The Gas Dispute was started by Ukraine on the instruction of USUK. Ukraine did all the wrong things towards EU and Russia. That's why Nord Stream was built to bypass Ukraine.
And all those criticizing Europe do not have Europeans best interests in mind. All they are saying is situation we’re seeing right now with high prices on gas and energy in Europe and high inflation, should have happened since long time. Some of course, had their own profits in sight when talking about this.
So depend on US gas instead by shipping it half away round the world instead of opening the finished Nordstream pipeline. N.B. USA are now buying cheap Russian gas and oil to sell to the EU...
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@@MrSimeonk Some of the critics of European dependency on Russian gas didn't propose using US gas, but in fact nuclear power. However, no one listened, and now everyone is surprised.
If Germany has not already decided to do so, it should delay the early retirement of its perfectly good nuclear reactors for 3-4 years until alternative energy sources are in place. Scientists and engineers regard nuclear energy as green energy, it is only politicians and political activists who regard nuclear as anything else. Germany's reactors, unlike Japan's and Russia's, are built to proper standards (as we'd all expect) so there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of a Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island type of event. Permanent disposal of low-level nuclear waste remains a problem, but only because of politics and because *some* low-level waste can take over a century to is no longer any danger if it is stolen from containment. Disposal of high-level nuclear waste is not a major problem because a high level of radiation in a material indicates it is decaying rapidly. High level waste becomes low level within years or decades. In the USA where they have both, wind power kills far more people per year than nuclear. The deaths by both are industrial accidents with equipment and falling, and for nuclear they are non-existent most years, whereas wind power has very low numbers of fatalities. (It is much easier to supervise and regulate safety in a few nuclear power plants than in hundreds of giant windmills scattered about the countryside.) In any event, keeping those reactors running for 3-4 more years is better than having Germans and immigrants freezing to death next winter. In 4 years, when alternative energy sources are constructed, the nukes can be retired if desired.
One problem is that many European homes are heated by a natural gas burners, so one cannot use nuclear energy to heat these houses. The long term plan is heat pumps and possibly district heating, but that is going to take time.
@@anotherelvis True, but I'm sure you can pick up an electric heater for not much money at any hardware store. Not as efficient, but it gets you off natural gas quickly.
German leader especially former chancellor Gerhard and Merkel's is responsible for the lack of long term vision and far sightedness. This situation was always going to happen. When you depend on a single supplier for such a large quantities of gas and commodities. Diversification is always needed.
They were told this by a US President too. Not that they didn't have people of their own saying it. But the difference is that US President could actually help them with the problem. Instead they did the European snobby thing where they won't listen because think they are smarter than everybody else.
@@Kenny-bj2zq Well it is not that they owe money. It is that they need to spend more on defense. Many were skimping on defense in favor of socialist programs, knowing that the US would protect them in case of a war. When Trump asked them to do what they are suppossed to do, their representatives literally laughed at him. I guess they thought he was trying to peddle US energy and weapons on them. I think Germans are very intelligent people who have a tendacy to outsmart themselves at times. The fact is they are the leader of the EU and if they don't spend enough, neither will others. They need to learn to lead by example. People can be intelligent but not wise. Not bumping defense spending after Russia invaded Crimea, and not cutting their energy sales to Europe, was not wise. Well better late than never.
I like to think that if Russia just cuts off supply, we'll also find a way to do this. Problem is that governments right now are not forced to do more than merely ask people, businesses to use less. But the thermostats in offices around the continent are still at a balmy 21 degrees, because that's what they've always been. Energy may seem expensive, but it's not nearly expensive enough to change our behavior in a meaningful way.
Trying to get people just to put on mask indoors was horrendous, now you think we can get people to use less energy, less comfort ???????? lol you are dreaming if you think people will comply !!!!!
The answer is to find clean energy alternatives; not turn down the thermostat. The technology is there. We all just need to build the infrastructure. Existing power delivery companies could restructure and retool pretty easily.
We don't have AC in our house, during summer we use fan made of paper and native materials. We only cook rice and dishes once a day good for two meals (lunch and dinner) using induction stove. But not all people can do that... but if willing one can do it just like us.
@@miles3263 Respect to you! We all need to reduce our ridiculous consumption lifestyle and tone it down a little. Less energy, less waste, less pollution, less reliance on dicatorships around the world. Edit: Sending love to Philippines! I had lived in Davao for 2 years and still miss Philippines very much every single day! :) It's so cold here in Europe.
Especially when Germany has the 6th largest coal reserves in the world and Indonesia is ranked 11th. This is coal in ground stats not production figures.
I’m only at 1:45 in the video but so far the list of options hasn’t contemplated the range of reduction options: insulating buildings, shutting down rooms during winter, increasing bicycle infrastructure, etcetc
You are right. This video is not looking at all the options, just some low hanging ones. EU officials announced a plan to curb Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of this year, which is about when their gas reserves will run out. The remaining one-third is not a problem for other sources to supply. See March 24 WaPo article on how it will play out, too long to explain here.
@@cloudpoint0 Germany buys about half its gas from Russia. It could easily re-activate its nuclear power stations to help tide them over a transition to renewables. They do have a lot of photo voltaics, which is a good start
I don't think you grasp the magnitude of the problem. The things you mentioned, and I supported them 100%, is a drop in an ocean. If that would had made us independent of Russian energy rest assured that the EU would had do it immediately.
@@pashakdescilly7517 To some extent I guess. I don’t think Germany really has a shortage of electricity which is what nuclear power stations provide. Natural gas is used for home heating and industrial processes. It would take a fair while to convert everyone over to electric furnaces and adapt factories that use gas for chemical processing and smelting.
Germany needs to reverse its anti-nuclear stance and support the nuclear power industry. It is needed for green energy solutions as well as for reducing dependency on Russia.
what a target that would make for putins of the world .. i disagree we are not wise enough as a human race to properly look after such potentially dangerous outcomes regarding nuclear energy
As a US military expert Wesley Clark pointed out on CNN a couple of days ago, Russia is holding onto the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine which contain 90% of Ukraine's known oil and gas reserves.
@@jideajibola5074 No - I am scientifically trained and can check facts which any educated person can do rather than spout gibberish. Luckily the world is run by the educated rather than numbskulls who believe the likes of Trump and MTG like Joe above.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 dude I’m not American. You can keep your Majorie Taylor Greenes and Trumps. Those are your leaders. Wonder what that says about you and your country. Try again
I remember watching all the Germans protest against nuclear powerplants after Fukushima. Nobody told them that the alternative would be burning coal and gas, but they celebrated this change like a victory.
Certainly appears to be the obvious thing to do all around. Haven't heard much in the way of explanation for not delaying shutdowns, other than "that's the plan and we're sticking to it" which of course only further obfuscates the reasons for that stance.
@@maschinensohn do you wanna live in a Chernobyl , Fukushima ? Nuclear powerplant produce nuclear waste , where are you going to put it ? german land size not U.S.A or Russia .
Nuclear power plant suffered from public paranoia so much that people simply just won't talk about it , but it should be part of energy solution unless in the earthquake zones!
@@delta2500 I doubt that. Your "green" NGOs want to shut down gas usage even more than nuclear although coal is their real enemy. Don't confuse antinuclear activists with green energy aka climate activists who generally support nuclear energy if a bit reluctantly.
@@delta2500 It was just my polite way of saying your claim is not at all credible, not supported by any facts. Sorry about being more direct now but you misunderstood my polite doubt as being unfounded.
@Andy Carter You are misinformed. In Germany alone, 1200 extra deaths happen each year as a result of local air pollution from their use of coal -- and that is not even counting the effects of climate change. For nuclear power, the number of peole killed in accidents is basically only the people killed in Chernobyl, which was around 50. That is of course 50 too many, but then again Chernobyl used the Soviet reactor design called RBMK, which was inherently unsafe, and which additionally lacked the containment structure/thick concrete dome around it. There has never been a fatality related to radiation at a western-type nuclear power plant. You might object and say "Fukushima", but no one died.
It's Australia, not Indonesia. There's no way Indonesia go nuclear. Averaging earthquake 4thtimes a day?, geographically simply impossible or too risked. They planning to build solar system just like their ministry said in this reports.
It's too late for nuclear in Germany, it was the stupidest decision ever, but it's done and cannot be undone. With the big investment already done in the past, they should have just extended the plants' life when they could, that is what any sensible person would have done.
@@eckligt I think your comparison is flawed. Because of Chernobyl, many people developed cancer and had a much shorter life. This still doesn't mean that nuclear is worse than coal. As you stated, modern reactors are much safer.
According to the sources Wikipedia uses, about *half of the Greater North Sea oil and gas remains unused* (greater meaning includes the Norwegian Sea and West of the Shetlands). The problem is, when you need it on short notice there is no time to drill wells. Probably wells should be drilled and kept as a "strategic reserve" in case of disruption of regular sources by war and climate change. Go green, but have a fall-back strategy in place and ready to go in case of wars and years with no wind, so that people are not left freezing to death in the January of some future year.
A year with no wind sounds unlikely. More likely are brief and local calm periods. Which is why wind, solar, and hydro tend to work well together, especially if widely distributed on a large power grid. Europe of course is a long way from de-carbonizing its economy, just like the rest of the world, because as long as fossil fuels remain cheap to the consumer, the moral incentive is lacking.
@@francismarion6400 Even if China and India shuts off all trade with Russia, it will barely make a dent in their economy. Russia trades that little with both of them, unlike with the EU. So, their economy probably won't be destroyed, unlike what you assert without seeing data.
Remember the huge Al Yamama arms deal - Iraq War Criminal Tony Blair blocked the parliamentary inquiry into this corrupt deal for 'national security' reasons.
Let us not forget the EU was harping on phasing out of coal in COP26 and now we are thinking of importing coal. We seem to have forgotten the problem of climate change.
Havnt 'forgotten' about it, but got limited alternatives at the moment. This is a catch 22, no decision covers every end. Doesn't matter what is done, there will always be a massive down side. Honestly nuclear sounds like the easiest answer to me atm, but that doesn't happen overnight, plus if you have a crazy dictatorship nearby that may or may not just bomb your nuclear plant if you dont do things their way, not caring what that means, well... Meanwhile, the infrastructure for coal is already there, faster to get back into, cheaper, but that trashes the plan to go carbon neutral Staying on Russian gas means a longer war in Europe, bad rep and sends a message that Russia cannot be stopped because we are too dependent. Out of those three, I guess id also say take coal for the short term while trying to secure gas from other places , building nuclear plants or building renewable energy facilities. Or what's the better solution here?
@@markrobinowitz8473 it is indeed, I just don't see what else EU - or at least Germany- can do at this very moment in the situation. It kind of wrote itself into a corner and is now trying desperately to find a way out 😐 we don't want to be using coal either, that's part of the reason why we got into Russian gas in the first place. But with 40% of gas coming from Russia, its probably not feasible to instantly turn the tap off and tell people to deal with it. Criticisms of previous political choices made aside, what else can EU do now, other than scrambling up everything to fill this gap to buy some time, and then develop a more long term solution?
Why not just pay to convert all german households to electric heating. It would cost just as much as building LNG Infrastructure and we have to decarbonize anyways
Then the electrical grid will collapse and you'll end up using the same gas or coal to produce electricity. If Germany didn't phase out atomic powerplants, it would've been much more feasible
EU must Neglect the NATO ,US and try to resolve the Ukraine and Russian conflict avoiding interference of US and treat Russia also as part of Europe ,that will be best for the lives of people living in whole of Europe
How does one alter centuries of Russian mindset, this will be the challenge as currently its population by and large embraces autocratic rule, and enjoys austerity.
@@andyduhamel1925 this kind of mindset need to change from both side by helping each other , thinking and creating hate is no good ,effort need to take ,same way ,we go for war
It will take many years for Europe to be independent of Russian gas. It is also nearly impossible for Europe to have sufficient gas supply to the same current degree if they don't import gas from Russia. This is hard fact.
Old government probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine so they figure they can keep on buying Russian gas and oil. This new government is starting to think this way because they figure what benefit Ukraine gives to Germany .
