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Solar is inherently distributed in non-centralized.

Because it's based on sunlight which is distributed and noncentralized and free.

With battery storage, the intermittency is solved largely. Maybe you have your own gasoline peaker.

With enough solar, and an electric vehicle, you have transportation independence.

And I'm no expert on the historical and political nature of agriculture and centralized control, but I could argue agriculture is also fundamentally decentralized, certainly within the modern standards of deep technological stack control.

So if you can get your food, energy, transportation, water by yourself or within a local network... Then while I wouldn't call that socialist, I would call that highly democratilized, is that a word?

Now traditionally you also needed centralized power for defense.

And I'm wondering if drones will provide a fundamental advantage to guerilla defense.



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