Europe's Energy Nightmare Has Only Just Begun
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- With Russian gas imports largely cut off, Europe is facing an energy-scarce winter-and next year could be even worse. Europe's energy crisis could finally force countries to dramatically pivot toward renewable energy.
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great example of how to tell half a story.
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WELL, UNTIL PUTIN IS DEAD, THIS WILL GO ON THAT IS THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY
@user-lt3he9ey4x SLOWLEY COAL AND OIL WILL GO AWAY, BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME ALREADY THERE ARE WHOLE COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA THAT ARE OFF THE GRID, ALL SOLAR AND BATTERIES , AND NOW DAMAGE FROM THE HURRICANE ,
i know right...."energy suddenly disappeared", failed to mention it is EU's own doing at the behest of USA. EU basically committed economic and energy suicide.
USA is doing everything to make the people of Europe live badly! So that the European economy will fall! USA does this in order to rule the people of Europe and send them to war with Russia, so that the people of Europe will fight and die in the war with Russia!" USA in this war will sit across the ocean and sell weapons to Europe and laugh at the Europeans!.. USA needs a war between Europe and Russia in order to survive itself, as the Anglo-Saxons have always done!,,
It's amazing how they left the part out where their leaders said that they were going to stop using Russian gas
@Paul Sheppard, not surprise they omitted the part where they santioned Russia and wanna stop using Russian gas. It is a propaganda reporting, not news. And, designed for the braindead to be manipulated and controlled. That's how the entire Europe population is held hostage. The brainwashing is relentless. Sad. They are trapped. 😜😜😂😂 But Germany is breaking out of this bubble. The Chancellor visited China to defy the control imposed. In fact, Germans are one of the people with the highest IQ in the world.
and buy from usa for 3 times the price .
@@1712NineNine , it is people like you wanna help open the eyes of Europe but the dirty MSM has greater economic resources to brainwash them, like Bloomberg. 😲😲 You can bring the cows to the river but you can't force it to drink.
@@1712NineNine And "someone" first sanctioned NS2, then just blew it up!! lol
E U is a bunch of countries that lost in itself. They suffer and love it . Were much better as fully independent states.
Can you really call it a "crisis" when it's by design?
It is a crisis, but not for those who made the decisions, because they will be fine. But for everyone else, it's a crisis. So crisis, yes.
@MonHun That is just not true. Europe decided to stop the imports. Russia would still deliver gas to the EU.
@MonHun Lobbyism is not special to Germany, its normal in politics. But you vote for spineless green globalism yet expect moral values LOL
@MonHun LOL Why is it never Europe's fault? Europe is always perfect and gets nothing wrong. But Russia, yeah, everything bad is their fault 😂
@MonHun "Europe is guided by Russia".
And thus it's Europe's fault. They got themselves into this allowing and continuing to be guided by Russia. Europeans freeze, Europe is to blame.
This is like complaining about the severity of a hangover after a binge. Europe made an active decision to eliminate any energy redundancy while depending on a single, potentially unreliable source. Not unpredictably, the one source failed.
It was not a single source, but there was overdependency on it. Agreed it was a terrible and naive move, especially on Germany's part.
@@RM-el3gw Yes.
Trump warned Germany about this and they laughed... now they're scrambling.
It is not the dependence on Russian energy that was the problem. Russia was a reliable and affordable supplier until Europe started to play poker with a bad set of cards. It is acting like an invaded country is a NATO member when it is not. All this ideological, high moral behavior is what got Europe in trouble. Most of all, it is Europe taking care of US interests, instead of taking care of their citizens.
not all of europe, but those of us who didn't are still paying for it.
"Tough" in Europe is super comfortable in some other part of the world
America be like:
Um not quite. I live in Europe and I lived in Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, and Ethiopia. It depends on your level of income. Over all hands down I loved Africa more. My quality of living was much better. The weather, the society, lovely beach front communities, beautiful homes, great clean food, safety and much more positive environment. Europe is depressing
@@lf1496 The EU has destroyed Europe
@@lf1496 Now compare the lifestyle of a average income person in Europe to a average income person in Africa.
Being rich enough to not care about any costs only applies to a small percentage and even that percentage is smaller in Africa unfortunately.
yeah, the Europeans don't pay last pennies for energy, it's just will be one vacation less per year
I had to do a police check, physical and mental evaluation to be allowed to drive a public bus. Should be manditory for politicians as well.
AH AH
Politicians don't need obey laws and rules, so even if such thing was introduced it wouldn't have any effect, they stay above you
Also this video seems to be focusing on “families need to save energy” the thing is… big business and expensive office space waste so much more gas than anyone else. Let’s not move another thing to be the responsibility of the people and everyone finally do their bit
Companies create wealth. Houses takes wealth from people and use it to heat their homes.Companies have to pay people to be able to heat their homes that the companies becomes priority since real estates electric bills are relying on companies.
and greenhouses.
You can thank feckface Biden for this.
@@robertagren9360 Weird Economy you learned at school if ever.
The video clearaly states that businesses also need to do there part.
SOLAR on the most northern part of the world with lots of clouds and no sunlights, Great idea!!
And sometimes little wind either for weeks.
"Green energy" = not energy.
I have 9kWp solar installation in southern Poland. It's great from march to september maybe october but then during the winter it's not able to produce enough energy especially that I use heat pump for heating.
it's all about energy storage. There may be less sun hours in the winter, but there is a lot during the summer. There are many ways to store energy, such as pumped hydro, grid scale batteries or you could use the excess electricity to produce hydrogen or methane (same as natural gas).
There is a impression that western countries use "Climate Change" as a cause to reap energies from developing world, making them unable to develop. When the West got industrialized, they released CO2 or whatever and no one bat an eye. By using "Climate Change" cause, the West restricts capitals to build cheap energy production facility (read: coal, oil, gas...). And you know capitals for now mostly reside in the West.
I loved the part it talked about lessoning demand. It would seem their idea of lessoning energy demand is by selling more electric cars, and we won't even discuss the trend of home automation.
this happens when the mba managers make techincal decisions without asking the technical team. They said we are ready to ward off russian gas in the year's beginning and the techinal team was like 'what did they say'
Well on the short term there won't be that many electric cars. Since a majority of the gas is directly burned for heating - like in my home - you can lesson demand by lowering the indoors temperature.
The real plan ==> Ukraine will be Europe's oil and gas supplier.
I think they were including gasoline as energy.
@@موسى_7 who would confuse Gas with energy? lol
They are talking about LNG. But not talking about high price and availability. Qatar already rejected Europe. They have only few option like US and Norway. But they are selling gas to Europe at hiked price. No discount for their so-called western ally. Even US hijacking Europe's industrial facilities
The leaders of EU are like ostrich refused to acknowledge that they had made many mistakes to follow the US and Usula.
You know US of effing A is the one who did the dirty work to Sabotage the Nordstream 2 pipe , and then this F*Ker from US of effing A well blame it on Russia of their own crimes HAHAHAHAHA LOL 😂 😂😂😃😃😃👍👍👍👍😈😈😈😈🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺!!!!
Lol, why would they give them a discount? They are selling them at market rate, and LNG is naturally more expensive than gas flowing through a pipeline. The EU can afford it.
@Johnson Li Because the EU, like japan, south korea ect. are american vassal states.
@@marvellous9652 why should terrorists get to profit from their actions
it's a self-inflicted wound
Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems but the world's problems are not Europe's problems. ~ Dr.S.Jaishankar
No matter the issue all you need to do is follow the money and you will see the unseen hands
100%
So Pfizer developed the C19?
U.S. military industrial complex
Well they are not unseen then are they ? When you can see them
@@rolandhawken6628 you're peeking around the curtain. My point is not so profound, its an old one and quite commonsensical but i think its often forgotten. In the Christian faith there us a relevant phrase that says the love of money is the root of all evil. Same idea.
"It remains unclear who carried out the suspected sabotage". Really Bloomberg??
Either Poland or Sweden. Probably both.
The U.S who else
@@adurpandya2742 Negative the U.S.
The UK , under the supervision of its masters of course : the US .
@@simply_diecast_3349 US doesn’t care enough.
The Problem in Germany is that they have a lot of bureaucracy if a company or a household wants to use green energies that makes this transition also way difficult.
They also need better insulation so it takes less to warm or cool and it stays warm or cool much longer.
@@thesilentone4024 Tell the North Americans that
@@thesilentone4024 insulation manufactured with a petroleum product
The problem of Germany is that everything always has to be as extreme as it possibly can be. Extreme insanity during WW1/2, Communism was even “developed” by a German, now the eco- and leftfascism. Burning all the energy bridges before you have paved the new road. The refugee crisises. Doesn’t matter which party Leads in Germany it has to be as crazy as possible.
Green energies,at the time being, are not enough.
Mostly in the UK people have been really complacent over the last 100 years. Most countries insulate their homes. The Uk didn’t do any of that because of cheap gas and coal before that. Landowners are pocketing profits and normal people are now stranded with either the cold or ridiculous gas bills, because of the way British housing is being built. Europe on the other hand single-handedly decapitated it’s energy supply by closing down countless nuclear reactors - the cleanest form of energy available- whilst simultaneously failing to provide alternatives apart from Russian gas. It’s time for everyone to see that this is all about corporate interest and the leaders are doing nothing for the people.
There have been attempts in the UK to improve household insulation already, but many types of home are not suitable for the preferred cavity wall insulation, because of rubble or debris contained in the cavity. And doing so resulted in them becoming unhealthy and uninhabitable because of the thermal bridge resulting in condensation and mould. Additionally, many houses are older and do not have cavity walls at all, so have less scope for effective insulation without major reconstruction. That's not to say it isn't worth trying nor that some improvement can be made, but it's not as simple as saying houses in the UK haven't been insulated as though it were that easy.
I will however agree that it has been nuts to shut down functioning (and well run) nuclear reactors ahead of their lifespan as occurred in Belgium. Fear of nuclear power is justified more by emotion than statistical fact (compare the death rate per TWh of energy sources) - it's a bit like the disproportionate fear of death due to terrorist attack, when in reality people are emphatically more likely to die of more mundane causes such as heart disease or cancer.
Nuclear is not clean. Apart from that I mostly agree
I thought the UK used bricks to build their homes? That’s insulation isn’t it? You can’t insulate a brick. It’s either bricks or it’s Sheetrock and wood with insulation stuffed inbetween.
