Comments by "Jiri Slavicek" (@jirislavicek9954) on "Energy Crisis: Pain or Opportunity?" video.

That's called free market. UK exports gas and imports oil. Brits always have this idea of merkantilism, that they should be allowed to sell their good and products to othet markets but other countries shouldn't be allowed on British market.
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@theproblemmustbeinyourpant5910 No, they don't. Is that what you've learned in some Greenpeace anti-nuclear brochure? There are many nuclear plants operating inlands, even in completely landlocked countries. They use cooling water from rivers and reservoirs. Building a plant at sea level is only convenient as you don't have to build large and expensive cooling towers. Sea rises couple milimeters a years, it was 210 mm over last century. Hardly a technical problem. Building reactors below sea level is actually a benefit. They could be flooded by sea water in case of emergency to prevent meltdown.
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Germans snd Russians were always biggest allies
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@Quickshot0 None of these technologies are ready for commercial usage, except electric cars. Even vans are a problem. Today's batteries don't have sufficient capacity. Further research in batteries or supercapacitors is needed. Recharging is also a problem, to recharge an electric truck quickly you need large capacity charger 500 - 1000 kW or more. Charging only ten trucks would require 5 - 10 MW of power, strong very high voltage lines on every charging point. Hydrogen may be way forward but it presents many challenges. It is difficult to compress and store, and it's highly explosive. Planes are more likely to use synthetic methane or similar fuel. I can also see this as a way to power trucks and large machinery. Either way, the world needs a primary source of energy to power all these techs. Current renewables won't be enough, research is needed in nuclear fission and fusion, deep drilling to harness geothermal energy, solar energy on geostationary orbit, etc.
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Of course, this energy crisis is only caused by EU leader's own stupidity. Every country should have diversified and secure energy and food sources. Americans understand it, Chinese understand it, pretty much any country understands it, all except naive EU.
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@Quickshot0 Electric cars perhaps and electric town buses which run on short routes. There's no currently a viable alternative to diesel trucks, long distance coaches, agricultural and contruction machinery, ship engines, jet planes. Fertilizers are also a big deal. Problem is not hydrogen but nitrogen. Nitrogen occurs in nature in N2 molecules which are hold together a very strong bond. To break the bond in order to synthetisise ammonia you need a lot of energy.
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As a German, you need to get rid of fanatic politicians who rule Germany at the moment. Anti-nuclear scaremongerers financed by gas lobby. They are destroying German and European energy security and competitiveness. Germany has enough brainpower, research institutes and industrial base to build its own reactors. Problem is purely political.
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"The high price of sluggishness and laziness of European decision makers is now paid by ordinary citizens." 👍👍👍
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You can thank Russian gas lobby and their German left wing cronies who push the agenda of anti-nuclear scaremongering. 🙈
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