"This entire mess is because the global elite want to stay in control… in control of power."

Yet the grid is in disarray, as you point out. Faced with a failing supply of electricity, the logical conclusion if you want a secure supply of electricity is to supply your own. It seems like the global elite don't want to stay in control of power, or they'd ensure we never had any incentive to supply our own power. If they wanted control they'd supply it well enough that making our own never even occurred to us.

Seems to me they don't want to provide a power grid, but want us to supply our own.

"The grid was a poor design idea."

Maybe that's why. These global elites are smart enough to have the most wealth and keep it despite lots and lots of smart people trying to take it from them. They aren't unaware the power grid is a bad idea. It would be far more efficient if every power user supplied their own power, and the whole massively expensive, and maintenance nightmare, electrical grid can be recycled. This would also greatly improve national security. Lots of great benefits, such as redundancy, resilience, indpendence, diversification of power sources, and etc. would come from a program of replacing the grid with users supplying their own power. Decentralization of the means of production is the cutting edge of tech advance in electrical supply just like every other field of industry today.

Mineral supplies like oil and gas is only one way to provide fuel to run a generator. Where I live wood is literally growing on trees and I can't drive for 1 minute without seeing wood laying around wasted because no one needed it for anything enough to take it. Wood gasification is old and simple tech. It would be pretty easy here to use waste wood that you could collect for free to fuel a set of generators (redundancy so if one needs maintenance or breaks, you can switch to the other while you do the needful) that provide power. It also gets pretty windy here on the Pacific coast, so windmills are a viable option, and would reduce fuel needed to run generators. It's even sunny in the summer, making solar panels viable ~3 months out of the year. The whole PNW is basically supplied with power by Bonneville hydroelectricity, so we have very cheap and reliable power supply for the grid, and innumerable little creeks rushing down the flanks of the Coast Range make microhydro quite possible for many people too.

"These elite are also doing their best to limit, or eliminate all possible alternatives."

Wave energy is horrifically harmful to ecosystems, as are megasized windmills. These techs don't scale well. Molten salt reactors are coming on line in China, and they make nuclear power generation inherently safe. If something goes wrong, the molten salt cools and freezes, ending the reaction rather than threatening to spiral out of control. It doesn't use Uranium either, but Thorium, which is far less expensive because it's much more common. The fact we aren't building molten salt reactors supports your claim the globalists do not want to make electricity less expensive and more reliable. Burning oil and coal to make electricity doesn't make sense when molten salt reactors can make it a lot less expensively without most of the environmental hazards.

Geothermal is very expensive, requiring enormous capital expenditures to build, and constant massive expenditures for maintenance. Maintaining plumbing underground costs a lot, as the recent dumping of 100's of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River reveals.

As for magnet driven motors to generate electricity, I don't see those scaling up much, even if such things are possible. Towers for harvesting energy from the Earth's EMF field might scale well, and enable replacing the horribly expensive grid. However, beaming EMF is known to cause medical issues, so it may not be safe. We dunno because Tesla didn't get a chance to test it.

All in all, it seems the power grid is doomed, both by better tech and globalist policies. In terms of security, being dependent on centralization for anything creates risk of being starved into compliance, so being energy independent is clearly the most reasonable policy. That's what I'm striving for myself, and what I recommend others seek to do as well. For folks that think non-traditional techs exist for making power, these would be great ways to put them to the test. If you can run a car on water, generate electricity from magnets, or whatever, don't try to patent it and get rich. Just use it yourself, and share working models schematics on the down low to disperse the knowledge across the population before ebil globalists can suppress it.

"Things like handheld power tools will have a little motor inside it, charging up a set of super-caps."

Seems pretty easy to make in a garage if you actually understand such physics. If you make one, let me know. I'm kinda handy too.

Thanks!