What's the opposite of doom scrolling?

[unruly@mastodon.social]

@bradr

Mood trolling. Spain lifts all spirits lately.

[unruly@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 @bradr

I ain't no fortunate one. Trump can fuck off all the same. 100s of millions should tell him so then see that he does.

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@bradr You should see the amount of wind farms between Algeciras and Tarifa in coastal Andalusia.

[fusion@mastodon.social]

@bradr The 40% missing from the chart is nuclear energy?

[feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@brad @bradr maybe heaven staying?

[publixpace@nrw.social]

@bradr They're a spain in the ass for fossilists.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@xerz @bradr Was literally about to comment, "What happened in 2018 to cause such a large uptick?"

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@disorderlyf @xerz @bradr to be honest, it's in large part a coincidence. It takes over 5 years (sometimes much longer) since a wind farm is proposed until it comes online.
Renewables are becoming the main source of electricity simply because of economics. Governments do not need to push renewables: they simply have to avoid punishing them.

[doomstrike@metalhead.club]

@bradr
Whilst I 100% agree that this is very positive, and great to see, electricity is not the only energy consumed in spain. There is still a considerable reliance on fossil fuels for energy.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/spain

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@gekko3k @bradr if I recall correctly, Germany still produces more photovoltaic power than Spain.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@mbpaz @xerz @bradr The latter is what I assumed was why it looked like the transition was slow going. I've also heard the time to approve new solar and wind (mostly solar) projects on average has gone down, so it might've just been when the initial push for it to snowball happened.

[viktor_linsel@linke.social]

@bradr I think this does not count as bloomscrolling, because there is no flowers...

But maybe it does?

#bloomscrolling

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@fusion @bradr Other possibilities could include hydroelectricity and tidal. So probably not the whole 40%.

[kimeragupta@todon.eu]

@bradr and that is why the EU wants to destroy this process

https://www.eldiario.es/economia/ue-prohibe-proyectos-energias-renovables-fondos-europeos-lleven-piezas-china_1_13192706.html

[cyon@ennexis.de]

@bradr
dukenukem scrolling

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@gekko3k @bradr You get solar power as long as there is daylight. Better if there's no clouds sure. But also better to be further from the equator so more of the light is perpendicular to the surface of the solar panel.

[xerz@soc.masfloss.net]

@disorderlyf @mbpaz @bradr and yet I'm pretty certain the vast majority of capacity we got ever since is solar, where Iberdrola and friends just went ahead, bought a bunch of land, speedran through the permits and built the new power stations

capacity which wasn't possible under a government infamous for taxing out power stations, the well-known "impuesto al sol" (Article 7 RD 900/2015, repealed in October 2018, taxing all production of solar energy even if for homes which were unplugged from the grid)

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@xerz @bradr The right wing parties in Spain, almost stopped all development in renewable, they even put a tax specific for them, it was called "tax on the sun" by the media. Their ties with Spanish energy and oil companies are so big that people used to say that if we could get energy from revolving doors we could provide energy for the whole world.

[xerz@soc.masfloss.net]

@ghostdancer @bradr oh hey, we commented the same thing at the same time lmao https://soc.masfloss.net/@xerz/statuses/01KR3CSXXRSEQX60H2KWFWTCRC

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@xerz Sorry. @disorderlyf @mbpaz @bradr