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by josu 4004 days ago
>Imagine all the savings in infrastructure for energy transportation and reinvestment in other sectors.

The decentralization of production usually leads to a greater cost per unit due to economies of scale. This may not be true for solar, but it certainly is for nuclear, hydro, geothermal and probably wind. There are regions in our planet that don't get many hours of sunlight, how should they produce energy there?

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No it is also a problem for solar. A distributed grid is non-trivial to build.