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This is the part of the argument that gets ignored when people talk about all the sunny deserts that are available.

Why would you want a majority of your power generation in one easy to attack location?



There are numerous points of failure in any grid. the big power generators and transformers are hard to hide targets.

A big surface area of solar panel is much less dense in terms of power generation per square feet. So you would need a lot of ordinance to meaningfully decrease its output (except at transformer points, but that’s like in any grid).


That already happened. Wiki the OPEC crisis of the 1970s or more recently Russia's invasion of Ukraine.




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