> There should be tremendous resilience advantages compared to grid power Perhaps in California, but in northern latitudes (e.g. central Europe) solar does not

> There should be tremendous resilience advantages compared to grid power Perhaps in California, but in northern latitudes (e.g. central Europe) solar does not generate sufficient power during winters. It would be necessary to have either massive south-north power lines (so less resilience), or some storage. Such storage would need to be massive (orders of magnitude bigger than just for day-night ballancing) and unlikely to be battery-based. Chemical storage is a possibility - plants converting excess electricity to hydrogen/methane and storing it in underground reservoirs (like ones currently used for strategic reservers of natural gas). But such facilities would be subjects to economy of scale, and therefore likely big and centralized, like current grid facilities.