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.

Yeah I saw someone on Bluesky say that there should be a crossover with the Chair Company and it did seem to be heading in that direction a little. I liked how it completely changed the tone of the show and still remained funny and suspenseful as you didn’t know what to expect. Rhea Seahorn managed to make it as compelling as possible. Vince Gilligan has consistently shown us that when things slow down it means we’re bulding towards something. Everyone seems to have the same assumption about what she saw in the final shot so I can only assume it’s NOT that.

That’s a criticism which is yours to have though it is not constructive nor is this. Your comment called it “bullshit” and effectively said “fake news”. I made a simple request to be more mindful of your words. Pushing back further isn’t appreciated.

I found those without much effort. I didn’t say they were in the article. Just showing it’s not necessarily theoretical which was your opinion. Calling something “bullshit” can come across as unnecessarily combative and you then just dismissed the article outright. Constructive would be to state why and what about it could be improved which is more appreciated. People are free to read for themselves.

Such as this? This article is about it being developed 3 years ago . Totally valid to question an article. Please keep comments constructive if possible.

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Thanks for flagging that.

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That seems to be the consensus

Thanks for sharing your inside perspective!

Enshittification of the night

Yeah this really seems like a multitude of disasters waiting to happen

I think you summed it up pretty well and that all sounds very accurate. There are enough green energy solutions out there that we shouldn’t have to sacrifice all the things you mentioned. I’m not reading much in the ways it would be beneficial or necessary.

Thanks for the shout out regardless Prodigal Frog & Five and for catching that Nemo! The odd spelling may be my bad, I believe I tried the other way, but either way it would be great to see the community take off a bit more and CouncelingTechie and I are pretty open to whatever community members want to bring to it.