@@kukulroukul4698 Is still ongoing until the Ukraine war when EU and US unite against Russia but it look like it was a bad call by the EU so we should have done our own thing instead of following US which is US first over the EU.
The head of the UN just gave another impassioned speech for us to stop investing in fossil fuel production. Only dictatorships may produce oil and gas these days.
we should move away from fossil fuels entirely. In the 70s we saw how dependant we were on the middle east and instead of changing we became dependant on Russia instead
Many dictatorships are being sustained by the export of fossil fuels. It is quite typical, as it allows a wealthy elite without a developed economy. Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. No matter if the fuel is produced domestically or imported, we still face the problem of man-made climate change. In the end the best solution is to stop using fossil fuels.
Let the dictatorships rake in the oil money then? Literally everyone needs oil, and will for a while. Even to make renewable energy infrastructure takes a huge amount of fossil fuel.
Western leaders said Saudi Crown Prince are Killer and Murderer. right after energy crisis because of Ukraine war, they have audacity to call Saudi and beg them produce oil at max capacity to punish Russia and Save Europe from Energy crisis? This is the wrong attitude and will only make Oil producing countries shifted more and more to Russia
In a way despite the ugliness of this war, this is a good motivation to focus on independence from Russian gas. Yes, the short term it will suck, the long term the best thing for the country and their future is to generation.
Well... Since the alternative is losing the industrial base... Yes it will reduce dependence on energy from Russia, since it will reduce THE NEED FOR ENERGY. But really is that an option??? and it is not only energy, it so much more than that, metals, fetriliser, grain, nobel gases.... I say "GO FOR IT" Would be interesting to see... The german industry will be gone in 2 years... But sure "Worth it" so you don't have to say "Ukraine will never be a part of NATO" Good choice LOL
@@benanders4412 that is usually the opinion of uneducated people who rant about anything as long as they live. We, I mean WE as a collective have an obligation to have a functional society that isnt blackmailed due to weaknesses. We as a collective society and politics need to do these steps as it is always benefitting for ages to come. You are the type of person that blames someone even for when it starts raining. I am sure there will be better times also regarding energy and the costs in the future.
this why they are confused thinking they can simple put energy in the suitcase from America to Europe why even thinking about going for us for energy one day of committed more crime then what's Russia's doing now they're hypocrisy and double standard is unbelievable
@@honkhonk8009 if Russia cuts the gas supply, then they will be independent for sure. Isn't being independent is the goal, then they should be the one initiating the cut.
In Canada "Activists" have been trying to destroy our energy sector and would rather have countries purchase from bad dictatorships. Hopefully they will now be ignored and we can ramp up production to help Europe's supply problem.
the fundamental problem is fossil fuels. They fuel war, conflict, and climate change. If we had a green transition decades ago so that we didnt need fossil fuels anymore then there wouldn't be a war in Ukraine because Russia would have zero leverage
never happen EU has crazy rules ...but North America will see hyper-inflation as supplies are "shared " ..paper currency chasing real goods on "Free markets" ( ROFL)
Blunderbuss? How appropriate for a zombie account name. Pushing the deadly fuels which created the problem in the first place! Canada's proven safe CANDU nuclear reactors are what's needed. Canada could become a super supplier of this fantastic tech.
Algeria imports almost all its military equipment from Russia. In addition, Russian advisors work closely with the Algerian military and engage in joint exercises regularly. Algeria is only helping out because they can make some money from this situation which they will use to buy more weapons from Russia. So not ideal.
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The issue is Germany isn't willing to provide significant military aid nor is it willing to enact significant energy-buying curtailment. I get why energy buying can't be done overnight, even though that is totally their fault... then help militarily, to the same extent you're failing in other areas! Once you understand that, it becomes apparent this is not about the lack of means... It's about the lack of will to stand up for what is right & pay the price for it. Not to mention other world countries. ^^ We won't forget how other countries voted with their wallets ^^
Without gas, entire industries (usually at the start of supply chains) will be unable to operate, causing massive shortages for all kinds of things. The chemistry sector (and by that, the pharma sector) would be hit very badly, for example. To provide aid to Ukraine, EU countries need the capacity to produce the needed goods. And the gas shortage isn't only caused by missing gas on the world market, but also by insufficient connections between western and eastern pipeline networks, shortage of trucks, shortage of ships. It's more complex than "cold feet vs war crimes".
Spend a few years here in Alaska with me and you'll understand why people don't want to do that. I have hunderds of years worth of generations living in some of the single coldest habitable climates in the world and I'm genetically wired for the cold, and now that I'm nearing 30 I'm still ready to freeze to death in my own house
I'm not saying the sacrifice isn't worth making, but it's not a pure forever sacrifice we need to make in the freezing world. We need to stop artificially bloating gas and oil usage for quick profits and artifical stimulus, and move on to a mix of more efficient energy productions to taper/replace oil usage where it doesn't need to be. If we end Putins sociopathic runs well all start building more nuclear for electricity, solar is highly profitable spreading thinly across people's roofs, and wind can be made incredibly efficient if we stop screwing around and moving on to sustainable oils for their lub. People need to stop being told they have to buy a car when they don't need too, housing needs to be built closer together so travel distances are downed, and we can change some social problems that lead to increased waste as we try avoid everybody
Right now the sanctions have removed Russia economy by 70% so even their 30% oil sales will not make up for it. Even if we can get the remaining 30% down to 15% it is a job well done.
This video is not looking at all the options, just some low hanging ones. EU officials announced a plan to curb Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of this year, which is about when their gas reserves will run out. The remaining one-third is not a problem for other sources to supply. See March 24 WaPo article on how it will play out, too long to explain here.
Qatar is a major supplier of Gas energy and Qatar Energy Minister said during interviewed by CNBC International at Doha "to replace 30 or 40% Russian Gas can't be replaced overnight, need more players or suppliers, also need 5 to 7 years to achieve that amount."
I am not an economic expert but this does not sound good! Sanctions might not work if Western Countries buying from alternative sources other than Russia causes scarcity!
My Austrian brother in law loved to tell me that Austria doesn't have nuclear and doesn't need it because of all their green energy (unlike, he aways added, the USA). Today, however, all of Europe is worried about their oil and gas supply, and Austria is actively opposing a ban on fossil fuels from Russia. I don't want Europe to suffer, but I do want some Europeans to reflect upon some of their hypocrisy.
fossil fuels cant be replaced in a short time like with cars, heating and in the industry. Austria is a country where a big portion of the electric power comes from renewables but not every energy need can be covered by electricity and europe doesnt have that much coal, gas or oil so domestic production isnt an option it has to be imported and austria for example is landlocked even if we wanted to import from far away countries it isnt realy an option because that would be transport by sea that austria doesnt have. this isnt hypocrisy (10% of austrias co2 autput is from a single steel plant) its just that there are many cases where it has to be fossil fuel because there is no other option. you cant just snip your finger and the whole country rips out the gas stoves, gas heating or replaces every car in the country with an electric one (not even a real option for truck transport or heavy duty vehicles)
@@anitat9727 Wherever it’s France or Germany, they use Oil for driving, Gas for industrial heat and gas and oil for indoor heating. So nuclear has practically made no difference in these countries addiction to oil and gas. And that’s because the world has an oil addiction...
Because the politicians and about 45% of the population according to recent surveys are brainwashed against it. However, just a few years ago it was more like 80%, so there's already a lot of progress.
Old energy can help in the interim. Coal, nuclear, Norwegian, Dutch, US and Arab gas. The long term planning is more nuclear power plants, more combination parks of solar and wind, rooftop solar panels in the industry parks and people's homes with solar warmth and power systems.
_"Old energy can help in the interim. Coal, nuclear, Norwegian, Dutch, US and Arab gas. "_ That is a flawed assumption an IT IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST OIL AND GAS...
US i not an option, their gas is reserved by asians and UK, and Brandon banned fracking Norway gas fields are exausted Arabs facilities are bombed by Husits All coal will be bought by asia also. The only solution is nuclear, but germans are obsessed with green energy utopia.
Half the problem is that many European homes are heated with gas burners, so they need to switch to heat pumps or district heating, before they can work with energy from nuclear and coal.
I keep wondering why decommissioned nuclear power plants aren't brought back online, at least temporarily? It wouldn't fill the entire gap, but would be a useful adjunct in conjunction with other energy sources.
It takes fossil fuels and mining of finite ores to run nuclear reactors. And as reactors age they get more brittle and vulnerable to breaking. There is no way to detoxify nuclear waste except through time, lots of it.
the steppe always has been 'only' a few hundred km away and it always has been the source of trouble. but for the most part that didn't really bother germany.
@@jasperzanjani the mongols were never near germany. the huns helped germany to become a nation over a millenia ago - instead of a loose alliance of tribes. and russia is exactly the point right now. that's why we watch their soldiers being slaughtered as cannon fodder and their economy reach soviet level again. and since now the 'whole world' (at least the important parts) is on our side, we can finally achieve, what we started last century ... :)
Coal from Indonesia is already bound by buyers, not only long term contract by also by ownership. Many Indonesia companies have shared ownership with Chinese and Indian companies, Korea and Japan also. So the priority is supplying the buyers/owners. European companies are already left behind
There's no shortage of coal in Europe so there's no need to import it from far away. Coal power is not a long term option anyway of course but it can be a significant part of a short term solution since there are several coal power plants that have been closed down recently and can be reopened fairly quicly.
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 well the west arrogantly wanting to dictate the trade terms with asian countries like indonesia. for example they banned indonesia's most precious commodity which is CPO, leaving China and India raking all the benefits.
Russia's gotcha. Here in Canada, there is plenty of natural gas for export but all of it is currently exported to the US. The infrastructure doesn't exist yet for exports to Europe .They are possible but not right away. This Russian blackmail should have been anticipated. Your German leadership has let you down.
It has. And even among the german populace, our heavy reliance of Russia wasn't popular. The former "status-quo-government" basically shat on the table and told our new govenment "here, enjoy". What a catastrophically bad strategic planning that was...namely, none what so ever.
Why does no one ever talk about Thorium Nuclear reactors? -Safer - Plentiful -Produces more energy than uranium - Can't be made into a war head, so everyone can have one. -Very little waste It's honestly seems like the best answer to the energy crisis to me.
problem is the vessel that can sustain high temp. of molten salt. that salt can easily erode the vessel. so needs to replace frequently which is not economical.
@@budhprakash981 It's possible to use Thorium without switching to molten-salt reactor designs. In fact, Germany itself used Thorium in solid form in the past.
Thorium would be used to make Uranium 233. The thorium fuel cycle is even more radioactive than the U-235 fuel cycle, that is why it has not been used by the industry. And it definitely can be used to make nuclear weapons.
Doesn't fit the mindset of blind overconsumption, apparently. Can't burden us poor westerners with a little bit of restraint, let alone rationing ... a hint of what was done in the past, see britain in the blitz or even the US, safe as they were, in WW2. If we did that, we could erect a complete blockade of russia tomorrow and be fine, all things considered. Its just that our politicians value a few thousand murdered civilians far less than our pampered comfort and their reelection.
Yeah, I rented a thermal image camera for a day, found gaps in insulation inside ceiling, walls, windows, doors etc, and at minimal cost, reduced my gas use by 20%. Most people (like my neighbor) are too lazy / technically ignorant to do this, so she just complains to the utility about her gas bills being so high. Meanwhile the utility has programs that would pay half of the cost to add insulation.
In case you didnt know , british sound energy already discovered massive gas resources in morocco and morocco already made a deal with the EU to supply them with gas through spain in the few coming months .
I humbly doubt your affirmation. Morocco imports its gas : "Morocco is a net natural gas importer, and its production is much less than domestic consumption. Morocco produced 3.1 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in 2018, and the country consumed 44 Bcf."
Europe and Germany in particular have been to slow to transition to wind and solar energy, Wind and solar energy do not need to be imported and can be produced locally in any country. Europe needs to provide incentives for homes and businesses to install electric heat pumps and get rid of old polluting gas and oil boilers. The move to electric vehicles will also be sped up. There is no good reason to help fund Putin's war by buying oil, gas and coal from Russia.
