Posted on 10/05/2022 9:00:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
If Europe was a school student, last week it sat its first exam in Energy Savings 101. It failed. And that doesn’t bode well for much tougher tests to come in January.
Despite strong imports of liquefied natural gas to replace Russian shipments, Europe needs to reduce gas consumption — by a lot — if it’s going to make it through the winter. Extra supply won’t be enough. Conservation is absolutely paramount.
The exact amount varies from country to country, but on average, the European Commission has suggested a 10%-15% demand reduction. Germany and a few other nations, which in the past relied on Russian gas significantly, need to cut consumption even more, by as much as 20%.
Because these savings targets are fixed, a warmer winter would make conservation a lot easier, a colder one much harder. But irrespective of how harsh the winter gets, Europe needs to consume less gas than it did in 2021 and what it averaged over the last five years.
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Sicily is quite mountainous. This means lots of forests with firewood.
“That green wood is going to be hard to get started and be really sooty. Hope their chimney is good and clean.”
Put a wood stove in the fireplace with a steel stove pipe up to the top of the chimney. Take the stovepipe out every few weeks. Inspect for creosote and clean it out if needed. Burn green wood this way. Cut the green wood small and it will burn hotter and cleaner.
Lay in fire wood for next year to season it.
You can’t conserve your way out of this.
Wind and Solar are not enough.
The above 3 are all that Gaia Worshipers consider to be valid options - but of course they’re not. They will never come remotely close to meeting a modern economy’s energy needs.
The Europeans could enhance their security, save their manufacturing and their whole economies and save millions of jobs by simply letting go of Gaia worship.
Yes.
It really is that simple.
They have nuclear technology, coal, natural gas and wood aplenty. They just have to decide to actually use it. This isn’t rocket science.
True this:
Remove all restrictions on fracking, dummies.
Agree with al-Kaabi.
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