Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
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Oil above $100. Gas prices up 70%. Every crisis has a different trigger—and the same vulnerability. Europe must become the world's first Electro-Continent.
  • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Start buying more solar panels and batteries instead of oil and gas. Even if China (or whoever else you’re buying from) goes to shit at some point, those things will last you decades while you figure out what to do next. Fossil fuels can only be used once and you can’t even stuff a single year’s worth of them into reserves.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      EU is alredy on the forefront of moving into renewables - almost half of electricity is from green sources. You can’t speed up the transition to be any faster.