Solar and wind power plants can be fully controlled and owned by individuals and small communities, with zero intervention from the gov.
But solar and wind power alone doesn’t give you 365/24/7 electricity. If you would make it a standard that people store the amounts of hydrogen needed to have energy in winter you get problems with proliferating the ability to blow things up as well. Some of that hydrogen storage likely would also blow up accidentally.
But in democratic societies, it may be a better idea to build new solar / wind / energy storage factories instead.
Energy storage facilities alone are not enough. Battery-type storage can store energy economically for interday demand differences but would need two orders of magnitude cheaper to be similarly used for storing energy from the summer to be used in the winter.
If you store hydrogen or synthetic gas, you need a way to burn that for energy as well.
But in the systems that can go horribly wrong unless properly maintained, the past performance is not a good indicator of the future performance.
Out of past problems we learned a lot about how to construct nuclear power plants in a way that’s safer.
But solar and wind power alone doesn’t give you 365/24/7 electricity. If you would make it a standard that people store the amounts of hydrogen needed to have energy in winter you get problems with proliferating the ability to blow things up as well. Some of that hydrogen storage likely would also blow up accidentally.
Energy storage facilities alone are not enough. Battery-type storage can store energy economically for interday demand differences but would need two orders of magnitude cheaper to be similarly used for storing energy from the summer to be used in the winter.
If you store hydrogen or synthetic gas, you need a way to burn that for energy as well.
Out of past problems we learned a lot about how to construct nuclear power plants in a way that’s safer.