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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[+] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    the doomer in me says doubt it, but at least I can be smug when talking about how renewables would have prevented high energy prices and wide use of EVs would have likely reduced the impact on inflation

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  • [–] 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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