Manuel Alonso

(Nano)Físico. Investigador en 🇩🇪.
Divulgación científica: luz, materiales y naturaleza🧵:
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[Manuel Alonso @ManoloAlonso1]

Recopilación de mis hilos de 🐦 y demás aportaciones de divulgación científica, parte 2.👇

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Spain and Portugal both get over 40% of their electricity from solar and wind—

On the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal have scaled up solar and wind power almost in step.

In the chart, you can see the share of electricity coming from solar and wind. Both countries generated over 40% of their electricity from these sources in 2025. That was higher than the European Union average of 30%.

The two countries have very similar geographies and share an electricity market. They also have weak connections to the rest of the European electricity grid, forcing them to generate clean power at home rather than rely on imports.

Wind power is more prevalent in Portugal, while solar is ahead in Spain.

(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and @parriagadap.)

[AEMET Divulga @AEMET_Divulga]

☀️🌍En esta nueva entrega de 🧵 sobre cambio climático hablamos de cómo se distribuye la energía procedente del sol por nuestro planeta: el balance energético.
Podremos entender el efecto invernadero y saber cómo se hacen los escenarios de cambio climático y emisiones.

[Ember @ember_energy]

China’s solar generation of 1,175 TWh in 2025 is nearly THREE TIMES that of the US, as the former cements its position as a global solar powerhouse 🇨🇳☀️

However, it is Hungary and Chile that now get a QUARTER of their power from solar 🇭🇺🇨🇱

https://t.co/XqRiIMKgf4

[AEMET Divulga @AEMET_Divulga]

🧵🌡️Empezamos una serie de hilos en los que explicaremos las bases científicas del cambio climático. En esta primera entrega vamos a aprender a diferenciar cambio climático y calentamiento global. Os mostraremos gráficas que os ayudaran a entender los conceptos.

[Tej Parikh @tejparikh90]

Donald Trump's green new deal

My latest column for @FT: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: https://t.co/HotuPyh8Bz

[Ember @ember_energy]

In 2025, renewable electricity generated MORE THAN coal for the first time in over 100 years 📈

Driven by RECORD solar, renewable share surpassed a THIRD of global power generation ☀️

https://t.co/XqRiIMKgf4

#GER2026

[Marta Peirano @minipetite]

Me sumo a la advertencia: Sci-Hub ha pirateado más de 85 millones de artículos de investigación y ahora encima han añadido un bot que responde preguntas utilizando artículos completos y recientes.
Esto es un escándalo. Dejo el enlace abajo para que sepas cómo evitarlo.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your iPhone has a USB-C port because Europe passed a law. Europe is only 7% of Apple's sales. That 7% rewrote every iPhone on the planet, including the one in your pocket.

In October 2022, the European Parliament passed a law requiring every new phone sold in Europe to use the same plug, USB-C, by the end of 2024. Apple had fought this idea for years, arguing that forcing one standard would slow innovation. Three weeks after the vote, Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat on a panel at the Wall Street Journal's tech conference and gave up the fight: "We'll have to comply."

Eleven months later, Apple launched the iPhone 15. It had a USB-C port. The model sold in Berlin, Chicago, Mumbai, and Shanghai was the same phone.

Apple could have built a USB-C iPhone for Europe and kept the old Lightning plug (in iPhones since 2012) for every other country. That would have kept Lightning alive, and Lightning was a real business. Apple ran something called the "Made for iPhone" program. If you wanted to make a Lightning cable, a dock, a car charger, or a speaker that actually worked with an iPhone, you paid Apple $99 a year to join, plus roughly $4 on every connector you sold. Thousands of companies paid in.

But making two different iPhones is expensive. Apple sold about 247 million of them in 2025. Two designs means two factories, two parts orders, two boxes, two spare cables in the box, two warranty pipelines. Cheaper to copy Europe's rule and ship one phone to the whole planet.