@@MrMischelito No energy is completely clean but per KwH produced over its lifetime it and aside from a tiny amount of nuclear waste, it is the cleanest source we have. Wind, Tidal and Solar are great but due to the huge energy output from nuclear the energy pay back period is much quicker and thus cleaner. Probably a mix is the best solution 🤷
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se of course you can insulate a brick wall 😂 You can attach insulation to any solid wall.
Renewable is not reliable. What silver lining they are talking about.
Propaganda
@@freetrade8830 Can you control number of days the sun will shine? Can you predict when will wind speed?
@@GeoffreycChan I agree with you, I was referring to the “silver lining” assertion.
@@GeoffreycChan Yes, what happens on low wind cloudy days?
australia, kazakhstan, canada has worlds #1 #2 #3 biggest uranium reserves. so nuclear is pretty reliable investment.
just make it many small nuclear reactors, like every city 1, not just 1 big.
@BiPolarPunt
we have houses called Passivhaus, by Germany, you dont even need to heat them during winter time.
It was time to diversify energy sources way back when OPEC decided to create a monopoly for fossil fuels. Now that we're moving to renewables, don't make the same mistake of importing everything from China, who can cut off supply at any time for any reason.
The future is long, and it is hoped that Europe will find industrial energy sources to replace Russian energy. Otherwise, remember what you said, and wait a few years to see what you said
European countries and especially germany's industries has profited a lot from cheap russian energy. Without it, Germany wouldn't have grown like it is today.
@@liujack3577 Ur right.
China wanted to help Europe with cheap solar panels back in the 2013-2015's.
It's better if the whole world would turn more solar, and it could have worked.
By now at those pricings we could have had like 50-100% more solar power.
Less economic fallout due to energy shortage.
It's almost when there's shortage the fallout increases in magnitude exponentially.
With twice the economic crisis it's fourfold the trouble and work to clean it up.
They said it's for the climate change, while ignoring the social and cultural change at the same time. European leaders have disconnected with their own people. They accuse Putin but they do not want to talk the disastrous consequences of their own policies.
Watched the 1st 5 mins then had to move on. Only western media says Russia has cut gas to Europe. NS1 operated with six pumps, Canada sat on five holding them under maintenance until Germany retrieved one. The single pump Russia used to pump 20% capacity was not enough. Russia to this day offers gas via NS2 but Germany still says no!
Addicted? Reminds me of Road Warrior 4 - "You are addicted to water". It is so amazing to hear mainstream pols repeat this - another problem "You are addicted to freedom"
There's no alternative to water.
Analogy is not an argument.
Stop listen to "greens" and reopen nuclear power plants.
how effective are solar plants in Europe during winter and in clowdy weather ?
Just as effective as solar plants in America during winter and in clowdy weather.
@@ettoreatalan8303 Rarely. Europe as a whole is farther north than the USA. Latitude matters a lot for solar, both for winter daylight length and radiative flux density (angle of incidence).
@@ettoreatalan8303 that was funny. but talk about clowds aside, the biggest solar farms in America are located out west or southwest in California, Nevada, Arizona or Texas, where the sun shines most of the year. So no, the solar plants in America are generally more effective that solar plants in Europe.
@@EliF-ge5bu Europe will have a large production of onshore and offshore wind farms. That is the green energy that helps most in winter. As you say, solar does not work well in Europe during winter. Especially not in the northern half, but it is very windy in the North Sea.
They don't tell you their little dirty secret: the process of making solar panels goes with the emissions of chemicals into the atmosphere, which are bad greenhouse gases (worse than carbon dioxide).
You know it’s bad when Bloomberg QuickTake makes content about it .
Edit:To be fair to Europe though it will survive the winter as most countries have hit 80% gas storage .TLDR Eu did a great clean view on thisz
Except the UK got rid of its gas storage
Moreover - it looks like its going to be a reasonably warm winter. Saw cormorants on the Vistula today in Warsaw - as per folk belief, if they cant be asked to fly to the Mediterranean for winter, then there is not going to be any serious winter - we will get through this just fine, don't need no temps from Bloomberg to tell us otherwise
@sourav jaiswal Those industries were going away anyways. There were a couple of factors that were affecting their profitability. Firstly, the gas that America started producing from fracking is cheaper, cheaper even that Russian gas that was getting into Europe, so it is much cheaper to produce certain products, such as plastics, in the USA. Secondly, countries from the Middle East started to emphasize petrochemical industry, and they have lots of gas and oil. And thirdly, they were going away anyways because Europe does not have the demographics to replace their aging workers and the younger workers dont want to work in a factory, they want to work in hi-tech and software.
I would say that Europe is in trouble, indeed. But I am far more worried about China. China is even more dependent on imported energy and they face the same demographic pressure. China is also more indebted than most of the European countries and their economy is low value-add, which means that any change in input cost will cause them to go from a small profit to a loss.
I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??
The cost of a lack of investment, combined with poor investment choices that started about two decades ago.
What kind of investment you mean?
@@GrandTheftChris The is the result of natural workings of the capitalist system based in Nation states. Competition for markets and resources leads to the ultimate completion or war. Nothing is cheaper and more renewable for the ruling propertied class than the young unemployed soldier and munitions.
Germany invested half a trillion dollars in "green" energy.
Obviously it works.
