Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "Europe faces energy crisis as power shortages lead to soaring prices | DW News" video.

  1. Rebounding somewhat from a covid-induced recession, there have been severe production dislocations across industries and throughout the world. This has nothing to do with "extreme environmentalism".
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  2. sic transit
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  3. There was sufficient capacity for Gazprom to export to western Europe through existing arrangements, Last year, the year before, the year before that... there was no NS2, but there also had been no significant economic dislocation from lack of natural gas. Reconcile your statement with reality.
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  4.  @MyKharli  Probably not. EDF had no reason to worry about a rocketing cost structure when petrocarbon prices spiked in 73/74 and later oil crises. Decommissioning is a controllable process which might proceed at a faster or a slower pace. There is no emergency.
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  5.  @luiscabral4852  Fessenheim has been taken offline. The cost of fully decommissioning it clearly will not be zero. Meanwhile no new nuclear generating power stations had been commissioned over the last few years, AFAIK, but please light my lantern if I am mistaken.
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  6. devoutly to be wished; it might be swapped out for 'transitional'
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