Is Green Energy The Answer To Russian Oil Dependence? - The Mehdi Hasan Show

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Russia supplies about 10% of the world’s oil supply, allowing it to continue to finance its invasion into Ukraine. Senator Ed Markey joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss green energy as a solution to end dependence on all foreign oil. Aired on 03/30/2022.

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1. Germany's aggressive pursuit of hybrid gas-wind-solar energy systems dependent on Russian gas...

... was a catastrophe that many saw coming.

Germany has had to increase it's use of coal which decreased the amount of "green" energy their electric grid could utilize, increasing their carbon emissions.

Nuclear powered France did not have this problem. France has a much lower carbon footprint than Germany, even when Germany has access to cheap natural gas, and electricity in France costs about half as much as residential users and small businesses pay for electricity in Germany.

Germany also cheats in their accounting for large industrial users of electricity. Industries such as Volkswagen are powered by cheap coal, not the supposedly "green" energy everyone else is paying for.

Hybrid gas-wind-solar energy systems will only prolong our dependence on natural gas and increase the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, especially methane, in our atmosphere.

We have to quit fossil fuels now. A society powered entirely by solar and wind energy, using no fossil fuels, would look nothing like the society many affluent people now enjoy, and probably couldn't even support all 8 billion of us. We've worked ourselves into a corner, we are dependent on high density energy sources for our survival.

I've changed my mind about nuclear power over the years. I used to be an anti-nuclear activist. I'm now certain that nuclear power is the only energy source capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely.