So how far back are we likely to go……………..

[bigpaul]

making steel and machining it is I think wishful thinking, without power I believe we will go back to pre industrial levels before everyone started leaving the countryside and moving to the cities, that would be 1750s not 1850s, without power no finance/banking, no telecommunications, and no mass production, someone may be able to knock something up on the equivalent of a blacksmiths forge but its going to be hard manual labour, time consuming and dirty and I cant see many wanting to do it.