YES! Also, I'm absolutely baffled why there's never been a civil defense initiative to get even a small baseline of solar/wind power at nearly every household.

YES! Also, I'm absolutely baffled why there's never been a civil defense initiative to get even a small baseline of solar/wind power at nearly every household. Even having just 1kW in every household would be enough to keep running basic communication, refrigeration, heating systems (i.e.. starters & blowers for gas/oil/etc. not elec furnaces), etc. In a major extended blackout situation, this would enable society to be sustainable for weeks to months or even indefinitely, instead of only days in winter as we have now. Another huge concern is availability of transformers, which hafe a huge lead time. The attack on substations in Moore County NC [0] may be only a very successful test run. I've read reliable reports indicating that not many such attacks in the correct points on the grid could cripple the entire grid, and could also take out many transformers on the way down. Current production rates could take years to replace. Yet it would cost something like $500 million to stockpile them (shelf life is measured in decades), and AFAIK this has not been done. Why? Seems like just ordinary political oversight - it isn't sexy, even though it could be critical. [0] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140775417/north-carolina-substation-attack-what-we-know https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140775417/north-carolina-sub...