Why?
As Rita Mae Brown points out, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
Along with the increase in grid-related problems, there's been a corresponding increase in power generation solutions that don't require large, expensive, centralized generation and sprawling grids to carry the energy.
Rooftop solar and backyard wind have advanced to the point where many, maybe even most, homes could function without "grid" connections at all.
The increasing safety and decreasing size of nuclear reactors make it possible to generate and distribute power at neighborhood, rather than regional, scale.
The only real beneficiaries of continued reliance on centralized generation and large-scale "grids" are the utilities which operate those power plants and those grids. They're holding us back from what could be an era of cheap, clean, reliable energy.
It's time to give up our grid addiction and pull our lips off the centralized utility teat. If we wise up and do that -- possibly starting with passage of the DATA ACT -- energy production and distribution can finally advance into the 21st century.
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