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Could the Iran war energy shock accelerate the transition to renewables? (www.nationalobserver.com)

submitted 8 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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Four years ago, European officials made a plan to reduce dependence on Russian gas and ramp up renewable energy, but a new study found it only reinforced existing decarbonization trajectories and missed the opportunity to meaningfully accelerate the clean energy transition.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most renewable energy infrastructure is made in China using fossil fuels, and shipped from there using fossil fuels. So that is negatively affected by blockage.

The fraction of fossils of world primary energy use remains effectively at some 80%, so there is no energy transition.

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