Can I get a little more clarity on how exactly the no electricity thing works? Harold here is a genuis - his main field is computers and programming - so obviously that's out - but he grew up on an Iowa farm in the 1960s to 1980 and is a skilled mechanic as well. I find it hard to believe that he doesn't understand the essentials of how to build a simple generator.

Would it be he simply can't find materials, at *all*? Or that everything he builds magically breaks for reasons that don't immediately make sense, or?

I think there are ways he can be useful, with simple machines, but I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to bring him in and not have him be constantly frustrated.