A law professor named Anu Bradford wrote about this pattern in a 2012 paper and a 2020 book. She called it the Brussels Effect. Europe has about 450 million people who buy things. Big enough that companies set the rules for everyone, everywhere, to match whatever Europe says. Your cookie pop-ups come from Europe, a law called GDPR. Safer chemicals in your shampoo and sofa come from Europe, a law called REACH. The new App Store rule that lets you install apps from outside Apple's store comes from Europe, the Digital Markets Act. The USB-C plug on your phone is the same story.

The ripple is already spreading. India said every phone sold there needs USB-C by March 2025. California is working on the same law. Apple kept selling one last Lightning iPhone, the iPhone 14, outside Europe until September 2025, then quietly dropped it when the iPhone 17 came out. Lightning is gone from every store in every country. 7% of Apple's money rewrote 100% of Apple's phones.

[Emilio Montilla @EmilioMontilla_]

📦 Ironía brutal:

Orbán diseñó un sistema electoral para blindarse con supermayías aunque no arrasara en votos.

Y ahora ese mismo sistema se le ha vuelto en contra:

👉 Con el 38% de los votos, se ha quedado en solo el 27% de los escaños.

👉 La oposición, con el 53%, se ha llevado el 69%.

El gerrymandering que creó para perpetuarse en el poder ha acabado facilitando la demolición de su régimen.

Te explico por qué 👇

[Rodrigo González Peinado @rodrigogpeinado]

Me he tomado la libertad y el tiempo de colocar el nombre a algunas de las estrellas y constelaciones que aparecen en la ya memorable imagen de la Tierra tomada por la Artemis II.

Efectivamente, el punto brillante es Venus. Una foto para la historia.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture).

BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image.

So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

[Manuel Alonso @ManoloAlonso1]

Nuevo hilo en Bluesky sobre el grafeno, la superconductividad y el ángulo mágico. https://t.co/BeL0mD5CXm

[Andrés Actis @ActisAndres]

La línea roja no es el precio del petróleo.

Es la temperatura global de la superficie del mar batiendo récords diarios, superando la ya desconcertante aceleración de los últimos 3 años.

La anomalía más grave no está en Wall Street. Es la climática. Y a (casi) nadie le importa.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours (in Italy is 90%).

Strategic autonomy must be built in advance, in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment, or it isn’t built at all.

The countries still exposed to fossil fuel price shocks didn’t lack the warnings. They lacked the will.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Spain’s average electricity price is forecast at €66/ MWh, half Italy's. Why?
➡️Speedy rollout of renewables (now at 57%+ of electricity) put a lid on bills
➡️Nuclear at 20% of electricity helps
➡️Gas sets the price of electricity just 15% of the time (89% in Italy)

While the rest of Europe grapples with extreme gas volatility from fossil fuel wars, Spain is proving that renewables are a massive competitive advantage

https://t.co/KeqG1N4zgk

[Sara Martin ♥️🇪🇦 @Saramurcia]

¡Mi única misión en esta vida ahora mismo es saber quién ha hecho esta MARAVILLA! Pelos de punta!

[Luciana @LucyPN]

Murió Willie Colón. El creador de uno de los intros más espectaculares que hayan escuchado mis oídos y de esas canciones inmortales que heredé del gusto musical de mi padre. Un Maestro. Un grande.

DEP.-

[Enrique Bunbury @bunburyoficial]

Nos ha dejado Willie Colon, maestro absoluto de la salsa. Sus discos de finales de los sesenta y primeros setenta con Hector Lavoe son material imprescindibles para los amantes de la música latina. Y su periodo con Rubén Blades, historia de la música! En Licenciado Cantinas incluimos nuestra versión bastarda de El Día de mi Suerte. Toda veneración es poca. Descansa en paz, Willie!

[GRⱯCE ♤ @graevanity]

can't believe i have to break out a fucking click track. what is this? third grade music class? damn