EADaily, December 22nd, 2024. Qatar's national oil and gas company Qatar Energy will stop supplying LNG to the EU if the community countries impose fines of 5% of annual revenue, the Financial Times reports.
  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The perverse thing is: the more EU goes for wind+solar, the more they rely on (L)NG, for balancing the grid.

    The unpredictability and intermittency of clouds and wind, and the nuclearphobia, means gas gets more and more important to avoid black- and grayouts.

    • Shezzagrad@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 days ago

      As an EE student it absolutely blows my mind how nuclear energy hasn’t become more prevalant when even with all disasters considered nuclear is still safer per unit of energy

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Some people use system thinking, others use anthropomorphic thinking. Preferring “the bad we know” is part of the latter, and more popular :)