Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)
Ms. Que Banh@benlockwood Israel has been striking solar panels in occupied Palestine 🤬
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKA few days ago (maybe after the same picture was tooted?) folk were pointing out that solar panels are an obvious target during wartime - this doesn't mean they /shouldn't/ be installed and can increase resilience alongside battery backup - but they are not a panacea in an unstable world.
Even in a "stable" country they and their associated infrastructure must be guarded as there's various unpleasant ways they can be sabotaged (I'm a hardware engineer and have to keep the power on for kit that is used to look after vulnerable people so keep a close watch on this sort of stuff and energy security in general)
Magnus Ahltorp@vfrmedia @PhoenixSerenity @benlockwood There’s an enormous national security difference for a country between attacks in the country and attacks far away from the country.
Also, even if only attacks in a country are considered, and fuel supply is completely secured, big turbine-based (nuclear, oil, gas and water) power sources are much more vulnerable than solar, even large installations.
Which of course doesn’t make it less of a crime knocking them out.
@ahltorp @vfrmedia @benlockwood At this point - I am wanting both US & Israel to face impending dooms. MASS DOOMS. Fuck them both, beyond Pluto.
GhostOnTheHalfShellThe level of devastation this war will engage in is only going to get worse. Iranian desalinization plants have already been hit, but desalinization plants used by nations throughout the Middle East are all targets.
There’s one other point about shutting down the straight of Hormuz, most of the nations in the region receive food shipments from abroad.