I remember the German & Western media blaming 'India unequivocally' for the failure of COP26, yet India is one of few countries that is well on its way to meet the Paris agreement. The West like to lecture & talk too much of their future but never walks it. The same with its enormous energy dependence on Russia ;)
Does yr logic implies to arms dealers and Military industrial?. Face fact!! Cheap energy has help Europe to prosper n lived nicely. All this Solar/Wind wont be able to compensate.. for simple reason ; inefficient & High cost.
This is all about the huge Yuzivska shale gas deposit in the Donbas (1.09 - 4 trillion metric metres of shale gas) - the second largest shale gas deposit in Europe. The EU was interested in buying gas from Ukraine in order to diversify their suppliers and cut dependence on Russian gas. Ukraine has extensive gas storage facilities and pipelines, close to the EU, and such an arrangement would make a large dent in Gazprom's (Putin's) profits. Similarly, Crimea has large offshore gas deposits that Putin wanted. This war is all about Putin's Gazprom profits. That's why they are pulling back to defend Donbas. That's why Russia was funding the “separatists."
Not only huge Gas and Oil deposits in Ukraine. Also Iron, Titanium and other natural Resources that are not really used. Russia/Putler feared to be replaced by a more western aligned main supplier for the EU and decided it's better to destroy the country than let it become a rival.
rather than investing in European oil and gas production and locking us into further fossil fuel consumption long term, we should use this opportunity to completely move away from it. Renewable energy is true energy independence. Invest massively in that, electrify everything, and insulate all European homes
its easy to say that but there is huge energy gap in 24 hours energy production from renewable sources, so i think we must keep atomic energy plants for now, just get rid of oil and gas.
The problem is that renewables are still expensive, still experience a lot of production spikes and storage infrastructure is still doing baby steps thus can't handle periods of low production. 100% renewable is at best achievable until the end of the next decade - tapping new sources in the North Sea or in the Netherlands can be done within 3 - 5 years, if bureaucracy is accelerated obviously. Furthermore they'll negotiate new deals with African and Middle Eastern countries. Maybe even start to develop various projects on the African continent once again, who knows. Gaining independence on oil and gas is more important than thinking about going full green now. If they can figure this out we should be on a green track once again in 3 years or so. This shift is going to have a massive impact on Western relationships with the rest of the world. Europe is going to turn its back on Russia for good and relations to China also seem a little wobbly at the moment thus needing alternative trading partners - most likely Africa and maybe the Middle East as well. The US might be looking at South Africa even more now and start a new wave of investments, same with Australia and Oceania.
Ukraine has loads of natural resources essentials to the economies of Europe. There are load of uranium mines that can help the E.U. completely energy independent.
I believe this doesn't mean in dependency getting what they need from Ukraine or US an any country 🤣🤣🤣 an tomorrow if one of these countries which the European is going to rely on for their energy decided to attack some country because we know it's just a matter of time before evil Uncle Sam attack another country in the Middle East what are you going to do on that day 🤔🤔🤔
Germany, nobody forced you to be absolutely critically addicted to Russia's energy sources, without ANY consideration of geo-strategy & well-known Russia's history. Now you won't help Ukraine militarily, you'll drag your feet on economic sanctions & say "being responsible for my mistakes will hurt my wallet!". We can see how seriously you've taken "Never again". How you avoid the chance to atone for your moral failings in the WW2 past. The same goes for Austria, France & Hungary... shameful display of selfishness & stupidity combined in one sad, sad package of non-responsibility for one's actions.
What is the fuss about? Pay in Rubles and you get your gas, this is all about trying to save the petrodollar and nothing to do with Russia stopping supply 🤣🤣
I would think the fastest plan to make up the gap would be to get your nuclear power plants online before next winter and get together synthetic methane through the Sabatier reaction. You guys have Exytron in Germany already doing this. Need to look into that company and see what you can do to scale up their operations. While working on scaling this up, can also work on heat pumps and even resistive electric heaters. May have to do some inefficient things until you can get the more ideal solutions more fully implemented.
@@Kenny-bj2zq Yeah. We haven't managed to make all 3 go away yet, but instead when we reduce one, the others become more. It is not so easy as like or dislike and poof, gone for the things you do not like and the incoherent thought ends there. There are things that can be done, but there is what is practical, what is doable, and what is fantasy. This needs to be considered more carefully an any energy policy and thought all the way through.
Reportedly it's almost impossible to re-start a decommissioned nuclear plant, in a technical sense. Like, not the problem of money per se, more about the processes involved that make it impossible. Take this info with a grain of salt though.
@@elektrotehnik94 I have heard some people claim that to. From my limited knowledge of the subject, it is definitely not just flipping a switch and it is back on. Instead my understanding is everything nuclear power plant is a process with red tape being the biggest hurdle, but more procedurally you are looking at many checks in a hazardous environment to make sure the reactor is still good, moving hazardous materials around, and getting the nuclear fuel rods back in place if they have been removed and getting the reactor back up to criticality, which always ends up taking a while. I could be wrong as I am not an expert on the subject, but I would think with some motivation to cut through red tape, but also do things safely, these could be brought back online in a matter of months. Usually you don't actually dismantle a nuclear power plant once it is built, but instead you stop generating power and spent fuel rods and the activated materials of the reactor stay in place for a long time. Activated materials don't stay radioactive for all that long, though it is a while in human time, though the fuel rods stay radioactive for a long time due to the U-235 still in them. Actually the extremely inefficient use of very precious U-235 has always been a problem with light water reactors, which is why it is such a shame that more advanced nuclear reactors were never explored to the extent that they could have been. Burning up all of the U-235 or whatever other nuclear fuel you use in more advanced reactor types is key to only having short lived radioactive waste from the reactor, but I digress.
The idea that Germany will be able to resist the pressure to ban Russian gas imports until the end of the year is ridiculous. If the international pressure is this high after 40 days of war, imagine how high it will at the the end of the year.
@@NotShowingOff Not true. The problem is that India took advantage of the situation to more than double purchases of Russian oil at low costs. They said exactly that in official communicate.
@@lucasgssilveira What's happening here is that the U.S is at the stage of empire where it's cannibalizing it's satrapies. Europe either breaks away from Washington, or it becomes so poor that it's elites get overthrown and banished or killed.
Please, let's not twist reality and let's stick to the facts : Russia has NOT threatened to stop deliveries. Russia is doing what every SERIOUS business does. They will supply the goods when the client pays. It is extremely clear. If the client doesn't pay its bill, then only no LNG or oil will be sold. Just the same deal as any company. ;-) Oh... And good luck bypassing Russia for Germany's LNG and oil needs.
If Russia guts Germany off from "Russian" petrochemicals Germans will still be buying lots of food. If Russia cuts Germany off from "Russian" petrochemicals, then Russian people will starve to death.
I can't believe Europe is giving up their own people just to punish Russia, price will boom up and their own people will suffer but their politicians will still be conformable. Don't make a decision while you are angry 😂😂
@@Tysin000 Yes, because they do what they say, not watching what they do. Just read a headline about the US buying 43% MORE oil from Russia! Which makes me laugh, because it's perfectly logical. And it tells you exactly what this is about.
For a real face-palm moment, try looking up the amount of natural gas that is simply *flared* on oil production platforms around the world that lack facilities to capture the gas and ship it to consumers.
I am so disappointed in Germany for being so unprepared for this scenario...they obviously were not gearing up to carbon reductions either. Try blackouts and advocating lower household temperatures to at least begin to reduce demand. Unreal
I’m so amused about the non-German rest of the world. They really seem to believe there’s a causal connection between gas trade and war. As if the war would suddenly end, if only Germany would stop Nord Stream 2. 😄
@@mamacryright5740 yes and the funny thing is they saw damaged plant in Japan which is a country with different climate, on top of a tectonic plates moving and causing earthquakes and tsunamis.... Germany doesnt have such problems. I hope at least they build more renewables and heck even they can try the new gen nuclears.
Wait, isn't Indonesia one of the countries that dump the most bilgewater from their ships in the oceans, according to Germany itself?!?! Damn, people don't learn...
Engineers with creative minds can almost write their own paychecks. A company of Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical engineers is more valuable than a barge full of diamonds or gold. Energy alternatives are the near term future.
@@mab1ism No but when I was 15 I wanted to be. Then life happened. A confused sibling thought they were Gay. I had to study up on it and make them change. They did. Buy then I was a very unhappy lawyer. Don't ever think you can rescue your family name. If you're the youngest they'll hate you .
@@himansh0168 I think it is more common than news media would care to explore. Dr. Eric Berne's book on transactional analysis helped me understand and survive.
The alternative is to become dependent on America's LNG. It costs about 7-10 x more than piped gas. European cost of living will go up. The Industrial goods produced i the EU will become uncompetitive. It is a high price to pay for NATO expansion.
Everybody has their talking points. They say the things they need to say for their respective audiences or constituents. But, in the end, as long as money is God, nothing will really get fixed.
Not necessarily. Money is not the king, political interest of ruling group is. Decommissioning of German nuclear power plants is a great example - those made perfect sense if every way, apart from the fact that political support was to be gained by phasing them out.
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@@huba7439 Is that why I'm holding my breath every time there's fighting near the nuclear plants in Ukraine? A stray bullet won't hurt them but what about a stray missile? And what about storing the toxic waste? In a small country like Germany you can't even store that away from high pop areas.
Exactly. With this kind of thinking you apply the pressure on your politicians, and they close the plant to gain your support. Money is not the king here.
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@@huba7439 I don't even completely disagree with you. Germany may have to start using nuclear power again. But that's not a magic fix. Firstly oil and gas aren't just needed for electricity but for production and secondly everything currently using oil and gas will have to be physically changed to using electricity.
@ Nuclear can also be used for co-generation of power and heat, as in case of Leningrad NPP. New small reactor designs are especially suited for that. But afaik in case of Germany there's too much popular resistance to nuclear power to even consider it.
Your expert should also have stated that the 150 billion cubic metres is a low estimate because of the fall-off in uptake due to Cov-2 with the real figure over 189 billion cubic metres and that is without having to make up for the closure of nuclear power stations, the ban on Russian coal and a cooling climate with Spring 2021 in Germany the coldest for 104 years and having a negative impact on crop growth and also the reduced supplies of Russia fertilizer and diesel. In short, any politician that says Germany can stop Russian gas and coal imports without destroying the economy is in Lal-la Land but unfortunately, that is their natural home. A stop by Russia of exports of key metals like platinum, nickel, vanadian etc will bring the auto and aviation industries to their knees overnight as there are no ready alternative sources, and when talking about the effect on GDP you need to take into account the reduced exports from the increase in costs of energy, materials and labour against competitors. In short, your country has committed a slow suicide from which there is no turning back as Russia has now turned its back on Europe. Apart from the high increase in the cost of coal or LNG from Indonesia and Australia, there is the matter of the availability of ships and the fact that they run on oil. Countries like Indonesia are going to have to decide whether their future lies with the Russia-China-India block or the declining US block. Renewables also depend on supplies of critical minerals from Russia and China so it is not as simple as saying the country can switch to more wind and solar which in any case is none dispatchable and neds backup from gas or diesel units.
When somebody not informed in the world geopolitics & global economics, speaks with authority on the internet... ^^ Hey, Germany, nobody forced you to be absolutely critically addicted to Russia's energy sources, without ANY consideration of geo-strategy & well-known Russia's history. Now you won't help Ukraine militarily, you'll drag your feet on economic sanctions & say "being responsible for my mistakes will hurt my wallet!". We can see how seriously you've taken "Never again". How you avoid the chance to atone for your moral failings in the WW2 past. The same goes for Austria, France & Hungary... shameful display of selfishness & stupidity combined in one sad, sad package of non-responsibility for one's actions.
