Europe's Energy Nightmare Has Only Just Begun

[@jeffrydemeyer5433]

great example of how to tell half a story.

[@dragonflydreamer7658]

THREADS

[@domcizek]

WELL, UNTIL PUTIN IS DEAD, THIS WILL GO ON THAT IS THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY

[@domcizek]

@user-lt3he9ey4x SLOWLEY COAL AND OIL WILL GO AWAY, BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME ALREADY THERE ARE WHOLE COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA THAT ARE OFF THE GRID, ALL SOLAR AND BATTERIES , AND NOW DAMAGE FROM THE HURRICANE ,

[@evechurchill424]

i know right...."energy suddenly disappeared", failed to mention it is EU's own doing at the behest of USA. EU basically committed economic and energy suicide.

[@Ksins1]

USA is doing everything to make the people of Europe live badly! So that the European economy will fall! USA does this in order to rule the people of Europe and send them to war with Russia, so that the people of Europe will fight and die in the war with Russia!" USA in this war will sit across the ocean and sell weapons to Europe and laugh at the Europeans!.. USA needs a war between Europe and Russia in order to survive itself, as the Anglo-Saxons have always done!,,

[@paulsheppard1108]

It's amazing how they left the part out where their leaders said that they were going to stop using Russian gas

[@HeresMyView]

@Paul Sheppard, not surprise they omitted the part where they santioned Russia and wanna stop using Russian gas. It is a propaganda reporting, not news. And, designed for the braindead to be manipulated and controlled. That's how the entire Europe population is held hostage. The brainwashing is relentless. Sad. They are trapped. 😜😜😂😂 But Germany is breaking out of this bubble. The Chancellor visited China to defy the control imposed. In fact, Germans are one of the people with the highest IQ in the world.

[@1712NineNine]

and buy from usa for 3 times the price .

[@HeresMyView]

@@1712NineNine , it is people like you wanna help open the eyes of Europe but the dirty MSM has greater economic resources to brainwash them, like Bloomberg. 😲😲 You can bring the cows to the river but you can't force it to drink.

[@mnztr1]

@@1712NineNine And "someone" first sanctioned NS2, then just blew it up!! lol

[@icxcnika1823]

E U is a bunch of countries that lost in itself. They suffer and love it . Were much better as fully independent states.

[@QwadLuzr]

Can you really call it a "crisis" when it's by design?

[@niklasmolen4753]

It is a crisis, but not for those who made the decisions, because they will be fine. But for everyone else, it's a crisis. So crisis, yes.

[@johannesk6145]

@MonHun That is just not true. Europe decided to stop the imports. Russia would still deliver gas to the EU.

[@benjaminvanderlund9522]

@MonHun Lobbyism is not special to Germany, its normal in politics. But you vote for spineless green globalism yet expect moral values LOL

[@gopolanglekoto]

@MonHun LOL Why is it never Europe's fault? Europe is always perfect and gets nothing wrong. But Russia, yeah, everything bad is their fault 😂

[@gopolanglekoto]

@MonHun "Europe is guided by Russia". And thus it's Europe's fault. They got themselves into this allowing and continuing to be guided by Russia. Europeans freeze, Europe is to blame.

[@mariomilunovic]

"Tough" in Europe is super comfortable in some other part of the world

[@jamesabestos2800]

America be like:

[@lf1496]

Um not quite. I live in Europe and I lived in Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, and Ethiopia. It depends on your level of income. Over all hands down I loved Africa more. My quality of living was much better. The weather, the society, lovely beach front communities, beautiful homes, great clean food, safety and much more positive environment. Europe is depressing

[@BB-qp9ri]

@@lf1496 The EU has destroyed Europe

[@WinterGK]

@@lf1496 Now compare the lifestyle of a average income person in Europe to a average income person in Africa. Being rich enough to not care about any costs only applies to a small percentage and even that percentage is smaller in Africa unfortunately.

[@rocketman1058]

yeah, the Europeans don't pay last pennies for energy, it's just will be one vacation less per year

[@thomassimmer5186]

This is like complaining about the severity of a hangover after a binge. Europe made an active decision to eliminate any energy redundancy while depending on a single, potentially unreliable source. Not unpredictably, the one source failed.

[@RM-el3gw]

It was not a single source, but there was overdependency on it. Agreed it was a terrible and naive move, especially on Germany's part.

[@thomassimmer5186]

@@RM-el3gw Yes.

[@hobsdigree2]

Trump warned Germany about this and they laughed... now they're scrambling.

[@dirgsuite5546]

It is not the dependence on Russian energy that was the problem. Russia was a reliable and affordable supplier until Europe started to play poker with a bad set of cards. It is acting like an invaded country is a NATO member when it is not. All this ideological, high moral behavior is what got Europe in trouble. Most of all, it is Europe taking care of US interests, instead of taking care of their citizens.

[@Croydondebruyne]

not all of europe, but those of us who didn't are still paying for it.

[@ahah1785]

I had to do a police check, physical and mental evaluation to be allowed to drive a public bus. Should be manditory for politicians as well.

[@noonecarespeoplearefake7913]

AH AH Politicians don't need obey laws and rules, so even if such thing was introduced it wouldn't have any effect, they stay above you

[@jubaerkhan5932]

They are talking about LNG. But not talking about high price and availability. Qatar already rejected Europe. They have only few option like US and Norway. But they are selling gas to Europe at hiked price. No discount for their so-called western ally. Even US hijacking Europe's industrial facilities

[@bk3289]

The leaders of EU are like ostrich refused to acknowledge that they had made many mistakes to follow the US and Usula.

[@dannytadashi4235]

You know US of effing A is the one who did the dirty work to Sabotage the Nordstream 2 pipe , and then this F*Ker from US of effing A well blame it on Russia of their own crimes HAHAHAHAHA LOL 😂 😂😂😃😃😃👍👍👍👍😈😈😈😈🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺!!!!

[@marvellous9652]

Lol, why would they give them a discount? They are selling them at market rate, and LNG is naturally more expensive than gas flowing through a pipeline. The EU can afford it.

[@danhobart4009]

@Johnson Li Because the EU, like japan, south korea ect. are american vassal states.

[@votebrian66]

@@marvellous9652 why should terrorists get to profit from their actions

[@TheVladBlog]

Also this video seems to be focusing on “families need to save energy” the thing is… big business and expensive office space waste so much more gas than anyone else. Let’s not move another thing to be the responsibility of the people and everyone finally do their bit

[@robertagren9360]

Companies create wealth. Houses takes wealth from people and use it to heat their homes.Companies have to pay people to be able to heat their homes that the companies becomes priority since real estates electric bills are relying on companies.

[@louiscaeiroramos8051]

and greenhouses.

[@Santor6]

@@robertagren9360 Weird Economy you learned at school if ever.

[@thomasandriessen1046]

The video clearaly states that businesses also need to do there part.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@robertagren9360 Who works in those companies pray? Oh yeah, the people who live in those houses.

[@anuronguha0898]

Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems but the world's problems are not Europe's problems. ~ Dr.S.Jaishankar

[@Cheezz_Montgomery_Burns]

it's a self-inflicted wound

[@amor-fate55555]

SOLAR on the most northern part of the world with lots of clouds and no sunlights, Great idea!!

[@Music5362]

And sometimes little wind either for weeks.

