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Ukraine is making its infrastructure harder for Russia to destroy by building clean energy sources
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This is why renewable energy needs rebranding. National defense from distributed energy sources. Energy independence, no reliance on foreign oil. Disaster preparedness. Provide for your own family if you can power your own house.
New jobs by building up domestic manufacturing of solar panels, batteries and wind turbines. These days costs are coming down so you can lower electricity bills too.
Energy independence is one of my favorite reasons for it. Getting actually invest and own my power generation vs being stuck in a subscription with a corporation who is subject to geopolitical movements on where, how and when they can buy their fuel.
Crazy to see right winger, pepper types sometimes (not all of them) get sucked into being a liberal thing lol. Like is it a liberal thing to want to own my house or car too? What a weird thing to think
Absolutely 100% Right now having solar panels on your house is 'branded' as some sort of green save the planet thing.
Putting enough panels that your house can go totally off-grid with a little cutback and usage, that's as independent as you get. Save money too.
Anyone who is convinced by the benefits on the environment has been for a long time. It's just marketing towards the people who are already convinced.
There is a troubling aspect, though - most of solar inverters aren't capable of operating as an island today. Cost-cutting and dumbing-down has occurred.
However, if a village has at least one household with a hybrid inverter capable of generating a frequency for others to follow - and some people who know what they're doing - some level of disaster preparedness is possible even with today's tech. (If the grid fails, one disconnects everyone behind the local substation from the big grid, brings online an inverter working in island mode, and syncs other inverters to it.)
Yeah but throw some batteries on that solar, which you really should do anyway, and you're good to go. IMHO the batteries are what really makes self-sufficiency possible. With a good size solar array and a good size battery, you can be not only a net exporter but more or less an always exporter, rarely if ever taking power from the grid.
Run on sunshine during the day and stored sunshine at night. Unfortunately a lot of places it's not legal to have a house with no grid connection, even if one isn't necessary.