Re: Just because the US still have an outstanding number of wires on poles...
"The best piece of advice EVER I was given here was to get everything behind UPS and surge protectors."
This reminded me of the Tesla home battery story we saw here a few weeks ago. Apparently some more details are leaking out. I do wonder if this-connected-to-a-nuclear-grid, rather than loads-of-renewables, might be how everyone gets their electricity in a decade or two.
http://gas2.org/2015/04/03/tesla-home-battery-details-emerge/