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The residents of an English housing estate commissioned a 150-meter tall, 4.2 megawatt wind turbine they now 100% own to combat local poverty. (theprogressplaybook.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think renewable energy's decentralized nature is one of its most underappreciated features. You could never imagine a local community building a conventional electricity plant, they are centralized and that is the job of government.

I suspect the future will have much more local decentralized projects of this nature. When you can have robots running factories without the need for humans, why not self-finance and build these at the community level too? It's entirely feasible, and many people will want to do such things. It's initiatives like this that make me doubt the future will be dystopian.

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 3 months ago

It’s something I love but it also terrifies me. The electric grid is huge, critical, incredibly complex, and has lots of room for catastrophic failure.

[–] bitchkat 4 points 3 months ago

In the US we actually do have municipal electric companies. But the vast majority are private for profit companies.

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 3 months ago

Exciting/inspiring story, thanks for sharing!