Lenin ended any oppurtunity for none CPSU members to be elected to the Soviets and banned factions in the CPSU in 1921. He then eliminated opposition with the Cheka. Even before that the Communists acted under “war communism”, which meant killing anybody not 100% in line. That very much included Machnos work in setting up a Soviet Democracy in Ukraine, due to them being Anarchists. Stalin then abolished the Soviets in 1936.

The Soviet Union had a bit of it, in the very beginning, but it failed and turned into a statist dictatorship. That is why Stalin ordered the Anarchists to be killed in Spain as well, the Prague Spring got crushed due to moving into a more democratic direction as well as many other movements of worker uprisings.

Socialism means collective ownership of the means of production. The issue with the Soviet Union was that all means of production were controlled by the state. However there was no way in which the people controlled the state, since at least 1936 and argueably earlier then that.

The answer is rather simple. Batteries only really make sense, when you have enough renewable overproduction to actually store. If not you just take turn off gas power plants instead.

5.6%of GNP is well above the 2% inflation rate and France economy is also not growing fast at forecasted 0.7%.

So Egypt, which already has massive financial problems, gets a massive loan from Russia to built a nuclear power plant. Why do I get the feeling like this could turn into a giant disaster with Western sanctions and all.

So if you want the Republicans to be anticapitalist, you only need to make renewables cheaper then fossil fuels?

Not at all. The judges appointed by the opposition party, protect the laws made by the opposition party, when they were in government. This way the government can not just ignore those laws. So most countries have very long term limits for judges to deal with that. Hence a single government can not just stack the courts. Term limits are used, so no single government just happens to be able to appoint a lot more judges then usual. However even with the term limit being death, a court like the US supreme court has judges appointed by five different presidents for example.

Because in Europe you are pretty much always on or near somebodies property.

The Bin Laden group is currently working on building the tallest building in the world in Saudi Arabia right now.

This is key. The narrative: “The right wing takes away your workers rights and blaims migrants on it” actually works to convince other people, since it is in fact true.

There are other types of biomass though. Using waste product from food production or gas from sewage plants is somewhat reasonable.

They shred the entire battery pack in that factory.

Modern recycling plants can recover 95% of the lithium from a li ion battery pack.

The absolute cheapest 420Wp panels are €50-80 new. That would be a roughly 1.7m X 1.1m panel. So 35€ for the risk of buying scrap and them having been degraded would be a bad deal. If you can get the rest of the needed installation parts with it, it might be worth it or if those are new panels.

If you want to get started there are solar home kits online, which are rather easy to install, if you have some very basic diy skills. The electronics is basically plugin in some cables and the difficult part would be actually setting up the panels. On a flat roof that might just be screwing on some metal stands and drilling a hole to run the cables through.

I just looked up the Wikipedia article on it. They seem to have started the partnership in 2019. So when it was part of Rojava for a long time.

The thing is that the value is in the communities and not in the old content. So most likely the mods would just post we move to a new instance and a lot of users would follow. We just saw that on the German speakin lemmy instance feddit.de, which was abandoned and now most of the users and communities moved to feddit.org, which is already one of the larger ones.

What lemmy really needs is the ability to easily move accounts and communities. Mastodon has that for users already.

Also you have to consider conventional hydro. The reservoirs have considerable storage capacity, which is obviously limited by a lot of factors.

They have a problem with the number of charging cycles. State of the art is about 500, which is obviously way to little for a project like this.

!europe!europe@feddit.org comes to mind as a somewhat political community, with a non US focus. It however has a lot of Germans in it.

Storage starts to matter, when you renewable production is at times higher then electricity consumption. South Africa is not even close to that.