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RE-share (national power supply) in April 2018 is nearly 52%:

https://energy-charts.de/energy_pie.htm?year=2018&month=4

Where else do you get these news 🙂

There are many reasons why carpooling makes sense (though my social anxiety plagued self is glad that my living situation means I don’t have to drive at all, as most things of everyday need are reachable by bicycle or walking in this suburb, and we’re connected to Berlin by train), but safer driving is just not one of those reasons.

Also, I highly doubt that finding about people being happier and healthier in cities. (Aside from the fact that city living is inherently unsustainable – all those “zero emmission” city goal conveniently fail to tally the emmissions caused by transporting food and other goods into the city and wastes out.)
I still remember vividly the first day when I travelled into the inner city of Berlin after years away in a small college town by the sea. It was several degrees hotter than in my suburb surrounded by forest and waterways, the air was so bad it made my eyes burn, and I found myself distinctly missing greenery just from a visual standpoint. I got used to it eventually, over the course of several years of daily trips into the city, but at first it was a shock. And my elderly uncle’s health improved markedly when he moved in with us after living alone in Berlin, even despite his hayfever. Plus, I certainly would be in even worse shape mentally and emotionally if I had to worry about paying rent, had to argue with a landlord about repairs and renovations, didn’t have access to the therapeutic effects of gardening (without having to abide by constricting, order-obsessed allotment garden rulebooks), or if I was still forced to use the unsafe-for-women city train system late at night. (In contrast, I’ve never felt unsafe cycling home from the cinema around midnight from the next town over, or even taking a lonely stroll around the well-lit nearby streets at 4 o’clock in the morning. Even the fear I felt daring myself to enter the edge of the forest at such a nightly hour was just an instinctual monkey reaction and some minor worry that I might trip over a root in the pitch dark, not the reasonable fear of getting assaulted by someone using the high population density and trap-like built environment of a city – e.g. the 5 minutes in a moving, almost empty train compartment between stations – to hunt for likely victims.)

Beijing has been pushing distributed solar generation for years, for a purely technical reason: to reduce the transmission bottleneck that comes from building hundreds of big solar and wind farms in remote western provinces. The drive has had limited success, perhaps because rooftop solar requires treating subjects as citizens.

The British Minister for Loneliness is as yet by herself.

http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2018/04/utility-company-firstenergy-unit-that-runs-power-plants-files-for-bankruptcy.html

http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2018/04/renewable-energy-portugal-s-growing-green-energy-production-hits-milestone.html

The links to which Pennenergy is referring:

https://www.ren.pt/en-GB/media/comunicados/detalhe/consumption_of_electric_power_grows_9_7__in_march/

http://zero.ong/marco-100-renovavel-primeiro-mes-com-consumo-de-eletricidade-assegurado-por-fontes-renovaveis-e-recorde-de-enorme-relevancia/

And Portugal is just starting with PV going big.

Brilhe, baby, brilhe 🙂