Hey my friend,

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and leave such a thoughtful comment.

This would be awesome and the way I'd like to set-up when it comes time for me to build my first house. In NZ if we create our own energy via wind, water or solar and we have surplus we can sell it back to the grid. Couldn't this cover the insurance for the skeleton grid that you propose?

Yes I believe that the excess probably would cover an insurance cost, but equally some form of nominal insurance could act as a sweetener that could get the ball rolling. Equally I feel an insurance could cover unforeseen circumstances and large scale damage to the grid system and equally go some way to ensuring that those who maintain it (the workers) are paid a good standard of living.

Ive been trying to educate people on the versibility and utility of hemp for a some time (even just wrote a blog on hemp for steemit a couple of days ago)
Theres nothing this plant can't do, it could single handedly wipe out many more harmful industries that are currently in place today (cotton, fuel, dairy, medicines etc) Hemp has a super low environmental impact and even creates its own pesticide and fertiliser, amazing plant.

Yes it's such an amazingly versatile plant and I feel it could quite literally save the world. In a way this kind of also answers your next question, in relation to electric cars yes I think you're right in that over time and with the correct expenditure and innovation the methods of extraction will become less polluting. That said they will still use finite rare earth minerals, which suggests a finite answer to a long term and infinite problem. Equally as highlighted, even without coal fired plants .. the production of renewable energy has its own inherent problems. I'm also concerned about the whole narrative behind electric cars, privacy, plus concerns around the over-saturation of EMF's slowly creeping from the work, home space and increasingly into the car. I believe it is a false premise sold as environmentalism that will be increasingly used to monitor the population.

Equally, Henry Ford originally designed a car that was built from and ran on hemp oil .. realising that it was a cheaper and cleaner alternative .. the oil giants were so concerned that it would steal their thunder that they were instrumental behind banning it's industrial use and the demonisation of cannabis. In recent times, the car maker Renew has designed several Canna cars and released the below statement (which after spending a few years looking at hemp as an alternative energy source I very much believe) the cars are built from hemp and can run on hemp ethanol.

The CANNA 100 & 130 models have a Lifetime Carbon Footprint that’s 10% lower than the average new electric vehicle, while the CANNA EV model drives 22% greener than the average electric vehicle, ranging from 80 to 400+ horsepower.

Like you say a few more years innovation and who knows what they could achieve with hemp vehicles?

We have a huge fusion generator in the sky emitting more than enough energy to power the whole planet, I say lets use it!

Amen that that my friend, indeed among the 5000 plus patents held by the US patent office I very much believe the answer to our energy woes is already there. Thanks again @bengiles