> A hacker who manages to infect the industrial equipment that controls wind turbines could manipulate the machines’ brakes to stop power production, said Trond Solbert, managing director for cybersecurity at Norwegian risk-management company DNV GL.

Do that to a couple thousand wind turbines and yes, "better buy their gas now". Even better if you do it the other direction - take the brakes off in a storm, and you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tqjuvy7i0.

There's a lot of interest in this sort of thing. https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...

Yeah... not buying it. If russia did that, it would make them even less likely to buy russian gas again... they'd probably just buy overly expensive electricity from neighboring countries and fix their wind production.

> even less likely to buy russian gas again

They're _currently_ buying Russian gas.

> If russia did that

And they'd be able to prove that how?

If they can't generate power from renewables and the only option left is Russian gas, then it is likely.

I'm not buying it, sorry...

The worst thing russia can do to get them to buy more gas, is to directly attack them. Do you really expect them to even talk to russia, if russia did that? Just the outrage (fueled by the media) would make people forgive the government the highly inflated prices of imported electricity, while they fixed the wind production. Russia literally has nothing to gain by doing this, and a lot to lose...

They would not currently be buying a drop of gas if they had a realistic choice. They don't.

Do you seriously think Russians care whether Germany will buy their gas after they’ve started literal war at their footsteps?

There seems to be a correlation between the political demographic in Germany that hates wind turbines and the one that supports Putin. Maybe someone thinks creating more wind turbine haters will increase support for Russia.