If they stuck with coal for producing electricity, it wouldn't such a huge problem.
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We should have kept using nuclear? That nuclear of which refinement capacities are over 40% in Russians hands? For conversion it’s even a combined 63% for Russia+China. “Russia's Stranglehold On The World's Nuclear Power Cycle” , https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-power-industry-graphi...
Interesting article. According to it, the missing piece is scaling the conversion facilities from 8% to x%, and then scaling uranium enrichment process from 30% to x%. With that in place heavy dependency to Russia+China would have been solved, no?
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We should have kept using nuclear? That nuclear of which refinement capacities are over 40% in Russians hands? For conversion it’s even a combined 63% for Russia+China. “Russia's Stranglehold On The World's Nuclear Power Cycle” , https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-power-industry-graphi...
Reliance on Russian gas (which did increase after shutting down nuclear) is a bigger problem than relying on nuclear fuel: in nuclear energy fuel cost has much smaller impact on electricity cost than gas price for gas fired power stations.
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#24If they stuck with coal for producing electricity, it wouldn't such a huge problem.
The coal price has a tendency to spike during an energy crisis. The market is more volatile than crude oil. For example, check what happened in 2022.
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I don't know how you could believe that in good faith. That doesn't even make sense. Why would a "conservative" want to progress to a Energiewende energy model while getting rid of the infrastructure they are supposed to "conserve" Gemany took massive losses to research green energy for decades, was that also done by conservatives? I guess everything is done by conservatives? The plan drafted by SPD and Greens was ex…
I mean… I certainly didn't take a lot of care in wording that, but you need to read it in context of the parent post. Rather than "done", saying "committed and sealed" would've been precise. But it's a response to the parent, which squarely attempted to blame the greens, when it is certainly not solely their achievement. > People joke about Trump being a Russian asset, the SPD & green party are staffed by kremlin loy…
Gazprom has financially supported both SPD and CDU in Germany, indirectly through lobby organizations such as VNG (Verbundnetz Gas), Deutsch-Russische Rohstoff-Forum.
https://correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2022/10/07/gazprom-l...
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#26Steps taken forward but sleepwalking back again
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#27Europe got lured from crisis to crisis by Israel and USA.
Energy crisis, refugee crisis.
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#28How is that "Europe sleepwalking" when it is something literally made and created by USA for no reason?
> President Donald Trump's US has become one lynchpin in Europe's energy provisions, replacing Russia.
Nah, he is joining them and helping them greatly. Russia is the only country gaining on this stupid war.
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#29"They prefer to flare the gas than to deliver it" What Russia chooses to do with their resources is none of your business. Her sense of entitlement is astronomical like most of the west. "This market is not functioning anymore." so you point fingers at everybody else?
Russia is choosing to invade Ukraine and Russia started war with genocidal intent. That war is still ongoing.
Russia deserves all criticism and hate it gets.
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#30The rest of Europe needs an energy reform. They should take the Nordics countries as an example, where household usage of gas is very minimal / non-existent and everything is electricity based (electricity being the cleanest in the world). They are also leading the EV adaptation by big margin.