I mean, yes by all means, but how is this related to Solarpunk?

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I think this article covers it well: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:infrapolitics

We have a community for that: !music@slrpnk.net but I don’t think there really is a specific music genre for Solarpunk.

For total gross energy and not only electricity that is already pretty good 👍 Of course much more still needs to be done.

Saudi Arabia isn’t great on human rights either…

Das wundert mich jetzt aber doch. Schließlich überzieht Friedrich Merz seit Jahren andere mit solchen Klagen um sie mundtot zu machen.

Most developing countries don’t have a brain drain problem but a capital problem. Remittances from people that moved abroad are a strong factor helping with that and are bigger than the official development assistance for example.

There arn’t really a lot of fossile fuel plants that are decomissioned before the end of their lifespan, so this is more of an hypothetical solution for maybe sometimes in the future, all the while we continue burning fossile fuels. So basically it is an distraction from doing what is needed now.

And once a fossile fuel plant reaches the end of its lifespan the only usable things that are still there and can be reused is the electricity network connection. So those sites are good locations for cheap grid level battery storage (and maybe novel geothermal), but not small nuclear reactors that still need turbines and cooling towers etc.

Also jetzt mal von den ganzen anderen im Artikel genannten Vorteilen abgesehen… wenn eine Wohnung in der Innenstadt kein zur Wohnung gehörenden Autostellplatz hat, ist es absolut im Interesse der Allgemeinheit dann den Autobesitz einzuschränken, denn wo soll das Auto sonst hin? Alternativ halt nur kostenpflichtige Parkplätze mit Anwohnerausweiß, die dann aber entsprechend auch kosten.

https://www.shotcut.org/ and https://www.openshot.org/ are other options, besides the already mentioned KDEnlive.

Very few in Africa are under any sort of illusions about Russia. They just play both sides for their own benefit.

And it is anyways China that has a much bigger influence these days in many African countries.

Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn’t particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn’t help this lately.

This kind of video content is apparently not popular here 😅

I am not overly surprised by this. The humanitarian response funding has been absolutely gutted this year, and not only by Trump (for example German gov. funding is down by 50% since 2022).

Thus organisations are struggleing to keep the lights on in the many emergency responses they already previously committed to, and have also not yet structurally adjusted, so there is an administrative overhang that further swallows what little funding remains.

And without NGO pushing for it, the shallow self of what journalism has become is totally oblivious to such relatively slow moving disasters. But it also becomes a self-reinforcing death spiral with no media coverage there is little non-government donations, thus further reducing the funds available.

Conversations/Cheogram are excellent XMPP apps for Android that are freely available on F-Droid.

Nice to hear that they started operations now.

I found this bit interesting:

The Geretsried project will ultimately provide, in annual terms, 8.2 megawatts of electricity to the grid or about 64 megawatts of heating to the nearby town.

Emphasis mine… so I would guess they focus on electricity production during the summer months?

Such a close loop system has a bit of a low-grade waste heat problem during summer months though, even when using it to produce electricity. I guess we will see more heated public outdoor swimming pools again if this technology takes off.

If would need to be patched in on Linux kernel level, which is annoying to say the least.

Not really, as traveling by bus is quite popular in Europe as well. I just personally try to avoid it when there are better options.