Let's worry about basic reliable energy now, and then…
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Let's worry about basic reliable energy now, and then transition to renewables when the lights are on
I don't see the immediate benefits of a renewable energy build-out right now on the African continent. They're expensive, unreliable, fake, depend on still inefficient technologies, unproven on any meaningful national scale and inevitably require intermediaries like battery storage.
DFIs have done a great job of convincing African governments that the more expensive and unreliable solution is the answer to an immediate need, when their host countries electrified using dinosaur juice and bones. I think it's a great shame that we're being talked out of using the very minerals beneath our feet by the same people who are buying them from us.
They tricked us with landline and said we 'leapfrogged' to cellphones, that's not what happened they sold us data harvesting consumption machines while they use the same landline infrastructure in their own countries to run reliable fiber lines. It'd be very foolish if we fell for it again, only this time with energy.
I dislike the idea of microgrids too. Countries end up without expendable infrastructure and instead depend on benevolent donors and 'investors' to keep them running. There's a reason why every developed country has a working grid and not a 5mw solar park for each district. It's a maintenance nightmare!
Maybe let's worry about solar panels in 50 years when they're 40% efficient and even then be very cautious about how we deploy them. China didn't industrialise on fake energy like solar, Germany didn't, the US didn't, India isn't. So why should we?
I call it the Solar Scam it has a nice ring to it. And what they're doing is raising the price of solar while telling Africans to buy a shitload of it and we ate it up, hook line and sinker. We bought billions worth of it and we should ask for a refund and put that money into coal. Prices are going up 15% this year and maybe even higher because of the war in Iran, you know that? It's a great big scam and we're falling for it.
You gotta understand there are DFI agents in here who'll push back and say "oh but we like solar and we like getting scammed" or they'll vote without engaging the argument, which is very strong on my side because they have no counterpoints
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I don't see the immediate benefits of a renewable energy build-out right now on the African continent. They're expensive, unreliable, fake, depend on still inefficient technologies, unproven on any meaningful national scale and inevitably require intermediaries like battery storage.
DFIs have done a great job of convincing African governments that the more expensive and unreliable solution is the answer to an immediate need, when their host countries electrified using dinosaur juice and bones. I think it's a great shame that we're being talked out of using the very minerals beneath our feet by the same people who are buying them from us.
They tricked us with landline and said we 'leapfrogged' to cellphones, that's not what happened they sold us data harvesting consumption machines while they use the same landline infrastructure in their own countries to run reliable fiber lines. It'd be very foolish if we fell for it again, only this time with energy.
I dislike the idea of microgrids too. Countries end up without expendable infrastructure and instead depend on benevolent donors and 'investors' to keep them running. There's a reason why every developed country has a working grid and not a 5mw solar park for each district. It's a maintenance nightmare!
Maybe let's worry about solar panels in 50 years when they're 40% efficient and even then be very cautious about how we deploy them. China didn't industrialise on fake energy like solar, Germany didn't, the US didn't, India isn't. So why should we?
I call it the Solar Scam it has a nice ring to it. And what they're doing is raising the price of solar while telling Africans to buy a shitload of it and we ate it up, hook line and sinker. We bought billions worth of it and we should ask for a refund and put that money into coal. Prices are going up 15% this year and maybe even higher because of the war in Iran, you know that? It's a great big scam and we're falling for it.
You gotta understand there are DFI agents in here who'll push back and say "oh but we like solar and we like getting scammed" or they'll vote without engaging the argument, which is very strong on my side because they have no counterpoints
#local
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