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How decentralised exactly solar energy source is when manufacturing is 95% depndent on China?

• eternityforest 4y ago
  It might not decentralize economic power but it decentralizes how many places a terrorist needs to hit to take down the grid, which is the big reliability concern. Plus, even if the supply chain went away we'd have decades to build plants before existing panels became unusable. It's a problem not to have our own panel factories, but that's a problem we can fix. Technically so is protecting substations, but it doesn't seem like there's that much interest in it, nor is there much research on hardening against another Carrington event.
  • t0bia_s 4y ago
    "Decentralization" that is needed because of unstable energy prices caused by pathological politics and green ideology fail itself if offer solution from China. While I agree with decentralization, definitely not because of "terrorism", but because of government "regulations". Lobby is strong and usually not in favor of citizens. Current situation in EU with energy prices is model example, how centralized supply of energy is weak. Water will be next. But please... No dependency on totalitarian China.