The idea of mushrooms being the only species that communicates is absurd.
Growers of organic food, rather than the dominant chemical farmers you buy your food from, are very aware of the complex nature of communication of the biology beneath our feet.
I have been off-grid with a small solar generation system of 2.5kwh of solar and 3.6kwh of battery storage for a year.
I had to run a generator a number of times during the darker weeks, but now we have longer days. I don't recall when I last ran it.
With solar, or any off-grid system, the number one thing that needs to change is you.
Switch stuff off, get energy efficient things, use power tools and charge their batteries when the sun is shining, use gas for hot water and cooking, and a log burner for heat (If I had my time again I would use a back boiler for water heating during the winter, and solar for water heating the rest of the time).
When I lived in a typical house, I averaged around 12.5kwh per day. Now, it's around 2.5kwh per day.
for areas that experience winter, this is a decisive issue.
If you live in a passivhause-style home, air source heat pumps ("minisplits" for our US readers) may work, and you might be able (at least in the southwest of the USA, with high insolation during winter) to get away with local battery storage to cover your heating needs with PV.
But if you don't, PV-driven heating during the winter, even with the very high COP's of air source heat pumps, is not realistic without much larger battery systems than you could reasonably have on site.
Covering non-heating domestic electricity costs with PV these days is relatively easy, and we should do it as much as possible. Covering the heating part for places with winter climates (especially in areas with low insolation) is much, much harder and really requires effective grid infrastructure.
Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually.
This is only news now because Russia is the current bogeyman, and the claims of Russia doing it fit the propaganda.
If I were Ukraine, I'd cut such cables to encourage my Western sponsors into more action, but that narrative is a bitter pill to swallow for the Western taxpayer's funding conflict.
Still, in 50 years, we may well be reading about exactly that.
"Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually." I read this also all the time, what I don't hear: How do they break? At high sea? By anchors? In a port? By nature? We don't know?
I'm open to the argument, but then someone would need to show some numbers, some trends, reasons and that the current cable breaking is just the same as in the last 20 years.
Your evidence is not compelling, because the planet is a large place...compelling evidence would be showing that there is no significant increase in broken cables among these countries that are so close to Russia.
When you call someone an NPC, you lose all credibility, both for the ad hominem attack, but also for how cliched and unoriginal it is. Can you please come up with something better?
Do you have statistics for the Baltic Sea? The amount of shipping in that area is much lower than in the major international shipping lanes like the English Channel.
Not a good comparison. The English Channel is the most busy maritime route in the world. The Baltic Sea accounts for 15 % of the world's maritime transportation so is also busy, even if less than the English Channel by no means "much lower",
Growers of organic food, rather than the dominant chemical farmers you buy your food from, are very aware of the complex nature of communication of the biology beneath our feet.
In 100 years, our descendants will be horrified.