• OtterA
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    8 months ago

    People are misunderstanding the point of this article, and similar articles

    This is specifically talking about instability in the power grid, and outages causing risks to lives. It’s meant to be an additional support to the grid, and a step towards renewables.

    That is also true for the bigger point. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, etc. would all play a role. We don’t need to pick one option for a region, let alone one option for the whole world.

    These hospitals would benefit from some redundancy, and this could be one (supposedly easy and immediate) way to do that