[ano-ther]

Eye opening for me. One of the arguments for renewable energy (besides emissions) has always been its potential for decentralizing power generation. Makes it more resilient, democratizes the means of production etc.

This article shows that we inadvertently introduced new choke points. And of course the global security environment makes it more worrisome.

[panki27]

Hmm, almost like what happend to the internet... the idea being "everything is decentralized", but now +80% of traffic passes through Cloudflare and over 90% of mails come from 2 providers!

[paxys]

Cloudflare absolutely does not control 80% of internet traffic. I have no idea where you got that number from.

[ezfe]

This article says 80% of known websites, which are 19% of all websites. Probably where it came from.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare

[paxys]

That's still the number of websites, not their traffic. A personal blog hosted on Cloudflare and google.com are not both the same.

[Aachen]

Probably that just skews it worse though. Most people aren't cf customers but many of the big targets seek protection

[lupire]

Solar is not the same as renewable.

Renewable and decentralized are different axes.

[realusername]

It never made any sense anyways, nothing can really escape the economy of scale, whatever the technology being used.

[foolfoolz]

decentralized solar will never be able to provide power at scale. even the scale of 1 household. only homes with lots of land could afford the amount of panels needed. the average home will always need to consume power generated offsite

[Matumio]

energy plus buildings are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-plus_building

[kkfx]

Yes, p.v. have opened the way for semi-autonomy depending on where you live BUT ruling class really dislike this, they want slave not Citizens and tie people to service it's a very good way of making slaves who can't revolt.

That's why instead of pushing self consumption and semi-autonomous systems we push grid-tied and cloud-ties crap, to be tied to someone else service, slave of that. It's the "in 2030 you'll own nothing" already a reality in modern cars, connected to the OEM with a much higher access than the formal owner, much modern IoT and cloud+mobile crap. People do not even understand they do now own, until it's too late.

Another simple example: in most of the world banks between them have open standard to automatic exchange transaction, in EU that's OpenBank APIs, with signed XML and JSON feeds. There is NO REASON to block customers for directly use such APIs from a personal desktop client. All banks I know block such usage. So you do not have all your transactions signed by the bank on your iron, you have NOTHING in hand. In case of "serious issues" you have nothing to prove what you have on your bank, what you have done with your money. In the past we have had paper stuff to prove, we now have signed XML/JSON witch is even better than paper being much harder to falsify, but no, we miss because 99% must own nothing.

We have connected cars with a SIM inside, but instead of having the car offering APIs and a client or perhaps even a WebUI, directly to their formal owner we have to pass through their OEM, the real substantial owner. And we can't even disconnect the car. In the EU it's even illegal for new car to be disconnected since the emergency e-call service must be active on all new cars.

And so on.