[@freetrade8830]

"Green energy" = not energy.

[@pawelgrad]

I have 9kWp solar installation in southern Poland. It's great from march to september maybe october but then during the winter it's not able to produce enough energy especially that I use heat pump for heating.

[@thegreatdane3627]

it's all about energy storage. There may be less sun hours in the winter, but there is a lot during the summer. There are many ways to store energy, such as pumped hydro, grid scale batteries or you could use the excess electricity to produce hydrogen or methane (same as natural gas).

[@oceanwave4502]

There is a impression that western countries use "Climate Change" as a cause to reap energies from developing world, making them unable to develop. When the West got industrialized, they released CO2 or whatever and no one bat an eye. By using "Climate Change" cause, the West restricts capitals to build cheap energy production facility (read: coal, oil, gas...). And you know capitals for now mostly reside in the West.

[@Bawdale]

Watched the 1st 5 mins then had to move on. Only western media says Russia has cut gas to Europe. NS1 operated with six pumps, Canada sat on five holding them under maintenance until Germany retrieved one. The single pump Russia used to pump 20% capacity was not enough. Russia to this day offers gas via NS2 but Germany still says no!

[@Max_Jacoby]

So instead of being overdependent on Russian gas Europe chose to be overdependent on US gas. Let's wait and see how it turns out.

[@livefree1030]

It will be expensive ASF

[@elizabethtamp1537]

All as planned long ago.

[@wederMaxim]

Everything is going according to plan. Now the United States is Afghanizing Ukraine and deindustrializing Europe. Soon they will be taking technology from Taiwan.

[@trex2092]

@@livefree1030 It ain't cheep to ship vs. using a pipeline.

[@julius43461]

Meh, they will be importing gas from Russia in 10 years again.

[@afonsolugo2748]

"It remains unclear who carried out the suspected sabotage". Really Bloomberg??

[@adurpandya2742]

Either Poland or Sweden. Probably both.

[@simply_diecast_3349]

The U.S who else

[@simply_diecast_3349]

@@adurpandya2742 Negative the U.S.

[@sapere7]

The UK , under the supervision of its masters of course : the US .

[@adurpandya2742]

@@simply_diecast_3349 US doesn’t care enough.

[@williamrgutrich7694]

If Americans are laughing at Europe, and it's very foolish energy policies, wait till you see your energy bills this Winter, with $10/Deca therm nat-gas prices. Bend over greenies.

[@skeptick6513]

No matter the issue all you need to do is follow the money and you will see the unseen hands

[@Afflictamine]

100%

[@toth1982]

So Pfizer developed the C19?

[@PancakeProduct]

U.S. military industrial complex

[@rolandhawken6628]

Well they are not unseen then are they ? When you can see them

[@skeptick6513]

@@rolandhawken6628 you're peeking around the curtain. My point is not so profound, its an old one and quite commonsensical but i think its often forgotten. In the Christian faith there us a relevant phrase that says the love of money is the root of all evil. Same idea.

[@TheVladBlog]

Mostly in the UK people have been really complacent over the last 100 years. Most countries insulate their homes. The Uk didn’t do any of that because of cheap gas and coal before that. Landowners are pocketing profits and normal people are now stranded with either the cold or ridiculous gas bills, because of the way British housing is being built. Europe on the other hand single-handedly decapitated it’s energy supply by closing down countless nuclear reactors - the cleanest form of energy available- whilst simultaneously failing to provide alternatives apart from Russian gas. It’s time for everyone to see that this is all about corporate interest and the leaders are doing nothing for the people.

[@ThePurplePassage]

There have been attempts in the UK to improve household insulation already, but many types of home are not suitable for the preferred cavity wall insulation, because of rubble or debris contained in the cavity. And doing so resulted in them becoming unhealthy and uninhabitable because of the thermal bridge resulting in condensation and mould. Additionally, many houses are older and do not have cavity walls at all, so have less scope for effective insulation without major reconstruction. That's not to say it isn't worth trying nor that some improvement can be made, but it's not as simple as saying houses in the UK haven't been insulated as though it were that easy. I will however agree that it has been nuts to shut down functioning (and well run) nuclear reactors ahead of their lifespan as occurred in Belgium. Fear of nuclear power is justified more by emotion than statistical fact (compare the death rate per TWh of energy sources) - it's a bit like the disproportionate fear of death due to terrorist attack, when in reality people are emphatically more likely to die of more mundane causes such as heart disease or cancer.

[@MrMischelito]

Nuclear is not clean. Apart from that I mostly agree

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

I thought the UK used bricks to build their homes? That’s insulation isn’t it? You can’t insulate a brick. It’s either bricks or it’s Sheetrock and wood with insulation stuffed inbetween.

[@antonyduncan9995]

​@@MrMischelito No energy is completely clean but per KwH produced over its lifetime it and aside from a tiny amount of nuclear waste, it is the cleanest source we have. Wind, Tidal and Solar are great but due to the huge energy output from nuclear the energy pay back period is much quicker and thus cleaner. Probably a mix is the best solution 🤷

[@TheVladBlog]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se of course you can insulate a brick wall 😂 You can attach insulation to any solid wall.

[@Alma-wl9bo]

The Problem in Germany is that they have a lot of bureaucracy if a company or a household wants to use green energies that makes this transition also way difficult.

[@thesilentone4024]

They also need better insulation so it takes less to warm or cool and it stays warm or cool much longer.

[@andrewrourke9519]

@@thesilentone4024 Tell the North Americans that

[@AB-qt4dj]

@@thesilentone4024 insulation manufactured with a petroleum product

[@ruofengxiu4243]

The problem of Germany is that everything always has to be as extreme as it possibly can be. Extreme insanity during WW1/2, Communism was even “developed” by a German, now the eco- and leftfascism. Burning all the energy bridges before you have paved the new road. The refugee crisises. Doesn’t matter which party Leads in Germany it has to be as crazy as possible.

[@amaliaotero6900]

Green energies,at the time being, are not enough.

[@bhaashatepe5234]

They said it's for the climate change, while ignoring the social and cultural change at the same time. European leaders have disconnected with their own people. They accuse Putin but they do not want to talk the disastrous consequences of their own policies.

[@cmartinmnl]

The UE is suffering but the US is laughing all the way to the bank!

[@wuuduu609]

and that was THE PLAN from beginning

[@Bilangumus]

by design ..

[@AB-qt4dj]

The US has its own energy problems. Gas bills are climbing significantly from last winter, which increased significantly from winter 2020-2021.

[@ramoncastaneda8432]

@@wuuduu609 yes because America attacked Ukraine

[@glenncordova4027]

Russia's invasion and threats to it's neighbors is the problem

[@miroslavjakovcic4585]

You miss to mention the reason why gas supply from Russia was reduced in 2021 - EU's "green" decision to stop long-term contracts (important for investments) and move to spot market. This was crucial decision that escalated gas issues - but not only for Russian gas - also for LNG as gas distributors around the world can't plan their investments based on spot markets.

