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mentalgeartoday at 5:24 PM1 replyview on HN

This is far higher than I expected: a much needed, remarkably good reason to be cheerful about the future after all !


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cucumber3732842today at 5:37 PM

A lot of people who are cheering right now are going to be screaming bloody murder in 10-20yr when the "below this population density generation and storage makes more sense than grid" threshold creeps up into the lower end of suburban population densities and some industrial users can just buy the fields or hills around their factories and put up panels or wind turbines rather than negotiate with a bunch of entities.

Energy independence is a two way street. This is essentially a domestic internal soft power lever that is going to go away or be nerf'd.

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