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by bluefirebrand 326 days ago
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
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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.
I have a gas line directly into my apartment building, as do the vast majority of buildings in my area.