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Actually solar panels and distributed grids make a lot of sense and what was holding them back was the state of the technology. Unlike the blockchain, which is
by spookthesunset 8y ago
Actually solar panels and distributed grids make a lot of sense and what was holding them back was the state of the technology. Unlike the blockchain, which is fundamentally broken for 99.999% of all use cases, distributed power grids could actually work with the right engineering.
- gurumeditations 8y agoI know they sound really cool. I’m saying that it’s illogical to do so in the real world. Centralization is almost always cheaper, faster, and stronger.
- Nasrudith 8y agoThey still have a place as a 'competitor of last resort' to force reasonability on centralized powers. They would essentially do to power what satellite dishes did to cable - and that was just another centralized power! Sure satellite dishes are worse in latency and cost than running a cable but if the cable gets too unreasonable in comparison you can tell them to get bent and switch to satellite.