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I'm sure you meant it to be edgy and offensive but it's quite flat in substance - you can't reasonably reduce the population and any means you'd employ to do so would be equally destructive to the environment - you can't change the capitalistic paradigm of energy generation and consumption, without some effort and resources drastically beyond what you've demonstrated here, and you can't ignore economy of scale that is demonstrated particularly with energy generation to insinuate that these solutions must be collocated on premise for them to be viable.

> Go ahead, flag this message so it will disappear and no other persons will be ever know it existed. That's the HN way.

Commentary like this is a reason to flag posts in and of itself.

But the rest of your post presents far more rhetoric and conspiratorial thinking (including bringing in entirely unrelated policies that nobody ITT is arguing for) than analysis, evidence or even logical reasoning.

> 'Battery storage' has no scalable reason to exist as a topic except for a millionaire's survival enclave. Natural disasters span days and weeks NOT hours.

An experiment to try: fully charge your cell phone or some other similar device, then turn it off and leave it off. How long into the future do you expect you'll be able to turn it on again without another recharge? You might be surprised.