Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en...
by LatteLazy on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:26PM
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The problem is gas is cheaper and more reliable than any alternative. It could have gone with Nuclear, but then it would have priced itself out of 101 industries decades ago. You can't blame them for taking cheap Russian gas to keep jobs and prosperity for a few decades...
Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en...
by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:24PM
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>You can't blame them for taking cheap Russian gas to keep jobs and prosperity for a few decades...
That's like saying: "you can't blame the drug addict for choosing short term highs for a few years"
Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en...
by LatteLazy on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:02PM
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That's fine, but be careful where you turn that gaze. One reason Europe is so reliant on russian gas is because the US refused export licenses for a long time. Why? Because the US would rather have jobs in manufacturing than extraction. So US leaders are as much to blame for this as European ones.
Another reason is instability in the Middle East and Iranian sanctions. Both also US choices that have shored up dependence on russian gas.
Right now, the quickest way to more gas would be a rapid deal with Iran that cuts right through US sanctions...
Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en...
by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:20PM
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Hmmm, if only Europe had access to this alien technology where you can slam neutrons into larger atoms and split them, creating energy in the process.
I appreciate that major infrastructure projects take a long time to build - but a gas-heavy Russia-dependent energy mix was the deliberate choice very recently.