Attacks scale in the drone age, infrastructure left where nobody’s looking at it is a vulnerability. Solar stacked on an active farm has the benefit of having eyes on it constantly - detection, repair and recovery cycles are dramatically shortened.

You’re assuming such attacks cannot be automated. Which unfortunately they so often can.

Just take a look at the multiple fridge freezer attacks in the EU this year.

> One isolated field of solar represents a negligible amount of power at grid scale.

Maybe I was unclear: that's exactly my point! That's the problem with grid scale for most everyday uses.

In 2026, it's fairly trivial to have a setup such that, if "the grid" fails, I don't even notice for days. That's a nice feature! And it makes sense to build out communities that way from now on.

"The grid" is great for industry, but for residential, micro-grids are clearly the future. Allowing the state and the electric company to cut us off - intentionally or otherwise, let alone having no power during a disaster when it's needed most, is a very silly thing to trade for a tiny efficiency increase.

I sleep well at night knowing I have four bigass AGMs under me.

I bought my bus in 2015, so my personal picture is of the past 11 years.

The big changes seem to have been:

* Better / more varied solar panels

* Lithium batteries (which I don't use for a house bank, but still benefit from by dint of them having driven the price deep-cycle lead batteries down)

* USB-C everything

When I first started this lifestyle, almost everyone had lead-acid batteries powering an inverter, and a zillion wall warts converting power back to DC. Some people had solar for sure, but a solid majority only camped where they were able to plug in.

At festivals, powered sites sold out quickly and at a premium. Dispersed camping in national forests was the purview of tent campers, truck campers, and people who don't use much power (ie, not a ton of remote workers). New campgrounds always focused on power pedestals and seemed to regard that as the MVP.

Now, festivals are a sea of solar and/or off-grid-cooled beers. Campgrounds are often a de-facto swap meet of usb-c oddities (I have a USB-C coffee grinder - what a world!). Dispersed camping in national forests are often transient standing desk communities. Nary an inverter in sight - everything is direct-to-USB-C.

The difference between most people needing to plug in within a few hours in order to have their basic comforts vs. being able to live indefinitely without the grid has significantly changed what it feels like to be on the road.

But as we refine and revise power delivery to our communities, why then do we want to emulate the substation model?

Tiny deployments of off-grid solar beat the pants off that model.

I have a 7.3 powerstroke (actually T444E - the year before Ford bought Navistar!), and I haven't modded it yet, so I run just plain diesel.

Mechanically, almost every component is a single-point-of-failure: drivetrain, brakes, cooling system, etc.

But I don't actually move all that much; I only move from place to place maybe a dozen times a year - less some years.

And while I'm stationary, it's pretty easy for me to have fully off-grid power. And a composting toilet lasts me a full loop around the USA without needing to empty the solid container.

But I didn't mean for my point to be about mobile living, just identifying that one of the main benefits of solar as opposed to nuclear is that control over power distribution can be scaled radically downward.