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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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Could always try to quit making enemies?

[โ€“] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So there's no need for subsidies money because the epic capitalism Invisible hand private market "just needs permission to go green"? This might be one of the dumbest "conclusions" to an article I've read in a while. I hope this entire thing was written by AI.

[โ€“] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

To be fair, the permitting and environmental impact process is crazy and is really holding back deployment. If the government gets out of the way of renewable projects the growth would increase massively.

[โ€“] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

explain that to the graybeard in politics

[โ€“] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Trump was driving trade diversification around the world with the idiotic tariffs, and now, with the illegal war against Iran, he's creating a resurgence of interest in renewables and EVs. Exact opposite of what he says he wants but maybe not so bad in the long run.

[โ€“] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe he was always a democrat plant ๐Ÿ˜‚

/s

[โ€“] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago

He definitely has the intelligence of a plant.

[โ€“] sunbytes@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's a really positive outlook and I love it.

[โ€“] Bababasti@feddit.org 5 points 13 hours ago

Except that a bunch of people on the other side of the planet are dying because of this.

[โ€“] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The enemies of europe (and any other country) are billionares and politicians.

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[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

EU literally destroyed its own nuclear energy. You had energy, eurotards killed it youself.

Lithuania had nuclear power plant, eu entry condition was to dismantle it.

Go ahead. Buy 750 billion worth of propane from trump instead

[โ€“] FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Latvia never had a nuclear power plant. Lithuania did, in Ignalina, that started operations back in 1983. It was also the same design as the one in Chernobyl, with the same design flaw, and that was only addressed after the disaster in '86. The building didn't have a proper containment structure, so yes, the recommendation was to shut it down.

The problem is that the plans for replacement never came to fruition, and decommissioning costs went through the roof. All due to incompetence of the government.

[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Everything was fixable. They just didn't want competition in, and now energy is just super expensive. Same design still operational in Russia and causes no issues

[โ€“] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 3 minutes ago

Yes, Russia is famous for its safety standards and care for her peoples welfare.

[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. Ok. So you plan is to discover oil in poland or something?

It's typically too late to do anything about it when bad things already happened

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

Get rid of oil, duh.

[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)
  1. More nuclear power plants
  2. more renevables
  3. more public transport and evs
[โ€“] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

nuclear power is very geopolitically sensitive and very expensive. It is a target to get Chernobyled if war or civil unrest happens.

[โ€“] ibot@feddit.org 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do you kbow where Europe get it's uranium to power these nuclear power plants from? No? Let me tell you: We import it from countries like Kazakhstan, Niger a bit from Canada. France, one of the biggest nuclear powered countries imports it's uranium from Russia. This is exactly the same as with oil and gas. So tell me: How do nuclear power plants help us, if we have to import the fuel?

Do you know what are the resources we have in Europe: Wind, water and sun. To be fair, we have cole too, but this is one of the dirtiest ways to produce energie.

The only way out are renewable energies.

[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I know I know.

But fuel is small money factor in comparison to importing lng to gas power plants.

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[โ€“] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 137 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Nah, we'll just buy gas from US and postpone electrification of transport couple decades. What could go wrong?

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