[@Hujhjgffw]

Russia used to sell gas at spot prices as well as via long term contract. They stopped doing that in mid 2021, at the time they claimed there was no extra gas due to high demand in russia after lifting of covid lockdowns. Europe had to use up it's gas stores over the winter, and right when Russia invaded they were critically low. To me, it seems clear why gas supplies were reduced in 2021, it's much smarter to attempt to blackmail cutting off supply when storage is empty. The ending of long-term contracts is indeed dumb because it's impossible to build the infrastructure for the gas without them, but I mean, how are those contracts with Russia working out right now.... none of them are being honored. It doesn't seem like this policy of ending long term contracts lasted long anyway seeing as Germany just signed a 15 year gas contract with Qatar for LNG.

[@samuellembke4565]

They wont talk about any of the unfavorable facts for their narrative. This is just a propaganda piece preparing us for the NWO

[@jasonmorris9330]

I'm pretty sure no one is going to remember how cheap gas was when earth becomes a hellish landscape barely staying afloat with life

[@gaygelding]

@@jasonmorris9330 the 9134th russian nuke card that i see on the internet in the last 9 months. Why dont yall try something else already? THIS AINT WORKING.

[@mysteryuser7062]

EU also thought getting rid of nuclear power plants was “green”. Now they’re using Coal to make up for what they did to sabotage themselves. Let’s hope Europe gets covered in a thick, disgusting Los Angeles styled smog as their penance

[@FreedomCMd]

Renewable is not reliable. What silver lining they are talking about.

[@freetrade8830]

Propaganda

[@FreedomCMd]

@@freetrade8830 Can you control number of days the sun will shine? Can you predict when will wind speed?

[@freetrade8830]

@@FreedomCMd I agree with you, I was referring to the “silver lining” assertion.

[@bipolarpunt5721]

@@FreedomCMd Yes, what happens on low wind cloudy days?

[@Redmanticore]

australia, kazakhstan, canada has worlds #1 #2 #3 biggest uranium reserves. so nuclear is pretty reliable investment. just make it many small nuclear reactors, like every city 1, not just 1 big. ​ @BiPolarPunt we have houses called Passivhaus, by Germany, you dont even need to heat them during winter time.

[@weichengcn]

Wait, didn't Europe ask China and India to stop buying Russian energy? Why do they still want to buy Russian energy themselves? Russia is doing Europe a favor to walk the walk.

[@farrel2114]

@@bradleyheights5905 Russia's GDP has fallen 35% since 2014? Google says otherwise buddy. Where did you get that information from lol.

[@farrel2114]

@@bradleyheights5905 at least it's going upward now, better than 2008 level

[@AwokenEntertainment]

This take feels a little one-sided..

[@bipolarpunt5721]

This neglects to mention Russia had multiple sanctions, including blocking them from SWIFT, before they cut the energy supply. They make it sound like it came out of the blue.

[@Mindset19877]

Political leaders around the world must have a system thinker who should give them insight about impacts of their decision.

[@freetrade8830]

Lol

[@mike8677]

Political leaders should have a PhD. There is a total lack of diversity in the education background of politicians.

[@AjayAjay-gz3oz]

Political Leaders ALREADY have THE PEOPLE to Guide and even Supervise them.. possibly in NEAR REAL TIME.. This can be done l by using an Internet (type) based DDS.. Direct Democracy System.... but still use the 2000+ year old "once in many years" Ballot System rather than a 21st Century DDS.. with THE PEOPLE IN THE LOOP OF NATIONAL GOVERNANCE & SUPERVISION..

[@dannytadashi4235]

You know US of effing A is the one who did the dirty work to Sabotage the Nordstream 2 pipe , and then this F*Ker from US of effing A well blame it on Russia of their own crimes HAHAHAHAHA LOL 😂 😂😂😃😃😃👍👍👍👍😈😈😈😈🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺!!!!

[@zzmmz3789]

It's inevitable the west is collapsing because they attacked Afghanistan: the graveyarrd of empires. Rekt

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

It was time to diversify energy sources way back when OPEC decided to create a monopoly for fossil fuels. Now that we're moving to renewables, don't make the same mistake of importing everything from China, who can cut off supply at any time for any reason.

[@liujack3577]

The future is long, and it is hoped that Europe will find industrial energy sources to replace Russian energy. Otherwise, remember what you said, and wait a few years to see what you said

[@falcon6329]

European countries and especially germany's industries has profited a lot from cheap russian energy. Without it, Germany wouldn't have grown like it is today.

[@ZMacZ]

@@liujack3577 Ur right. China wanted to help Europe with cheap solar panels back in the 2013-2015's. It's better if the whole world would turn more solar, and it could have worked. By now at those pricings we could have had like 50-100% more solar power. Less economic fallout due to energy shortage. It's almost when there's shortage the fallout increases in magnitude exponentially. With twice the economic crisis it's fourfold the trouble and work to clean it up.

[@tobybigham4196]

I loved the part it talked about lessoning demand. It would seem their idea of lessoning energy demand is by selling more electric cars, and we won't even discuss the trend of home automation.

[@shobhitsaini86]

this happens when the mba managers make techincal decisions without asking the technical team. They said we are ready to ward off russian gas in the year's beginning and the techinal team was like 'what did they say'

[@nnnik3595]

Well on the short term there won't be that many electric cars. Since a majority of the gas is directly burned for heating - like in my home - you can lesson demand by lowering the indoors temperature.

[@msimon6808]

The real plan ==> Ukraine will be Europe's oil and gas supplier.

[@موسى_7]

I think they were including gasoline as energy.

[@tobybigham4196]

@@موسى_7 who would confuse Gas with energy? lol

[@helloitsme98]

Addicted? Reminds me of Road Warrior 4 - "You are addicted to water". It is so amazing to hear mainstream pols repeat this - another problem "You are addicted to freedom"

[@better_dead_than_red]

There's no alternative to water. Analogy is not an argument. Stop listen to "greens" and reopen nuclear power plants.

[@australiaambassador.]

Go green,Go Broke.

[@networkgeekstuff9090]

I would still much rather have a small nuclear power plant in the garden than to rely on wind&solar. Logic: 1 kg (~3 ponds) of uranium has energy density of roughly 1million kg of coal, since one average train wagon carries around 70 tones of coal, imagine how long that train is to carry that much coal that you can hold in your hand. If they can stick a nuclear reactor into a submarine why we do not have those next to every village is beyond me. EDIT: For a few people that would like to point me that we do not need nukes because we have wind&solar. Please explain to me how do you run heavy industry on wind&solar since we have NO reliable tech right now to store energy from these sources for later use. Nukes are proven, existing tech that just need political will to solve the problem, pointing me to liquid metal batteries or something like that in prototyping phase doesn't help anyone until I can buy them on amazon for 10k for let's say 50kWh to power my house or you can buy them to power a freaking aluminum power plant (and google how much such heavy industry burns daily, you would need a mountain of toxic lithium batteries to power that from wind&solar for a single windless night-shift).

[@alyti]

iirc theres projects towards miniature reactors like that but its way off still, why the hate on wind&solar though, its way more renewable than same uranium that we have in limited supply

[@urnotalone]

Continental Nuclear power is just as weather dependent as wind or solar. No rain, no water, no cooling. E.g. France this summer.

[@networkgeekstuff9090]

@@urnotalone Design choices of the 60s to save on pumping costs being close to rivers. Here in Slovakia we had nuclear power plants unaffected by drought this year. Also you can cool nuclear power plants in different ways than just evaporate river water. E.G. you can always just burry a giant closed loop radiator underground to get rid of unneeded heat. It needs a larger initial investment than evaporation chimney, but doable.