@@elektrotehnik94 I studied Energy Management in Europe and several teachers admitted that Russia was a reliable provider. For decades they have been signing long term energy contracts without any problem. Due to the energy transition going on in Germany for like 15 years, that country dramatically increased the Renewable Energy generation, deactivated coal plants (very good in terms of CO2 emissions) and deactivated nuclear plants (I understand their fear after Fukushima but I don't know if it was a good decision...). The problem is that they need firm energy to compensate the intermittent renewable technologies and the best choice, for now, is gas. A lot of gas. That's why they built Nordstream 2 (gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic sea). But the problem started not because of Russia but because of the US! They started to say that thew wouldn't allow that pipeline to operate. They sanctioned the European companies involved but despite the sabotage, the pipeline was concluded....some months ago. Meanwhile, NATO started to put armament in Poland and other countries close to Russia, Ukraine government started to shell heavily the Donbass region and Russia felt threatened. Putin mentioned Libya and Iraq's fate in one of his speeches the week he invaded Ukraine. Now the US is selling LNG 40% more expensive to the EU than Russian gas, more weapons to Ukraine...I think Germany made a mistake not because it trusted Russia but because it neglected the US medling.
Someone is well read. You also need energy to manufacture solar cells and wind turbines. Manufacturing is dominated by the Chinese btw. The only solution I see for Europe short term is to allow the gas flow. Long term is Nuclear
Nuclear is the most inefficient source of energy. It takes 20 years just to build a nuclear power station and by the time it finishes the technology has moved on. It takes 10s of thousands of years for nuclear waste to disintergrate...
Nuclear is a better option than any fossil fuels, those who say no to nuclear please inform yourself before you leave these comments. Take a look at Kurzgesagt's video on the subject.
DW asks what are the alternatives to Russian energy supplies to the EU? And, as per usual fails to mention nuclear power. Only the most dangerous fossil fuel , (climate-wise) coal , as well as gas is discussed ! For goodness sake, switch on the reactors
@@panoscorfu1974 ...and before gas was common as a feedstock for the chemical industry coal was used to make fertilisers etc... What’s the point you’re trying to make?
@@unclepete100 oil and gas are not just for transportation and heating....there are thousands of products that we use and cant be replaced of anything else......google it....do some research on the internet......as i said its not that simple.,....i ll give you an example....basf employees 70.000 people in germany and they import their raw materials from russia ofc oil and gas to produce products.....reactors only produce water steam.....i hope i covered u
The US is a rich country, richer than germany when you look at the median household income. That doesnt mean those two countries can afford these gas prices. Its slightly better for the Americans and Canadians, since their big oil producers anyways, but Germany only has Norway to deal with it.
The problem is that a lot of German (and Italian and Hungarian) houses are heated by natural gas, and right now they don't have the infrastructure to buy most of it from other countries than Russia. Germany is rich, but it is still going to take time to make the transition.
6:04 The USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal. It has huge reserves of coal that will go unused because it wants to go green by switching its thermal generating stations to gas, which is much cleaner. There are large coal mines shut down in the past few years in the USA's Appalachian region that could be quickly re-activated, and their now unemployed workers re-employed. But I do not know if the USA has much in the way of east-coast facilities to export bulk coal.
Coal in USA peaked (in terms of BTUs) in 1999. The best coal was in Pennsylvania which peaked in 1920. The quality of USA coal is also in decline. We have eaten the low hanging fruit. But who wants to admit Peak anything?
@@billpee9513 The greens, especially the German ones, have been maniacally against nuclear power. If Germany had done like France, and instead gone all-in with nuclear, they wouldn't have the current predicament where they need to choose between international solidarity and their own living standard.
If instead of spending literally trillions of euros in weapons during the last four decades humans had instead invested in fusion power research we would have commercial fusion power plants today.
If you think global warming is too slow, nuclear fusion, simulating small stars on Earth, could melt the polar ice caps even faster. Fusion also creates nuclear waste through neutron irradiation and could also convert "depleted" uranium-238 into plutonium-239, making nuclear weapons proliferation more possible. Fortunately fusion has been twenty years in the future for fifty years and probably will always be that
These details of ‘globalization’ indicate why globalization of energy supply is so critical. We see how free nations relying on that supply of energy allows a country to become a world power because of their natural resources. It is IMPERATIVE that western countries that put democracy and basic human rights do not rely/do business with dictatorships. Russia and China and others do not hold these same values. Democracies are condemned to fighting wars against these regimes if these ‘globalization’ policies continue. Putin and others who rule using terror MUST suffer immediate continuing sanctions to protect the very basic human rights that the democracies of the world hold at our very core.
"Western countries".... "democracy and basic human rights" Such countries don't exist. Some of the people still believe in it. But the small group of people who rule the Western world surely do not. It's all just about power and money for them. They are no different than Putin. In fact, they might be worse. At least Putin cares about his own country and people. The Western leaders don't.
I don't know about the others, but I have no issue to use a blanket instead of the radiator ...... There is gas needed for energy production and other things as well, but heating private households doesn't seem that important to me.
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The EU was repeatedly warned not to depend on Russian gas!
The Gas Dispute was started by Ukraine on the instruction of USUK. Ukraine did all the wrong things towards EU and Russia. That's why Nord Stream was built to bypass Ukraine.
And all those criticizing Europe do not have Europeans best interests in mind.
All they are saying is situation we’re seeing right now with high prices on gas and energy in Europe and high inflation, should have happened since long time. Some of course, had their own profits in sight when talking about this.
So depend on US gas instead by shipping it half away round the world instead of opening the finished Nordstream pipeline. N.B. USA are now buying cheap Russian gas and oil to sell to the EU...
It is easy to be smart afterwards, your words doesn't really contribute anything.
@@MrSimeonk Some of the critics of European dependency on Russian gas didn't propose using US gas, but in fact nuclear power. However, no one listened, and now everyone is surprised.
let it be expensive, but better to be independent rather than to be blackmailed.
Don't forget alive. Climate change is a b*tch.
No one should die just so 500 Russians can be richer
Some europeans will die way before enough energy is found and supplied. Democracy and freedom win over human lives!
till you get blackmailed by the US
@@exelsuremovers8889 they could've surrendered
If Germany has not already decided to do so, it should delay the early retirement of its perfectly good nuclear reactors for 3-4 years until alternative energy sources are in place. Scientists and engineers regard nuclear energy as green energy, it is only politicians and political activists who regard nuclear as anything else. Germany's reactors, unlike Japan's and Russia's, are built to proper standards (as we'd all expect) so there is absolutely no danger whatsoever of a Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island type of event.
Permanent disposal of low-level nuclear waste remains a problem, but only because of politics and because *some* low-level waste can take over a century to is no longer any danger if it is stolen from containment.
Disposal of high-level nuclear waste is not a major problem because a high level of radiation in a material indicates it is decaying rapidly. High level waste becomes low level within years or decades.
In the USA where they have both, wind power kills far more people per year than nuclear. The deaths by both are industrial accidents with equipment and falling, and for nuclear they are non-existent most years, whereas wind power has very low numbers of fatalities. (It is much easier to supervise and regulate safety in a few nuclear power plants than in hundreds of giant windmills scattered about the countryside.)
In any event, keeping those reactors running for 3-4 more years is better than having Germans and immigrants freezing to death next winter. In 4 years, when alternative energy sources are constructed, the nukes can be retired if desired.
One problem is that many European homes are heated by a natural gas burners, so one cannot use nuclear energy to heat these houses. The long term plan is heat pumps and possibly district heating, but that is going to take time.
@@anotherelvis True, but I'm sure you can pick up an electric heater for not much money at any hardware store. Not as efficient, but it gets you off natural gas quickly.
@Lost-In-Blank -- You deserve a standing ovation for this science-based comment! Couldn't agree more!
@@eckligt true if u want a 1000 dollars per month electricity bill, and u can afford it
Yes, use the existing nuclear reactors, and build new ones!! But are Germans advanced enough to think like that??
"What India buy from Russia in a month, europe buys it in a afternoon from Russia"
What a great reply 👏❤
German leader especially former chancellor Gerhard and Merkel's is responsible for the lack of long term vision and far sightedness. This situation was always going to happen. When you depend on a single supplier for such a large quantities of gas and commodities. Diversification is always needed.
Imagine what situation we'll be in when China takes Taiwan, and threatens to stop any- and everything 'made in China'.
They were told this by a US President too. Not that they didn't have people of their own saying it. But the difference is that US President could actually help them with the problem. Instead they did the European snobby thing where they won't listen because think they are smarter than everybody else.
@@viceman8152 You have an ignorant view.
If you understand Germany-Russia affairs you would no make such ignorant oversimplifications.
@@viceman8152 Were also told to pay there fair share of NATO national defense now they going to have to pay $$ to catch up
@@Kenny-bj2zq Well it is not that they owe money. It is that they need to spend more on defense. Many were skimping on defense in favor of socialist programs, knowing that the US would protect them in case of a war. When Trump asked them to do what they are suppossed to do, their representatives literally laughed at him. I guess they thought he was trying to peddle US energy and weapons on them. I think Germans are very intelligent people who have a tendacy to outsmart themselves at times. The fact is they are the leader of the EU and if they don't spend enough, neither will others. They need to learn to lead by example. People can be intelligent but not wise. Not bumping defense spending after Russia invaded Crimea, and not cutting their energy sales to Europe, was not wise. Well better late than never.
I like to think that if Russia just cuts off supply, we'll also find a way to do this.
Problem is that governments right now are not forced to do more than merely ask people, businesses to use less. But the thermostats in offices around the continent are still at a balmy 21 degrees, because that's what they've always been.
Energy may seem expensive, but it's not nearly expensive enough to change our behavior in a meaningful way.
Exactly. Maybe apply a carbon tax to make energy expensive enough to don a sweater.
Trying to get people just to put on mask indoors was horrendous, now you think we can get people to use less energy, less comfort ???????? lol you are dreaming if you think people will comply !!!!!
The answer is to find clean energy alternatives; not turn down the thermostat. The technology is there. We all just need to build the infrastructure. Existing power delivery companies could restructure and retool pretty easily.
We don't have AC in our house, during summer we use fan made of paper and native materials. We only cook rice and dishes once a day good for two meals (lunch and dinner) using induction stove. But not all people can do that... but if willing one can do it just like us.
@@miles3263 Respect to you! We all need to reduce our ridiculous consumption lifestyle and tone it down a little. Less energy, less waste, less pollution, less reliance on dicatorships around the world.
Edit: Sending love to Philippines! I had lived in Davao for 2 years and still miss Philippines very much every single day! :) It's so cold here in Europe.
maybe don't let 14 year old girls set your energy policies
hoW dArE yOu...
good one!
Shipping coal from Indonesia to Germany? Are there any adults involved in this reasoning?
HAHAHAHA IKR.
Indonesia and Australia have the only coal mines that are big enough for the supply, unless Germany decided to reboot its own coal mining.
better EU countries import coal from Russia
Especially when Germany has the 6th largest coal reserves in the world and Indonesia is ranked 11th.
This is coal in ground stats not production figures.
I’m only at 1:45 in the video but so far the list of options hasn’t contemplated the range of reduction options: insulating buildings, shutting down rooms during winter, increasing bicycle infrastructure, etcetc
and renewable energy sources.
You are right. This video is not looking at all the options, just some low hanging ones. EU officials announced a plan to curb Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of this year, which is about when their gas reserves will run out. The remaining one-third is not a problem for other sources to supply. See March 24 WaPo article on how it will play out, too long to explain here.
@@cloudpoint0 Germany buys about half its gas from Russia. It could easily re-activate its nuclear power stations to help tide them over a transition to renewables. They do have a lot of photo voltaics, which is a good start
I don't think you grasp the magnitude of the problem. The things you mentioned, and I supported them 100%, is a drop in an ocean. If that would had made us independent of Russian energy rest assured that the EU would had do it immediately.
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To some extent I guess. I don’t think Germany really has a shortage of electricity which is what nuclear power stations provide. Natural gas is used for home heating and industrial processes. It would take a fair while to convert everyone over to electric furnaces and adapt factories that use gas for chemical processing and smelting.
Germany needs to reverse its anti-nuclear stance and support the nuclear power industry. It is needed for green energy solutions as well as for reducing dependency on Russia.
what a target that would make for putins of the world .. i disagree we are not wise enough as a human race to properly look after such potentially dangerous outcomes regarding nuclear energy
Where do you think the uranium comes from?
