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This is the crux of it. Yes, we've reduced demand from electrical appliances, an made more efficient cars. But we've also closed all of our steel mills, alumini

This is the crux of it. Yes, we've reduced demand from electrical appliances, an made more efficient cars. But we've also closed all of our steel mills, aluminium smelters and other heavy industry. We still use those products, but the energy intensive processes are done elsewhere. The UK "industrial" energy consumption today is 30% of what it was in 1970. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62334e14d3bf7f047bfa92b0/Energy_Consumption_in_the_UK_2021.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62334e14d3bf7...

pfdietz 3y ago
In the future post-fossil fuel, solar powered age, that was going to happen anyway. This is a long term problem Europe faces: with solar projected to dominate world energy supply (if historical experience rates continue), Europe will be an energy ghetto. Energy intensive industry will move elsewhere. Going nuclear cannot save them, since their nuclear will be competing against world best case solar in sunnier places.