[alexose]

Yep. It has massive ripple effects for manufacturing, especially as more industry transitions away from fossils for heat generation. Energy accounts for around 40% of the opex for steel manufacturing, for instance. Zero chance we build more steel mills if the cost of electricity continues to skyrocket.

The Chinese have the right approach: Bringing the cost-per-watt down using massive deployments of renewables and ultra high voltage transmission. We were already in the backseat, and now we're not even in the same car.

[sirtaj]

Presented to us by the same people who gave us the film "Climate Hustle" [1]

1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/climate-hustle-wants...

[8note]

this reads like youre making an argument that if those western europeans turned off their solar and switched to 100% russian nat gas, that their prices would go down.

but, uhh, the war with ukraine is still ongoing, and i think its likely that the main cost driver for those countries is the nat gas because of sanctions