@@markrobinowitz8473 Canada
Dont worry USA will fight to the last ukranian soldier and EU economy 🤣
@@markrobinowitz8473 Dude, Russia is not the only country in the world with uranium deposits. Get your head out of RT.
As a US military expert Wesley Clark pointed out on CNN a couple of days ago, Russia is holding onto the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine which contain 90% of Ukraine's known oil and gas reserves.
@@louisa7971 lol. He even said 90%. So wrong
@@joedeleon1189 LOL - we don't get Faux News owned by Murdoch to brainwash sheeple here in the UK.
@@jideajibola5074 No - I am scientifically trained and can check facts which any educated person can do rather than spout gibberish. Luckily the world is run by the educated rather than numbskulls who believe the likes of Trump and MTG like Joe above.
Do you know that Russia has almost unlimited quantities of natural gas, that they have financed Ukraine with almost free gas for years?
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 dude I’m not American. You can keep your Majorie Taylor Greenes and Trumps. Those are your leaders. Wonder what that says about you and your country. Try again
Germany needs to reverse its anti-nuclear power stance. Literally the best thing they can do for themselves, Europe AND the environment!
I remember watching all the Germans protest against nuclear powerplants after Fukushima. Nobody told them that the alternative would be burning coal and gas, but they celebrated this change like a victory.
Certainly appears to be the obvious thing to do all around. Haven't heard much in the way of explanation for not delaying shutdowns, other than "that's the plan and we're sticking to it" which of course only further obfuscates the reasons for that stance.
@@maschinensohn do you wanna live in a Chernobyl , Fukushima ? Nuclear powerplant produce nuclear waste , where are you going to put it ? german land size not U.S.A or Russia .
The problem isn’t electricity. We need gas for industrial processes and to heat our homes. These things cannot often cannot be done by electricity.
Nuclear power plant suffered from public paranoia so much that people simply just won't talk about it , but it should be part of energy solution unless in the earthquake zones!
Even in earthquake zones. All day.
Did you know that the "green" NGOs who campained to shut down nuclear and coal were significantly financed by Gazprom?
@@delta2500
I doubt that. Your "green" NGOs want to shut down gas usage even more than nuclear although coal is their real enemy. Don't confuse antinuclear activists with green energy aka climate activists who generally support nuclear energy if a bit reluctantly.
@@cloudpoint0 You are free to doubt whatever you want.
@@delta2500 It was just my polite way of saying your claim is not at all credible, not supported by any facts. Sorry about being more direct now but you misunderstood my polite doubt as being unfounded.
On German TV such as DW, "don't mention nuclear" has replaced "don't mention the war".
Fun fact: Even Indonesia is planning to use nuclear.
@Andy Carter You are misinformed. In Germany alone, 1200 extra deaths happen each year as a result of local air pollution from their use of coal -- and that is not even counting the effects of climate change. For nuclear power, the number of peole killed in accidents is basically only the people killed in Chernobyl, which was around 50.
That is of course 50 too many, but then again Chernobyl used the Soviet reactor design called RBMK, which was inherently unsafe, and which additionally lacked the containment structure/thick concrete dome around it. There has never been a fatality related to radiation at a western-type nuclear power plant.
You might object and say "Fukushima", but no one died.
It's Australia, not Indonesia. There's no way Indonesia go nuclear. Averaging earthquake 4thtimes a day?, geographically simply impossible or too risked. They planning to build solar system just like their ministry said in this reports.
It's too late for nuclear in Germany, it was the stupidest decision ever, but it's done and cannot be undone. With the big investment already done in the past, they should have just extended the plants' life when they could, that is what any sensible person would have done.
@@eckligt I think your comparison is flawed. Because of Chernobyl, many people developed cancer and had a much shorter life.
This still doesn't mean that nuclear is worse than coal. As you stated, modern reactors are much safer.
@@eckligt i dont think we'll ever go nuclear. too many natural disasters here, and the prospect for geothermal is far greater and safer.
According to the sources Wikipedia uses, about *half of the Greater North Sea oil and gas remains unused* (greater meaning includes the Norwegian Sea and West of the Shetlands). The problem is, when you need it on short notice there is no time to drill wells. Probably wells should be drilled and kept as a "strategic reserve" in case of disruption of regular sources by war and climate change.
Go green, but have a fall-back strategy in place and ready to go in case of wars and years with no wind, so that people are not left freezing to death in the January of some future year.
It’s suppose to be Strategic reserves why do you think they imported so much Russian oil and gas before the war.
A year with no wind sounds unlikely. More likely are brief and local calm periods. Which is why wind, solar, and hydro tend to work well together, especially if widely distributed on a large power grid. Europe of course is a long way from de-carbonizing its economy, just like the rest of the world, because as long as fossil fuels remain cheap to the consumer, the moral incentive is lacking.
Why is offshore drilling faster than more renewables? I am curious.
@@solarlux7856 Doesn't matter. China and India will never go along with destroying their economies to satisfy the woke western elites.
@@francismarion6400 Even if China and India shuts off all trade with Russia, it will barely make a dent in their economy. Russia trades that little with both of them, unlike with the EU.
So, their economy probably won't be destroyed, unlike what you assert without seeing data.
Feed the people beans and let them make their own gas. Yeah.
Transportation and storage is a problem ;p
meanwhile the world still import Petrol from Saudi which has perfect human right record in the entire MCU
Remember the huge Al Yamama arms deal - Iraq War Criminal Tony Blair blocked the parliamentary inquiry into this corrupt deal for 'national security' reasons.
The will start planning to stop if Saudi invade a country in Europe. Don't worry. 🤣
Let us not forget the EU was harping on phasing out of coal in COP26 and now we are thinking of importing coal. We seem to have forgotten the problem of climate change.
Havnt 'forgotten' about it, but got limited alternatives at the moment. This is a catch 22, no decision covers every end. Doesn't matter what is done, there will always be a massive down side.
Honestly nuclear sounds like the easiest answer to me atm, but that doesn't happen overnight, plus if you have a crazy dictatorship nearby that may or may not just bomb your nuclear plant if you dont do things their way, not caring what that means, well...
Meanwhile, the infrastructure for coal is already there, faster to get back into, cheaper, but that trashes the plan to go carbon neutral
Staying on Russian gas means a longer war in Europe, bad rep and sends a message that Russia cannot be stopped because we are too dependent.
Out of those three, I guess id also say take coal for the short term while trying to secure gas from other places , building nuclear plants or building renewable energy facilities. Or what's the better solution here?
The world is now facing hunger because of a severe fertilizer shortage due in large part to high gas prices. Climate change will have to wait.
@@avo5499 better spend billions and billions to build LNG facilities and buy (way more expensive) gas from USA, make Exxon and Chevron great again !
@@avo5499 It's psychological - would be nice to admit depletion of finite resources is the underlying cause.
@@markrobinowitz8473 it is indeed, I just don't see what else EU - or at least Germany- can do at this very moment in the situation. It kind of wrote itself into a corner and is now trying desperately to find a way out 😐 we don't want to be using coal either, that's part of the reason why we got into Russian gas in the first place. But with 40% of gas coming from Russia, its probably not feasible to instantly turn the tap off and tell people to deal with it.
Criticisms of previous political choices made aside, what else can EU do now, other than scrambling up everything to fill this gap to buy some time, and then develop a more long term solution?
Why not just pay to convert all german households to electric heating. It would cost just as much as building LNG Infrastructure and we have to decarbonize anyways
electric heating not enough during winter
A lot of electricity comes from natural gas.
@@jonyao76 it is enough, also you can install central heatings that run with pellet
Yup just like that, convert everything 🤣 you think like a child
Then the electrical grid will collapse and you'll end up using the same gas or coal to produce electricity. If Germany didn't phase out atomic powerplants, it would've been much more feasible
EU must Neglect the NATO ,US and try to resolve the Ukraine and Russian conflict avoiding interference of US and treat Russia also as part of Europe ,that will be best for the lives of people living in whole of Europe
How does one alter centuries of Russian mindset, this will be the challenge as currently its population by and large embraces autocratic rule, and enjoys austerity.
@@andyduhamel1925 this kind of mindset need to change from both side by helping each other , thinking and creating hate is no good ,effort need to take ,same way ,we go for war
Europe now has no balancing and no voice of its own.
It will take many years for Europe to be independent of Russian gas. It is also nearly impossible for Europe to have sufficient gas supply to the same current degree if they don't import gas from Russia. This is hard fact.
Then let their economy tank and let America's economy be unleashed! Set the natural order of things straight again.
Says the Gazprom Bot
@@davidcwitkin6729 and the laws of thermodynamics. Sorry.
How could Germany get caught sleeping THIS BAD? Zero contingency plans by the Germans. So disappointing.
it was arranged so Germany could build back their army, basically Germany finance that war also
Old government probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine so they figure they can keep on buying Russian gas and oil.
This new government is starting to think this way because they figure what benefit Ukraine gives to Germany .
we had a 10 years long exhausting economic war between US and EU remember ?
Obama initiated it !
@@kukulroukul4698 Is still ongoing until the Ukraine war when EU and US unite against Russia but it look like it was a bad call by the EU so we should have done our own thing instead of following US which is US first over the EU.
The head of the UN just gave another impassioned speech for us to stop investing in fossil fuel production. Only dictatorships may produce oil and gas these days.
And that's how we become beholden to them.
we should move away from fossil fuels entirely. In the 70s we saw how dependant we were on the middle east and instead of changing we became dependant on Russia instead
Many dictatorships are being sustained by the export of fossil fuels. It is quite typical, as it allows a wealthy elite without a developed economy.
Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia.
No matter if the fuel is produced domestically or imported, we still face the problem of man-made climate change.
In the end the best solution is to stop using fossil fuels.
Let the dictatorships rake in the oil money then? Literally everyone needs oil, and will for a while. Even to make renewable energy infrastructure takes a huge amount of fossil fuel.
Western leaders said Saudi Crown Prince are Killer and Murderer. right after energy crisis because of Ukraine war, they have audacity to call Saudi and beg them produce oil at max capacity to punish Russia and Save Europe from Energy crisis?
This is the wrong attitude and will only make Oil producing countries shifted more and more to Russia
In a way despite the ugliness of this war, this is a good motivation to focus on independence from Russian gas. Yes, the short term it will suck, the long term the best thing for the country and their future is to generation.
It's only best for the same small group of people who benefit from every crisis. We "the people" are screwed.
Well...
Since the alternative is losing the industrial base...
Yes it will reduce dependence on energy from Russia, since it will reduce THE NEED FOR ENERGY.
But really is that an option???
and it is not only energy, it so much more than that, metals, fetriliser, grain, nobel gases....
I say "GO FOR IT"
Would be interesting to see...
The german industry will be gone in 2 years...
But sure "Worth it" so you don't have to say "Ukraine will never be a part of NATO"
Good choice
LOL
@@benanders4412 that is usually the opinion of uneducated people who rant about anything as long as they live. We, I mean WE as a collective have an obligation to have a functional society that isnt blackmailed due to weaknesses. We as a collective society and politics need to do these steps as it is always benefitting for ages to come.
You are the type of person that blames someone even for when it starts raining.
I am sure there will be better times also regarding energy and the costs in the future.
@@Ptolemy336VV OK so which Middle East dictator you want to be dependent on now lol
Yeah, just another 25-30 years and we'll be fine
Double standard EU and USA.
this why they are confused thinking they can simple put energy in the suitcase from America to Europe why even thinking about going for us for energy one day of committed more crime then what's Russia's doing now they're hypocrisy and double standard is unbelievable
The secret of Politics? Make a good treaty with Russia - Otto Von Bismark
The key question is how much is this going to cost?
The problem is if the extra infrastructure causes the costs to rise in order to substitute.
Germany hasn't restarted the nuclear plants they just closed. Reducing russian dependency is just hipocresy
Germany wants to be independent on Russian gas, but when Russia threaten to cut gas they cry.
