Micheál Martin: Ireland needs to work towards energy independence. That's why we need to consider nuclear.

Me (a fool): But why not concentrate on renewables? We don't have any uranium mines here, Micheál... so we'd just be switching one imported fuel for another...

Micheál Martin (a smart man): Bah! Details!

#NuclearPower #Ireland #Sustainability #EnergyIndependence

There are two problems with the false idea that the US is energy independent. One, as described below, is that we actually aren't. And two, uneducated conservatives think oil is oil is oil, when what we're pumping is the sludgy highly contaminated dregs at the bottom of wells that has to be highly processed and costs more both to get and to refine. The high quality, easy pickings are long gone here.

Link: https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-american-energy-independence

#Oil #Energy #EnergyIndependence #Economy #Sustainability #USPol

How the war of choice in Iran is fueling the electric vehicle boom:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-world/how-the-iran-war-is-inadvertently-boosting-our-energy-transition

#electricVehicles #energy #energyIndependence #energySecurity #energyTransition #EV #EVs #foreignPolicy #fossilFuels #greenEnergy #Iran #IranWar #renewableEnergy #renewables #unintendedConsequences

The current geopolitical situation has put us thinking... thinking also on energy independence. We believe that energy independence is as much about what we produce as it is about what we choose not to use.

https://www.bbcamping.eu/opinions/energy-independence-supply-or-behaviour/

#blog #energy #energyindependence #energytransition #fossilfuel #offgridliving #offgridlessons