Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Gas Prices go Negative: Has Europe won the Energy War?" video.

Not exactly... Because the really long term consequences is the gulf stream slowing down or even stopping, leading to less heat being moved from south of America to Europe... That would make Europe a lot colder... nd the amount of heat needed to make Europe warm even without the gulf stream would be even more alarming...
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I don't think that God is to blame for this one unfortunately... Thankfully it's taking time for the gulf stream to weaken, so for the time being at least a hotter planet on average means a hotter Europe on average... We where lucky there. If the gulf stream dies of however because of the climate changes we'll face essentially a ice age, while the Americans will be facing even more heat...
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I wish it was, but nope...
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@robbietorkelsonn8509 Well, people are increasingly investing in heating pumps to save power for heating, but that als means that they can use power for cooling all of a sudden...
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@inserisciunnome Climate change is heating up the planet overall, especially the sea. That's why the gulf stream is weakening, but there's a lot of inertia in the stream. As for the *why*... My best guess is the jet streams (think river of air). Basically when the temperature differences between the north pole and further south is big enough that stream of air is strong and fairly straight, think a rapid fairly straight river. While a low heat difference leads to the jet streams taking a long curving route. That in turn leads to cold air going far south and warm air far north... Causing heat waves and cold spells. Mind you, that's a guess from someone who hasn't been watching the latest weather trends nor is educated in metrology... But you get the idea.
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@LiviuGelea Kind of. The heat increase isn't so much caused by a increase in radiation usable by solar panels from the sun as the heat energy being radiated out from the earth being bounced back to the ground from the clumate changing gasses. The light might indeed be blocked for instance by a cloud cover, but the heat may still bounce up and down multiple times making conditions hot and humid, shutting down our bodys natural cooling mechanism. Leading to increased ac use without power production necessarily increasing.
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Probably a mix from multiple countries, including Norway, and yes, Russia. As well as any LNG we've managed to get hold of.
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Probably not, as the inflation is baked into peoples wage negotiations at this point... But perhaps the increase will slow down for a bit...
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@drzoidnilsson73 You're Swedish? A big part of Sweden's energy mix us from things like hydropower... If the gulf stream dies those hydropower plants won't do us much good. Neither in Sweden nor Norway. Solid ice can't drive turbines... It has to melt first. Also, glaciers and ocean currents both tends to matter quite a bit in terms of where you can expect rain. You need heat to evaporate water, without the gulf streams the airs above the Atlantic will end up becoming an awful lot drier. And Sweden is already east of the mountains, in their rain shadow... As for burning woods... The trees won't like the cold... Coal is not exactly popular given its consequences... Nuclear takes to long to build safely, especially while following the laws in most countries as everyone wants power, but no one wants a powerplant in their back yard, even when it isn't a nuclear one... Your kids might not enjoy sitting in front of their computers etc if that happens...
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@knightsnight5929 The excess gas thing isn't really true...
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Next winter is next winter, we know what we're dealing with now and have time to prepare. We'll be readier then than we are now. (Not sure if I used "than" correctly there?)
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The coldest I've experienced here in Norway was a tiny bit colder then -50° C, we where less then a degree away from the Norwegian cold record. But we didn't reach it. Still, I'd be happy if we only reach -10...
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@seekanddestroy9111 There's a close correlation, but there's still scenarios where they don't align. And our solar production capacity is insufficient at any rate...
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@TheLjff Also, electricity can be made more efficient. If you use gas to produce electricity to heat houses with that or to heat houses remotely with hot water or oils it's more efficient then heating them directly within the houses with gas. Electricity can be used for heating pumps where you'll use 1/4th the heat you'd need for directly heating with electricity, as the heat comes from outside the house and you only need to use energy to pump it rather than to generate it. Likewise remote heating plants often involves using waste heat from other processes, increasing the efficiency of the system, while home systems often waste energy.
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Maybe, but at least it'll be at reasonable prices now, and given how limited the trade with Russia is right now that's going to hurt them a lot...
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@kiritugeorge4684 Alright, so what's your hypothesis? And why do you believe that?
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@paper plane Russia isn't supplying Europe, that's not confusing, but he's arguing that the attack on the pipeline wasn't done by Russia. The most common assumption/hypothetical is that Russia did it because Putin realizes that Europe won't ever buy gas from Russia again due to lack of trust, so the pipeline is useless long term, and because destroying the pipeline is a way to warn Europe that our energy supplies and other infrastructure is vulnerable while still maintaining plausible deniability. A open attack would force a response from Europe. This doesn't while still spooking us. It's a way of raising the stakes. The goal being to scare us into backing down from our support for Ukraine, as well as Russian affairs in general... However, like I said, it's suggested above that Russia didn't do it. So I'm asking what's the alternative hypothesis he'd like to propose? Who does he suspect? What's their motive? And what's the motive for the goal that the previous motive is meant to achieve?
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I do hope that you guys in Africa manage to pull out of poverty. You seem to be doing great so far. We're still going to depend on Africans willing to move to Europe for a while though. Basically every continent except Africa has too low a birthrate to maintain a sustainable population even if individual countries in said continents do. Indeed China alone is going to lose the equivalent to the whole population of Africa in population in the next few years... Europe isn't doing quite as badly, but still needs more people. I hope that Africans will continue to make use of services like the free universities in here in Norway (free for non-citizens too). Even if the majority returns to their homelands in Africa to work there having some stay here would still end of benefitting us in the long run.
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As for the aid and grants... Not all of it is harmful... Norwegian aid from my understanding doesn't involve any diplomatic demands or any other negatives, at least not intentional ones... It's generally speaking meant to be accountable, and results oriented.
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@marcdc6809 Unless you like the climate of Venus you might want to reconsider that idea... But even if we don't reach the point of no return it's still making the weather more and more unpredictable. The planet might be getting warmer on average but it's still likely to get colder in some areas etc...
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That probably plays a role too, but this is still going to help us a great deal.
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Why on Earth would we think otherwise?
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