[@rob6850]

@@urnotalone interesting. I have never seen anyone point that out before.

[@networkgeekstuff9090]

@@alyti There is NOT a limited supply of uranium. Those are old data from first generation and (exaggerated by) fossil lobby misinformation. Older generation of power plants that can only burn few % of uranium isotopes. Newer designs can actually burn even older power plants waste material as fuel, making it less radioactive when it becomes a waste and get more power from every kilo of fuel. Secondly here in Europe we have uranium mines that were simply closed as it was cheaper to buy it from Russia. But we have enough uranium inside territory of Europe to last for a century. Maria Currie got her radium from Czechia where it was a waste product of coal mining.

[@learntostrafe]

The same people that wanted the New Green Deal are begging for fossil fuel oh the irony 😂😂😂

[@rosshilton]

The problem isn’t the lack of infrastructure for LNG, it’s the PRICE of LNG. Japan uses LNG. In 2019 Japan was paying USD8.40 per unit, whereas Germany was paying USD4 per unit for Russian gas. At double the price, the German heavy users of gas like the Chemical industry (eg BASF) and steel (eg ThyssenKrupp) cannot stay in business. The German economy was based upon these manufacturing sectors. Germany will now have to pivot its entire economy away from manufacturing into other sectors, and it doesn’t have a lot of experience in those areas.

[@dnickaroo3574]

Japan put Sanctions against Russia be refusing to buy Russian Coal. Japan had invested in a Company that brought Russian Gas to Japan. Russia then nationalised the Japanese Company (Russia went full Communist). The new Russian Company will not sell Gas to Japan - Japan lost Gas & Coal + the Gas Company. Sanctions applied in both directions.

[@brucefrykman8295]

They could restructure their economy to the service sector, everyone could become a masseuse (is there a gender neutral term for this like 'massux'') and then they could give each other tantric massages all day long.

[@modelfxaustralia8963]

The cost of a lack of investment, combined with poor investment choices that started about two decades ago.

[@GrandTheftChris]

What kind of investment you mean?

[@kimobrien.]

@@GrandTheftChris The is the result of natural workings of the capitalist system based in Nation states. Competition for markets and resources leads to the ultimate completion or war. Nothing is cheaper and more renewable for the ruling propertied class than the young unemployed soldier and munitions.

[@gvibration1]

Germany invested half a trillion dollars in "green" energy. Obviously it works.

[@katarn848]

Everything none solar and wind. Almost everything is old and at it's limited. Powergrid no capacity to charge all electric cars . To little gaswells and buffer flields. To little makers of insulation materials et cetera. The list is pages long.

[@gvibration1]

@@katarn848 All of it foreseeable. Which is what humans do when getting something to work.

[@maxsmith3580]

how effective are solar plants in Europe during winter and in clowdy weather ?

[@ettoreatalan8303]

Just as effective as solar plants in America during winter and in clowdy weather.

[@NullHand]

@@ettoreatalan8303 Rarely. Europe as a whole is farther north than the USA. Latitude matters a lot for solar, both for winter daylight length and radiative flux density (angle of incidence).

[@EliF-ge5bu]

@@ettoreatalan8303 that was funny. but talk about clowds aside, the biggest solar farms in America are located out west or southwest in California, Nevada, Arizona or Texas, where the sun shines most of the year. So no, the solar plants in America are generally more effective that solar plants in Europe.

[@la7dfa]

@@EliF-ge5bu Europe will have a large production of onshore and offshore wind farms. That is the green energy that helps most in winter. As you say, solar does not work well in Europe during winter. Especially not in the northern half, but it is very windy in the North Sea.

[@ik1408]

They don't tell you their little dirty secret: the process of making solar panels goes with the emissions of chemicals into the atmosphere, which are bad greenhouse gases (worse than carbon dioxide).

[@Darkmatter321]

If Europe is looking for Natural gas, I have some. It's not liquified though, yet. Having said that, the rich in Europe won't need to call me, as they are able to keep warm

[@abrasive_ideas]

Let's not forget that dependency on Russian natural gas came about BECAUSE transition to green energy. Before green energy, EU didn't use natural gas.

[@jayque]

What's green energy?

[@Agent-000-0]

That is a total lie. Natural gas has been used in power plants and district heating plants since the 60s. It has been used in home heating systems since the 1970. The first pipelines coming from Russia to western Europe were built after an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union... There is no big fleet of Natural Gas powered power plants built anywhere in Europe. Not a single country has a clear plan to enhance the grid, build storage, enhance existing power stations to be more flexible, and so on.

[@adamdanilowicz4252]

Between roughly 1993 and 2010, the EU collectively extracted more natural gas than Russia. Before that, it was heavily reliant on coal.

[@VascoRamosSilva]

Also, we are anti-nuclear energy which is extreme safe compared to gas and coal and carbon-neutral

[@zzmmz3789]

I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??

[@kwatt-engineer796]

I europe wants a stable reliable supply of energy they should focus on Nuclear especially new modular designs which can be brought on line much quicker than traditional designs. More smaller units add to reliability.

[@GrandTheftChris]

OK, will you store our nuclear waste for us afterwards?

[@kwatt-engineer796]

@@GrandTheftChris Storage of nuclear waste is a political problem and not a technical one. If some primadonna's would climb down from from their lofty perches and take an objective look at the numbers. The spent fuel bundles are stored in spent fuel cooling pools until residual heat has reached a point at which the bundle s can be reprocessed into new fuel and waste products. The remaining waste can be safely stored in a dedicated storage facility, generally deep underground in a geologically stable formation. Incidentally, no one has made any plans on how to recycle or reclaim the toxic materials in junked solar panels. No one cares since they are politically correct "green energy". Ditto for the junked wind turbine blades . In addition obsolete wind generators are just left on their foundations to rust and blight the landscape.

[@leunisvandewege9651]

@@GrandTheftChris Maybe Jef Bezos can take it to Mars. I can lent him some plastic bags.

[@noahof-stuff9151]

The real problem is weeding out the lying communist aligned politicians who constantly oppose this.

[@vinniechan]

The experience from France showed not even nuclear is fool proof Summary: you need fresh water to cool the reactor and the drought this yr threw a spanner into the works Made worse by the fact that half of their nuclear fleet is down for maintenance

[@humanyoda]

Are they calling a depression a recession?

[@AB-qt4dj]

Yes because the managerial class thinks they’re better than they are.

[@Motorbronx]

Europe again. Here's my two cents: they decided to prematurely phase out fossil fuels while today the only alternative is nuclear, and they hate that too. And as far as intermittent sources are concerned, one cannot "live intermittently" because you can only die once.

[@bibhuduttapadhi9394]

Just a thought I feel for the common people of Europe. The European union countries in general have a per capita income of around 50k usd and they cannot afford prices. Then how are Indians who have a per capita income of 2k supposed to survive if they stop buying from Russia at cheaper rates?

[@abhishekpawar5126]

But Indian people are not getting the benefit from the government buying Russian oil Most of it is being sold to Ambani and Adani for peanuts who are then refining it and selling it to Europe for massive profits All the benefit is going to Ambani and Adani while Indian people are suffering sky high inflation

[@bibhuduttapadhi9394]

@@abhishekpawar5126 any articles to support your claim? Because government previously banned export of diesel and aviation fuel and the ban is prevailing

[@twotalljones4790]

You are correct there is a complex in India that on it`s own produces 4% of the world`s gasoline and India can consume 2% of that output. Wonder where the excess goes ? Can you blame India for not getting on the crazy train. lol

[@captainalex157]

i dont blame india for buyiung russian gas honestly but the way many indians worship Putin is just pathetic, almost religiously lol.

