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> jeopardizing reliability... Like being without power for a week and half, like my elderly mother was, because pg&e can't upkeep their transmission lines? Pr

> jeopardizing reliability... Like being without power for a week and half, like my elderly mother was, because pg&e can't upkeep their transmission lines? Pretty sure microgrids would make this problem better not worse. And shield against a state-level attack on our very fragile national grid. > It really makes me wonder if the Liberals of the 60s-90s wouldn't have made it so difficult to build Nuclear power plants, if this all would be solved by now. And I really wonder, if every country in the world used nuclear power as it's primary power source, if there would still be a human-habitable world today.

lstodd 7y ago
> Pretty sure microgrids would make this problem better not worse. They can't make it better, since they have to have same transmission capacity and be more complex than existing grids. And who's going to maintain it? When there are problems maintaining simpler existing grids already. > And I really wonder, if every country in the world used nuclear power as it's primary power source, if there would still be a human-habitable world today. What the problem with that? Nuclear is pretty well spread over the world already, and it's not like there are any problems with habitability. If anything, it's coal that makes places barely habitable.