Resnično, kdo je bil tisti pametnjakovič, ki se je spomnil, da je mogoče samo s soncem in vetrom poganjati gospodarstvo, promet in energetske potrebe gospodinjstev?

Kdo se je spomnil, da je dobra ideja o poganjanju evropske industrije s sončno in vetrno energijo na celini, kjer sever nima sonca in jug nima vetra?

Kdo se je spomnil, da je dobra ideja, da prepovemo vrtanje za nafto in plinom, da prepovemo uvoz poceni (ruskega) plina, da omejujemo gradnjo jedrskih elektrarn in da imamo še vedno dovolj energije za razvoj?

Kdo se je spomnil, da bo Evropa, ki ima 6.6 % delež v globalnih izpustih CO2, z zmanjšanjem teh izpustov na nič (0) in selitvijo proizvodnje v Kitajsko ali Južno Ameriko rešila globalni problem podnebnih sprememb?

S tem ko v Evropi z visokimi cenami energije zapiramo industrije in jih selimo v države, kjer iste izdelke proizvajajo bolj ogljično intenzivno in jih nato z ladjami na najbolj “umazan” pogon vozimo nazaj v Evropo, samo še povečujemo globalne emisije CO2.

Kako to da, da nobenemu pametnjakoviču ne klikne v glavi, da s tem delamo ekonomski samomor in še bolj onesnažujemo planet?

I can show you in one simple chart why industry wants to flee Europe for America: from 2019 to 2023, electricity prices in Europe skyrocketed, more than doubling in Britain and even Poland, up 50% in Germany and Italy.

Meanwhile, cheap U.S. electricity has gotten even cheaper.

Not a single European country has electricity cheaper than the U.S. now (6.48 pence per kWh), but the closest are Norway (6.64), Finland (6.81), and Sweden (7.65).

These three countries get almost all of their electricity from hydropower and nuclear power.

There are only so many possible sources of abundant energy for a wealthy, highly industrialized continent of 500 million people.

If piping in Russian and Iranian gas is now out of the question, then the only option is a nuclear buildout the likes of which has never been seen.

Despite the fact nuclear power is basically an infinite energy glitch, only France and some of the former communist countries ever attempted to really build a nuclear grid.

France should double its nuclear capacity, then every other country should match France. No other option.

The idea of powering European industry with solar and wind power on a continent where the north has no sun and the south has no wind is just laughable.

This isn’t just about Europe vs. America. No country or region on the planet does as much self-inflicted damage to its energy supply as Europe. You can’t refuse to drill, refuse to import, refuse to build nuclear plants, and still have abundant energy. Nobody else does this.

Didn’t China just invent a nuclear reactor that can’t melt down? Wasn’t that the main objection to nuclear power?

Order 1000 of them, immediately. Anything less condemns Europe to poverty and irrelevance by the end of the century.

One more thing: most of the jobs Europe loses aren’t going to go to America. They’re going to go to China. Which is why America should try a little bit harder to prevent Europe from imploding economically.

Vir: Marko Jukic via X