Indi, the comment I would make directly to you here is to think carefully what drives folk to seem sympathetic to your predicament in Sri Lanka. Recall the forces that got Sri Lanka into the situation you are in, it was greed, your government had every opportunity to install sufficient solar energy infrastructure to assure energy security for all people, but they chose to spend their wealth instead on things they thought benefited them alone, and now you are where you are at.
The same mentality exists here in the folk seeming sympathetic to your predicament, but here some of us are trying to use our technological skills to show that it is the self centred greed of those in control which is causing our energy problems. There is no technoloical limit to what we can do with solar, it just needs to be funded, but the funding will never come from governments who universally only wish to serve themselves, and by doing so, remove all possibilities from everyone else.
To me, it is obvious which folk here are driven by which sentiment. You have to decide for yourself who is really on your side, and who is not out to help you at all, only themselves, and in the end will see us all to extinction by their greed.
I've explained in my stories how we can turn this around instantly, if those in control make a decision to issue the funds necessary to make those changes, in the form of Kardashev Money.
By that, we would very quickly have resources to offer countries experiencing energy difficulties, such that they could follow suit, to achieve the same energy security as we would have very quickly, Vietnam shows us what is possible in a very short time, although they seem yet to understand what they need to do technically to capture and put their solar energy to full use, it will come, I am sure.
I know you visit and are sometimes resident in my country, the UK, but you can probably see we are nowhere near learning this lesson that has to be learnt by all governments. They need to let folk, all folk have the power to put in our own community solar infrastructure. I think they will be forced in the end by inflation, but that could be a very painful experience, so would be best for all including Sri Lanka, if the process could be short-circuited, before the funds become insufficient to bootstrap our transition to solar. As you know, we seem far more intent on sending astronomical funds to perpetuate the proxy war in Ukraine for now, but somehow their eyes have to be opened to this truth.
