Just a short comment on the energy crisis in Europe:
Yeah, that hit us. No doubt.
But we couldn’t go on like that anyway. We need to decentralise energy and if possible focus on renewables instead of oil/gas - doesn’t matter where it’s from
For example, I do like the idea to take green hydrogen, that’s hard to store and transport, and take CO2 from the atmosphere to produce methan.
We could be gathering at least some independence that way and it would be better for all of us, because we won’t produce that much CO2
Sure, switching away from fossil fuels is absolutely something Europe should have been doing a long time ago. The most practical and obvious way to do that would be to buy stuff like wind turbines and solar panels from China to close the immediate gap, and then work on developing domestic industry to close the gap. That’s not actually happening though. Even though people are starting to realize there’s a huge energy crisis, no significant moves are being made by Europe to phase in renewables at scale. So, the only possible outcome in the near future is an economic crash.
Just a short comment on the energy crisis in Europe:
Yeah, that hit us. No doubt.
But we couldn’t go on like that anyway. We need to decentralise energy and if possible focus on renewables instead of oil/gas - doesn’t matter where it’s from
For example, I do like the idea to take green hydrogen, that’s hard to store and transport, and take CO2 from the atmosphere to produce methan.
We could be gathering at least some independence that way and it would be better for all of us, because we won’t produce that much CO2
Sure, switching away from fossil fuels is absolutely something Europe should have been doing a long time ago. The most practical and obvious way to do that would be to buy stuff like wind turbines and solar panels from China to close the immediate gap, and then work on developing domestic industry to close the gap. That’s not actually happening though. Even though people are starting to realize there’s a huge energy crisis, no significant moves are being made by Europe to phase in renewables at scale. So, the only possible outcome in the near future is an economic crash.
I didn’t say it’s happening - as you said, it sadly isn’t on the scale needed.
I just said, we need to do that.
oh I completely agree, and the effort should’ve started at least a decade ago