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Germany has never rebuilt it's economy and never switched the energy source powering it. The rest of EU will just sit idly by and watch as the trend continues d

• someweirdperson 4y ago
  We're stuck in between "don't want" an "can't", hoping that the problem will disappear on its own. Instead of going all-in on local sources or renewables (even power2gas would be cheaper than current import prices), with only 272 wind turbines built so far this year and the goal still being a lowly 2% land covered in turbines, we're replacing one external unreliable source with another, which includes more complicated means of transportation (ship vs. pipe). Politics and media are discussion short-term topics like continuing to run the remaining 3 nuke plants, and running a bit more on coal for electricity. Instead, short term actions should just be done, and the time for discussion used to get to some long term consensus on some viable future concepts.
  • ZeroGravitas 4y ago
    We already have consensus on the viable long term concepts. Some people have just been trying really hard to ignore and delay the acceptance of that reality. Talking up the "chaos" and refusing to do basic things to help people when "disaster capitalists" would rather leverage the problem to funnel money to their backers is just another chapter in that fight. As is the weird focus on land coverage. No one sensible is talking about that. It has never been a problem to worry about, and it certainly isn't a metric to aim for.