Yes. I am sure thats why germany wants to be indpendent lmfao
@@honkhonk8009 if Russia cuts the gas supply, then they will be independent for sure. Isn't being independent is the goal, then they should be the one initiating the cut.
In Canada "Activists" have been trying to destroy our energy sector and would rather have countries purchase from bad dictatorships. Hopefully they will now be ignored and we can ramp up production to help Europe's supply problem.
the fundamental problem is fossil fuels. They fuel war, conflict, and climate change. If we had a green transition decades ago so that we didnt need fossil fuels anymore then there wouldn't be a war in Ukraine because Russia would have zero leverage
never happen EU has crazy rules ...but North America will see hyper-inflation as supplies are "shared " ..paper currency chasing real goods on "Free markets" ( ROFL)
Blunderbuss? How appropriate for a zombie account name. Pushing the deadly fuels which created the problem in the first place! Canada's proven safe CANDU nuclear reactors are what's needed. Canada could become a super supplier of this fantastic tech.
Yeah, Biden's zombies doing the same thing here. Without him, US would easily return to one of the world's largest oil/gas exporters.
theyve been doing it rinse and repeat in america here too buddy, its all of the neolibs that dont understand how the world works
How is shutting down those plants doing you, germany?
Yeah, those nuclear plants.
Algeria a legend for helping out like this. Country needs to be praised more.
Algeria imports almost all its military equipment from Russia. In addition, Russian advisors work closely with the Algerian military and engage in joint exercises regularly. Algeria is only helping out because they can make some money from this situation which they will use to buy more weapons from Russia. So not ideal.
Hahaha
Hypocrites, before these events, you didn’t care about Algeria at all. I wonder who will be your next "friends/victims"?
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Loss of GDP or loss of lives in Ukraine… which one is more important?
For who ???????
Ukrainians or europeans ???
The issue is Germany isn't willing to provide significant military aid nor is it willing to enact significant energy-buying curtailment.
I get why energy buying can't be done overnight, even though that is totally their fault... then help militarily, to the same extent you're failing in other areas!
Once you understand that, it becomes apparent this is not about the lack of means...
It's about the lack of will to stand up for what is right & pay the price for it.
Not to mention other world countries. ^^
We won't forget how other countries voted with their wallets ^^
Loss of lives, of course..
As history always shown
Quite the dilemma , live in a cold apartment in Germany or watch your neighbors laying on the road with their hands tied behind their back.
for many german and conservative politicians seems like a hard choice
Without gas, entire industries (usually at the start of supply chains) will be unable to operate, causing massive shortages for all kinds of things. The chemistry sector (and by that, the pharma sector) would be hit very badly, for example. To provide aid to Ukraine, EU countries need the capacity to produce the needed goods.
And the gas shortage isn't only caused by missing gas on the world market, but also by insufficient connections between western and eastern pipeline networks, shortage of trucks, shortage of ships. It's more complex than "cold feet vs war crimes".
@@faultier1158 oh please you are demolishing the unicorn dreams of green democratic war free energy sector.
Spend a few years here in Alaska with me and you'll understand why people don't want to do that. I have hunderds of years worth of generations living in some of the single coldest habitable climates in the world and I'm genetically wired for the cold, and now that I'm nearing 30 I'm still ready to freeze to death in my own house
I'm not saying the sacrifice isn't worth making, but it's not a pure forever sacrifice we need to make in the freezing world.
We need to stop artificially bloating gas and oil usage for quick profits and artifical stimulus, and move on to a mix of more efficient energy productions to taper/replace oil usage where it doesn't need to be. If we end Putins sociopathic runs well all start building more nuclear for electricity, solar is highly profitable spreading thinly across people's roofs, and wind can be made incredibly efficient if we stop screwing around and moving on to sustainable oils for their lub. People need to stop being told they have to buy a car when they don't need too, housing needs to be built closer together so travel distances are downed, and we can change some social problems that lead to increased waste as we try avoid everybody
Freezing and hungry for freedom!
Very noble aspiration. Congratulations, Europe.
they already switched of the lights on large parts freeways in Denmark
Independent from Russian oil, it's easier said than done..
Right now the sanctions have removed Russia economy by 70% so even their 30% oil sales will not make up for it.
Even if we can get the remaining 30% down to 15% it is a job well done.
@@Crashed131963 source?
Doing the right thing is rarely the easy thing.
But not impossible, it depends how bad this war will develop and how Russia and China act.
This video is not looking at all the options, just some low hanging ones. EU officials announced a plan to curb Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of this year, which is about when their gas reserves will run out. The remaining one-third is not a problem for other sources to supply. See March 24 WaPo article on how it will play out, too long to explain here.
Qatar is a major supplier of Gas energy and Qatar Energy Minister said during interviewed by CNBC International at Doha "to replace 30 or 40% Russian Gas can't be replaced overnight, need more players or suppliers, also need 5 to 7 years to achieve that amount."
C'mon Germany, just build more windmills. Go green dearies!
I am not an economic expert but this does not sound good! Sanctions might not work if Western Countries buying from alternative sources other than Russia causes scarcity!
My Austrian brother in law loved to tell me that Austria doesn't have nuclear and doesn't need it because of all their green energy (unlike, he aways added, the USA). Today, however, all of Europe is worried about their oil and gas supply, and Austria is actively opposing a ban on fossil fuels from Russia. I don't want Europe to suffer, but I do want some Europeans to reflect upon some of their hypocrisy.
In the EU Gas and oil are primarily used for transportation, heating and industrial heat. In none of these applications nuclear is of direct use.
Its not hypocrisy cause gas has been seen as green energy in Europe for decades.
fossil fuels cant be replaced in a short time like with cars, heating and in the industry. Austria is a country where a big portion of the electric power comes from renewables but not every energy need can be covered by electricity and europe doesnt have that much coal, gas or oil so domestic production isnt an option it has to be imported and austria for example is landlocked even if we wanted to import from far away countries it isnt realy an option because that would be transport by sea that austria doesnt have. this isnt hypocrisy (10% of austrias co2 autput is from a single steel plant) its just that there are many cases where it has to be fossil fuel because there is no other option. you cant just snip your finger and the whole country rips out the gas stoves, gas heating or replaces every car in the country with an electric one (not even a real option for truck transport or heavy duty vehicles)
@@paulschmidts5429 .... Electric heating and electric cars would use nuclear. Germany just has petrol addiction
@@anitat9727 Wherever it’s France or Germany, they use Oil for driving, Gas for industrial heat and gas and oil for indoor heating. So nuclear has practically made no difference in these countries addiction to oil and gas. And that’s because the world has an oil addiction...
WHY can Germany turn on Nuclear power plant? My my!
If you do your own research, you’ll find the answer in your question. Spoiler alert: activists and nuclear waste is the few reasons.
Because the politicians and about 45% of the population according to recent surveys are brainwashed against it. However, just a few years ago it was more like 80%, so there's already a lot of progress.
Greta says no.
To be a enemy of America is dangerous but to be a friend of America is fatal.
Henry Kissinger
Old energy can help in the interim. Coal, nuclear, Norwegian, Dutch, US and Arab gas. The long term planning is more nuclear power plants, more combination parks of solar and wind, rooftop solar panels in the industry parks and people's homes with solar warmth and power systems.
_"Old energy can help in the interim. Coal, nuclear, Norwegian, Dutch, US and Arab gas. "_
That is a flawed assumption an IT IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST OIL AND GAS...
What?
US i not an option, their gas is reserved by asians and UK, and Brandon banned fracking
Norway gas fields are exausted
Arabs facilities are bombed by Husits
All coal will be bought by asia also.
The only solution is nuclear, but germans are obsessed with green energy utopia.
Half the problem is that many European homes are heated with gas burners, so they need to switch to heat pumps or district heating, before they can work with energy from nuclear and coal.
How come they can’t just use electric heaters for 3 years until it’s sorted out? Would it draw too much electricity?
I keep wondering why decommissioned nuclear power plants aren't brought back online, at least temporarily? It wouldn't fill the entire gap, but would be a useful adjunct in conjunction with other energy sources.
The left wing/Greens ?
It takes fossil fuels and mining of finite ores to run nuclear reactors. And as reactors age they get more brittle and vulnerable to breaking. There is no way to detoxify nuclear waste except through time, lots of it.
Technical impossibility, reportedly. Decommissioning makes reasonable-time re-start impossible, I've heard.
Take it with the grain of salt though.
Its NOT “Possible” war crimes! Its gross human rights violations war crimes!!
how can Germans expect that all this could be happening a few hundred km away but their standard of living should not be even slightly affected?
the steppe always has been 'only' a few hundred km away and it always has been the source of trouble. but for the most part that didn't really bother germany.
@@montanus777 for the most part, except for the Huns, the Mongols, the Soviets..
@@jasperzanjani the mongols were never near germany. the huns helped germany to become a nation over a millenia ago - instead of a loose alliance of tribes.
and russia is exactly the point right now. that's why we watch their soldiers being slaughtered as cannon fodder and their economy reach soviet level again. and since now the 'whole world' (at least the important parts) is on our side, we can finally achieve, what we started last century ... :)
Coal from Indonesia is already bound by buyers, not only long term contract by also by ownership. Many Indonesia companies have shared ownership with Chinese and Indian companies, Korea and Japan also. So the priority is supplying the buyers/owners. European companies are already left behind
Everywhere you go
You will see Chinese & Indian energy demands
They have to sustain 1.4B afterall
There's no shortage of coal in Europe so there's no need to import it from far away. Coal power is not a long term option anyway of course but it can be a significant part of a short term solution since there are several coal power plants that have been closed down recently and can be reopened fairly quicly.
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 well the west arrogantly wanting to dictate the trade terms with asian countries like indonesia. for example they banned indonesia's most precious commodity which is CPO, leaving China and India raking all the benefits.
@hognoxious Indonesia already have democracy for over 2 decades, but the west doesn't rate it as "democratic enough".
Germany has more than enough domestic coal
Russia's gotcha.
Here in Canada, there is plenty of natural gas for export but all of it is currently exported to the US. The infrastructure doesn't exist yet for exports to Europe .They are possible but not right away.
This Russian blackmail should have been anticipated. Your German leadership has let you down.
It has. And even among the german populace, our heavy reliance of Russia wasn't popular. The former "status-quo-government" basically shat on the table and told our new govenment "here, enjoy". What a catastrophically bad strategic planning that was...namely, none what so ever.
Hit the nail on the head.
Why does no one ever talk about Thorium Nuclear reactors?
-Safer
- Plentiful
-Produces more energy than uranium
- Can't be made into a war head, so everyone can have one.
-Very little waste
It's honestly seems like the best answer to the energy crisis to me.
problem is the vessel that can sustain high temp. of molten salt. that salt can easily erode the vessel. so needs to replace frequently which is not economical.
@@budhprakash981 It's possible to use Thorium without switching to molten-salt reactor designs. In fact, Germany itself used Thorium in solid form in the past.
@@budhprakash981 They are using molten sodium in a new plant in Wyoming. The design can be duplicated anywhere.
Because we need solutions today, not 'maybe soon'.
Thorium would be used to make Uranium 233. The thorium fuel cycle is even more radioactive than the U-235 fuel cycle, that is why it has not been used by the industry. And it definitely can be used to make nuclear weapons.
How about more education placed on CONSERVATION??? Developing more efficient appliances would also be a good start.
Doesn't fit the mindset of blind overconsumption, apparently.
Can't burden us poor westerners with a little bit of restraint, let alone rationing ... a hint of what was done in the past, see britain in the blitz or even the US, safe as they were, in WW2.
If we did that, we could erect a complete blockade of russia tomorrow and be fine, all things considered.
Its just that our politicians value a few thousand murdered civilians far less than our pampered comfort and their reelection.
Yeah, I rented a thermal image camera for a day, found gaps in insulation inside ceiling, walls, windows, doors etc, and at minimal cost, reduced my gas use by 20%.
Most people (like my neighbor) are too lazy / technically ignorant to do this, so she just complains to the utility about her gas bills being so high. Meanwhile the utility has programs that would pay half of the cost to add insulation.
Why not cutting population by half by shipping out people?
