Its not just about production - its about storage. Assuming you had time to prepare I'd suggest a combination of vertical wind turbines, possibly optimised for different speeds, used to pump water up to a water tower or used to compress air. Compressed air is more interesting

Many kinetic appliances can be converted to run on air (even blenders), and you could even get some form of cooling out of it. You could also produce some electricity, either from the compressed air, or directly off the wind turbine farm.

You could even use the compressed air for air powered weaponry for local defense. While unlikely to be as powerful as a modern firearm, you'd have silent weapons with ready ammunition which in theory could be reused if it wasn't too damaged.

There's even air powered cars.

Most of this technology is relatively quiet, well understood - the amish apparently use it, and a good chunk of it would be similar to 19th century steam-technology so it would be maintainable.

It would require a ton of forward planning, but it would work well to concerve resources, and alongside conventional technology

Its not just about production - its about storage. Assuming you had time to prepare I'd suggest a combination of vertical wind turbines, possibly optimised for different speeds, used to pump water up to a water tower or used to compress air. Compressed air is more interesting

Many kinetic appliances can be converted to run on air (even blenders), and you could even get some form of cooling out of it. You could also produce some electricity, either from the compressed air, or directly off the wind turbine farm.

You could even use the compressed air for air powered weaponry for local defense. While unlikely to be as powerful as a modern firearm, you'd have silent weapons with ready ammunition which in theory could be reused if it wasn't too damaged.

There's even air powered cars.

Most of this technology is relatively quiet, well understood - the amish apparently use it, and a good chunk of it would be similar to 19th century steam-technology so it would be maintainable.

It would require a ton of forward planning, but it would work well to conserve resources, and work alongside conventional technology.

Its not just about production - its about storage. Assuming you had time to prepare I'd suggest a combination of vertical wind turbines, possibly optimised for different speeds, used to pump water up to a water tower or used to compress air. Compressed air is more interesting

Many kinetic appliances can be converted to run on air (even blenders), and you could even get some form of cooling out of it. You could also produce some electricity, either from the compressed air, or directly off the wind turbine farm.

You could even use the compressed air for air powered weaponry for local defense. While unlikely to be as powerful as a modern firearm, you'd have silent weapons with ready ammunition which in theory could be reused if it wasn't too damaged,

Its not just about production - its about storage. Assuming you had time to prepare I'd suggest a combination of vertical wind turbines, possibly optimised for different speeds, used to pump water up to a water tower or used to compress air. Compressed air is more interesting

Many kinetic appliances can be converted to run on air (even blenders), and you could even get some form of cooling out of it. You could also produce some electricity, either from the compressed air, or directly off the wind turbine farm.

You could even use the compressed air for air powered weaponry for local defense. While unlikely to be as powerful as a modern firearm, you'd have silent weapons with ready ammunition which in theory could be reused if it wasn't too damaged.

There's even air powered cars.

Most of this technology is relatively quiet, well understood - the amish apparently use it, and a good chunk of it would be similar to 19th century steam-technology so it would be maintainable.

It would require a ton of forward planning, but it would work well to concerve resources, and alongside conventional technology