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In Puerto Rico’s case, would a centralized or decentralized power grid have worked better? When the power went out for my street a couple weeks back, I thought
by QML 9y ago
In Puerto Rico’s case, would a centralized or decentralized power grid have worked better? When the power went out for my street a couple weeks back, I thought that decentralized grids would result in more redundancy and be less vulnerable to outages.
- sp332 9y agoAccording to https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-power-water-sewage-trump https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-... the main problem right now is that the power lines run through inaccessible places. No one wants to live next to a power station, and investing in better access roads would be really expensive.