Thats what wev been doing for the past year lmfaoo.
Maybe buy some energy star appliances.
@@strongbrain3128 or by using only public transport
Where’s Canadia?
In case you didnt know , british sound energy already discovered massive gas resources in morocco and morocco already made a deal with the EU to supply them with gas through spain in the few coming months .
there aren't even pipelines from spain to france and it would take months to build them - apart from the fact that france doesn't want them.
Morocco that Nigeria is supplying gas
@@montanus777 that's what boats are for, my dude.
I humbly doubt your affirmation. Morocco imports its gas : "Morocco is a net natural gas importer, and its production is much less than domestic consumption. Morocco produced 3.1 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in 2018, and the country consumed 44 Bcf."
@@BebbaDubbs boats (or actually ships) can only transport LNG - not gas
Europe and Germany in particular have been to slow to transition to wind and solar energy,
Wind and solar energy do not need to be imported and can be produced locally in any country.
Europe needs to provide incentives for homes and businesses to install electric heat pumps and get rid of old polluting gas and oil boilers. The move to electric vehicles will also be sped up. There is no good reason to help fund Putin's war by buying oil, gas and coal from Russia.
For the production of wind turbines and solar panels, oil and ........ gas are needed)) congratulations on the Stone Age of Europe
I remember the German & Western media blaming 'India unequivocally' for the failure of COP26, yet India is one of few countries that is well on its way to meet the Paris agreement. The West like to lecture & talk too much of their future but never walks it. The same with its enormous energy dependence on Russia ;)
Germany isn't suited for 100% renewables, so we need other carbon neutral sources. I.e. nuclear power.
Does yr logic implies to arms dealers and Military industrial?.
Face fact!! Cheap energy has help Europe to prosper n lived nicely. All this Solar/Wind wont be able to compensate.. for simple reason ; inefficient & High cost.
sure, darling, thank you
This is all about the huge Yuzivska shale gas deposit in the Donbas (1.09 - 4 trillion metric metres of shale gas) - the second largest shale gas deposit in Europe. The EU was interested in buying gas from Ukraine in order to diversify their suppliers and cut dependence on Russian gas. Ukraine has extensive gas storage facilities and
pipelines, close to the EU, and such an
arrangement would make a large dent in
Gazprom's (Putin's) profits. Similarly, Crimea has large offshore gas deposits that Putin wanted. This war is all about Putin's Gazprom profits. That's why they are pulling back to defend Donbas. That's why Russia was funding the “separatists."
Good thing USA funded coupe and cause bombing Donbass so those region didnt want to have anything to do with Ukraine.
sounds about right cheers
Not only huge Gas and Oil deposits in Ukraine. Also Iron, Titanium and other natural Resources that are not really used. Russia/Putler feared to be replaced by a more western aligned main supplier for the EU and decided it's better to destroy the country than let it become a rival.
Also why Hunter Biden was working for a pro-Russia company there.
Than y ukraine support American backed coup de tat and let them install their puppet?
rather than investing in European oil and gas production and locking us into further fossil fuel consumption long term, we should use this opportunity to completely move away from it. Renewable energy is true energy independence. Invest massively in that, electrify everything, and insulate all European homes
its easy to say that but there is huge energy gap in 24 hours energy production from renewable sources, so i think we must keep atomic energy plants for now, just get rid of oil and gas.
@@rnik8156 sure keep and develop nuclear where it makes sense. Other baseloads can be pumped hydro and geothermal.
@@jebbo-c1l
Elon Musk built a battery storage for the grid in Australia
The problem is that renewables are still expensive, still experience a lot of production spikes and storage infrastructure is still doing baby steps thus can't handle periods of low production. 100% renewable is at best achievable until the end of the next decade - tapping new sources in the North Sea or in the Netherlands can be done within 3 - 5 years, if bureaucracy is accelerated obviously. Furthermore they'll negotiate new deals with African and Middle Eastern countries. Maybe even start to develop various projects on the African continent once again, who knows. Gaining independence on oil and gas is more important than thinking about going full green now. If they can figure this out we should be on a green track once again in 3 years or so.
This shift is going to have a massive impact on Western relationships with the rest of the world. Europe is going to turn its back on Russia for good and relations to China also seem a little wobbly at the moment thus needing alternative trading partners - most likely Africa and maybe the Middle East as well. The US might be looking at South Africa even more now and start a new wave of investments, same with Australia and Oceania.
Yeah, we need to use nuclear power.
Wait, wasn't Germany's dependence on Russian gas a myth that Trump invented?
He wanted to sell his fracking gas. The Russians were no problem for him.
@@muadipatreides5785 I don't understand, wasn't Trump Putin's puppet?
Says the man who has moved all key industrial production capacity to China.....
0:44 The lenght of the bar for 15 mn qm is three quarters of that for 155 million qubic metres ( 0:35 ) (instead of one tenth!) 🤔
Ukraine has loads of natural resources essentials to the economies of Europe. There are load of uranium mines that can help the E.U. completely energy independent.
Its quite simple... you help Ukraine, Ukraine helps you.
I believe this doesn't mean in dependency getting what they need from Ukraine or US an any country 🤣🤣🤣 an tomorrow if one of these countries which the European is going to rely on for their energy decided to attack some country because we know it's just a matter of time before evil Uncle Sam attack another country in the Middle East what are you going to do on that day 🤔🤔🤔
@@aminuaidara8601 don't attack us and we wont attack you.
Germany, nobody forced you to be absolutely critically addicted to Russia's energy sources, without ANY consideration of geo-strategy & well-known Russia's history.
Now you won't help Ukraine militarily, you'll drag your feet on economic sanctions & say "being responsible for my mistakes will hurt my wallet!".
We can see how seriously you've taken "Never again". How you avoid the chance to atone for your moral failings in the WW2 past.
The same goes for Austria, France & Hungary... shameful display of selfishness & stupidity combined in one sad, sad package of non-responsibility for one's actions.
And that's why the West has been making trouble with Russia for a long time now.
What are they using the gas for mainly?
@@RiDankulous thank you
Stop lecturing and open your npp... World is watching Germany...
It's also really strange that the lady in Indonesia didn't talk about nuclear. Indonesia is working with ThorConn to use Thorium power plants.
you showed 155 billion on a graph, and then showed 15 billion graph that wasn't even lose to what it should look like.... very misleading.
their are 3 lie in the world one of them is Statistics
1:08 “Canadia”
1:07
"canadia"
What is the fuss about? Pay in Rubles and you get your gas, this is all about trying to save the petrodollar and nothing to do with Russia stopping supply 🤣🤣
I would think the fastest plan to make up the gap would be to get your nuclear power plants online before next winter and get together synthetic methane through the Sabatier reaction. You guys have Exytron in Germany already doing this. Need to look into that company and see what you can do to scale up their operations. While working on scaling this up, can also work on heat pumps and even resistive electric heaters. May have to do some inefficient things until you can get the more ideal solutions more fully implemented.
Nuclear/Gas/Oil = Bad = Green Energy Good...lol
@@Kenny-bj2zq Yeah. We haven't managed to make all 3 go away yet, but instead when we reduce one, the others become more. It is not so easy as like or dislike and poof, gone for the things you do not like and the incoherent thought ends there. There are things that can be done, but there is what is practical, what is doable, and what is fantasy. This needs to be considered more carefully an any energy policy and thought all the way through.
Reportedly it's almost impossible to re-start a decommissioned nuclear plant, in a technical sense.
Like, not the problem of money per se, more about the processes involved that make it impossible.
Take this info with a grain of salt though.
@@elektrotehnik94 I have heard some people claim that to. From my limited knowledge of the subject, it is definitely not just flipping a switch and it is back on. Instead my understanding is everything nuclear power plant is a process with red tape being the biggest hurdle, but more procedurally you are looking at many checks in a hazardous environment to make sure the reactor is still good, moving hazardous materials around, and getting the nuclear fuel rods back in place if they have been removed and getting the reactor back up to criticality, which always ends up taking a while. I could be wrong as I am not an expert on the subject, but I would think with some motivation to cut through red tape, but also do things safely, these could be brought back online in a matter of months. Usually you don't actually dismantle a nuclear power plant once it is built, but instead you stop generating power and spent fuel rods and the activated materials of the reactor stay in place for a long time. Activated materials don't stay radioactive for all that long, though it is a while in human time, though the fuel rods stay radioactive for a long time due to the U-235 still in them. Actually the extremely inefficient use of very precious U-235 has always been a problem with light water reactors, which is why it is such a shame that more advanced nuclear reactors were never explored to the extent that they could have been. Burning up all of the U-235 or whatever other nuclear fuel you use in more advanced reactor types is key to only having short lived radioactive waste from the reactor, but I digress.
The idea that Germany will be able to resist the pressure to ban Russian gas imports until the end of the year is ridiculous. If the international pressure is this high after 40 days of war, imagine how high it will at the the end of the year.
This will make Germans and Europeans so poor that anti-U.S populism will sweep the continent.
And Germany wants China and India to stop buying from Russia. That demand will further increase gas to Germany as well.
@@lucasgrey9794 Not true, not true at all.
@@NotShowingOff Not true. The problem is that India took advantage of the situation to more than double purchases of Russian oil at low costs. They said exactly that in official communicate.
@@lucasgssilveira What's happening here is that the U.S is at the stage of empire where it's cannibalizing it's satrapies. Europe either breaks away from Washington, or it becomes so poor that it's elites get overthrown and banished or killed.
Please, let's not twist reality and let's stick to the facts : Russia has NOT threatened to stop deliveries. Russia is doing what every SERIOUS business does. They will supply the goods when the client pays. It is extremely clear. If the client doesn't pay its bill, then only no LNG or oil will be sold. Just the same deal as any company. ;-) Oh... And good luck bypassing Russia for Germany's LNG and oil needs.
If Russia guts Germany off from "Russian" petrochemicals Germans will still be buying lots of food.
If Russia cuts Germany off from "Russian" petrochemicals, then Russian people will starve to death.
I can't believe Europe is giving up their own people just to punish Russia, price will boom up and their own people will suffer but their politicians will still be conformable. Don't make a decision while you are angry 😂😂
this is what happen when ego control more than logic
Seem Eu follow USA blindly.
@@Tysin000 Yes, because they do what they say, not watching what they do. Just read a headline about the US buying 43% MORE oil from Russia! Which makes me laugh, because it's perfectly logical. And it tells you exactly what this is about.
@Boddhi so where are these sacrifices by Germans or EU when evil of USA killed civilians in Middle East?
What a damn hypocrite..
@Boddhi and who's the evil here? Russia, who fights for its own security or the US who wants to always intrude in international affairs?
Just imagine energy loss, and polution caused only by transportation.
For a real face-palm moment, try looking up the amount of natural gas that is simply *flared* on oil production platforms around the world that lack facilities to capture the gas and ship it to consumers.
i can imagine we are genius and insane at same time..thanks for letting us know
5 years ago we gave Porsche/Audi enginners the tech to be off LNG&Crude in a month, but not everyone takes good notes in meetings.
I am so disappointed in Germany for being so unprepared for this scenario...they obviously were not gearing up to carbon reductions either. Try blackouts and advocating lower household temperatures to at least begin to reduce demand. Unreal
Germany is occupied and is not allowed to take independent decisions ... Like opening new pipelines.
I’m so amused about the non-German rest of the world. They really seem to believe there’s a causal connection between gas trade and war. As if the war would suddenly end, if only Germany would stop Nord Stream 2. 😄
@@nayanmalig not with war criminals...
@@StratoPL war criminals w3ho slaughter children in Yemen, Iraq etc and say killing 500,000 Iraq babies by sanctions is well worth it.
Why did Germany quit nuclear power?
Since the greens, are against nuclear. They rather would have wind, solar, coal and gas.
To be a enemy of America is dangerous but to be a friend of America is fatal.
Henry Kissinger
@@napoleonbonaparte937 And to be a peaceful country neighboring Russia is guaranteed death
@@mamacryright5740 yes and the funny thing is they saw damaged plant in Japan which is a country with different climate, on top of a tectonic plates moving and causing earthquakes and tsunamis.... Germany doesnt have such problems. I hope at least they build more renewables and heck even they can try the new gen nuclears.
