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February 27, 2022 05:34 pm
Original Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/02/27/0236252/could-the-ukraine-crisis-push-europe-toward-energy-self-sufficiency-with-renewable-energy?utm_sou
Could the Ukraine Crisis Push Europe Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency With Renewable Energy?
Countries imposing sanctions on Russia also depend on it for oil and natural gas, notes Slate's web editor. "Noah J. Gordon, an adviser at the Berlin-based, climate-focused think tank Adelphi, thinks there's an opening here for Europe to take a different route — to pursue more energy self-sufficiency not by building out gas reserves, but by expanding its renewable energy sources at a faster pace." Noah Gordon: [O]nly about 15 percent of Germany's huge gas consumption — almost all imports — is used in power production, and only 15 percent of German power is generated from gas. Most of that gas from Russia or elsewhere is used for heating buildings and in industry.... I think this crisis has really changed the terms of debate. There's a lot of talk today on massive European mobilization to build heat pumps so that Germany and the rest of Europe could heat their buildings with electricity instead of gas, and to renovate buildings for energy efficiency. This is a thing called the EU Renovation Wave, which is a buzzword that can now really get going.... [T]he answer is to reduce fossil fuel use as much as we can. There might not be a wartime mobilization to build weapons for this conflict, but there could be to build heat pumps and to renovate buildings. That's really the way out of this, and to get the clean energy to back it up.... Building a heat pump today isn't going to cut emissions on its own, and you need clean electricity to power the heat pumps, or you haven't made that much progress. But at least with heat pumps and efficiency, you're not locking in future fossil fuel use.... [Y]ou could get a paradigm shift after this, like we did after 1973 and the Arab oil embargo with a greater focus on alternative energy, such as nuclear, and an energy efficiency drive back then in the EU and Japan and even the U.S. in terms of car fuel economy standards.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/02/27/0236252/could-the-ukraine-crisis-push-europe-toward-energy-self-sufficiency-with-renewable-energy?utm_sou
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