EU to Bet on Electricification to Avert Recurring Energy Crises
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-14/eu-to-bet-on-electricification-to-avert-recurring-energy-crises?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NjE5Mzk5OCwiZXhwIjoxNzc2Nzk4Nzk4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUREhCQ0FLSzNOWTgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGMThDQ0VDNEUzODg0REQxODI4Nzk5N0UxNTVFQ0E5NCJ9.WO71BadtESst0DV-Lv9QJOeN1HtDEktMXBcq_eAPcq8
Posted by silence7
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How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:
* Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it’s cheap enough)
* Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
* Stop doing the things we can’t (a few industrial processes)
If “the world” put as much effort into electrification and non-fossil fuel sources of electricity as they do in preserving sources of fossil fuels, all rich nations could be electrified and “clean” in a decade or less. It would take focus and investment, and leaders like Trump keep knocking the train off the tracks.