[@mirror5076]

1. The average European income per inhabitant is much lower. 2. India's climate is tropical and Europe's is not. 3. I hope Indians will survive. (we helped our guesthouse in Patnem during the covid pandamic.)🙏

[@markfrost2307]

This video is a great example of how to only tell half the story.

[@brandonjablasone7544]

Man they always do this

[@Desolator84]

This whole video could be summed up in that bicyclist shoving stick in his own wheel meme.

[@howardsimpson489]

This is only the canary in the mine. The whole world is in for a complete shake up of food, water, energy, virus invasion, ocean rise, at some stage the human population will drop to match the planet carrying capacity. It will not be pretty.

[@tanjoy0205]

You know it’s bad when Bloomberg QuickTake makes content about it . Edit:To be fair to Europe though it will survive the winter as most countries have hit 80% gas storage .TLDR Eu did a great clean view on thisz

[@robertjohnson-taylor100]

Except the UK got rid of its gas storage

[@disrealnow9664]

Moreover - it looks like its going to be a reasonably warm winter. Saw cormorants on the Vistula today in Warsaw - as per folk belief, if they cant be asked to fly to the Mediterranean for winter, then there is not going to be any serious winter - we will get through this just fine, don't need no temps from Bloomberg to tell us otherwise

[@internationalinvesting4336]

@sourav jaiswal Those industries were going away anyways. There were a couple of factors that were affecting their profitability. Firstly, the gas that America started producing from fracking is cheaper, cheaper even that Russian gas that was getting into Europe, so it is much cheaper to produce certain products, such as plastics, in the USA. Secondly, countries from the Middle East started to emphasize petrochemical industry, and they have lots of gas and oil. And thirdly, they were going away anyways because Europe does not have the demographics to replace their aging workers and the younger workers dont want to work in a factory, they want to work in hi-tech and software.

[@internationalinvesting4336]

I would say that Europe is in trouble, indeed. But I am far more worried about China. China is even more dependent on imported energy and they face the same demographic pressure. China is also more indebted than most of the European countries and their economy is low value-add, which means that any change in input cost will cause them to go from a small profit to a loss.

[@zzmmz3789]

I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??

[@mysteryuser7062]

I’ll bet Germany wouldn’t be so low on electricity if they hadn’t shut down their nuclear power plants because “chemicals” = “bad”

[@kennethw6962]

This is what you get when people think with their rear end instead of their brain. Nuclear power: the greenest form of energy out there, the safest form of energy out there. And don't tell me about Fukushima! That was not a nuclear disaster. That was what you call a 9.0 EARTHQUAKE! For crying out loud, fire up the nuclear power plants already and stop relying on Russia or other countries for energy. Seriously!

[@christopherstein2024]

Radiation is completely different from chemicals and Germans know that. However the fear of radiation still is irrational. The problems caused by nuclear power aren't evaluated properly under the condition that they have to be replaced with a better source.

[@mysteryuser7062]

@@christopherstein2024 They most definitely do not need to be replaced. We have enough Uranium to last thousands of years and with Thorium, we have about four times as much potential electricity. A number that increases exponentially if fusion reactors become a reality. Nuclear Energy is the only way we will be able to support a society who’s appliances and computers will continue to require more energy (especially if you plan on your driving using electricity in the future). If we flattened Europe entirely and covered it with solar panels, it would not generate enough energy to match what is currently consumed with fossil fuels and whatever else. Nuclear Energy is the only way for a society to grow technologically without relying more on fossil fuels, because nothing else can create as much electricity for millennia

[@nenadsimic5792]

IN GERMANY THERE IS NO RESTRICTIONS OF ELECTRICITY WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT ???..

[@mysteryuser7062]

@@nenadsimic5792 No, because they just used Coal to make up for the Nuclear Energy they lost. Hope Europe gets as much smog as Los Angeles for being anti-scientific

[@spaceshuttledoorgunner125]

And we only have Supreme unelected Chairwoman Ursula of the Soviet European Union to thank for all of this.

[@markrb9152]

Does she have a cunning plan?

[@twotalljones4790]

Ursula von der crazy.

[@Shambles7698]

I think Europe will fine it just media just try to make it a really big deal

[@TheKumarImpressions]

Maybe u have money...wt about other people

[@Tuppoo94]

@@SimonTmte Even dropping the temp from 21°C to 18°C will save a lot of energy. If one can chill out in a T-shirt in their house during winter, they're just being wasteful.

[@Zunken12]

@@SimonTmte hahah live sweden 0 gas we need, will have 24 indor alla winter no problem

[@jandeen4871]

you are illiterate Trent.

[@_FABIO_]

@@SimonTmte The problem is not the temperature of your house but the energy that has to be used by the european industries and enterprises which are all falling down.

[@rogeliop.hernandez6720]

As an outsider, i could say it was the sabotage of the pipeline that caused it all. And bad economic decisions worsen it.

[@jaycee9752]

Renewable energy systems do depend largely on the availability of solar insolation, and favourable wind speeds to support energy demand, which grows with population growth rates in Europe. They will revert to hydrocarbon energy which is still abundant and can be exploited in an environmentally suitable way, e.g. coal gasification power generation systems. Why not? The Europeans wanted to punish developing countries through their proposals to dismiss the use of fossil fuels, as poor nations cannot afford expensive renewable resources. Therefore Europe has created its own nightmare and they should not moan about it.

[@1989Azrael]

Yes, the already developed world (not only the EU) wants developing countries to directly move to renewable energy instead of pulluting as much as they did on the way. But no, renewable energy installations are today already cheaper than any other alternative. Additionally many developing countries have big solar energy potentials making PV installations even more productive and therefore cheaper. And please stop with this nonesense issue of not available sun/wind. There are already a large number of different and effective storage technologies available, they just need to be build.

[@vittoriaoliveros6156]

Backfired sanctions to russia..should decide 4 each country's benefit and not blindly follow hegemony..

[@Stamatis_Misirlis]

Here in Greece the sun is so strong that needs no fossil fuel for energy. A netmetering solar system can be payed out in less than 1,5 years. Where is the problem? The obstacles and bureaucracy are at totally deterrent level!

[@hokavistark7671]

Sanctions backfired

[@captainalex157]

its firing in both directions, really russia still has it worse, next year will be interesting for sure!

[@user-xt3ye8og6r]

This is pure propaganda. Wind turbines and solar are intermitent, so they need the natural gas technology to stabilize the electric grid. Lack of wind in 2021 droped the production of wind turbines in Europe from 16-18% down to 5% (Vaclav Smil) causing the drop of the gas reserves and the increase of its price already before the war. You also forget to say that wind and solar are only a fraction of the electric power generation which is a 20-25% of the total energy we use. Basic sectors cannot be electrified like Steel, Cement, Fertilizers, plastics, Aviation, Ships, Heavy trucks. Intermitency is the one big problem of wind and solar, the second is : low power density and this means occupation of huge spaces destroying the biodiversity. Already here in Greece the Natura 2000 network for the protection of biodiversity is heavily targeted from the wind industry.. If we do not reduce the demand of energy and rationalise the use of it, to spread illusions that with wind and solar we will keep on the same way of living and only change from dirty fossils to clean wind and solar, is nothing but dangerous propaganda of powerful lobbies.

