That makes sense. It does link to this abstract which lists several scholarly sources if you want to check their accuracy

Yeah it’s not as clear as it could be. I wonder if anything is lost in translation. I clicked to the study it links to which is by Chinese scientists and it had an abstract but requires an institutional login or a payment to see more detail.

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Please don’t purge me

All good. It’s clear that you’re passionate as we all are and I appreciate the feedback. We’re all learning and trying to find the best solutions as well. Criticism is important but discussions can sometimes break down easily here is all.

You bring up a lot of good points and I think those things are certainly aspirational. Cooperatives are great and worth working towards and highly beneficial which I say that from having once been part of a large coop who worked with cooperatives in Africa. I personally don’t think state-control of anything should be the ultimate goal but as you pointed there are reasons some funding is lagging behind in certain regions that can be nuanced and complex. For some regions, maybe this could give them a bit more of a chance?

Ultimately I absolutely agree that this is the decision of citizens of African nations on a local level and private funding and implementation is not a long term solution. I would love to see more of the forms you mentioned and hear more from African voices . In a world largely dominated by the English language due to colonialism, maybe articles like this can at least be reminders of issues not always covered in the news and potential solutions. It certainly generated some good discussion and I’ll check out the links you shared.

I didn’t read it that way at all and don’t have any issue with those things. It’s just one possible proposition that the authors made and I shared to this forum. . Could you word your responsea a bit more constructively?

I don’t think the article contains any endorsement of the IMF

Thanks for your feedback. The authors of the article do address that.

Yeah it had a lot of good insight into history and how it applies to the present moment that hopefully inspires some people. I’m glad you liked it. Unfortunately the closest they are to the Fediverse is Bluesky for now but hopefully you enjoy getting their updates.

It’s currently a work in progress and it’s often that articles don’t go into full detail on that work but it links to this this article which goes into further detail and may answer some of your questions. Constructive comments are more appreciated than cynicism

I’m aware and certainly agree they should find a more ethical host.

I’m not sure if you’re asking me personally as I didn’t publish the article so I can’t answer for Solarpunk Stories but I’m aware of how problematic Substack is and I certainly agree that an alternative platform that’s not centralized in corporate power that also works with Fascists would be more in line with Solarpunk ethics and praxis.

I think it was meant to be a very concise overview and update of their prior entry which elaborates a bit more. You can find that here . Those should definitely be included in a larger conversation but some might argue that those are solarpunk adjacent so maybe they wanted to keep it strictly to variations of solarpunk 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m glad we were able to find what were you looking for! Definitely the right place to crowdsource a question like this. Thank you for bringing it up! It really makes sense to put those shells to good use and especially relevant for Solarpunk and this community.

I haven’t seen that episode and I unfortunately can’t provide the specific answer you’re looking for but there does seem to be a good amount of of people doing research on using organic materials like peanut shells for energy related project and peanut shells are considered low cost and easy to source. There’s a teen in Zimbabwe who worked on harvesting energy from Peanut shells . Scientists in Canada created a new capacitor from Peanut shells. A a physicist from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal has done work on energy storage using Peanuts. There’s been research into utilizing Peanut shells for solar desalination and a town in Argeinta uses them to keep the power on so I’m sure this is something we’ll be hearing more about in the future

The article is attributed to Glanze Patrick and if you click their name you’ll see a list of other articles they’ve written. I think it’s meant to be written in a generic tone so I can see why you would ask. I assume the author is human but who knows if they used something. It can definitely be hard to tell these days. I certainly hope not.

Listing bullet points from the article is something I consider to be very low-effort. I posted two paragraphs. People can read further if they are inclined.

I’m not a bot, I assure you. i’m a human that’s been on this instance for over 3 years that you’ve chosen to insult. What about the post was lazy? The condescending tone isn’t appreciated.

Thank you everyone for reporting this, constructively discussing in comments and using downvotes appropriately to bring to our attention. After reviewing the account and reaching out to them to no avail, along with their lack of response to community members, we’ve decided it is likely a bot account and have followed many other community mods in banning them from this community. Thanks again all for helping keep discussions constructive here.