We should build now in anticipation of drone warfare. Utility-scale solar is easier to take out. Same as natural disasters.

The more stable you think the future will be, the more you want to capture the efficiency of central power.

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bronco21016 2 hours ago | parent [-]

By that logic literally everything should be distributed. That's going to be a big undertaking to re-architect our entire civilian infrastructure against that.

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, I just don't see society taking that measure until it's either 1) cheaper, or 2) the threat moves from being just a threat to reality.

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delichon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> 2) the threat moves from being just a threat to reality.

Completely agree. But I'm already there. Large scale economic disruption has just started. For that to remain peaceful over the next few decades would be a miracle. So we should plan for disruption, for which energy decentralization is a keystone, and the technology to make it practical is here.

California has a 600 MW Virtual Power Plant composed of Tesla Powerwall batteries in 85k homes. Central control of distributed generation removes a lot of inefficiencies. Household excess is available to the whole system.

	▲	freediddy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Has no one been paying attention to how Ukraine/Russia and now Iran has been targeting civilian infrastructure? All of Spain's electricity was down last year from a cyberattack. This is completely a new line of threat that we need to address.