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But they did. G7 releases emergency reserves - The Guardian
Of course my representatives are cowards like usual. No wonder the far right gains more traction here every day. I'm not fooled by them, but when the actual leadership is this retarded it's not hard to fool most of the idiots.
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What they actually said:
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Serious question: if Europe were to fully commit to installing renewables, how much dependence on diesel would it maintain in, say, one year? I mean really putting it all in, like a war economy but with this
The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.
We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.
Don't forget freight ships. A quarter or so of worldwide commerce is international shipping by sea. I'm not aware that there's any commercially viable solution for powering these ships with renewables. The closest I know of are US Navy Carriers, which don't require diesel, but they're powered by nuclear reactors, which are neither renewable nor commercially viable (not that the USN would care about profitability) and require a huge amount of expertise to maintain.
Ships use bunker fuel, which varies in refinement between 1 notch above crude oil to slightly thinner.
Then I have been misinformed, thanks for the correction. Still, they're dependent on oil for now, which is gonna become more and more of a problem than it already is.
But less of a problem for things like ships that still use fossil fuel as other means of transportation move away from fossil fuel.
A nuclear tugboat model where the shipping boat ("barge") is attached to the nuclear tugboat by some linkage is probably inevitable. It would give a way to meet security requirements of the barge crew never having access to the tugboat while still having sustainable fuel and not having to redesign all ships. If Maersk didn't have a research paper somewhere in a drawer doing cost estimates for that, a fully nuclear container ship, and a time estimate for when current fuel sources run out then their 50 year plan is probably incomplete. I'm sure there's a bunch of companies who've done stuff like that without making it public like with Exxon and climate change.
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Not the whole transportation business. Most of it perhaps, but not all.
https://www.scania.com/ie/en/home/products/trucks/battery-electric-truck.html
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Depends on how much society is willing to sacrifice. One year isn't long, but you could conceivably get just about every car and van off diesel, get just about everyone off heating oil (which is just diesel), go crazy on electric trains, dramatically decrease construction and electrify what you can there, and switch backup generators to gas (which doesn't really help the climate of course but helps with no diesel). The biggest near term issue is likely heavy transit. You could displace some with trains and petrol/electric vans, but there's going to be serious rationing going on and supply chains will be hanging on by a thread. Farming equipment also a big issue. Hydrogen might be able to start replacing diesel for these uses but within a year is crazy ambitious. This would be hard to do in a decade.
Regardless, we need to approach this from a "war economy" standpoint, so I like the question.
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Prices would plummet tomorrow if he got the fuck out of Iran.
I don’t know about “plummet” as they always seem to fall like a feather if that’s the trend, but you are otherwise right.
Which is fair, because there's a good chance we'd be back at it in three days.
Also, prices will never be the same, because the risk calculus for the Strait of Hormuz has changed forever. Insurance premiums for shipping through there will never go back down.
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I'm genuinely asking, would getting the fuck out be enough?
He would need to capitulate. He would need to acknowledge his fuckup, to the satisfaction of Iran. I don't think he's capable of that. Not simply that he doesn't want to, although that's also true. I mean he's not equipped to negotiate an end to this hostility.
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after the midterms...course he better say thank you, the orange bish
Proof Europe wants it to happen. Simple as.
And Fotzenfritz bent right over and greased his butthole.
Draining Europe for Putin
Well, that will work for 3 days.