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Hydro cannot power current food transports from Spain or tractors for making food in Sweden. That infrastructure will never be possible at scale because batter
by bullen 5y ago
Hydro cannot power current food transports from Spain or tractors for making food in Sweden.
That infrastructure will never be possible at scale because battery energy density is too low.
Trains will eventually become the primary transport but they can't replace trucks the last mile.
Norwegian oil and gas discovery has peaked, exctraction EROEI is going down VERY fast and that is accelerating.
Only Russia has any conventional coal, oil and gas left in the proximity.
Reduced? I guess that's why they built Nordstream 2? Why do you think Germany has not started using Nordstream 2 yet?
- Zanfa 5y agoThere's plenty of coal to go around, Estonia & Poland are two examples of nearby countries relying primarily on local coal for energy. Also, Germany is not Russia's neighbour.
- rich_sasha 5y agoThese days, ironically, Poland mainly burns Russian coal (EDIT erroneusly wrote "gas" initially). After years of indecision as to what to do with Polish coal plants, they got too expensive and underinvested to produce the required quantities of coal. The rest is imported from the East. So the whole "ah but we need coal for energy independence" is mostly a song and dance nowadays.