Hypocritic US calls on Europe to wean itself from Russian gas

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Cobretti2 said:

the2real4mafol said:

Cobretti2 said:

the2real4mafol said:
This is why we should be developing renewable energy and a means to store such energy. Russia would be fucked then.

tech isn't good enough to store enough energy efficiently at low cost for a base load yet. Give it 10 years and we will get there.

I hope so because countries need to seriously start looking at energy self-efficiency as a key policy if they hope to counter the power that Russia and the Middle East would have when traditional energies start to run out. Russia especially, will use it's energy supplies to make Europe it's puppet. It done this with Ukraine in the past, so that is likely  

China is thinking of connecting to Europe via a 5000km cable lol. They building a shitload of windfarms. Only issue with windfarms without decent storage is that they will cause a lot of frequency control issues due to their nature if we replace traditional power sources too quickly. ATM traditional power sources need to be spinning in reserve ready to take up this load should they be a sudden drop from wind farms.

Also Nuclear is actually  renewable. Only reason it is so bad is because of the waste. Once Bill Gates' little nuclear program solves how to use that waste to also produce power it will help go towards a better cleaner energy source to support the base load. 

How would China avoid Russian territory though, it would have to make agreements with countries to Turkey to build such a pipeline? Surely the point here is to avoid Russia.

The move with windfarms are necessary but solar panels and wave energy are too. I can't imagine the amount China would have to use to no longer need coal or gas, it would be ridiculous. 

Personally I don't mind nuclear except how they ruin the landscape around them but also the waste is a big issue. If anything, waste of anything is our society's biggest problem. If we can find a way to use our waste except just throwing it away then we may be alright.