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The Internets were originally funded by the government as a national defense project. The idea was to build a communications network that was resiliant to attack or disaster. With an an initial boost from the Pentagon, the Internets have of course become a self-sustaining infrastructure that no longer requires government funding. So why hasn't the US government looked at our nation's dependence on centralized power as a similar security risk? With a little initial boost, solar power and other distributed power generation technology could over time reduce the risk that whole neighborhoods, cities, states, even entire regions of the country be without power because of a single point of failure. Such has been the case in Bangladesh, solar power systems have been credited with aiding the recovery effort from the recent cyclone. In Bangladesh, solar power has provided electricity to areas where it was not before available. Perhaps in the US the existing electrical infrasture being "good enough" (not to mention entrenched) is one of the biggest hurdles to making it better.
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