> But can't energy from fossil fuels be generated in a decentralized manner too?

How would that possibly work? Everyone has their own oil well and refinery? Their own fuel depots?

And even if you were able to build all that, we would basically have giant bombs waiting to be ignited all over residential neighborhoods during war time...

I would invite you to think through the logistics of what you propose before you launch into multiple paragraphs that assume those logistics are solved.

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gnull 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I meant a diesel generator in a residential building. The refineries stay centralized somewhere safe (not a problem in Ukraine's case).

	▲	thelastgallon 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Do you mean a generator that creates diesel from bullshit[1]? Or a diesel generator that generates electricity? If its the latter, how is your idea decentralized fossil fuel? You are using the same fossil fuel supply chain as it exists today. For decentralized, you need an oil well in your backyard, and a refinery. THEN a diesel generator, if you want electricity. [1] Assuming you have enough cows
	▲	vrganj 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Then you don't solve the core problem of having a big juicy single point of failure. One that is very flammable at that, as Ukraine has proven in Russia recently.