#non electric

[high-gene]

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[vectorisheree]

"We'll always be together Together in electric dreams"

"We'll always be together However far it seems"

[reasonsforhope]

African poverty is partly a consequence of energy poverty. In every other continent the vast majority of people have access to electricity. In Africa 600m people, 43% of the total, cannot readily light their homes or charge their phones. And those who nominally have grid electricity find it as reliable as a Scottish summer. More than three-quarters of African firms experience outages; two-fifths say electricity is the main constraint on their business.

If other sub-Saharan African countries had enjoyed power as reliable as South Africa’s from 1995 to 2007, then the continent’s rate of real GDP growth per person would have been two percentage points higher, more than doubling the actual rate, according to one academic paper. Since then South Africa has also had erratic electricity. So-called “load-shedding” is probably the main reason why the economy has shrunk in four of the past eight quarters.

Solar power is increasingly seen as the solution. Last year Africa installed a record amount of photovoltaic (PV) capacity (though this still made up just 1% of the total added worldwide), notes the African Solar Industry Association (AFSIA), a trade group. Globally most solar PV is built by utilities, but in Africa 65% of new capacity over the past two years has come from large firms contracting directly with developers. These deals are part of a decentralised revolution that could be of huge benefit to African economies.

Ground zero for the revolution is South Africa. Last year saw a record number of blackouts imposed by Eskom, the state-run utility, whose dysfunctional coal-fired power stations regularly break down or operate at far below capacity. Fortunately, as load-shedding was peaking, the costs of solar systems were plummeting.

Between 2019 and 2023 the cost of panels fell by 15%, having already declined by almost 90% in the 2010s. Meanwhile battery storage systems now cost about half as much as five years ago. Industrial users pay 20-40% less per unit when buying electricity from private project developers than on the cheapest Eskom tariff.

In the past two calendar years the amount of solar capacity in South Africa rose from 2.8GW to 7.8GW, notes AFSIA, excluding that installed on the roofs of suburban homes. All together South Africa’s solar capacity could now be almost a fifth of that of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations (albeit those still have a higher “capacity factor”, or ability to produce electricity around the clock). The growth of solar is a key reason why there has been less load-shedding in 2024...

Over the past decade the number of startups providing “distributed renewable energy” (DRE) has grown at a clip. Industry estimates suggest that more than 400m Africans get electricity from solar home systems and that more than ten times as many “mini-grids”, most of which use solar, were built in 2016-20 than in the preceding five years. In Kenya DRE firms employ more than six times as many people as the largest utility. In Nigeria they have created almost as many jobs as the oil and gas industry.

“The future is an extremely distributed system to an extent that people haven’t fully grasped,” argues Matthew Tilleard of CrossBoundary Group, a firm whose customers range from large businesses to hitherto unconnected consumers. “It’s going to happen here in Africa first and most consequentially.”

Ignite, which operates in nine African countries, has products that include a basic panel that powers three light bulbs and a phone charger, as well as solar-powered irrigation pumps, stoves and internet routers, and industrial systems. Customers use mobile money to “unlock” a pay-as-you-go meter.

Yariv Cohen, Ignite’s CEO, reckons that the typical $3 per month spent by consumers is less than what they previously paid for kerosene and at phone-charging kiosks. He describes how farmers are more productive because they do not have to get home before dark and children are getting better test scores because they study under bulbs. One family in Rwanda used to keep their two cows in their house because they feared rustlers might come in the dark; now the cattle snooze al fresco under an outside lamp and the family gets more sleep.

...That is one eye-catching aspect of Africa’s solar revolution. But most of the continent is undergoing a more subtle—and significant—experiment in decentralised, commercially driven solar power. It is a trend that could both transform African economies and offer lessons to the rest of the world."

-via The Economist, June 18, 2024. Paragraph breaks added.

