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    Der Iran-Krieg spricht für erneuerbare Energien – diskutieren


    Der Iran-Krieg spricht für erneuerbare Energien – diskutieren

    https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-warming-climate-change-inflation-prices-767a9aace18b23e7d481cde01f3e0d55

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    2. Elegant-Fisherman555 on

      You still need things like ammonia from natural gas for fertilizer.

      Would it be nice if my finances wasn’t held hostage in a round about way by dinosaur bones, yes.

      There are limitations, doesn’t mean more renewables don’t form a bigger part of the energy matrix.

    4. BlueShrub on

      I would agrue that renewable energy has profound impacts on a country’s ability to be self reliant. Norway offers an example of a country providing the vast majority of its domestic energy via abundant hydro reserves while exporting their crude oil. Mark Carney announced just last night that northern Canada will be served by increasing hydropower and lowering reliance on diesel that is subject to the whims of a global market.

      China, without a doubt is the most profound example of this, with their wind and solar fleets growing at an unprecedented rate and lowering their vulnerability to a blockade or sanctions. Further to that, the export of their solar, wind and battery technology worldwide is allowing many other nations the same opportunity while also giving China a revenue stream.

      Fossil fuels are becoming more and more expensive and these renewable sources are the cheapest way to generate local electricity bar none.

    5. VonDukez on

      Even Elon doesn’t seem to care for it anymore since he backs this admin and it’s done everything in its power to damage renewables

    6. saltrxn on

      I mean it has only shown how useless renewable investments have been. They’re either not enough to offset the dependency on gas/oil, or these renewable energy sources haven’t been pushed much into the public psyche. Right now the biggest political pressure on governments is simply the price displayed on the gas pump.

    7. shadowfax12221 on

      The main problem with this thesis is the sheer number of supply chain steps involved in the production of photovoltaics and battery storage for example. In a rapidly deglobalizing world, complex energy solutions that require components and materials from potentially thousands of producers around the globe may become difficult to source and are subject to many of the same geopolitical risks as crude multiplied by many supply chain steps.

      Hydro and wind may do a bit better, but without battery storage they are hard to use for anything other than baseload and cannot always provide energy as needed.

    8. hydropix on

      And nuclear power, and the electrification of everything possible, particularly transportation and heating.

    9. softDisk-60 on

      Mostly makes the case for Russian oil. Good luck heating northern europe with sunlight

    10. DefinitelyNotMeee on

      Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that most (all?) solar/wind farms require massive natural gas plants to serve as a balancer/backup. So the ’switch‘ is primarily from oil/coal to natural gas.

      The real answer was, is, and always will be: nuclear power.

    11. ScottThePisces on

      Yes but people need to stop thinking „Renewable Energy = No Oil“ when arguing against it. The point is to introduce renewable energy so that you can be LESS reliant on oil. Not to completely replace it.

      There’s this weird view that if something doesn’t replace it completely, there’s no point in trying.

      Also seen a lot of stupid people thinking solar panels don’t work if it’s cloudy, as if sunlight isn’t the reason you can see during the day. They can be more efficient with clear skies, but they still work in cloudy conditions, having them is better than not having them.

      As far as geopolitics go, if we were less reliant on oil then we could be less reliant on foreign countries that supply it. We wouldn’t be so thrown into fear because there’s a war with Iran if our country was powered by 70-80% renewable energy.

    12. Aggressive_Lie_4446 on

      The issue is mostly less to do with renewables but the fact that a lot of our systems are not fully electrified. A lot of nations have run on renewables for a long time(a lot of smaller countries especially you will find their grids are powered almost entirely by hydropower, geothermal power etc), but things like transport from personal cars to airplanes still rely on fossil fuels. There lies the issue.

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