How dare I compare my Diesel powered Peugeot to Greta’s Tesla?
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Indirectly. One could argue, yes. Electricity generation for households in the US is still over ~80% diesel, fuel oil, coal, natural gas from what I recall. And distributed rather than centralized is more efficient as the amount of power needed to "boost" the lines for transmission from one giant centralized plant is reduced.
For nuclear the "boost" is considered net worthwhile over a certain geographic radius due to the inherently low cost of nuclear power production.
Microhydro at the community or even household level is possible as power storage or limited runtime power, but you still need some energy source to pump the water up and some energy is lost in the turbine. Solar and wind used to pump water up is one way to optimize those technologies where they work best which is relatively low cost battery charge or water pumping (which is also really energy storage).