China’s exports of batteries, electric cars and solar panels hit record highs last year, underlining its dominance of key green industries — and driving a global price slump that’s adding to alarm in developed economies.
Small private solar stations are vastly better than centralized power plants because their decentralized nature generally help with grid stability and are ultimately also add redundancy in possible events of failures (including possible attacks). But in either case, you need to update your grid to become smarter and distribute loads better, as well as having storage solutions, big and small (small decentralized storage should not be snuffed at because it eventually accumulates too). If you just sit on your ass and do nothing then yeah, your grid will suffer and eventually your whole electricity supply. We have NIMBY states like this in Germany too and at this point I’m all for cutting power to them if they want neither power generation nor distribution being build in their area. I don’t see why we should power those fucks when they’re blocking the whole progression so hard.
Until you realize that they’re a) very centralized and b) require a lot of empty space in a suitable location that isn’t better used for something else and c) consequently cockblocked by various regulations & NIMBYs. Meanwhile we have cities full of rooftops, facades, balconies, parking lots, and much much more other surface areas that are just sitting there without being utilized. It’s right there where the energy is also consumed, lowering bills and creating massive interconnected energy storage in the process.
Not meaning to add anything super meaningful to the conversation.
I think its funny that for what feels like since the beginning of humans, we’ve been debating centralised solutions vs distributed solutions. Its like a universal constant source of debate and will probably still be discussed long after were all gone.
Small private solar stations are vastly better than centralized power plants because their decentralized nature generally help with grid stability and are ultimately also add redundancy in possible events of failures (including possible attacks). But in either case, you need to update your grid to become smarter and distribute loads better, as well as having storage solutions, big and small (small decentralized storage should not be snuffed at because it eventually accumulates too). If you just sit on your ass and do nothing then yeah, your grid will suffer and eventually your whole electricity supply. We have NIMBY states like this in Germany too and at this point I’m all for cutting power to them if they want neither power generation nor distribution being build in their area. I don’t see why we should power those fucks when they’re blocking the whole progression so hard.
Large solar stations are vastly better because they are cheaper and a much better use of limited resources.
Until you realize that they’re a) very centralized and b) require a lot of empty space in a suitable location that isn’t better used for something else and c) consequently cockblocked by various regulations & NIMBYs. Meanwhile we have cities full of rooftops, facades, balconies, parking lots, and much much more other surface areas that are just sitting there without being utilized. It’s right there where the energy is also consumed, lowering bills and creating massive interconnected energy storage in the process.
Not meaning to add anything super meaningful to the conversation.
I think its funny that for what feels like since the beginning of humans, we’ve been debating centralised solutions vs distributed solutions. Its like a universal constant source of debate and will probably still be discussed long after were all gone.
I just think that’s neat.
Both can have their pros and cons depending on type, use case and circumstances which need to be weighted against each other.