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Originally Posted by ken0042
Energy use is something that really isn't covered in the show. You never see them talking about gasoline; which would be in finite supply and would have stared to degrade by now. Then you have Carol baking cookies in a conventional oven. Even if that was a gas oven, there would be a limited supply of gas.
I would actually say that the dump is a logical place for them to have the resources to be able to have enough power to run that thing. Especially if what they alluded to is correct, that the dump is actually a cover for something bigger- something that would have a helipad.
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Alexandria was a self sustaining off grid community developed before the apocalypse. There are solar grids in town.
Simon asked the garbage girl why they had solar panels and a helipad before he killed them all, so they must have had some power.
Solar power isn't that complicated, I'm sure in this scenario they would be cannibalized and jimmy rigged extensively.
The metal eater probably runs on 3 phase or 550 but that's easy to overlook.