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I understand, that the data here is per capita, but I thought even per capita in Europe, and especially in Sweden, we install little compared to the rest of the world.

The three leading countries share borders with Russia or Belarus. Is this recognition of the security and resilience advantages of deploying millions of solar panels and thousands of wind turbines compared with a few large fossil and nuclear power stations?

Wow, this is very different from the view media gave me.

I live in Sweden. The perspective from the media was, for me, that Sweden has stagnated in renewable energy, while the UK, Spain, and some other countries lead the way in Europe. And that while Europe was first in the renewable game, it is now in the developing countries that most action happens.

The data from this report shows that basically all of my claims from the previous paragraph are wrong.

No opinion here about the state of development, just amazement how misleading the media narrative have been for me.

Thanks for sharing!

As Europe remilitarizes, I want drones that can drop bombs on Russian tanks as well as drop water/sand/flame-retardant bombs on burning forests.

How about:

We support Ukraine

We drop Russia (we don't need that gas and oil anyway, it's 2025, we have the technology to ditch fossil fuels, common!) as long as Putin and other fascists like him are in power.

We negotiate and trade with China. We do not support it, but we do not actively fight it either. We try to push it further from Russia if possible.

Dropping China altogether does not seem plausible in the near future. We need to learn how to deal with China. We have a lot of leverage, especially with Trump in power and the trade war escalating further after stagnation under Biden.

No, I meant specific means. But if you have something good for templates, I can take it as well (but that seems to work OK on search engines).

🎶 Keep it in the ground, we've got to keep it in the ground! 🎶

Okay, a side note here:

apart from Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, Xi was the only major world leader to attend the parade.

Can smb explain Lula's stance on Putinist Russia?

To be honest, Merz would probably do that with or without Trump in power. It is an issue, but it is another issue...

The UK and India have agreed a trade deal that will make it easier for UK firms to export whisky, cars and other products to India, and cut taxes on India's clothing and footwear exports.

Okay, but to export cars, you need to make some first.

Yeah, totally. And there are many, many top scientists already in Europe.

The thing is that to do research, you need money. Not just your (and your staff's) salary. Experimental research requires actual, material resources. Cutting-edge equipment and reagents. If more top scientists come to Europe, but the resources for research do not increase, it is hard to imagine more top research being done.

The UE spends around 2.2/2.3% of GDP on research and development:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=551418 (2021 for fair comparison) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20221129-1

Meanwhile, in the US, it was almost 3.5% (of the larger total GDP), and in China, more than 2.4%.

I believe we have a lot of amazing research in Europe. Possibly the best fundamental research in the world, amazing sustainability and climate-related project, growing focus on open access and reproducibility from funding agencies. We all know science pays off in the long term. Let it grow!

Very small, but good start. (Just the National Science Foundation in the US had the budget of $9BN last year, compared to €2.3BN of European Research Council, so it is not even close to filling the gap).