Both sides of politics see the energy revolution as a simple replacement of older fossil fuel generating…

Both sides of politics see the energy revolution as a simple replacement of older fossil fuel generating sources with newer sources. But renewables fundamentally redefine what a grid is. They decentralise power itself, not just electricity. Abundant, delocalised, near-free. /1 https://t.co/qAKkXFJIh9

Picture from RethinkX: https://t.co/UhiStCXKwN Renewables are changing power fundamentally - in the political sense. The hoarding and rationing of energy *is* political power today. /2

The capacity to generate energy almost for free, anywhere, and at any scale, including your own household, destroys our current status hierarchies. Those hierarchies are fossil fuel hierarchies. You don’t have to vote for anybody to smash those hierarchies. /3

That’s what they want you to think, they want to remain the obligatory passage point for power, in both meanings of that term. They’re already not that. 4 million Australians have already made them almost irrelevant. /4

This isn’t a call for ‘self-sufficiency’ either. We don’t want 4 million isolated micro-grids. The grid *is* our public. And for that we do need politicians to step up and adjust. But they won’t do that with voting. /5

They’ll just turn the whole thing into what they turn everything into. Team sports. Culture wars, status games. Because that’s’ our system of populist governance. Popularity wins ultimate power. /6

But thanks mostly to China, the technologies are already here for you to check out of most of that bullshit. The greatest pressure you can apply to those hierarchies is to generate most of your energy without them. Put it in your cars too. Again, thanks mostly to China. /end