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Yup, I'm with you, lowtechmag has a lot of articles that seem unmoored from reality. There's always a few good ones though. There's one arguing if the grid was designed for 98-99.9% uptime instead of 99.999999% uptime, we'd a) survive just fine b) have cheaper power and c) be more resilient against power failure when it inevitably happens, which I found pretty thought provoking.