Is it 1973? We could invest in solar instead of kings that might ship their energy to us in peace time (i.e. killings happens only within each states borders)?
Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
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Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#242As someone who's been pushing for renewables for quite a while now it's dismaying that it's taken a war to accelerate this push, but I'm glad to see that it's happening at least. It's doubly dismaying that my own country (US) is still doubling down on fossil fuels despite everything. The concern about a new dependency on China is real, but renewables do have the advantage that once you have the infrastructure in plac…
I've been arguing with Europeans on twitter (including an environmental scientist) who believe this war shows we need to resume drilling in the North Sea and Groningen. It feels like this collective insanity will never end
Well "Europeans on Twitter" are probably the kind of people who look at the owner of the site posting about a homeland for white people and that kind of thing and aren't bothered too much by it.
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately much of China’s perverse tactics (they’ve done this in a wide array of industries) is to steal patented tech and trade secrets from companies outside China, subsidize the manufacturing and development etc, then sell their product at an artificially low price which kills the original company and good faith competitors as they cannot compete with the artificially lower prices. Then once the dust settles t…
Really? How did anywhere get started? Germany ripped off British engineering texts because they had no copyright laws there. America got started taking what was started elsewhere, the same can be said for any country except for Scotland. I think those lovely Chinese people would laugh at your sinophobic 'thinking'. Maybe stay off the corporate media and do your own research. Huawei are an amazing company, all of thei…
> the same can be said for any country except for Scotland.
Found the Scottish shill. Big whiskey won't rule the world forever, you know!
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#244It feels so slow. I would like to have an electric car or e-bike. I live in a building that is part of a housing company that has many owners (most of them people living here). It is slow to decide and implement renovation, and the pipeline is basically full for a few years. We might get car charging infrastructure only a few years down the line. Maybe a bike shed for e-bike charging a year after that? What happened…
With e bikes you can charge the battery in your home.
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#245As someone who's been pushing for renewables for quite a while now it's dismaying that it's taken a war to accelerate this push, but I'm glad to see that it's happening at least. It's doubly dismaying that my own country (US) is still doubling down on fossil fuels despite everything. The concern about a new dependency on China is real, but renewables do have the advantage that once you have the infrastructure in plac…
Well, but in case you have already infra & ecosystem, you could then affort maybe to produce a little bit mor expensive in your own country, if supply from china will be under threat like oil today?
I would rather have solar everywhere and the risk depending on china (and the risk of producing something over market price) than the current ongoing forever riskof fossil dependency, because solar manufacturing you could resolve in theory in every country (at some scale), while fossil production is limited to a handful with no chance for anyone else to do it?
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#246Our company made a 'bet' that energy management, sustainability, clean energy and whatnot would become a big thing. This was around the time of COP26 (2021) where there seemed to be a societal drive for reducing carbon emissions and a general acceptance that climate change was a thing. We employed young and enthusiastic sustainability consultants, we run a successful project to reduce energy consumption in polymer ma…
There were many sliding doors moments for action on climate change. The 2000 US presidential election was the first significant one.
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been arguing with Europeans on twitter (including an environmental scientist) who believe this war shows we need to resume drilling in the North Sea and Groningen. It feels like this collective insanity will never end
They're wrong. A couple of years ago the last of the exploration rigs in Norway left Norwegian waters. Because nothing that could be drilled (and hasn't already) can compete on price with solar etc. Lots of people think someone should do this or that. They don't invest their own money though, they just think someone else should do, etc.
This appears to directly contradict you, with exploration activity increasing in 2025 (compared to 2024) to 49 wells:
https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/exploration/exploration-act...
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#248Wonder how much WFH could help. Seems like during covid demand went way down.
WFH and the almost 100% shutdown off airline travel at the beginning of the pandemic resulted in nearly 0 change in CO2 emission and levels in the atmosphere. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
It's a bit off topic but that didn't sound right to me.
According to the following it was a reduction but yes near zero in the context of total emissions. A few hundred million tonnes reduction ain't nothin none the less.
"plummeted from more than 1 000 Mt CO2 in 2019 to less than 600 Mt CO2 in 2020, in the context of the pandemic.
In 2023, aviation accounted for 2.5% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, "
Re: Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are, but unlike fossil fuels, those dependencies go down over time (modulo the utility growth that makes demand for everything go up, of course). If you buy fossil fuel from a country that may not be an ally forever, your demand remains constant (or goes up over time) because you are changing that fuel into a state that cannot be used again. If you buy, say, lithium, you put that in a battery and in the future,…
Yes, the shocks aren't as immediate if you have the infrastructure set up and you are out of the initial adoption phase. Even things like lithium and silver are limited resources, so getting more out of the ground will eventually face scarcity as energy demand has always increased over the long term.
Lithium is one of the most abundant elements on earth.
Newer battery chemistries don't use lithium.
By the time we use enough energy to run out of all the elements we could make batteries with, we're likely to be at the "cheap asteroid mining" level of technological development.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because the continued survival of civilization depends on leaving fossil fuel in the ground. If the transition isn't fast enough then we will have horrible, lethal shortages, but that's still better than the worst climate scenarios.
That may or may not be true. But it won't stay in the ground as long as there is money to be made by extracting and consuming it. Right now all that's happening is the US is extracting that natural gas, and the middle east extracting that oil, and Europe is importing it. Which pollutes more and costs more. Just develop your domestic supplies. I don't follow your logic.
That is because that money is allowed to be made by externalizing the cost to future generations.
People hate migrants enough as it is. Climate crisis migrations will make these "little" war migrations seem quaint.