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More than half of private houses here have solar panels on their rooftop. People also put them in their gardens or on the balconies of their flats. Right now, I'm generating enough solar power to run my entire home. Solar is absolutely the most democratic form of power generation. Can't be the only one obviously, but still.
Right, but we still have these giant solar energy plants, as well as the rest of the generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure, under the control of the capitalist class. While it's absolutely fantastic that solar-photovoltaic power generation is technically available for the masses, it is still a democratic exception to the capitalist reality.
Like I'm not saying that solar power is not democratic, and I agree with you that it is, but that individual acts of democracy are not sufficient (but are still necessary) to change the reality of capitalist power production.