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Been comparing a few ubiquinol options and noticed Solgar uses olive oil while Jarrow and Thorne both use MCT oil. Is there a real absorption difference or is it just a formulation preference? First time buying CoQ10 so I don't have a baseline to compare against. Thanks!

The continental side is starting to show why these make sense at scale. Germany is a useful comparison. European power pricing on Kpler shows solar capture rates in March dropped from around 89% in 2023 to 64% this year. Negatively-priced hours in the same month went from 34 to 163.

The pricing signal has moved faster than I expected. Germany is adding around 14 GW of solar a year but the value per MWh keeps compressing into the same midday hours. A 1 GWh system sitting on that gap between midday surplus and the evening ramp gets stronger every quarter. Worth watching IMO.

The Latvia number jumps out with 49% of electricity demand from solar in June, up from under 19% across the same months last year. That grid looks completely different in 12 months.

Germany is past 30%, Spain past 35%, but then France is at 14% and Italy barely touched 19.5% in May before dropping back to under 17% by July. France makes sense given how much baseload capacity it runs, but Italy falling off that much in peak summer with its irradiance I don't get.

These are obviously the best solar months of the year. The Baltics are small grids so fast capacity additions amplify the numbers. Even so, going from under 19% to 49% in Latvia is a wild amount of deployment hitting the grid that fast.

Okay this might sound weird but hear me out. I've been noticing that on nights I have black beans for dinner, my Garmin shows noticeably more deep sleep. Like, consistently.

I started paying attention a few months ago and now I can't unsee it. Same bedtime, no alcohol, similar activity levels on those days. The main difference is the black beans.

I went down a little rabbit hole and I think it could be the magnesium? Or maybe tryptophan? Something about complex carbs helping with serotonin production? I'm just connecting dots here and I could be way off.

Has anyone else noticed this? Or is there actual research on legumes and sleep quality that I'm missing? Very open to being told I'm reading too much into my Garmin data lol

PS. I originally posted this in r/nutrition but it was deleted and Reddit suggested I crosspost here. New to the sub so apologies if I'm breaking any rules!

TL;DR from the article:

• EU battery fleet grew tenfold since 2021, now at 77 GWh
• Grid-scale costs dropped 45% in 2025 alone
• Germany leads at 2.8 GW, Italy second at 2 GW
• France near the bottom despite doubling capacity
• Bulgaria was the surprise breakout market

The 45% cost drop in a single year is striking. Germany and Italy leading makes sense, but France sitting near the bottom is the interesting part given how much flexibility their grid will need as solar keeps growing.

Most coverage on UAE leaving OPEC has been about crude monetization but i keep getting stuck on the LNG side because the picture there looks really different.

ADNOC L&S just took delivery of their sixth new-build LNG carrier from a $1.2B order placed in 2022, with another 8 carriers on order from Korea for around $2.5B.

Thats a serious fleet expansion. And the Mubaraz just became the first fully laden LNG tanker to cross Hormuz since the conflict started, headed to China. Two more ADNOC linked tankers (Mraweh and Al Hamra) may have transited around the same time, with two more (Umm Al Ashtan and Marigold) approaching the strait. Been tracking these on Kpler.

If you're exiting OPEC for crude flexibility while also doubling down on LNG infrastructure and pushing cargoes through a contested chokepoint, that reads less like milking oil before transition and more like splitting the strategy. Crude monetize quickly, gas build for the long term.

Im more on the power and gas side so might be missing something on the crude angle but happy to be corrected especially if anyone works on GCC LNG.