Harnessing sources which replenish themselves like wind and wave power is the aim of European leaders – who want to turn the continent’s northern seas into an engine of renewable energy.
The plan is radical and costly – but will it work?
Presenter: Imran Khan
Guests:
Gareth Davies – Founder of Aquatera, an Environmental and Sustainable Energy consultancy in the Orkney Islands, involved in planning marine offshore renewables across Europe
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve – Co-President of The Club of Rome and EU Ambassador of the Energy Transition Commission.
Noah Brenner – Eastern Hemisphere Editorial Director for Energy Intelligence.
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Good old Americans and Norwegians blew up the pipeline🎉🎉🎉
The guests are right. Energy security is the main motivator for increase in renewables in Europe. Once the cheap oil and gas starts flowing from other countries, that's it Europeans will forget about energy security.
Europe needs to grow some balz like America and just go take oil from middle east countries by force, nobody will care about killing a few million arabs….a week
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Al Jazeera just showing that they are funded by an oil nation. All the questions phrased in the negative
They want a lot lately…
"We blew it, and that's why we need to be on the lookout!"
New German solar cell converts almost a third of sun's radiation into electricity, namely 32.5%.
It is rumored that that technology will be on the market by the end of this year because of how cheap the mass production is in comparison to similar solar cells.
Those wind mills are bird killing machines. The green energy push is a scam!!!!!!!!!
These bureaucrats are clearly energy and mineral blind.
Oil and gas are much more expensive than renewables. Solar is the cheapest scalable form of power production already even without considering the carbon costs. Oil and gas cost more than they could ever be worth, as they shift the cost of consumption to the younger and poorer.
You are spreading caustic (strategic?) misinformation.
Even zeal without prudence is not good,
and he who hastence his pace errs.
go greener? then why they robbing us with hgh electric prices?
it can only be done if UK government stops robbing working tax payers public money and giving it to the cronies of politicians
You stupid European leaders!!!!! Trump was right l!!!!!! Trump was right and you guys laughed at him!!!! Stupid who’s the stupid one now?!?!? Who’s laughing now!!!! Trump is a smart man!!!!
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This video limited its discussion to geopolitical beauracracies and didn't touch anything actually related to implementation.
IMO the EU could benefit if all its members met with the purpose of how best to implement a future of renewable energy instead of the piecemeal fashion things have been happening until now. I understand that Denmark has been particularly successful already building offshore wind farms and is already net positive generating more than the country's needs. Germany has been trying to build as much as it can but is falling short but more importantly like most of Europe supposedly has a decrepit grid with no real plan to resolve that problem any time soon. If Germany even had a halfway decent grid, it could even be importing some of that excess electricity from Denmark.
This video suggests that areas off Scotland are being considered for future wind farms but I suspect that might be primarily the parochial interests of the people in this video's panel. Europe should work cooperatively to grade every possibility for renewable energy generation of all types, then decide where and when and what should be built in 3-5 year increments accounting for the usual 3 year payback and whatever regulatory or licensing delays that might be involved. Connecting all of Europe with a highly redundant and smart grid should be the highest priority in every country if all of Europe will be consumers of energy generated in only certain areas.
And, options should not be limited to the borders of the EU. I've heard proposals which might be considered wild ideas producing energy in North Africa and then either transmitting the electricity to Europe or creating green hydrogen that can then be transported by container elsewhere in the world.
To finance this, I would expect the European Central Bank to be at the center of most financing, but individual countries with means might be motivated to follow the example of the Danes and forge ahead on their own if they see an opportunity to fast track claiming territory to build green energy power plants.
CO2 is soon becoming a devasting weapon
I stopped at a Russian gasstation in Europe this week. it's been abandoned for months.