Because they have been bribed by russian energy lobby.
Wait, isn't Indonesia one of the countries that dump the most bilgewater from their ships in the oceans, according to Germany itself?!?! Damn, people don't learn...
No.. lol...
'expert comments' incoming, claiming germany should run its gas/oil heating systems and combustion engines with nuclear power ...
Engineers with creative minds can almost write their own paychecks. A company of Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical engineers is more valuable than a barge full of diamonds or gold. Energy alternatives are the near term future.
Let me guess you're an engineer
@@mab1ism No but when I was 15 I wanted to be. Then life happened. A confused sibling thought they were Gay. I had to study up on it and make them change. They did. Buy then I was a very unhappy lawyer. Don't ever think you can rescue your family name. If you're the youngest they'll hate you .
@@clavo3352 I have faced something very similar believe it or not.
Yeah it's called nuclear
@@himansh0168 I think it is more common than news media would care to explore. Dr. Eric Berne's book on transactional analysis helped me understand and survive.
Did he just say Canadia...?
Also build Thorium Molten Salt Reactors, no risk of meltdowns, because no water under pressure.
Fun fact, Indonesia is working with ThorConn to do exactly that. Very strange that it wasn't mentioned in the interview.
India has huge Thorium reserves but, in spite of repeated talk of such safer nuclear reactors, I don't think that any are up and running yet.
Wikipedia says that India is building 62 new reactors most of which are Thorium-based with the first expected to be up and running in 2025.
@@eckligt Yeah, it's really dumb how most people in the media just stay silent about nuclear. It's crazy.
You obviously don't know what happens when molten salt mixes with cooling water. Ask a high school chemistry teacher.
The alternative is to become dependent on America's LNG. It costs about 7-10 x more than piped gas. European cost of living will go up. The Industrial goods produced i the EU will become uncompetitive. It is a high price to pay for NATO expansion.
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Can't be much more uncompetitive than no access to modern tech.. Am I right my technologically backwards Russian friend.?!
Everybody has their talking points. They say the things they need to say for their respective audiences or constituents. But, in the end, as long as money is God, nothing will really get fixed.
Not necessarily. Money is not the king, political interest of ruling group is. Decommissioning of German nuclear power plants is a great example - those made perfect sense if every way, apart from the fact that political support was to be gained by phasing them out.
@@huba7439 Is that why I'm holding my breath every time there's fighting near the nuclear plants in Ukraine? A stray bullet won't hurt them but what about a stray missile? And what about storing the toxic waste? In a small country like Germany you can't even store that away from high pop areas.
Exactly. With this kind of thinking you apply the pressure on your politicians, and they close the plant to gain your support. Money is not the king here.
@@huba7439 I don't even completely disagree with you. Germany may have to start using nuclear power again. But that's not a magic fix. Firstly oil and gas aren't just needed for electricity but for production and secondly everything currently using oil and gas will have to be physically changed to using electricity.
@ Nuclear can also be used for co-generation of power and heat, as in case of Leningrad NPP. New small reactor designs are especially suited for that. But afaik in case of Germany there's too much popular resistance to nuclear power to even consider it.
They can get all the energy they need, the question is at what cost to their population.
Your expert should also have stated that the 150 billion cubic metres is a low estimate because of the fall-off in uptake due to Cov-2 with the real figure over 189 billion cubic metres and that is without having to make up for the closure of nuclear power stations, the ban on Russian coal and a cooling climate with Spring 2021 in Germany the coldest for 104 years and having a negative impact on crop growth and also the reduced supplies of Russia fertilizer and diesel. In short, any politician that says Germany can stop Russian gas and coal imports without destroying the economy is in Lal-la Land but unfortunately, that is their natural home. A stop by Russia of exports of key metals like platinum, nickel, vanadian etc will bring the auto and aviation industries to their knees overnight as there are no ready alternative sources, and when talking about the effect on GDP you need to take into account the reduced exports from the increase in costs of energy, materials and labour against competitors. In short, your country has committed a slow suicide from which there is no turning back as Russia has now turned its back on Europe. Apart from the high increase in the cost of coal or LNG from Indonesia and Australia, there is the matter of the availability of ships and the fact that they run on oil. Countries like Indonesia are going to have to decide whether their future lies with the Russia-China-India block or the declining US block. Renewables also depend on supplies of critical minerals from Russia and China so it is not as simple as saying the country can switch to more wind and solar which in any case is none dispatchable and neds backup from gas or diesel units.
When somebody not informed in the world geopolitics & global economics, speaks with authority on the internet... ^^
Hey, Germany, nobody forced you to be absolutely critically addicted to Russia's energy sources, without ANY consideration of geo-strategy & well-known Russia's history.
Now you won't help Ukraine militarily, you'll drag your feet on economic sanctions & say "being responsible for my mistakes will hurt my wallet!".
We can see how seriously you've taken "Never again". How you avoid the chance to atone for your moral failings in the WW2 past.
The same goes for Austria, France & Hungary... shameful display of selfishness & stupidity combined in one sad, sad package of non-responsibility for one's actions.
@@elektrotehnik94 I studied Energy Management in Europe and several teachers admitted that Russia was a reliable provider. For decades they have been signing long term energy contracts without any problem. Due to the energy transition going on in Germany for like 15 years, that country dramatically increased the Renewable Energy generation, deactivated coal plants (very good in terms of CO2 emissions) and deactivated nuclear plants (I understand their fear after Fukushima but I don't know if it was a good decision...). The problem is that they need firm energy to compensate the intermittent renewable technologies and the best choice, for now, is gas. A lot of gas. That's why they built Nordstream 2 (gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic sea). But the problem started not because of Russia but because of the US! They started to say that thew wouldn't allow that pipeline to operate. They sanctioned the European companies involved but despite the sabotage, the pipeline was concluded....some months ago. Meanwhile, NATO started to put armament in Poland and other countries close to Russia, Ukraine government started to shell heavily the Donbass region and Russia felt threatened. Putin mentioned Libya and Iraq's fate in one of his speeches the week he invaded Ukraine. Now the US is selling LNG 40% more expensive to the EU than Russian gas, more weapons to Ukraine...I think Germany made a mistake not because it trusted Russia but because it neglected the US medling.
Someone is well read. You also need energy to manufacture solar cells and wind turbines. Manufacturing is dominated by the Chinese btw. The only solution I see for Europe short term is to allow the gas flow. Long term is Nuclear
@@elektrotehnik94 you are funny
I sometimes wonder how much we consume on just reporting that there are still no solutions for all the problems...
imagine this.. "nuclear" wow so hard
imagine this: gas/oil heating systems and combustion engines ... ;)
wow thanks, that will for shure power the gas stoves, gas heating and the cars
PROUD TO BE INDONESIAN HELPING THE UK
Nuclear energy..best option in my EU country ..other mainstream so called green energies are not so green at all
Forget about the nuclear energy. Germany doesn't like it. Germans still want to be a hub of Russian energy in Europe.
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And nuclear is "green" ?
Nuclear is the most inefficient source of energy. It takes 20 years just to build a nuclear power station and by the time it finishes the technology has moved on. It takes 10s of thousands of years for nuclear waste to disintergrate...
Nuclear is a better option than any fossil fuels, those who say no to nuclear please inform yourself before you leave these comments. Take a look at Kurzgesagt's video on the subject.
What happened to solar power and 'cleaner' source of energy??
DW asks what are the alternatives to Russian energy supplies to the EU?
And, as per usual fails to mention nuclear power. Only the most dangerous fossil fuel , (climate-wise) coal , as well as gas is discussed !
For goodness sake, switch on the reactors
gas is used on fertilizers, chemicals , medicine, and hundreds of products......its not just for heating.......lol
@@panoscorfu1974 ...and before gas was common as a feedstock for the chemical industry coal was used to make fertilisers etc...
What’s the point you’re trying to make?
@@unclepete100 oil and gas are not just for transportation and heating....there are thousands of products that we use and cant be replaced of anything else......google it....do some research on the internet......as i said its not that simple.,....i ll give you an example....basf employees 70.000 people in germany and they import their raw materials from russia ofc oil and gas to produce products.....reactors only produce water steam.....i hope i covered u
Canadia ?
Modern nuclear power is the best alternative or Europe will have to cut back energy use drastically.
The Japanese were saying exactly this for your citizens until that accident and now nobody want to hear about nuclear energy in Japan
I think Europe should act quickly and dedicate 100% to alternative sources of energy!
Do Germans really care about gas prices ? I think no . Germany is quite rich country, isn't it ?
The US is a rich country, richer than germany when you look at the median household income.
That doesnt mean those two countries can afford these gas prices. Its slightly better for the Americans and Canadians, since their big oil producers anyways, but Germany only has Norway to deal with it.
But a lot of the Germans aren't rich.
The problem is that a lot of German (and Italian and Hungarian) houses are heated by natural gas, and right now they don't have the infrastructure to buy most of it from other countries than Russia. Germany is rich, but it is still going to take time to make the transition.
6:04 The USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal. It has huge reserves of coal that will go unused because it wants to go green by switching its thermal generating stations to gas, which is much cleaner. There are large coal mines shut down in the past few years in the USA's Appalachian region that could be quickly re-activated, and their now unemployed workers re-employed. But I do not know if the USA has much in the way of east-coast facilities to export bulk coal.
If you are an unemployed coal miner in America you’ve given up on life
Not with Biden in charge he won't do that
Coal in USA peaked (in terms of BTUs) in 1999. The best coal was in Pennsylvania which peaked in 1920. The quality of USA coal is also in decline. We have eaten the low hanging fruit. But who wants to admit Peak anything?
I notice the Greenies and climate extremists are awfully quiet
Because it is not additional but instead of getting it from Russia as they work to quit gas completely
You mean that if we had listened to calls to reduce energy consumption, a by-product would have been reduced dependence on Russian gas?
Dem nah mek ah sound
if we listened to the "greenies" and quit our fossil fuel consumption decades ago then we wouldn't be in this situation with war in Europe
@@billpee9513 The greens, especially the German ones, have been maniacally against nuclear power. If Germany had done like France, and instead gone all-in with nuclear, they wouldn't have the current predicament where they need to choose between international solidarity and their own living standard.
If instead of spending literally trillions of euros in weapons during the last four decades humans had instead invested in fusion power research we would have commercial fusion power plants today.
fusion power is a pipe dream, will never happen.
If you think global warming is too slow, nuclear fusion, simulating small stars on Earth, could melt the polar ice caps even faster. Fusion also creates nuclear waste through neutron irradiation and could also convert "depleted" uranium-238 into plutonium-239, making nuclear weapons proliferation more possible. Fortunately fusion has been twenty years in the future for fifty years and probably will always be that
Build more wind turbines and put more solar panels. You talk a lot about renewables - now you have the chance to put it to the reality
except it doesn't work like you believe it is...
And nuclear power plants.
Reality wind turbines and solar panels are not efficient enough!
@@encabsss They more than efficient enough.
So reporting on gas and coal? What about renewables?
These details of ‘globalization’ indicate why globalization of energy supply is so critical. We see how free nations relying on that supply of energy allows a country to become a world power because of their natural resources. It is IMPERATIVE that western countries that put democracy and basic human rights do not rely/do business with dictatorships. Russia and China and others do not hold these same values. Democracies are condemned to fighting wars against these regimes if these ‘globalization’ policies continue. Putin and others who rule using terror MUST suffer immediate continuing sanctions to protect the very basic human rights that the democracies of the world hold at our very core.
Where was your democracy when America & its European allies invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Vietnam etc ? Let's call a spade a spade.
"Western countries".... "democracy and basic human rights" Such countries don't exist. Some of the people still believe in it. But the small group of people who rule the Western world surely do not. It's all just about power and money for them. They are no different than Putin. In fact, they might be worse. At least Putin cares about his own country and people. The Western leaders don't.
I don't know about the others, but I have no issue to use a blanket instead of the radiator ......
There is gas needed for energy production and other things as well, but heating private households doesn't seem that important to me.