Extremists keep trying to sabotage the electrical grid. What if they succeed?

When we scratch a little a main motivation for this behavior is always greed.

Most of the time, somebody, somewhere, is being paid for recruiting and directing the anger of dumb people against the desired target. Just last week there is the scandal of Tenet Media [1]. With a team of US youtubers being banned for Google for allegedly accepting 100k dollars a week (a week!), directly from Russia, to spread Kremlim propaganda from Tennessee

Is hard to fight against this people because they are just a spendable, fully replaceable, part in the plot. Remove this people and other will come to fill the gap

But, stop the money transference and things will change. Hunt and block the bank accounts of this people until a review was done. My bet is that people suddenly will stop trowing soup and gluing their body to invaluable pieces of Western culture, or leading people to assault the capitol in a clearly coordinated effort, or causing chaos on trains, or starting wildfires that cost everybody millions.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russ...

Yeah, it relies on a fundamentally faulty assumption that most people feel the same way they do or at least are adjacent enough to be open to their weird fantasy about instant ethnic violence arising from a brief disruption of normal operations. The 'silent majority is on our side but won't speak out' is a necessary pillar propping up their worldview, but doesn't survive contact with reality.

The reality is that people tend to get closer with their local communities during crisis. Especially if that crisis is 'neo nazi dipshits broke the power grid and now we have to go next door and see if they're okay or need to borrow some drinking water from us'. Even if they succesfully fucked up the power for a week it would be a net negative for them.

I am in exactly the same place (my panels are 12yr old, which also means that I can't make any changes to the system without bringing it up to code, which means replacing it all, basically). I have been eyeing the Impulse Labs induction range[1] as a stopgap for one of the biggest pain points of long power outages (super expensive though, even with credits... and doesn't heat the house or keep the food in the fridge good - but it does look like a really nice stove!)

1: https://www.impulselabs.com/

Why is getting batteries tied with getting new panels? is your system not modular and your can't upgrade to having batteries while using the old panels (but possibly also a new controller)?