▲ 51 ▼ Shell sells Dutch solar farms in retreat from renewables (www.dutchnews.nl) submitted 3 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] chris@l.roofo.cc 5 points 3 months ago (1 child) We don't need shell to build solar. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago You have two wars directly affecting major hydrocarbon exporting countries and the strategic reserves of several countries are at a generational low. Shell is likely betting that oil is going to spike, which probably isn't bad for electrification as a concept. We've also been seeing in adjacent industries that the skills to succeed in hydrocarbon related energy don't exactly transfer well to non-hydrocarbon related energy. Shell may be bad at building out solar because solar works on different scales than they are used to. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 5 points 3 months ago (1 child) We don't need shell to build solar. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago You have two wars directly affecting major hydrocarbon exporting countries and the strategic reserves of several countries are at a generational low. Shell is likely betting that oil is going to spike, which probably isn't bad for electrification as a concept. We've also been seeing in adjacent industries that the skills to succeed in hydrocarbon related energy don't exactly transfer well to non-hydrocarbon related energy. Shell may be bad at building out solar because solar works on different scales than they are used to. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago You have two wars directly affecting major hydrocarbon exporting countries and the strategic reserves of several countries are at a generational low. Shell is likely betting that oil is going to spike, which probably isn't bad for electrification as a concept. We've also been seeing in adjacent industries that the skills to succeed in hydrocarbon related energy don't exactly transfer well to non-hydrocarbon related energy. Shell may be bad at building out solar because solar works on different scales than they are used to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago You have two wars directly affecting major hydrocarbon exporting countries and the strategic reserves of several countries are at a generational low. Shell is likely betting that oil is going to spike, which probably isn't bad for electrification as a concept. We've also been seeing in adjacent industries that the skills to succeed in hydrocarbon related energy don't exactly transfer well to non-hydrocarbon related energy. Shell may be bad at building out solar because solar works on different scales than they are used to. permalink fedilink source parent