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Some people would disagree with your definition of "grid" that doesn't include internet. I can imagine different people defining "grid" in one of three ways: 1
by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Some people would disagree with your definition of "grid" that doesn't include internet. I can imagine different people defining "grid" in one of three ways:
1. Physical infrastructure that runs uninterrupted all the way to your home. E.G. Electric grid, gas pipes, copper/fiber telecom wires.
2. The above plus big wireless infrastructure as well, so being on range of a cellphone tower would be on-grid.
3. The whole network of human society, so any instant on-demand exchange of goods or information would mean on-grid.
So having internet trough Starlink would definitely be on-grid for definition #3, and maybe on-grid for #2 as well if conceptually you put a mesh of LOE satellites in the same category as a mesh of telecom antennas (which I personally lean towards).
- twobitshifter 4y agoI see off-grid as not having public utilities. Starlink has similarities to solar panels, you’re receiving waves from space and nothing needs to be built from another location to your house to support it. Further, the signals are there to access with or without you using star-link. By definition 3, I suppose off-grid would mean there’s no roads to your house and you’d have to pack everything in, but that level of off-grid would mean that almost everything described as off-grid isn’t and the term is no longer useful.
- fedeb95 4y agoNothing except satellites lol