this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Why is a huge PV field in the Sahara, with all the distribution infrastructure and maintenance costs this requires, better than its equivalent capacity in a thousand distributed solar parks in the vicinity of the cities that use that electricity?
A roof full of solar panels can give one person all the electricity they need, as long as they don't need ostentatious individualized transportation and meal preparation powered by the grid.
Perfect emote.
If you were to revive those two and immediately tell them that a typical person needed a 1100-watt appliance just to make dinner for themself, they'd be astounded by the normalized level of opulent waste. Or that you needed another 700-watt appliance to save 5 minutes on washing the dishes. Or that we build housing so thin that we require another 1000+ watts constantly altering the indoor temperature, instead of using the sun and the ground and wood to keep it within a reasonable range. And the list goes on.
This might be a hot take but as soon as we can figure out how to trust each other enough to do things collectively in bulk and sometimes with just appropriate tech, we will have a huge leverage against the capitalists.
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