I've been saying some of this for ages, including on SaidIt. I'll say it again.

Decentralize electricity production!

I live by the Detroit River, where the exact same water flows over Niagara Falls. Sure the falls have fast kinetic energy, but that same flow travels consistently for miles here with a serious width. Just as almost every house has a car, there's no reason it can't have a generator in the river, whether larger for many houses or small for a single home, whether floating at the surface, mid-level chained on a buoy, or carpeting much of the floor of the river. The Great Lakes is a great waterway, but it could be done to smaller scales for any stream or river.

I made another post in /s/Energy a while back describing how they could easily run a dedicated pipe/channel electric generator system across Essex County here where I live, as a shortcut avoiding the Detroit River between Lake St.Clair and Lake Erie. Sure it would require a huge initial expense but it would be a perpetual energy source. A pipe would work but a channel would obviously move much more water and generate much more electricity. The elevation difference is not tremendous, but the water force is, made even greater the wider channel is. The width of a road? The width of a football field? Plus - potential for more fish, wildlife, and other things, perhaps even more boating.

IMO, just as every home and workplace should have an indie-server, so too, we should all be generating our own power.

Additionally, thorium molten salt reactors should be commonplace too. The powers that be deny us liberty and independence.