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Microgrid engineer here, and I completely agree. Developing nations bypassed expensive comms grids in the 90s and went straight to cell phones. The same thing i
by dreamcompiler 8y ago
Microgrid engineer here, and I completely agree. Developing nations bypassed expensive comms grids in the 90s and went straight to cell phones. The same thing is happening now with energy. Rather than building out an (even more) expensive electrical grid, they're putting in distributed renewables. Result: Everybody has electricity but there's no grid. It's happening because of economics; not ideology.
- ThomPete 8y agonot the same at all. The investments into getting phones into peoples hands were market driven, energy infrastructure is not.
- eigenvector 8y agoA person living 3 days from the road in Nepal deciding to put in a small solar system to charge their phone and provide a bit of light absolutely is market-driven.
- ThomPete 8y agoSure but that's not enough to keep them safe from mother nature, provide for heating, cook their food, transport them etc. You are talking about a fraction of what it is to live as a person in a relatively safe environment.