[@blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848]

Saying that Europe is addicted cheap gas is like saying someone is addicted to breathing air .

[@ivanstnvstnv]

So now, instead of using gaspipes, we're re going to ship LNG on tankers from the USA? That's tens of thousands of tonnes of fuel dumped into the oceans, I can't even start to explain to myself who could've made this decision and thought it was a smart one

[@incognitotorpedo42]

What do you think oil tankers are? When you're willing to stop driving and flying, then we can talk. LNG ships are very safe.

[@stralplane]

@@incognitotorpedo42 how much fuel a loaded fuel tanker burns to get from US to EU?

[@vojtechvoros1549]

@@stralplane 1-2 percent of the LNG they deliver to Europe. So that much. They dont dumping anything into the ocean.

[@Byrro-edits]

I'm glad energy efficieny was mentioned, the penny of Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is dropping faster!

[@stormytooman1947]

Why don't they use wind and solar?😛

[@bobpawtucket1336]

@@stormytooman1947 Are you joking really ARE YOU JOKING wind power reliable produces 1% I repeat ONE PERCENT OF INSTALLED CAPACITY so if you need 1 megawatt of power you must install 100 megawatts of capacity. The Germans went with wind and solar and today they are cutting wood to live, IT DOES NOT WORK IT HAS FAILED EVERY TIME IT HAS BEEN TRIED THAT WHY WE QUIT USING WIND AND SOLAR IN THE FIRST PLACE DO SOME RESEARCH NEXT TIME BEFORE YOU COMMENT!!!!

[@stormytooman1947]

@@bobpawtucket1336 That was my point.

[@stormytooman1947]

@@bobpawtucket1336 I was trolling: wind and solar are promoted so we will be cold and poor and hungry.

[@williamrgutrich7694]

Let me guess: Demonrat paid troll, still living in Mom's basement, yes? Get a job, Mike.

[@LjutaPtica]

The EU is falling apart. I really hope we'll see more Brexit-like scenarios in the near future and European countries joining the BRICS alliance. The EU, as it is currently, is turning into a dictatorship worse than the Soviet Union. I'm saying this as an EU citizen.

[@yurichtube1162]

I guarentee you it will happen. The Brits are smarter then we thought. The EU will die.

[@fireflake_dnb_470]

you are delusional.

[@yurichtube1162]

@@fireflake_dnb_470 no he's not.

[@catherinearangie2311]

When they've cleared their forests to put up wind farms and solar panels they will wonder where the rain went. That or they can use the farmland and wonder where the food went.

[@WanderingSword]

bingo. Green energy is not easily achieved like we all hope it to be

[@blottolotto7648]

Nah, they'll just blame it on climate change

[@Piyushgathalaiitb]

So? Your solution is committing suicide by walking into fire?

[@glenncordova4027]

Or they can use roadways, parking lots, rooftops and open ocean scapes.

[@catherinearangie2311]

@@Piyushgathalaiitb burning? Freezing? Just as dead, either way you will not have to see your habitat turn into a horror show.

[@leoprg5330]

Here in Czechia (and also Poland) we want to build more nuclear power plants but Germany and Austria are against it. Its scary EU can stagnate and become easily incompetive on global market just because of energy prices.

[@Kenny-bj2zq]

Right now Germany is seeing highest inflation since WWII - they are a manufacturing exporter that's life blood has been cheap fuel you take away that cheap fuel and they can not compete globally anymore.

[@leoprg5330]

@@Kenny-bj2zq well, of course they can. German companies can move abroad and move the jobs with them. US is attracting EU companies right now. But if you ask the germans the public polls say they prefer green politics

[@hex5874]

@@leoprg5330 yeah my people are like a lobotomy patient lead by a blind guy

[@СерхиоБускетс-ф7я]

The Czech Republic will be in alliance with Russia and this will save you in the future. All Slavic countries will be under the control of Russia. This is what our saints said hundreds of years ago. When the world war will starts, then Russia will destroy Turkey in one week and Paris will be completely destroyed, Germany will be destroyed. Euro and dollar will disappear. Europe will collapse. In some Slavic countries, people will start a revolution and overthrow the government, and then make an alliance with Russia. This will not be the case in all countries. Poland will wash with own tears, Poland will be destroyed.

[@Алексатагин]

Czech.Rep. just needs two 1000 MW units as Dukovany NPP units 1-4 are expected to be expired in 2035-2037. The only way for that is to deal with Korea or China, because Rosatom doesn't want to have business with East Europe (except Hungary's Paks-2 NPP). U.S. and France are losing their nuclear qualifications. And Austria is not a problem: as we all know Russia built Temelin NPP in 80 km distance of Austrian border ans they couldn't do anything. Greetings from Russia.

[@Thomsenox]

Take a look at the man at top left 12:33. He is smiling, he doesn't feel the pain.

[@aibook3391]

no one mentioned why US. and UK exploded Nordstream pipe line? How much at least these two countries added to the crisis ?

[@TheShadowOfZama]

Even IF they blew up the pipeline and by all means show your proof then Nordstream 1 was still an inactive pipeline by that point in time. The gas inside of it was just leftover gas that was in there to keep pressure. By that point in time Russia wasn't pumping any new gas into it anymore. Nordstream 2 was never in use in the first place beyond having some gas for pressure in it (also leftover from the test runs they did). So nobody mentions it because firstly it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory and secondly even if it did happen Russia wasn't pumping any gas anymore into Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 was never in use and as such whether they are destroyed or not changed absolutely nothing.

[@holdforth724]

quick question, what happens when there's no wind and too much cloud...

[@imtiazuddin6560]

No wind, no power. Renewable energy can't replace fossil fuels. It's not stable and reliable.

[@starguy2718]

Then they freeze in the dark.

[@josemonteiro5988]

if there is more clouds means normally more wind....

[@levelazn]

battery STORAGE

[@buttersquids]

@@josemonteiro5988 that doesn't always hold though

[@sputnikburan]

We had a hot winter, more than in the past, for firts time i no need turn on my heaters inside house this year, a little aircon was enough. Last winter i spent 400 Euro for gas, this winter 65 only.

[@oddozzi1021]

Wonder how comfortable the " leaders" homes will be this winter ?? I think we all know

[@jpkool5722]

They will have turned their thermostat down, of course, when they leave for their winter retreat somewhere warm.

[@jbtechcon7434]

Fortunately, winters are warmer that they used to be.

[@PopescuSorin]

thanks climate change, i guess LOL

[@Cruner62]

The cold Kills more people than the warmth - just ask Goldilocks. They are now looking at ways of altering the trajectory of planets - OURS. Starting with asteroids - crazy scientists.

[@rolandhawken6628]

Yeah all this climate warming . What is the problem?

[@alanharrison573]

No, they are colder! Man made climate emergency is a total fraud.

[@malachi-]

@@PopescuSorin climate cycles

[@taurus8263]

Energy prices as high as never before during cost of living crisis. We are being told that energy is getting expensive therefore costs need to increase. Yet, energy companies make record profits... interesting

[@jagzilla1398]

They just need to harness all that hot air coming out of these politicians mouth's.

