There’s nothing quite like the smell of bacon frying in the open air; unless, of course, your camping stove runs out of gas. I learned that lesson the hard way, sitting beside a silent lake with a very hungry mate and a very empty gas canister. It wasn’t exactly a life-or-death situation, but it did get me thinking about how much we rely on power — and how quickly things fall apart when it’s gone.
Fast forward a few years and the same lesson repeated itself, this time in an airport departure lounge. My electronic boarding pass was ready, my flight home was calling, and my phone battery was as dead as the bacon stove. Again, no great disaster. But it was another reminder of how fragile our digital, battery-powered world really is.
Now take that same principle and drop it onto a construction or demolition site. Picture an electric excavator, its battery gauge hovering near empty, just as an emergency unfolds. Or a demolition machine that runs out of charge at the worst possible moment. The industry’s rush toward electric power is rightly celebrated; cleaner, quieter, greener.
But in our eagerness to plug in, have we stopped to ask what happens when the power runs out?
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