Everything none solar and wind. Almost everything is old and at it's limited. Powergrid no capacity to charge all electric cars . To little gaswells and buffer flields. To little makers of insulation materials et cetera. The list is pages long.
@@katarn848 All of it foreseeable. Which is what humans do when getting something to work.
This whole video could be summed up in that bicyclist shoving stick in his own wheel meme.
This is only the canary in the mine. The whole world is in for a complete shake up of food, water, energy, virus invasion, ocean rise, at some stage the human population will drop to match the planet carrying capacity. It will not be pretty.
It saddens me that the topic wasn't disclosed as widely as recollect a Spectator article from a year back highlighting that we were headed already into energy crisis scenario because of Chinese increased demand and empty European gas storages (those few that were left in the UK). It was a warm winter and still covid, hence public focus was elsewhere though. Read for yourself : Power grab: who’s hoarding all the gas? by Seb Kennedy in Spectator
I don't know who is hoarding gas, due to cheap and reliable pipe flowing natural gas enjoyed for many years by the European continent from Russia , they did not think of building terminals to import LNG and how to store it, now turning back to burning coal again(like Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables).Nuclear plant for electricity production? Remember Chernobyl?How about Greta Thunberg with her hysteria and cult?
😂
Read it - an excellent piece , and well raised here. Energy supply and transmission a shitshow basically 😯
Europe cancelled their Gas & Diesel Contracts with Russia, just when China & India want to buy more. Does Europe want to fail on purpose, or is it suicidal.
I'm glad energy efficieny was mentioned, the penny of Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is dropping faster!
Why don't they use wind and solar?😛
@@stormytooman1947 Are you joking really ARE YOU JOKING wind power reliable produces 1% I repeat ONE PERCENT OF INSTALLED CAPACITY so if you need 1 megawatt of power you must install 100 megawatts of capacity. The Germans went with wind and solar and today they are cutting wood to live, IT DOES NOT WORK IT HAS FAILED EVERY TIME IT HAS BEEN TRIED THAT WHY WE QUIT USING WIND AND SOLAR IN THE FIRST PLACE DO SOME RESEARCH NEXT TIME BEFORE YOU COMMENT!!!!
@@bobpawtucket1336 That was my point.
@@bobpawtucket1336 I was trolling: wind and solar are promoted so we will be cold and poor and hungry.
Let me guess: Demonrat paid troll, still living in Mom's basement, yes? Get a job, Mike.
Sanctions backfired
its firing in both directions, really russia still has it worse, next year will be interesting for sure!
Its amazing how EU countries can announce subsidies programs of 200 billion euros and similar to fill bottomless pits (cover energy costs of businesses and consumers), but how they won't consider things like relocating all the people (or those experiencing issues) living above the Groningen Gas field, so extraction can continue at full pace there. With the kind of budgets being thrown around now this should be very, very possible. But I guess we would rather make every external gas provider rich rather than finding ways to exploit the gas we do have. If I understand correctly, the amount of houses is affected that is low enough that with 200 billion euro you could relocate everyone into houses costing more than a million euro each if you wanted to ...
The € and the pound Sterling are based on the $ U.S. Fewer Global Corporations do their transactions using the unstable $U.S. The USA is losing it´s hegemony as it continues to treat other nations like it would be treated itself!
because Ukraine war is Ponzi scheme for your politicians you bunch of idiots didn't get this till now
The problem is the US calls the shots and US oil and gas need high prices if they are to be able to increase the number of wells for future sales to europe.
The legality of relocating people would be prohibitively expensive and not necessarily successful.
because switching gas/oil sourcing is just a temporary band-aid...
I think Europe will fine it just media just try to make it a really big deal
Maybe u have money...wt about other people
@@SimonTmte Even dropping the temp from 21°C to 18°C will save a lot of energy. If one can chill out in a T-shirt in their house during winter, they're just being wasteful.
@@SimonTmte hahah live sweden 0 gas we need, will have 24 indor alla winter no problem
you are illiterate Trent.
@@SimonTmte The problem is not the temperature of your house but the energy that has to be used by the european industries and enterprises which are all falling down.
The same people that wanted the New Green Deal are begging for fossil fuel oh the irony 😂😂😂
What about pre war moves by Europe to source energy from the spot market rather than sign long term contracts with Russia. Encouraged by U.K. and US, the EU followed this foolish policy (which Putin warned them against) and imposed sanctions on energy. These are problems the USA says EU must cope with while it makes as much money as it can from selling energy and weapons to Europe. The EU has surrendered Europes energy and foreign policy sovereignty to the USA. And I thought Europeans were smart :-/
This neglects to mention Russia had multiple sanctions, including blocking them from SWIFT, before they cut the energy supply. They make it sound like it came out of the blue.
Blame lies with Ursula and Boris, and the general western hegemony.
Sure, energy mixe that was decides 20y ago is the fault of the gov that ruled for the past 3y sure!
If Americans are laughing at Europe, and it's very foolish energy policies, wait till you see your energy bills this Winter, with $10/Deca therm nat-gas prices. Bend over greenies.
Here in Czechia (and also Poland) we want to build more nuclear power plants but Germany and Austria are against it. Its scary EU can stagnate and become easily incompetive on global market just because of energy prices.
Right now Germany is seeing highest inflation since WWII - they are a manufacturing exporter that's life blood has been cheap fuel you take away that cheap fuel and they can not compete globally anymore.
