So you’re saying we have big areas that are already being used for something else that would need to be at least partially demolished in order to accommodate the infrastructure?

… Something that is way more difficult than popping a pole in the ground.

Look, I am 100% for renewables and have about 500W of panels for small things at home, I am not saying “don’t do everything possible to distribute power over as many places that can be retrofitted as possible” I’m saying the OP meme is a bad comparison.

Rooftop solar, parking lot solar, balconies with solar panels bolted on, bring on the distributed power grid. Bare minimum every country engaging in warfare should WANT solar everywhere since it makes it MUCH harder for anyone to attack power production facilities and take down important and significant portions of the grid. That alone makes their power grid much more secure, if not “under government control”.

I’d love to have a hybrid wind/solar setup, I live next to some fields and forest, andon top of a hill. So I get plenty of wind all year round and on the far end of the driveway I have a bit area for solar panels with great LOS for the sun from about 10am until sunset. I just don’t have the money.

So yeah, I’m all for sinking our tax dollars into a solar revolution (especially when considering what the country ACTUALLY spends money on) but the meme is a bad meme making a false equivalence.