Not how language works… Like, there are no hard lines, its just whatever can communicate the idea you want to communicate. You really don’t want to go down the road of demanding coherent and strict definitional categories for all words, and if you don’t demand it for all words, then you’re being a pedant for fully arbitrary reasons (the worst kind of pedantry).

No sarcasm

Yes, that sucks, I didn’t realize the standards were done like that, that should change. It still seems to me like the repairability and lifespan problems are in all modern appliances, and thus don’t specifically apply to more efficient ones, but from a financial perspective, if its that much extra, yeah, bad lifespan and repairability sucks even worse. What we need is a shift in the industry towards prioritizing useful lifespan (which I imagine would be a bigger sustainability gain) more so than we need marginal efficiency gains.

Yeah, reduced lifespan is a killer. I don’t think that relates to efficiency though, its a separate and known problem. Both lifespan and efficiency are needed.

Underrated comment.

This too!

That’s certainly a win, I hope we can get the same for oil. But maybe a lil faster please?

Yeah, I think this is the enlightened way of looking at it. We need to do all the things, all at the same time for maximum possible mitigation.

I mean, to people who can see it properly, its a really funny joke, but yeah, its annoying if you can’t.

Honestly, its probably just a nitpick, but its mostly a framing thing.

The only distinction here is that in Africa, this is mostly about access to energy (which is one of the key factors in standard of living increases), whereas in most of the “Global North” renewables are mostly about reducing energy consumption (via efficiency) and consuming it in ways that don’t impact the environment as much (i.e. replacing the same amount of fossil fuel derived energy).

The primary benefit here is that people who couldn’t access energy before now can. They aren’t really offsetting emissions because there wasn’t a previously established fossil fuel energy generation capacity that was generating nearly as much energy as the new solar capacity is.

Either way, the human livelihood benefits are amazing and it is good that we can get them without expanding fossil fuels. Its good on both sides and entirely a framing nitpick on my part.

I’d heard about this before. I’m reluctant to even call this a climate thing. While its certainly good for the climate if Africa isn’t reliant on fossil fuels, the primary thing here is that its an improvement to people’s lives, not that it reduces emissions.

Amazing work though.