[@jorsm.3893]

Its amazing how EU countries can announce subsidies programs of 200 billion euros and similar to fill bottomless pits (cover energy costs of businesses and consumers), but how they won't consider things like relocating all the people (or those experiencing issues) living above the Groningen Gas field, so extraction can continue at full pace there. With the kind of budgets being thrown around now this should be very, very possible. But I guess we would rather make every external gas provider rich rather than finding ways to exploit the gas we do have. If I understand correctly, the amount of houses is affected that is low enough that with 200 billion euro you could relocate everyone into houses costing more than a million euro each if you wanted to ...

[@andrewrourke9519]

The € and the pound Sterling are based on the $ U.S. Fewer Global Corporations do their transactions using the unstable $U.S. The USA is losing it´s hegemony as it continues to treat other nations like it would be treated itself!

[@mrbeastwithnomoney]

because Ukraine war is Ponzi scheme for your politicians you bunch of idiots didn't get this till now

[@Bawdale]

The problem is the US calls the shots and US oil and gas need high prices if they are to be able to increase the number of wells for future sales to europe.

[@NotoriousPyro]

The legality of relocating people would be prohibitively expensive and not necessarily successful.

[@kolerick]

because switching gas/oil sourcing is just a temporary band-aid...

[@dr.louierossique3667]

European leaders should have listened to President Trump’s warning on possible dependence outcomes on Russian energy supplies.

[@catherin77]

It saddens me that the topic wasn't disclosed as widely as recollect a Spectator article from a year back highlighting that we were headed already into energy crisis scenario because of Chinese increased demand and empty European gas storages (those few that were left in the UK). It was a warm winter and still covid, hence public focus was elsewhere though. Read for yourself : Power grab: who’s hoarding all the gas? by Seb Kennedy in Spectator

[@vultoktok1848]

I don't know who is hoarding gas, due to cheap and reliable pipe flowing natural gas enjoyed for many years by the European continent from Russia , they did not think of building terminals to import LNG and how to store it, now turning back to burning coal again(like Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables).Nuclear plant for electricity production? Remember Chernobyl?How about Greta Thunberg with her hysteria and cult?

[@davidb6403]

😂

[@serenityinside1]

Read it - an excellent piece , and well raised here. Energy supply and transmission a shitshow basically 😯

[@dnickaroo3574]

Europe cancelled their Gas & Diesel Contracts with Russia, just when China & India want to buy more. Does Europe want to fail on purpose, or is it suicidal.

[@TM-sm5qy]

Blame lies with Ursula and Boris, and the general western hegemony.

[@joelimbergamo639]

Sure, energy mixe that was decides 20y ago is the fault of the gov that ruled for the past 3y sure!

[@brucefrykman8295]

To have a better standard of living the experts say we need to reduce our standard of living...whose standards are they talking about, ours or theirs?

[@Walker983]

The Green politicians of EU have effectively been talking for years about how the developing world should forgoe industrialization, or de-industrialize, while accepting reduced and much more expensive energy . . .

[@nobullshoot]

I remember what I was in Estonia in 1993 and Russia cut the flow of gas to the baltic states. The hotel i was in had no heat in late fall. I slept in my sleeping bag fully dressed. the water pipes were breaking. I learned to drink coffee because the bakery had heat and I went there early in the morning just to warm up. I suspect Europe wont get anywhere near that dire. life goes on and people adapt.

[@NeoFreshair]

Adapt how? By moving from relying on Russian gas to rely on American LNG 🥶 The US and UK clearly pushed Putin to invade Ukraine so they can stop Nord stream pipeline 2 and 1! Do bit of research and you'll find out the truth!

[@alannam9423]

The problem is "green energy" scam (coal energy suppression) and ridiculous electric vehicles hype (cars, buses, scooters, bicycles) increasing electric power demand. Electric cars are worse for the environment than diesels.

[@johnmccaffrey5942]

Not real understanding some of the content here. The narrator say the Russians started slowing down supplies to Europe in 2021. But that was only a consequence of the Europeans refusal to sign fresh contracts with the Russians. The Europeans absurdly said they would just buy at spot price and use renewables. Crazy

[@havencat9337]

what a nice new source of income for US is this LNG.

[@katarn848]

Not for every industry in USA. Higher LNG exports means for some less sales and profets of items. And Biden shutdown most of oil industry expansion on all levels : oil fields , refineries , chemisty , pipes , ports et cetera.

[@doceke1926]

But there is a deliberate belligerence to suddenly cause catastrophe instead of a gradual shift via diplomatic discussions.

[@incrediblestevrhymz2260]

Self-made problem..... This is what you get when you have ideologues as leaders.

[@tomson842]

Avoidable how?

[@alecs536]

@@tomson842 Maybe with willing to negotiations where all sides have benefits

[@aerodronics_showcase]

Meanwhile everything happens by design

[@NikilanRz]

Their proposal to solve the energy problem is more renewables, dig a deeper hole

[@jnkization]

This is a bit behind the curve, prices are down massively and storages are more than full, consumption way down.

[@podtunnie3087]

Not for long though once its gone its gone

[@The987654321andy]

Watching this is a US Citizen, I just pray our leaders are taking notes. This is something to pay attention to.

[@AB-qt4dj]

The administration doesn’t care about you heating your home.

[@WanderingSword]

and how long have US leaders been watching your federal deficit? multi decades?

[@randomperson9187]

Yea they might be taking notes on how to hurt you.

[@alanhodgson7857]

Your leaders are the reason numerous states had to run rolling brownouts last week since they shut down too much of their reliable generating systems and renewables don't work when it's cold and dark.

[@SteffiReitsch]

Fossil fuels are going to go anyway. Time to prepare!

[@weichengcn]

One has to ask the obvious - if lifting sanctions on Russian can resume Russian energy supply and avoid Winter death in Europe, would Europe do that? Or letting their people die? At least European realise that sanction kills. Just think about the countries the West has sanctioned for years or even decades.

[@joelimbergamo639]

No one is gonna freeze, there is enough energy in storage for that. And yes, the whole point of sanctions is to makie life difficult for dictators, so yeah they work

[@weichengcn]

@@joelimbergamo639 If no one is gonna freeze why there are so many protests in Europe? Many European have to make the choice between eating or heating.

[@joelimbergamo639]

@@weichengcn You said it, but the price of energy its on on EUs control, govs are already planning to help and protestes are normal, but the point is there is enough energy for winter, just not at the same price and we need to reduce consumption

[@simply_diecast_3349]

The bottom line sanctions don't work prime example EU the U.S. economy hitting bottom while the Russian ruble in better shape. Beside the U.S. banks are still doing business with Russia.

[@joelimbergamo639]

@@simply_diecast_3349 If you believe that the health of an economy is tied to a currency wich is bassically unexchangeable you should leans a bit about economic science. If you cant sell the rouble and you can just buy it obviosly its value rises. And with the rest of the economy how do you know if Russia doesnt publish any data?

[@Cruner62]

They could turn coal seams into liquid oil and just pump it out at will - there is hundreds of years of the stuff every where in the world very cheap and affordable - just needs a bit more cleaning up but very doable and could be stored very easily more energy density than gas storage since it could be very quickly converted.

