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Nowadays shouldn't it be easy to install solar panels and megapacks, and operate independently from the grid?

• cesarb 3y ago
  Yes, but in the context of this thread ("[...] so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre"), that would be like installing a wired phone or network service which reaches only as far as the same city. That is, you can operate an independent network, but what you want is to network with the rest of the world; and even if doing it with optical fiber is as easy as connecting to the country's main electric network, there are places where connecting to that electric network is already hard.
  • throw0101c 3y ago
    > Yes, but in the context of this thread ("[...] so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre"), that would be like installing a wired phone or network service which reaches only as far as the same city. The context of this thread is: if you could technically string power and POTS lines, why can't you string fibre? Note what you, yourself quote: the same with fibre. It pre-supposes the other infrastructure was setup.