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Re:Scientists’ warning on affluence by tpm on Sunday June 21, 2020 @08:23AM (#23591633)
I understand that, but also think what makes it a not-fad is that EU does not have a lot of its own energy sources and winters can be hard. So to me it makes sense to try to be as energy efficient as possible and also not send a lot of money to e.g. Russia if it's avoidable. I also understand that constructing low-energy buildings is much harder than the standard ones. But I fully believe that science and engineering, when given such task, can master that, given enough time.
Re:Scientists’ warning on affluence by rini17 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @10:51AM (#23592309)
It's not so hard, but EU is so far removed from practice that it can't set up the incentives right. There's a parallel with EU's policy on biomass energy that ended up (partially) driving deforestation here in Slovakia.