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Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies (fortune.com)
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Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/

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[โ€“] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We fucking did stop buying from Russia. That caused the previous shock.What else do you want?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can't speed up the transition to be any faster

    China has moved far far faster. I understand they're a bit of a rough comparison wise, but it CAN happen, just not under the European capitalistic model.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    They were far behind on that too. In the absolute terms, they deployed much more than EU but their energy mix by % is pretty similar (although still lower) than EU right now.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago

    Because of the population size/ electrical needs the raw % is a bit misleading. Their current total renewable output could satisfy the entirety of EUs needs. If you look at their per capita metric their rate of adoption is quite high compared to EU.

    They're also almost doubling their nuclear capacity in the next 5ish years and this number is without that.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We shifted to importing a bunch of LNG I think. It just takes time to build up new infrastructure

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