What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
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@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. -
What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@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.
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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. -
@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. -
What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr I think this does not count as bloomscrolling, because there is no flowers...
But maybe it does?
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@bradr The 40% missing from the chart is nuclear energy?
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr and that is why the EU wants to destroy this process
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr
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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. -
@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) -
@bradr I love how clear the line before and after Pedro Sánchez is lmao
@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.
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@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.
@ghostdancer @bradr oh hey, we commented the same thing at the same time lmao https://soc.masfloss.net/@xerz/statuses/01KR3CSXXRSEQX60H2KWFWTCRC
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@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)@xerz Sorry.
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr It's #bloomscrolling And a nice chart you have there, too.
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr Just today read the term "hype swiping" and I like both the term and your news
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr
Where is the other (100 - 44 - 17) = 39 % ? -
@bradr The 40% missing from the chart is nuclear energy?
@fusion @bradr the mix in 2025 was:
21.85% solar
21.56% gas
20.41% wind
18.78% nuclear
11.37% hydropower
3.48% oil
2.23% bioenergy
0.32% coalSo renewables accounted for 53.63%, zero emissions (solar + wind + hydro + nuclear) 72.41%. Really good.
(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/search?q=energy+generation&countries=Spain&resultType=all )
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@bradr and that is why the EU wants to destroy this process
@KimeraGupta @bradr honestly, Spain should tell the EU to fuck off (and not only for this particular thing).
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@fusion @bradr the mix in 2025 was:
21.85% solar
21.56% gas
20.41% wind
18.78% nuclear
11.37% hydropower
3.48% oil
2.23% bioenergy
0.32% coalSo renewables accounted for 53.63%, zero emissions (solar + wind + hydro + nuclear) 72.41%. Really good.
(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/search?q=energy+generation&countries=Spain&resultType=all )
@fmarini @bradr Thanks, it's nice to compare with Germany where we have "only" nuclear waste but a little more bio (maybe we produce more
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
