Spain's renewables surge to 55.8% share in Jan
Pretty great achievement for Spain. 12% increase year-on-year!
China is pretty serious about getting their renewables going, mostly for energy independance reasons. I think they can be convinced to cooperate with future climate goals if enough care is taken.
Of course, if they don't cooperate, then yes, we need to move along without them.
Unfortunately, this will not be over in 4 years. The American people have proven that they are unreliable, cruel, and stupid.
Even if someone sane takes office in 4 years it will maybe just give us a 4 year pause until the next lunatic comes in. There can be no long term plans or cooperation with the USA.
If there's one good thing that'll hopefully come out of this mess, it's less reliance on the USA and Canada being brought closer to Europe.
A nice one in my city (Cologne) is revamping some flood protections. Since I recently moved into a ground floor apartment near the Rhine, I appreciate that one a lot!
Preparing for a surge in users when American tariffs are announced
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/7537813
Given that Trump is likely to announce tarrifs against the EU sometime in the near future, the already increasing sentiment of avoiding American products and services is likely about to be turbocharged. I think this will cause a sizeable number of european Redditors to become interested in Lemmy again (I'm guilty of this myself).
I think we should be thinking about how best to prepare for this:
- Do we have enough server resources to accommodate a big surge in activity? Maybe we should make a donation push, and if it hasn't been done already, we should make an application to the EU sovereign tech fund.
- Do we have moderation resources to deal with a surge of signups, and new activity from people who might not know or respect the rules here?
- Should we be advertising this instance on Reddit (and elsewhere) proactively now, or wait until tariffs are announced?
Tarrifs don't affect Reddit or Lemmy directly. The indirect effects will come from the fact that trade wars usually cause a surge in consumers trying to avoid products and services from the unfriendly nation.
In this case, I think at least some European Redditors will be wanting to replace American social media platforms with European alternatives, and so will be looking again at Lemmy.
Good point about posting to the main channel, will do.
Edit: posted: https://feddit.org/post/7539677
Preparing for a surge in users when American tariffs are announced
Given that Trump is likely to announce tarrifs against the EU sometime in the near future, the already increasing sentiment of avoiding American products and services is likely about to be turbocharged. I think this will cause a sizeable number of european Redditors to become interested in Lemmy again (I'm guilty of this myself).
I think we should be thinking about how best to prepare for this:
- Do we have enough server resources to accommodate a big surge in activity? Maybe we should make a donation push, and if it hasn't been done already, we should make an application to the EU sovereign tech fund.
- Do we have moderation resources to deal with a surge of signups, and new activity from people who might not know or respect the rules here?
- Should we be advertising this instance on Reddit (and elsewhere) proactively now, or wait until tariffs are announced?