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> When the accepted wisdom is for all the California suburbanites to have generators as buffers against unreliable power grids, the environment loses. I am not
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
> When the accepted wisdom is for all the California suburbanites to have generators as buffers against unreliable power grids, the environment loses.
I am not claiming you are wrong but this sounds like something I would expect to read as a scenario in an upper middle class southwest african nation. Not something in one of the world's largest economies.
- epistasis 4y agoThis is not accepted wisdom, and I don't know anybody with a generator. Perhaps I am not "upper" enough, however.
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoI think OP meant it as a hypothetical. As in, if blackouts become a recurring event then a lot of people will solve it by throwing money at the problem. The issue is that diesel generator emissions are extremely harmful for the environment.