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I am noticing that the article is not mentioning the paradoxical relation between renewables and fossil fuels that is dominating the current political situatio
by belorn 5y ago
I am noticing that the article is not mentioning the paradoxical relation between renewables and fossil fuels that is dominating the current political situation in EU. The country that invested most in renewables and have the highest amount of subsidies to renewables, ie Germany, is also the one that been championing natural gas to be classified as green in EU and is the primary customer of Russian gas and oil and thus funding the current Russian politics and military. The article talks about China and their fossil fuel dependencies, but its Germany that to a major degree dictate energy prices when their day to day demands on fossil fuels changes.
Every since the invasion there has been a utterly silence in how the Russian grip on EU energy dependency will be solved if just Germany invest, construct or subsidize more wind power. Instead I read articles after articles than when the wind doesn't blow and its winter, Germany will need cheap fossil fuels for the next several decades. This is why removing Russian banks from SWIFT would hurt Germany since they then can't continue to buy more gas, or why nord stream will sooner or later be turned on. Sanction on Russian economy is only temporary because otherwise it will destroy the EU energy market, which many article highlight to be in the core of why the invasion exist.