What's the opposite of doom scrolling?

[thesquirrelfish@sfba.social]

@bradr nice! And this is also part of an ongoing overall reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions. They have been steadily using less per year since 2007. Truly impressive and hopeful.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@bradr

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/spain-energy-resilience-iran-war-trump-trade.html

Spain has sufficient autonomy, agency, & sovereignty to chart its own course because of its energy policy

It lets Spain to tell Trump to eff off, and especially his fossil fuel oil oligarchs.

If only we were all so fortunate.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/spain-pm-sanchez-trump-iran-war-ceasefire-middle-east-crisis.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/world/europe/trump-britain-spain-falklands.html

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@bradr hope scrolling? =0

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@bradr marathon scrolling?

[gekko3k@mastodon.social]

@bradr
Spain's geographic location was helpful though, impossible to pull that stunt in central mainland Europe. UK is a different case, they can tap more wind and tidal.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@bradr wenn wir diese Entwicklung auf Deutschland übertragen könnten.... dann wären wir in 15 Jahren fossilfrei.
Aber das können wir nicht. Denn unsere Politik wurde von den fossilen Industrien gekauft.

[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