Everything is theoretically possible. But the question is what is actually happening in practice. And banning of solar happens in the US (and wind in the UK, for a while) — but not in African countries.

You are completely delusional. I live in the UK and can state categorically that bacon remains a publicly celebrated and much-loved food. You don’t go to jail for saying you like it, and the fact you think that someone does should be incredibly embarrassing for you, as it demonstrates your endless credulity. Go watch a Fallow video on how to make an English breakfast, bacon and black pudding included, instead.

https://youtu.be/UEUAHI0AZu4?s...

The fantastic thing about the rise of cheap solar and storage is that it strips away the ability of corrupt and incompetent governments and power companies to cause so much harm. See also: Pakistan, where the deployments of behind-the-meter solar have been even larger as a percentage of grid capacity.

The main point for African countries is not catching up or narrowing a gap, but seeing real-world improvements in the lives of millions. Do you think some kid who's able to do their homework at night for the first time is going to give a shit that Belgium's economy has also improved over the last year?

"The solar surge does little to address the most pressing social and economic problems of developing countries like South Africa, the need to generate new jobs for millions of young citizens" is just out and out bullshit. That's only looking at first-order effects, yet cheap energy is famously most important for its second-order economic benefits. If energy is cheap, everything else gets cheaper; if its price rises, so does the price of everything else. When prices get more affordable over time, productivity can improve.

  As I've mentioend a couple of times in recent posts, there are massive and profound benefits for people in sub-Saharan Africa from the current rapid and remarkable deployment of cheap solar and battery installations. These include: explosive growth in two and three wheel transport, leading to oil demand destruction (fuel for two and three wheelers is a dominant fraction of current consumption in many African cities), rapid improvements in air quality and thus respiratory health, big cuts in balance-of-payments drains for national economies, stabilised household finances as daily unpredictable cash drains for fuel become stabilised amortised capex, massive cuts to risks and time spent by women and girls in particular eg for water collection, etc. No more kerosene heating at home means a rapid drop in respiratory conditions from indoor air pollution. Kids can study after dark, meaning better educational outcomes. Vaccine storage becomes much lower risk because small clinics have reliable power. Rural African communities can narrow the gap with urban. These all lead to substantial economic improvements for everyone.

Quelle surprise that a supporter of the Christofascist cult claims it is not a Christofascist cult!

Revolt in 2100 is a story of a Christofascist state with a sexually abusive cult leader who preyed on young women. And look at what you’ve got now, America

No. Because Apple aren’t idiots. But you look like an idiot for thinking they’d build something so trivially insecure, and for failing to read what I wrote (“ the act of double-clicking also simultaneously triggers the FaceID authentication that ensures you are able to tap-to-authenticate.”)

Impressive stuff. I’m lucky if I remember my own name, some days

One less thing to take out with you and risk having it be lost or stolen. The risk already exists with your phone unless you're very unusual, and at least with your phone it's somewhat hard for a thief to access the data, whereas your driving licence has crucial information right there on it ready to be used by anyone who can get their hands on it. The main benefit is convenience, which you may not value that much but which others may.

There's some obvious risks to making driver's licences digital, but there's obvious benefits too, and risks inherent to a physical format that get eliminated or reduced.

Wait, if you're AmiMoJo, you're British, right? So how have you got through airport security without showing a physical passport?? Boarding cards, sure. But physical passport is still needed, is it not? Also, while I can indeed pull up the airline app to access my boarding card, it's massively *less* convenient than adding it to Apple Wallet and being able to use the features that provides eg appearing automatically on the lock screen as a notification for convenience once boarding time approaches.

You don't need to to unlock your phone to find an item in an Apple Wallet, you just double-click the side button to invoke Apple Pay and flick through the cards till you get to the one you're after. No unlocking at all, and the act of double-clicking also simultaneously triggers the FaceID authentication that ensures you are able to tap-to-authenticate.

TBF, like me you're in the UK, and there's no obligation to carry your driver's licence when driving in the UK. Memorising your number is impressive though!

You can only answer that in a country-specific context, and it depends on the scale, too, eg domestic install vs strategic national deployment a la Dogger Bank. But it is possible to say that the UK's CfD strike prices have typically been well below the average gas price for many years.