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I Lived A Day With No Electricity
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Mar 27, 2025
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When I can't use electricity, what do I do? Do I just sit around and read a book
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Like what? I want to be on Instagram! Can you live on zero emissions? If so, how would life be
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To live on zero emissions is to drastically change my lifestyle to reduce the amount of
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carbon I emit from every aspect of my day. From the food I eat, to the energy I consume
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to the waste I produce, my means of transportation, and the very products I buy, at least to a very
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minimal level. Now, the reality is no one can live completely on zero emissions because my very being
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my very existence is creating emissions. The heat radiating from my body, the CO2 coming from my
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breath, the gas I pass and other excretions, to mention a few. So the idea of this really is to
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find ways to reduce the amount of emissions we create in all the different aspects of our everyday
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lives. Which means no electricity. Now no electricity means no heater, no cooking, no washing
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no tv, no phones, no laptops, no internet, nothing. No hot water. This is going to be an interesting challenge
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All right, so right off the bat in the first few minutes, I've noticed a lot of unconscious
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habits that I have that I'm not even aware of. I'm just walking into a room and turning on the light
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Now, whether or not I need the light is debatable. but it comes almost automatic i just walk in and i turn on the light that that's what i'm supposed
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to do so that i'm definitely gonna have to be more conscious of and try to change another thing is
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brushing my teeth i use unnecessary amount of water that i don't actually need so i put more
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water than i brush put more water brush and then i've got like a nice amount of lather going on in
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my mouth then I actually go on to brush and then after that I rinse quite a few times as well
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which is a bit unnecessary so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna retake my whole morning routine
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this isn't my whole morning routine but the first few minutes I've already failed this challenge so
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we're gonna redo this in a eco-friendly zero emissions way and see if it works or how it works
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right so the idea now is i'm living more consciously which makes me more aware of the
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amount of wastage and emissions that i use like walking into the bathroom do i need the light on
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not necessarily there's enough natural light coming in it is a little bit dark and it is a
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little bit um uncomfortable but in the grand scheme of saving emissions and saving the planet
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and reducing my my waste i think it's not so bad i still find myself at times where i'll just leave
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the tap running whilst I was doing something else So it almost a habit that I so used to I gonna have to undo with conscious awareness or just being more conscious about it and be more intentional
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about wanting to waste less. And then over time, it kind of like sorts itself out
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Breakfast. Now breakfast on zero emissions unfortunately means I can't cook. No electricity
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no gas no means for me to heat up my food which leaves me with not a lot of options i can make
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bread and jam i can have cereal which isn't bad but ideally for breakfast you want a nice
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warm hearty meal don't you well luckily for me i prepared for this last night this is a no cook
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method of making oatmeal where you soak the raw oats with milk or water the soaking process allows
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the oats to absorb the liquid and soften them enough to eat uncooked. The next morning, you have
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ready-to-eat delicious oatmeal. This is overnight oats. Now, I've never made this before, so this
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is an experience for myself. To me, it still kind of looks a little bit raw
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but i followed the recipe to the tea and it should be good to eat all right that was delicious
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so now after breakfast i'd usually head to the gym for a workout the only problem being
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the building itself uses a lot of electricity now there are other alternatives like using
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outdoor gyms or just working out in the house but in the gym right i feel like a lot of the
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equipments in the gym don't actually require electricity it's just the gym itself the
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establishment that uses electricity so what i'll probably have to do today is either work out in
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a house or find an outdoor gym cycling is one of the simplest ways to reduce our carbon emission
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The carbon footprint of cycling per mile is around 33 grams of CO2
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This is 30 times less than that of a fossil fuel car and even less than walking or public transportation, which sounds a bit weird, doesn't it
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and that's about it for a workout now the tricky bit is i need to take a shower
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but i can't heat up the water so the heating of the water is one way of um using up emissions
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and the water itself the amount of water being wasted is another way of using up emissions so
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So today we're not focusing on the amount of water. We're just focusing on the heat being created
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or the electricity being used. So I can definitely have a cold shower right That seems like the only solution here i don fancy it very much but what else can you do eh now one thing i noticing throughout this day is the house is very quiet
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and dark without electricity obviously i've bumped up the the lights on this camera but
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if you're here it's really like dark and quiet and I wonder how it would look throughout the day
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especially in the evening or at night when I can't use electricity what do I do do I just sit around
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and read a book like what I want to be on Instagram now before I continue on this challenge we'll take
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immediately again i go to turn on the light but i guess i'm gonna have to take a shower in the dark
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a cold shower in the dark a 10 minute shower with a standard shower head uses about 80 gallons of water and is responsible
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for producing about four pounds of co2 so reducing a shower to five minutes can go a long way
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The beauty about cold water is you don't want to stay in there too long anyways
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Oh my lord. All right, lunch. Now, I managed to make breakfast without creating any emissions
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but now how do I have lunch without creating any emissions? I can either look for foods that I can
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eat without cooking, which wouldn't be the most substantial. So what I think I'm going to do
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is call a friend and see if I can share in his emissions
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So I'll see if he's had lunch here. If he hasn't, I'll go over there and have lunch with him
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That way I'm free. Hey, I'm filming a video where I'm living on zero emissions, right
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So I need to have lunch without cooking my own food. So I need to find someone that's cooking food, right
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and then share their energy use and energy consumption. So it's not on me
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Okay, so you're making lunch. So I have lunch at yours. Yeah, just come here
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I'll make it right now. Okay, nice one. All right, cool. Yeah. I called a friend
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He said he hasn had lunch yet So right now I going to head over Let go You on the train or you just rode a bike No I just rode
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What the? Okay, I have arrived. It's going a bit late. As you can see, the room is well lit with emissions
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So I'll be sharing in his emissions to create my lunch. And then after that, I'll see how the rest of the day goes
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Thank you
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All right, my stomach is full. I'm happy
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Mate, thank you so much for letting me use your electricity. No problem, man
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Nice. Now, the thought of living on zero emissions can be overwhelming
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But change is a gradual process. And the more we take a step in that direction, the more achievable it becomes
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as little decisions we make have a great impact on the environment
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All right, guys, so we are back at home. The place is completely pitch dark and you can't see me
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I am going to continue the video. Because we need to see this video through
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This part of the video is a bit ridiculous because how can I survive
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or how can I live on zero emissions at night? If I had a candle, candle creates emissions
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If I had a torch, probably uses batteries, which eventually gets wasted to create emissions
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Everything creates emissions. So it's more or less about finding ways to reduce the amount of emissions that we create
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and here we are it's been a fun video um i was hoping to do a lot more than what i've done today
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but i hope this has shed a light or given you some insight into ways that you can reduce the
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amount of energy consumption and the amount of emissions that you create in your daily lives
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if you like this video give a big thumbs up if you're new to channel hit the subscribe button
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hit the notification share with all your friends and i'll see you guys in the next one peace
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ops we have a whole series on how to eat sustainably how to shop sustainably
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how to live sustainably um coming out in over the next few days so should be fun have a good one
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