@@Kenny-bj2zq well, of course they can. German companies can move abroad and move the jobs with them. US is attracting EU companies right now. But if you ask the germans the public polls say they prefer green politics
@@leoprg5330 yeah my people are like a lobotomy patient lead by a blind guy
The Czech Republic will be in alliance with Russia and this will save you in the future. All Slavic countries will be under the control of Russia. This is what our saints said hundreds of years ago. When the world war will starts, then Russia will destroy Turkey in one week and Paris will be completely destroyed, Germany will be destroyed. Euro and dollar will disappear. Europe will collapse. In some Slavic countries, people will start a revolution and overthrow the government, and then make an alliance with Russia. This will not be the case in all countries. Poland will wash with own tears, Poland will be destroyed.
Czech.Rep. just needs two 1000 MW units as Dukovany NPP units 1-4 are expected to be expired in 2035-2037. The only way for that is to deal with Korea or China, because Rosatom doesn't want to have business with East Europe (except Hungary's Paks-2 NPP). U.S. and France are losing their nuclear qualifications. And Austria is not a problem: as we all know Russia built Temelin NPP in 80 km distance of Austrian border ans they couldn't do anything. Greetings from Russia.
Been freezing last night and still have my radiators turned off. Just grab an extra sweater/thermal clothing, double pair of socks, bigger blankets and some hot drinks and deal with it. Some people really act like spoiled brats or are just fear mongering.
agreed, living crisis ? people should stop whining
quick question, what happens when there's no wind and too much cloud...
No wind, no power. Renewable energy can't replace fossil fuels. It's not stable and reliable.
Then they freeze in the dark.
if there is more clouds means normally more wind....
battery STORAGE
@@josemonteiro5988 that doesn't always hold though
And we only have Supreme unelected Chairwoman Ursula of the Soviet European Union to thank for all of this.
Does she have a cunning plan?
Ursula von der crazy.
So now, instead of using gaspipes, we're re going to ship LNG on tankers from the USA? That's tens of thousands of tonnes of fuel dumped into the oceans, I can't even start to explain to myself who could've made this decision and thought it was a smart one
What do you think oil tankers are? When you're willing to stop driving and flying, then we can talk. LNG ships are very safe.
@@incognitotorpedo42 how much fuel a loaded fuel tanker burns to get from US to EU?
@@stralplane 1-2 percent of the LNG they deliver to Europe. So that much. They dont dumping anything into the ocean.
Self-made problem..... This is what you get when you have ideologues as leaders.
Avoidable how?
@@tomson842 Maybe with willing to negotiations where all sides have benefits
Politicians should go through a psychologist and psychiatrist test to see if fit enough to qualify for serving the state . If unwilling to do so, out through the door and to dog house
No exceptions
They and their puppet masters could care less about silly "tests" made by and for plebs. They're convinced that they inhabit a higher plane of existence.
They could turn coal seams into liquid oil and just pump it out at will - there is hundreds of years of the stuff
every where in the world very cheap and affordable - just needs a bit more cleaning up but very doable and could be stored very easily more energy density than gas storage since it could be very quickly converted.
The Green politicians of EU have effectively been talking for years about how the developing world should forgoe industrialization, or de-industrialize, while accepting reduced and much more expensive energy . . .
Here in Greece the sun is so strong that needs no fossil fuel for energy.
A netmetering solar system can be payed out in less than 1,5 years.
Where is the problem?
The obstacles and bureaucracy are at totally deterrent level!
no one mentioned why US. and UK exploded Nordstream pipe line? How much at least these two countries added to the crisis ?
Even IF they blew up the pipeline and by all means show your proof then Nordstream 1 was still an inactive pipeline by that point in time. The gas inside of it was just leftover gas that was in there to keep pressure. By that point in time Russia wasn't pumping any new gas into it anymore. Nordstream 2 was never in use in the first place beyond having some gas for pressure in it (also leftover from the test runs they did). So nobody mentions it because firstly it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory and secondly even if it did happen Russia wasn't pumping any gas anymore into Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 was never in use and as such whether they are destroyed or not changed absolutely nothing.
I don't get how it's sustainable with wind and solar? What if we go weeks with big clouds and no wind?
With the help of energy circulation and storage. Do you know how big Europe is? And wind and solar are not the only renewables.
@@GrandTheftChris There's wind, solar and hydro and nuclear. Those are the big 4 green energy sources. Hydro is reliant on water reserves, if they dry out = no energy. If that happens to be at the same time with no wind and solar for a few weeks, and we don't have enough nuclear? Then we need the natural gas or even worse the coal. When we get fusion we are golden, or maybe a way to store all the extra energy from wind and solar to times with less
@@joakimdam9723 Of course, for the near future we still need an energy mix. The goal is to further reduce the fossils and to increase the renewables, and there is still a huge potential to do that.
@@GrandTheftChris Yea but I know we can improve with more percentage for renewables. I just don't see how we can go 100% renewables in 2050, it's not physically possible without nuclear, gas or coal. There will be droughts + cloud + no wind some weeks in the future too
@@joakimdam9723 There are already some interesting energy storage methods. I'm convinced they will be efficient and powerful enough to achieve that till 2050.
