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What about decentralization of power sources? Easier to survive a war or natural disasters if everyone has their own way to generate power from the sun. It wou
by mtgx 9y ago
What about decentralization of power sources?
Easier to survive a war or natural disasters if everyone has their own way to generate power from the sun. It would be a shame if solar power, which allows for that, wouldn't be used that way, and instead everyone just kept getting their power from a centralized source, just as before.
- weberc2 9y agoYou're optimizing for the wrong thing.
- zeta0134 9y agoI'm not sure why you're getting downvoted here, as this is a pretty solid argument. Maybe not so much in California, but just look to the natural disaster in Puerto Rico. Folks who had branched out with solar panels were suddenly the only ones with power at all in their neighborhoods. California may have a better built infrastructure, but it's no stranger to natural disasters. There's certainly efficiency to be gained from pooling our resources into a centralized power grid, but I think redundancy and protection from grid failures are also perfectly valid goals.