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Sure, it just seems like a weird lack of imagination to jump straight to building expensive, difficult to maintain infrastructure that takes a really long time to build, when building transmission lines and connecting to the other grids would be faster, likely cheaper, need less attention to detail, and would make for a more fault tolerant grid.