Time to wake up and smell the ashes.
That's without even considering legalities regarding grid connection (some utilities don't allow independent operation of solar panels that are also connected to the grid) and the simple fact that most of the country doesn't get enough sun to completely power a house with AC/furnace/fridge/computers 24/7.
Best bet for independent power generation is a propane generator with a healthy stockpile of filled tanks. (propane because it has indefinite shelf life, as opposed to diesel or gasoline).
Is quantitative easing and unemployment protection turning our economy inside out?
It seems like prime time to deploy capital to build manufacturing and raw material capacity, is it all getting sucked into markets too abstracted from reality?
I’m getting a gut feeling that we’re running towards an entirely new kind of crash, worse but much weirder than have been experienced so far.
But the problem with these macroeconomic abstractions is that they’re abstractions, and the actual problems are specific.
Why is this surprising? They are both caused by high demand. Shortages suck, but completely selling out your products is one of the better problems to have for a company, because it means you are making a lot of money.
Also Siemens make Electric Pole transformers (I think) in Colombia - shown for a short segment at the start of this more recent video montage on making a variety of different transformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHoiNnv3ZE
The last time I was in a big box hardware store, it looked like they had kind of given up on front-of-house organization or cleanliness.
I also don’t expect a 24 year old payment processor for a utility company to have perfect access to information about the operations and capex side of the business so take with appropriate salt grains.
Bottom line is yes we should worry about securing the national infrastructure but not because of this Reddit post.
Also /r/PrepperIntel? This is pretty deep down the rabbit hole.
