Greenpeace International“You cannot blow up the sun. It is incredibly difficult to disable a decentralised network of millions of rooftop solar panels. Distributed energy is inherently more resilient to sabotage than a handful of massive, vulnerable thermal plants.”
KerplunkIt is incredibly difficult to disable a decentralised network of millions of solar panels with household battery storage.
Full agreement. Power networks are soft targets, atomic power stations and radioactive waste storage a horrific disaster waiting to be triggered.
kravietz 🦇Yet, nuclear power stations are the only reason why #Ukraine power grid works after #Russia has annihilated hydro power plants, coal and gas power plants, and stole huge PV farms in Kherson oblast. Nuclear power plants, which Russians did not dare to destroy - and portable petrol generators, which kind of do count as distributed power generation. That’s the real world versus crypto nerd’s imagination 😄
And as it comes to PV - yes, you can’t “blow up the sun” but 1) a single country - China - currently controls[^1] 85% of the whole PV supply chain, 2) panels are easily damaged by natural (hailstorm, wind) and human factors (cluster munitions, fire) plus they depend on inverters which can be hacked remotely[^2]
[^1]: https://www.iea.org/reports/securing-clean-energy-technology-supply-chains
[^2]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
Canvases By Peter 🇵🇸@kravietz @Kerplunk @greenpeace ...and how many times has Ukraine come within a hair of a major nuclear disaster after the latest bombings? 10? 100? 1,000 times? It's only through sheer LUCK it hasn't happened.. Yet.
Of course if a solar panel is hit, you simply replace it, not evacuate the entire area for 50-500years.......... But ahwell, keep hatin'on green I guess.. 🤷♂️
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...and how many times has Ukraine come within a hair of a major nuclear disaster after the latest bombings? 10? 100? 1,000 times? It's only through sheer LUCK it hasn't happened.. Yet.
Of course if a solar panel is hit, you simply replace it, not evacuate the entire area for 50-500years
More like 500,000,000 years in the worst affected areas.
Russia is not hitting the Reactor Ruin because they can not control wind.
@Kerplunk I mainly said '50-500' because there are already people living back in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (a real-world example), but yes, depends on how big/bad the disaster will be.. And of course that simply wouldn't happen with Solar.