If Europe is looking for Natural gas, I have some. It's not liquified though, yet. Having said that, the rich in Europe won't need to call me, as they are able to keep warm
Fortunately, winters are warmer that they used to be.
thanks climate change, i guess LOL
The cold Kills more people than the warmth - just ask Goldilocks. They are now looking at ways of altering the trajectory of planets - OURS. Starting with asteroids - crazy scientists.
Yeah all this climate warming . What is the problem?
No, they are colder! Man made climate emergency is a total fraud.
@@PopescuSorin climate cycles
Wonder how comfortable the " leaders" homes will be this winter ?? I think we all know
They will have turned their thermostat down, of course, when they leave for their winter retreat somewhere warm.
To have a better standard of living the experts say we need to reduce our standard of living...whose standards are they talking about, ours or theirs?
OMG what that Liebreich guy said at 15:00 absolutely floored me. Nothing is further from the truth. Fossil fuels are the most secure energy source available. Why do you think all of the great nations got to where they are? Nations and societies WILL NOT thrive without cheap energy - just wait and see......
Need to add a lot of energy storage for this intermittent energy source. Not mentioned in talk.
I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??
The UK uses about 1000 GWhs a day, I'd like to see what 2 weeks of storage looks like.
This is going to be a problem when intermittent sources make a big part of production, for now it isnt
So there's no problem?
@@gvibration1 for now no, most of our electricity comes from gas whihc is really flexible so no, there is no problem in the near future with having intermitent energy sources
The EU is falling apart. I really hope we'll see more Brexit-like scenarios in the near future and European countries joining the BRICS alliance. The EU, as it is currently, is turning into a dictatorship worse than the Soviet Union. I'm saying this as an EU citizen.
I guarentee you it will happen. The Brits are smarter then we thought. The EU will die.
you are delusional.
@@fireflake_dnb_470 no he's not.
I’m fully invested in LNG, LPG 🚢 shipping stocks.👌🏾
Maybe in the short term. As someone that works in the energy transmission sector, I see billions being invested in wind and solar and have a much longer view on renewables
@@martinwrightnz how's wind and solar now? Are they viable options? Is it used widely compared to LNG/LPG? If solar and wind are the future of energy, Europe should've invested long time ago.
@@rbngryn That's what Europe did. Germany already obtains 48.5 % of the needed energy from renewable sources.
@@GrandTheftChris but why are they still struggling with energy sources if you say that renewable energy is already 48.5% of what you're saying?
@@rbngryn what he failed to State is the chemical use of methane that electricity can't replace in short term, methane is use to make fertilizers and used as gas for heating , these 2 can't be rapidly switched to use electricity on a national scale
You see the actions of governments and organisations like the eu and the wef, all of this could have been avoided but their combined actions have created all of this. Its almost like it was the plan.
Interesting how they say supplies were "cut" without mentioning WHO LIKELY blewup the pipeline (Hint: Those who did it warned that they would in video several times)....
Russia keeps sending empty threats
Russian Federation consists of several Turkic and other nations states. Russian Federation was part of the Soviet Union, but not the Soviet Union itself.
Remember when German diplomats were caught laughing at Trump when he warned this is exactly what would happen.. 9/25/2018
One has to ask the obvious - if lifting sanctions on Russian can resume Russian energy supply and avoid Winter death in Europe, would Europe do that? Or letting their people die? At least European realise that sanction kills. Just think about the countries the West has sanctioned for years or even decades.
No one is gonna freeze, there is enough energy in storage for that. And yes, the whole point of sanctions is to makie life difficult for dictators, so yeah they work
@@joelimbergamo639 If no one is gonna freeze why there are so many protests in Europe? Many European have to make the choice between eating or heating.
@@weichengcn You said it, but the price of energy its on on EUs control, govs are already planning to help and protestes are normal, but the point is there is enough energy for winter, just not at the same price and we need to reduce consumption
The bottom line sanctions don't work prime example EU the U.S. economy hitting bottom while the Russian ruble in better shape. Beside the U.S. banks are still doing business with Russia.
@@simply_diecast_3349 If you believe that the health of an economy is tied to a currency wich is bassically unexchangeable you should leans a bit about economic science. If you cant sell the rouble and you can just buy it obviosly its value rises. And with the rest of the economy how do you know if Russia doesnt publish any data?
I remember what I was in Estonia in 1993 and Russia cut the flow of gas to the baltic states. The hotel i was in had no heat in late fall. I slept in my sleeping bag fully dressed. the water pipes were breaking. I learned to drink coffee because the bakery had heat and I went there early in the morning just to warm up. I suspect Europe wont get anywhere near that dire. life goes on and people adapt.
Adapt how? By moving from relying on Russian gas to rely on American LNG 🥶
The US and UK clearly pushed Putin to invade Ukraine so they can stop Nord stream pipeline 2 and 1! Do bit of research and you'll find out the truth!
the Eu sanctioned themself by sanctions on Russia and the Germans refused to open NS2 and canada refused to deliver the gas turbines for NS1
Anyone should twice before sanctioning their largest energy and grain provider
This is pure propaganda. Wind turbines and solar are intermitent, so they need the natural gas technology to stabilize the electric grid. Lack of wind in 2021 droped the production of wind turbines in Europe from 16-18% down to 5% (Vaclav Smil) causing the drop of the gas reserves and the increase of its price already before the war. You also forget to say that wind and solar are only a fraction of the electric power generation which is a 20-25% of the total energy we use. Basic sectors cannot be electrified like Steel, Cement, Fertilizers, plastics, Aviation, Ships, Heavy trucks. Intermitency is the one big problem of wind and solar, the second is : low power density and this means occupation of huge spaces destroying the biodiversity. Already here in Greece the Natura 2000 network for the protection of biodiversity is heavily targeted from the wind industry.. If we do not reduce the demand of energy and rationalise the use of it, to spread illusions that with wind and solar we will keep on the same way of living and only change from dirty fossils to clean wind and solar, is nothing but dangerous propaganda of powerful lobbies.
