At this point I have stopped caring about the renewables ideologues.
We are very clearly funding a massive industry in China and becoming even more dependent on a single country than we ever were with fossil fuels.
It's not even clear that renewables are actually that much less carbon intensive because I believe there are some massive accounting shenanigans happening around emissions for building/recycling and we can't clearly check that out because it's all happening in China. They increased their coal consumption even more than their renewables consumptions by the way, that should be a clue.
And what the report failed to mention is that electricity consumption has fallen in the EU, precisely because the renewables has made it much more expensive, so people try to use less of it or go for alternatives (wood heating is making a comeback in rural areas for example).
And the EU keeps hemorrhaging industries left and right, so there is that. But I guess we will have "green" intermittent electricity sponsored by China, and that's supposed to be good somehow...
It's not even clear that renewables are actually that much less carbon intensive because I believe there are some massive accounting shenanigans happening around emissions for building/recycling and we can't clearly check that out because it's all happening in China. They increased their coal consumption even more than their renewables consumptions by the way, that should be a clue.
And what the report failed to mention is that electricity consumption has fallen in the EU, precisely because the renewables has made it much more expensive, so people try to use less of it or go for alternatives (wood heating is making a comeback in rural areas for example).
And the EU keeps hemorrhaging industries left and right, so there is that. But I guess we will have "green" intermittent electricity sponsored by China, and that's supposed to be good somehow...