[acdha]

They’re a fire risk but have you tried fossil fuels and power lines? The newer battery technologies have significantly minimized the heavy metal needs and especially the sodium-ion batteries really reduce the fire and explosion risk.

[bluefirebrand]

We aren't talking about installing coal power plants in people's houses the way we're talking about installing solar and batteries in people's houses

[acdha]

People use gas generators, though, and it’s not like you have to go back further than my grandfather’s lifetime to have factories or other industrial buildings with oil/coal plants on-premise or directly powering machinery. Pollution and logistics pushed away but we didn’t start with a pervasive power grid.

[BobaFloutist]

I have a gas line directly into my apartment building, as do the vast majority of buildings in my area.