Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
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Oil above $100. Gas prices up 70%. Every crisis has a different trigger—and the same vulnerability. Europe must become the world's first Electro-Continent.
  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    EU is alredy on the forefront of moving into renewables - almost half of electricity is from green sources. You can’t speed up the transition to be any faster.

    • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can’t speed up the transition to be any faster

      China has moved far far faster. I understand they’re a bit of a rough comparison wise, but it CAN happen, just not under the European capitalistic model.

      • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They were far behind on that too. In the absolute terms, they deployed much more than EU but their energy mix by % is pretty similar (although still lower) than EU right now.

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Because of the population size/ electrical needs the raw % is a bit misleading. Their current total renewable output could satisfy the entirety of EUs needs. If you look at their per capita metric their rate of adoption is quite high compared to EU.

          They’re also almost doubling their nuclear capacity in the next 5ish years and this number is without that.