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Originally Posted by GGG
It’s likely good public policy to require grid connection for everyone in cities.
People in general do not account for black swan events very wells so while these independent systems will work in the 99% eventually you will have failure and need to rely on government to bail the individuals out. Utility distribution is an area where forced collectivism has significant benefits.
Now Texas showed that the utilities are in a lot of ways are no better so that’s needs to work.
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You'd definitely want to have some sort of backup. If I was going to go off grid I'd want:
Solar
Large battery
Small hydrocarbon backup generator (nat gas if available, propane or diesel if not)
Maybe it would be reasonable to make people sign a waiver of some kind, because I agree that government support for folks who screw this up is unwarranted.