[@joeywilburn8672]

Remember when German diplomats were caught laughing at Trump when he warned this is exactly what would happen.. 9/25/2018

[@blueskdragonFX]

Been freezing last night and still have my radiators turned off. Just grab an extra sweater/thermal clothing, double pair of socks, bigger blankets and some hot drinks and deal with it. Some people really act like spoiled brats or are just fear mongering.

[@liju2505]

agreed, living crisis ? people should stop whining

[@guerilla4525]

That's so funny how (5:10) you distinguish Russia and Europe whilst the part of Russia that transports gas and rules all the country based in Europe. Like, 'oh, look, Russia is not Europe. It's not that it does what we did in the past century. They're probably Mongolian Ords, not europeans!!!'

[@guerilla4525]

@Idea of nation 🇺🇦, proof ?

[@JimmuTennothefirst]

Yeah that's how we will get to renewable energies, Not because it's great for the environment or a domestic political change or Greter Thunberg but because of Geopolitics. Sounds about right to me.

[@vegasrick6556]

It finally happened, my home gas price in Nevada went up 8%. That will be a small rise in my $26 gas bill. No requests to minimise use. Take a hint, how will EU companies that use lots of energy not notice? How will they compete down the road? No, EU companies will be diminished and producing in cheap energy area's will need to be considered. That is great for America and other places where products can be produced competitively. The EU seems to know this and continues down this path, which I feel is a bad move for them. There is no alternative to Russia at the moment, or in the near future.

[@GrandTheftChris]

You can also switch this around and say there is no alternative for Ruzzia. They need to sell their gas badly. And they can only transport it to Europe. If all connections fail, there is at least Norway which will increase their gas production tremendously. And then there are countries like Germany which already obtains 48.5 % of the needed energy from renewable sources. Gas shortages will hit industries differently. Those who are highly dependend on gas will suffer, that's for sure.

[@Tuppoo94]

No. Russia absolutely isn't an alternative, no matter how much it might hurt, because sticking with Russia will hurt even more in the long term. The rise in energy costs was caused by European countries cutting gas flow from Russia, and having to fill their reserves with gas purchased elsewhere. This caused a massive spike in demand, which will calm down as gas reserves are filling up.

[@notastone4832]

@@Tuppoo94 no it wont.. not unless you get pipelines from NA to europe and that will NEVER happen.

[@jackd1582]

@@Tuppoo94 delusional

[@Tuppoo94]

@@jackd1582 How so?

[@balkirshanasakhare822]

The discussions intend to say that importing cheap and abundantly available gas and petroleum products from Russia is a crime ! Why ? All this was absolutely normal politically and for other considerations until the war in Ukraine - invasion by Russia. But why this invasion occurred ? The USSR and later Russia pleaded against the eastward expansion of the NATO. But NATO continued. In the end, NATO is responsible for this war , especially Ukraine expressed its intention to join NATO. Nothing more or nothing less.

[@joakimdam9723]

I don't get how it's sustainable with wind and solar? What if we go weeks with big clouds and no wind?

[@GrandTheftChris]

With the help of energy circulation and storage. Do you know how big Europe is? And wind and solar are not the only renewables.

[@joakimdam9723]

@@GrandTheftChris There's wind, solar and hydro and nuclear. Those are the big 4 green energy sources. Hydro is reliant on water reserves, if they dry out = no energy. If that happens to be at the same time with no wind and solar for a few weeks, and we don't have enough nuclear? Then we need the natural gas or even worse the coal. When we get fusion we are golden, or maybe a way to store all the extra energy from wind and solar to times with less

[@GrandTheftChris]

@@joakimdam9723 Of course, for the near future we still need an energy mix. The goal is to further reduce the fossils and to increase the renewables, and there is still a huge potential to do that.

[@joakimdam9723]

@@GrandTheftChris Yea but I know we can improve with more percentage for renewables. I just don't see how we can go 100% renewables in 2050, it's not physically possible without nuclear, gas or coal. There will be droughts + cloud + no wind some weeks in the future too

[@GrandTheftChris]

@@joakimdam9723 There are already some interesting energy storage methods. I'm convinced they will be efficient and powerful enough to achieve that till 2050.

[@richardrestall8592]

In other words, Europe needs about five warm winters and five cool summers consecutively before LNG will be arriving in quantity sufficient for a return to normal industrial levels of production, and normal levels of employment. Nice dreams, will dream food keep them alive? How about dream heating and dream air conditioning? R.I.P. Europe

[@GrandTheftChris]

Air conditioning. lol. Maybe a concern in southern Europe but here in Germany we don't even have many AC's beause we have mild summers and winters. Btw, Germany already obtains 48.5 % of the needed energy from renewable sources. It's not as bad as portrayed in the video. It's just an US-outlet doing its typical drama.

[@KonsaiAsTai]

@@GrandTheftChris Those 48.5% are electricity only, not energy (for heating and such) overall. Likewise, these are averages, so those 48.5% are spread out across the year. Summer's great, winter not so much. To claim otherwise would be a straight up lie.

[@GrandTheftChris]

@@KonsaiAsTai Of course these are average values since energy consumptions are usually displayed per year. I still find it funny that he mentioned AC's because I never used one except in my car. But I agree that the situation for us will become more serious if gas import would stop completely.

[@start3215]

R.I.P. Europe??? Russia Europe too. Europeans, Welcome to Russia!

[@apostate6849]

As soon as Europe opens up the nuclear plants it will have all the electricity it needs.

[@shashidharsn155]

When sanctions were forced on Russia, did any Europeans think how Russians ppl live... Russians also struggled for decades You get what you give....it's love or hatred

[@strechinpick]

And they think that turning more aggressively towards “green” energy is the solution. Insanity!

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

It is. This crisis is caused entirely by European dependance on fossil fuels, which render it pliant to foreign energy sources (like America,Russia or the Arab states) of course, the Amerimutts would aggressively campaign against end of oil since their mafia is based on petrol extraction

[@Toneload11]

Putin did not put pressure on European countries. They boycott Russia regarding Ukraine and Putin responds. If someone hit your would you not respond or accept their action. European countries are of their own doing. No one else.

[@AMldn]

Putin pressure Europe with gas because of sanctions that are set because of Russia attacking Ukraine. So initially it’s a Russian action that lead to the crisis, not the poor Russians trying to defend themselves from EU…

[@Chinnnnuz]

''it's unclear who blew up pipelines...'' I stop watching from there.

[@dirkgonthier101]

What nightmare are you talking about? In my country, there are no blackouts and no restrictions on use of gas. And all the experts say that there won't be blackouts or restrictions on use of gas this winter.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

Experts in what?

[@dirkgonthier101]

@@GholaTleilaxu Energy experts. People who work in the field and who can know the current state of affairs and the future on the short or medium long term.

[@dirkgonthier101]

@@GholaTleilaxu That's why I wrote: 'the future on the short or medium long term'.

[@Fizmoo]

@@dr0117 Still 83% full whereas last year it was like 53% full. Gas storages are even going up instead of down. We will be fine this winter. Meanwhile a lot of LNG terminals will be built and finished this year aswell as another year of lot's of renewable energy being built. Could be a bumpy ride for 1, 2 or max 3 years but I'm sure we will manage to overcome that and within a few years we will be almost completely independant from Russia.

[@evryatis9231]

Well that aged like milk if you do live in the EU.

[@sounoussiabba1658]

Thanks you US