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Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects by Guthur on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:47AM (#31394205)
Solar and wind are strategically untenable. I can harden, concentrate and layer my defenses around dense energy production facilities. I can also concentrate my remedial assets to bring them back online asap.

With the solar in particular it's one cluster munition away from massive degradation.

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Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects by Juliate on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:59AM (#31394254)
In times of scarcity and uncertainty, strategy becomes a lesser focus than just survival.

It works the same with money: when you barely have what’s necessary to live, you don’t have the reserve to invest/save strategically to improve your situation, and you don’t necessarily have the peace of mind required to think about it.

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Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects by black_puppydog on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:10AM (#31394316)
This seems ridiculous to me. Are you suggesting it'd be easier to disrupt at scale thousands and thousands of turbines, rather than one nuclear plant?
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Re:“Carbon Bombs” – Mapping key fossil fuel projects by joshuanapoli on Monday May 16, 2022 @07:47AM (#31395831)
Solar and battery backup for a home should make it more resilient to disruption of the local power infrastructure.
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