Not real understanding some of the content here. The narrator say the Russians started slowing down supplies to Europe in 2021. But that was only a consequence of the Europeans refusal to sign fresh contracts with the Russians. The Europeans absurdly said they would just buy at spot price and use renewables. Crazy
It always amuses me that protesters shout demands for more of this or that, as if more is just waiting somewhere for them to demand it.
Putin did not put pressure on European countries. They boycott Russia regarding Ukraine and Putin responds. If someone hit your would you not respond or accept their action. European countries are of their own doing. No one else.
Putin pressure Europe with gas because of sanctions that are set because of Russia attacking Ukraine. So initially it’s a Russian action that lead to the crisis, not the poor Russians trying to defend themselves from EU…
here we go again DOOMBERG
Newsflash: _We're all gonna die_
The problem is "green energy" scam (coal energy suppression) and ridiculous electric vehicles hype (cars, buses, scooters, bicycles) increasing electric power demand.
Electric cars are worse for the environment than diesels.
What nightmare are you talking about? In my country, there are no blackouts and no restrictions on use of gas. And all the experts say that there won't be blackouts or restrictions on use of gas this winter.
Experts in what?
@@GholaTleilaxu Energy experts. People who work in the field and who can know the current state of affairs and the future on the short or medium long term.
@@GholaTleilaxu That's why I wrote: 'the future on the short or medium long term'.
@@dr0117 Still 83% full whereas last year it was like 53% full. Gas storages are even going up instead of down. We will be fine this winter. Meanwhile a lot of LNG terminals will be built and finished this year aswell as another year of lot's of renewable energy being built. Could be a bumpy ride for 1, 2 or max 3 years but I'm sure we will manage to overcome that and within a few years we will be almost completely independant from Russia.
Well that aged like milk if you do live in the EU.
Ending the energy crisis is easy; Europe must to eliminate the sanctions to Russia, because it was not Russia who stoped to sale gas but Europe denied to buy it, by not giving the Siemens turbines for fixing Nord Stream and for forbbid the purchase of russian' gas.
Their proposal to solve the energy problem is more renewables, dig a deeper hole
Can’t be that serious a problem…..
We contacted almost every European Embassy in Tel Aviv offering to help.
They didn’t even bother to answer….
Help Palestinians first
@@kip1052 Why ? Who have the Palestinians ever helped ?
@@drorbenami your mum
Can't help since their country is invaded
Yes... As an European this "crisis" is weird to say the least. Something else is going on for sure! And since your words... You were not the only ones offering help! In South Europe we also did that! In fact, we have a gas pipeline ready to deploy!!! It can go through France and Germany... They refused that help!!! This is INSANE... They have their population/country on the brink of a powerless grid and they refuse to suplant their Russian gas loss with neighboring European gas. I can't... I can't even explain this! That's like having your house on fire, your neighbor has water and a hose and you refuse that your neighbor puts out the fire
Go green,Go Broke.
Funny how they do not mention the energy companies margins inscreasing drastically
how can half of nuclear plants be shut down at same time? did they build it a t same time ?
Not one single word to their US master that caused the whole thing
I don’t understand this strange fixation and notion that we can ever completely go away from fossile fuels. I am not aware of any alternative energy solutions or equipment that lasts forever nor doesn’t require enormous amounts of fossile fuel to produce and maintain. Maybe people need to face reality that alternate energy sources are just that: alternate, and not exclusive and it’s foolish to design any foundational system for a civilization on any single source, be it solar or wind or water or nuke or oil.
Renewables "...more attractive than its ever been." It's almost like it's their plan to make fossil fuels so expensive that renewables actually seem reasonably priced. Then, when the economies of Europe are dependant on relatively expensive renewables you need to get regulations/laws in place to prevent any of your competition from using cheaper energy so you can remain "competitive"
Renewables would mean end of industry in Europe, as Asia would continue getting cheap Russian gas.
@Barry J, that plan won't work as most of the world will simply ignore those laws and regulations. EU products won't sell on world markets due to higher prices.
The discussions intend to say that importing cheap and abundantly available gas and petroleum products from Russia is a crime ! Why ? All this was absolutely normal politically and for other considerations until the war in Ukraine - invasion by Russia. But why this invasion occurred ? The USSR and later Russia pleaded against the eastward expansion of the NATO. But NATO continued. In the end, NATO is responsible for this war , especially Ukraine expressed its intention to join NATO. Nothing more or nothing less.
Lol even Trump warn the German not to rely on Russian gas. He was laugh out of the room. Now who is laughing.
