Re:Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's tw...
by hargv on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:43AM
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It's not about transitioning to 100% renewable in this context, but about having a good enough supply of renewable energy to be more independent.
Are you talking about any specific part of Europe? In Sweden I think natural gas is supposedly something like 3% of totalt energy expenditure, although it is important for heating in some areas and dearth would affect that a lot i assume.
Re:Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's tw...
by EricLeer on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:58AM
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With current tech you can get fairly easily (not necessarily cheap) to 80% renewables penetration in Europe. The rest of the 20% could then be covered by coal, gas, biomass and nuclear.
Mind you if the goal is to get Russia out of the European gas market, by greatly increasing the amount of renewables we use the rest could be supplied by LNG + Norwegian/Dutch/English fields.
Genuine question, how can Europe transition to renewables until we solve storage at city scale? Because to me until future tech the trajectory looks more like gas will be the ~50% baseline for decades to come (or nuclear).