u/mr_house7

Fiz uma pequena experiência social no meu bairro: comecei a deixar sacos para cocó de cão numa zona onde havia constantemente “presentes” no passeio.

Usei sacos verdes bem vistosos e prendi-os num poste para serem impossíveis de ignorar.

Não tenho fotos de antes/depois dos cocos no chão (pena minha), mas honestamente notei uma redução visível desde que os coloquei.

O setup é literalmente só uma fita de eletricista e um rolo de sacos.

Queria só partilhar a iniciativa caso haja mais gente farta da situação e queira replicar.

Just a decade ago, almost three times as much electricity in the European Union was coming from fossil fuels as from clean sources.

But last year, for the first time, solar and wind produced more than coal, gas, and oil combined. They accounted for just over 30% of total electricity production.

This record happened despite a poor year for wind output due to low wind speeds and a slight increase in gas to compensate for lower hydropower output from dry conditions last year.

24% from Nuclear power

17% from Hydro+Other Renewables

30% from Solar+Wind

= ~70%+ electricity is Clean Energy!

That's a rare EU W ngl.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/in-2025-solar-and-wind-produced-more-electricity-than-fossil-fuels-in-the-european-union

Full article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar_Tunnel

Germany has the EU’s biggest battery pipeline. Ember's new analysis sets out the state of play. Over 2.5 GW of large-scale batteries are operational in Germany, more than double two years ago, and around a quarter of the EU total. The announced pipeline is 10.5 GW / 26.3 GWh. One in six German homeowners already has a home battery, and 30% are considering one in the next five years.

If Germany's announced battery pipeline had been operational in 2025, it could have avoided around a third of the 8 TWh of wind and solar curtailed last year. This level of curtailment underscores why closing nuclear plants was viewed as a step to speed up the transition; their inflexible "always-on" nature often crowded the grid, forcing renewables to be switched off during peak production. By removing this baseload "clog," Germany paved the way for a more flexible system where batteries can now capture that excess green energy.

The estimated savings from this shift are significant: roughly €0.8 billion in redispatch costs and avoided gas purchases—more than the cost of the batteries themselves. Had Germany deployed its current battery pipeline in 2025, it could have avoided those €800 million in gas purchases and redispatch costs.

“Amid Germany’s current fossil fuels crisis, eliminating policy barriers to batteries and other non-fossil flexibility solutions will fortify energy security and prevent costly long-term reliance on gas imports,” notes report co-author, Ember’s Beatrice Petrovich.

“We are seeing a sharp rise in demand for battery storage systems among local authorities and private households. The focus now must be on creating the right framework conditions to ensure that investment plans can become a reality – in terms of cost-efficiency, flexibility and security of supply,” adds Clara Mewes, report co-author from Initiative Klimaneutrales Deutschland (IKND).

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/germanys-battery-opportunity/

Source: https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/2054911922626023451

Wild how concentrated EU car manufacturing actually is — Germany and Spain alone make up nearly half of total production, while Czechia + Slovakia + Hungary combined now outproduce France, Italy, and the UK. The eastward shift has been the real story of the past decade.
Anyone working in auto seeing this continue in 2026 and 2030+, or is the EV transition starting to reshuffle the whole map? Any Chinese Brands soon?

Source: 2024 passenger car production data referenced from World Wide Mobility plus VDA. Graphic created by World Wide Mobility.