Another good "Report from the Front". The sense of uncertainty and dread as something we all take as a given "electric power", becomes suddenly unreliable.

The realization that this may not be a temporary thing. That there may never be a return to the Old Normal. That the rest of your life may be like this.

That Collapse has come.

The back half of the piece reads a little more political. It feels like "inside baseball" to use an Americanism. European political commentary.

However the discussion of central air cooling/heating applies to Americans as well. It becomes a huge class marker in a world of diminishing resources.

To be poor, is to be forced to live with heat and cold. To be wealthy, is to be able to ignore it.