How is electricity generated in A Quiet Place?
In the movie A Quiet Place, the Abbotts are using electricity to power up their light bulbs, cameras, speakers and other electrical equipment.
But it is obvious that the monsters have destroyed most of human civilizations,
- Lee Abbott has been sending SOS to every country's emergency frequency but no one has responded.
Given the monsters have got super-sensitive hearing, I would imagine they have attacked all power stations and all electricity generators as well, so here comes the question:
- Where do they get their electricity from?
Below is a chart I pulled from Wiki showing Electricity generation by type USA 2014:
- All electricity generation methods involve heavy machinery and regular maintenance, e.g. lots of noise will be generated.
Best Answer
Here's a screenshot from the movie showing solar panels.
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The red lights that the Abbott family uses in A Quiet Place have more than one purpose. They are probably meant to show that something is wrong, or someone is in need of help. This is supported by the fact that Evelyn Abbott turns them on when she is giving birth to their youngest child.How are the lights still on in a quiet place 2?
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The device Regan wears is not a hearing aid, but a cochlear implant. This indicates that Regan has a sensorineural hearing loss, which means her inner ear has sustained some sort of damage. The cochlear implant translates vibrations in the air into nerve impulses that the brain perceives as sound.How The Sound Effects In 'A Quiet Place' Were Made | Movies Insider
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Answer 2
Solar Energy has been mentioned as a very quiet (not totally silent) source of energy. You can hear inverters humming, however, this constant low level noise seems to be the kinds of noise they ignore. They seem to react more to distinct changes in noise. FYI - You need inverters to turn solar's DC current to "grid compatible" AC.
Hydro-power could be easily produced and the noise would be covered up by the rushing water (as shown when they go on their favourite pass-times of fishing and waterfall-shouting). In fact, I was wondering why people aren't all living by rivers or housing up in hydroelectric plants!
Finally, wind power could be produced, the main noise here would come from high up so the creatures might well leave it alone. You don't see them constantly chasing after birds.
At 13% of the USA's current electricity mix, it should easily cover the new post-apocalyptic national load with, let's assume, 1% of the original population. Further, we can assume there is no heavy industry, server-racks, aircon or big cities to power.
There is the issue of maintenance and load balancing but we can maybe assume that this is can be automated to some extent.
Answer 3
Generators below the ground.
The screenwriters talk about this in an interview about the original script. It didn't make it to the final cut due to time limitations.
Since you’ve thought about every aspect of this world, you probably have an answer. How is the family getting their electricity?
Scott: In the original draft, and they never really did anything with it in the final film, we had written that they have underground generators that are basically underneath the ground so they’re not producing any audible sound above ground. That was the idea behind it.
Answer 4
At the 25:40 mark. There is a shot in the movie with a bunch of solar panels on the barn roof in the background.
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