Trump is a fool. It's not our reliance on Russian gas that caused this crisis, it's the utter stupidity of our german government to sanction the one country that's supplying the majority of it. No one would've expected those politicians to shoot themselves in the head and knee, at the same time.
Funny how they never mention the 8 years of sanctions against Russia economiclaly and politically. With that in mind, I'm suprised Putin had the patience of a saint by not cutting gas years ago but instead built at its own cost a 2nd pipeline to help German industry.
Way to go bloomberg! Go with the flow of spreading fear and telling half the truth.
Germany should also open its Nuclear Power plants which it closed after Fukushima incident !
The EU does not need to go towards more renewables.
yeah cause reliance on foreign imports of fossil fuel resources is such a smart idea and hasn't been a bad idea at all. Have you been in stasis or are you just not very smart? They literally need renewable energy they can produce at home so this wont happen again. Are you a russian shill?
I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??
And what is your proosed solution?
So your proposal is to keep being susceptible to Russia and the Middle East? We needed to stop being under their control for a long time now. This energy crisis is actually a positive, it's gonna sting today but this will accelerate us to cut our reliance on them.
@@One.Zero.One101 Not what I said at all, those are your dumb words. Control!? What world do you live in that we were being controlled by the Middle East? We have run roughshod over the ME for the last 40 years. We arm the Saudis to commit genocide against the Yemenis and bombed several countries back to the stone age. You're total acceptance of increased deaths due to cost increases tells me all I need to know about what you think is right and wrong. Renewables are a false choice as well, go nuclear or go home. GTF outta here.
I thought you would say 'Russia would continue supplies of gas despite the sanctions imposed because of the war.'
That would've been a lkttle more accurate.
What else should they do? Burn everything?
where is the part vwhere UK and US blown up Nordstream 2?
where is the part where europe imposed unilateral sanctions on russian gas and oil?
No one talking about Nordstream II sabotage and who did it any more. Love how short Media's short term memory is.
Some archaeologist 500 years from today WILL LEARN the TRUTH.
@@Atheist7 Everyone already knows, no need to wait 500 years.
I smell Blsht. Russia claimed problems with gas supply? What problems were they real problems? like our refusal to do contracted maintenance? I don't like it when news or documentaries are so cloudy and vague. European countries weren't paying for the gas one country owes 3 billion still Russia pumped gas how reasonable should a gas supplier be? this is propaganda.
Moving away from fossil fuels and into renewables is key for every economy in the world today. It is something that has been on the cards for a long time. And whilst they are never nice, crises are often the catalyst to "force" change. There are so many exciting things happening in the non-fossil fuel based energy generation space such as solar and wind that every home can implement, geothermal solutions that will mean that geothermal power generation will be possible everywhere in the not too distant future, and fusion which is another possibility in the future. We can, and we should move away from fossil fuels urgently and rapidly. It is in our best interests to do so.
I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??
Cmon, I heard this for the last 30 years… nothing has improved in that regard. I tried a geothermal unit in my area but it doesn’t work in cold winters. Be honest, the EU leaders did dumb sanctions in an unprepared manner at the expense of EU citizens, many small businesses and bigger businesses. Totally unprofessional and short sighted. They are not the ones faced with the reality of the crisis. So far fossil fuel still reigns.
Yea everyone is going to be walking to work
@@zzmmz3789 This is so dumb, planning to build doesnt mean its already build, dont you know the difference between present and future or what?
Back to stone age for europe
LNG touted as the hero of Europe! 😂😂😂😂
Funny how the interviewees never mentioned the 5 times cost increase of LNG imported from those saboteurs - the USA.
For the sake of another country, please bear the cold for a bit 😅
German building is so incredible, even outside is -1 you dont even need to open heater at all
Woodstoves and blenty of wood chips “gobbs of it” are a must for Europeans this winter!
Somebody's losses Somebody's gain...its directly proportional to each other....
True akhi
bombs make everyone lose.
I thought u guys going green energy because of climate change?? But now begging for fossil fuel??
Renewable energy units ( windmills, solar panels ) are many times worse for the environment to make, run and finally they cannot be recycled when worn out, have to be buried or stored as they are of no value or impossible to recycle like the solar panels.
Read up on them, solar only works in full sun at 25%. Wind only works in wind under 25mph, has to be stopped in higher winds and no power if no or to much wind.
And worse of all, there is no system to store the generated energy so have to use as made or lose it.
So can solar panels be recycled? The short answer is yes. Silicon solar modules are primarily composed of glass, plastic, and aluminum: three materials that are recycled in mass quantities. This allows for the evaporation of small plastic components and allows the cells to be easier separated.
They can to store, thats called batteries or interconnectors between Spain and Norway forexample, no need to store, just send where it needs and get from where its generated at the moment.
Europe is a tough place to invest in solar, it is too gloomy of a region for it to be beneficial.
even northern europe gets a lot of solar during spring and summer. windy in fall and winter, you use wind power then. and nuclear, geothermal, heat pumps, passive houses...
I don't understand, what is wrong with nuclear energy? Why is it taboo?
In Hungary, the Orban government prohibited just now for new solar installations to supply power to the grid. In parallel, Orban runs a huge campaign "Brussels will perish us." I think, I do not have to explain, who's band is Orban playing in.
Feels like a bygone era now already, Russia as a business partner
Yeah, and who's to blame? Not the wonderful white men "of the west"?