any type of mechanical motion could be adapted. Windmills, Water Wheels, Mole Rat driven hamster wheels, etc.

The Illuminati, duh.