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You don't have too If nuclear is still working, demand for gas will be much lower hence lowering the dependency on Russia (and while Russia is the biggest sou

You don't have too If nuclear is still working, demand for gas will be much lower hence lowering the dependency on Russia (and while Russia is the biggest source, there's alternatives, and more will come up due to the conflict)

danhor 5y ago
If my calculations are correct, only ~21% of gas used in europe is used for electricity, so halving the dependency. If combined power and heat plants can't be shut down (because they can't be replaced that based and still need to produce heat), this results in 12.6% of gas used only in electricity only power plants. The latter isn't really that useful. Source for all numbers: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.html?geos=EU27_2020&year=2020&unit=TJ&fuels=TOTAL&highlight=_&nodeDisagg=1111111111111&flowDisagg=true&translateX=-1694.6872781131412&translateY=-947.2658869554716&scale=2.376781091900079&language=EN https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.htm... 16.03e6 TJ gas total 2.03e6 TJ used for electricity only 2.30e6 TJ used for electricity & heat, 60% of resulting (usable) energy is electricity -> 1.37TJ -> 3.40TJ of gas used for electricity, around 21%
- panick21_ 5y ago
  As far as I know France uses mostly electrical heating and most of that is powered by nuclear. Had other industrial nations acted like France in the 70s our problems, health wise, climate change wise and geopolitical would be about 1000x better.
  - danhor 5y ago
    France uses a lot more electrical heating than neighbouring countries, but gas (35%) and oil (10%) combined are more than their electrical heating (41%). Shutting of a large part of gas supplies would still be a problem. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-housing-main-france/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-hou...
markvdb 5y ago
Two things: - Less uranium is being produced than being consumed. - The Russian sphere of influence is responsible for most uranium exports by far.

danhor 5y ago

If my calculations are correct, only ~21% of gas used in europe is used for electricity, so halving the dependency. If combined power and heat plants can't be shut down (because they can't be replaced that based and still need to produce heat), this results in 12.6% of gas used only in electricity only power plants. The latter isn't really that useful. Source for all numbers: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.html?geos=EU27_2020&year=2020&unit=TJ&fuels=TOTAL&highlight=_&nodeDisagg=1111111111111&flowDisagg=true&translateX=-1694.6872781131412&translateY=-947.2658869554716&scale=2.376781091900079&language=EN https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.htm... 16.03e6 TJ gas total 2.03e6 TJ used for electricity only 2.30e6 TJ used for electricity & heat, 60% of resulting (usable) energy is electricity -> 1.37TJ -> 3.40TJ of gas used for electricity, around 21%

panick21_ 5y ago
As far as I know France uses mostly electrical heating and most of that is powered by nuclear. Had other industrial nations acted like France in the 70s our problems, health wise, climate change wise and geopolitical would be about 1000x better.
- danhor 5y ago
  France uses a lot more electrical heating than neighbouring countries, but gas (35%) and oil (10%) combined are more than their electrical heating (41%). Shutting of a large part of gas supplies would still be a problem. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-housing-main-france/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-hou...

markvdb 5y ago

Two things: - Less uranium is being produced than being consumed. - The Russian sphere of influence is responsible for most uranium exports by far.