[banditblvd]

Bad boys..... Ssave me bad boys..... Oh God oh no.......,,..

uhh

[w1dowz-w3b]

I am nonbinary in the Electra the electric engine way because I too can just shock/electrocute people

Look at this cunty bitch

[kockatriceking]

how Courier Six be looking at Jeannie-May Crawford just before putting on the red beret (her head is about to spontaneously explode)

[meilia-stims]

Non-binary Frankie Stein (Monster High) stimboard

⚡️ 💛 ⚡️

🤍 ⚡️ 💜

⚡️ 🖤 ⚡️

[the-pyooster]

Can you maybes draw Ash and Clay spending time together? They’re my fave heehee

guitar practice

[magicpiano]

AU where Tucker Foley (Danny Phantom) and Richie Foley (Static Shock) are cousins.

[ani-shachaf]

[Image description: An excerpt from Artscroll's "The Laws of Chanukah" that reads "Shape of the Menorah. Strictly speaking, a menorah can be fashioned in any shape, even if the candles are not set up in a straight line or at the same height, provided that each candle is lit in a separate receptacle (as opposed to inserting multiple wicks into one bowl of oil and the like). However, for reasons of הִידּוּר מִצְוָה - beautification of the mitzvah, one should preferably use a menorah whose candles are positioned in a straight line and at the same height.]

[sir-fenris]

Hey, again :) You know the drill by now:

This is a short scene inspired by this post of @floral-comet-whump 's whump ask game.

(Colored sentences are part of the prompt)

Living Exhibition

Content: non-human whumpee, winged whumpee, collector whumper, living exhibition, nailed to a wall, non-consensual drugging (paralyzing drug).

(Drabbles' masterlist)

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"Does this hurt? And if I do... this?" The nail rips through the cartilage of Whumpee's glowing wing, below where Whumper has nailed before.

Once again, the world is just pain for two seconds.

"HaAuGH–! Stop!!” Whumpee shrieks out with tears down their eyes. This must have been the tenth nail by now, but everytime it goes lower and closest to the outer part, the more nerves it hits, and the more it hurts.

"Don't be silly. I can't leave you half hanging!" Whumper's laugh is still as high-pitched and annoying as the first time, and Whumpee is sick of hearing it.

There is nothing to laugh about here, they were being nailed to a fucking wall.

The paralyzing injection keeps them from struggling too much, and the staff workers holding their body keeps them from falling. But the pain is still there.

"Hm... But hammering nails like this is giving me shoulder pain."

For a second, just a second, Whumpee believed this might be the end of it, perhaps the nails until now had been enough-

Then they felt something pressing down on their wing again. And then heard an electric drill turning on just before the world turns white in pain again.

This time, Whumpee didn't have enough breath to speak. Just to scream.

The scream merged into the next when another screw is pressed on their wings.

And another.

And another.

At some point, Whumper used more nails, then went back to screws. Or maybe it was Whumpee's mind playing tricks on them. With their blindfold, it was hard to tell what was truly happening.

At some point, they must have fainted from pain, because voices slowly come back, and the blindfold is off. "...ctly symetrical."

Doesn't take long for the pain to bring them into unconsciousness again.

When Whumpee wakes up again, they faintly feel something keeping their ankles and wrists pinned, not nails and screws like the rest of their body. Something cold was pressed against their neck, but Whumpee didn't have enough enough energy to care for it while trying to open their eyes.

The first thing they see is Whumper's wide smile.

"Our newest exhibition is ready for the public."

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Yeah, the first 3 stories had a bit of comfort, this one... it's just angst. I don't write stories like this often, but I hope it's decent enough to be enjoyable :).

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[stealthrockdamage]

you should listen to my favourite band thank you scientist you should do it because you think i'm soooo cute

[il3x]

Finally watched ATSV. I see your "bug-themed teenage cape" and raise you one "predatory-cat-themed teenage vigilante with black and purple colour scheme":

(I may have misremembered Shadow Stalker's colour scheme. Eh, close enough.)

And, because - fun as it is to draw Sophia in cool outfits - I will go to bat for Taylor, I had to include her Wards rebrand...

[interdimensionalsockdrawer]

Hear me out chat what if they

[w1dowz-w3b]

I live for they/them Electra because same bbg

[tls12lessthan3]

this reread i really wanna focus on figuring out what it means to be a Character vs Real Person and Character vs Reader. also what exactly the fourth walls fucking deal is. like i think the Character and the Fourth Wall both very much represent different things throughout the course of orv and i want to catalogue all of those different meanings and where they overlap! so expect a lot of possibly contradictory posts about that. very exciting