@TheNuclearGeek
There are far more reasonable alternatives especially for heating, like restarting nuclear plants & geothermal. Countries like Germany who shutdown their nuclear plants out of fear after Fukushima and switched to Russian gas (way to go on that one Germany!) should already be in the planning for restarting those plants, hiring and training workers, etc. If nothing else this gives the option to shutdown the gas plants OR increasing generation capability to utilize electric heating for the winter. The UK and other nations that have shutdown plants should be doing the same. I also know for a fact that there are already "personal" geothermal wells in the UK and other European Nations. I am also aware of the issues that have been caused by poor research into them causing things like sinking/broken foundations, etc., BUT the fact those lessons have already been learned means the ability to properly drill wells has been improved. They can also be scaled up to provide for larger businesses, apartments, etc. They are "green" which should please people. They are local which means no major international political or building hang-ups. There are also already companies in place that have experience with creating them. It certainly won't be a solution for everyone, everywhere, but where it can be done and be supported with government subsidies, the reductions in gas requirements would be noticeable and benefit the entire continent. Transcontinental and intercontinental pipelines built to replace the Russian pipelines, much like Communism, sound great on paper, but the reality is it took from the 1970s to the 2020s to build the pipelines that are currently in place. Replacements would be decades out at best which means entire countries (or the world altogether at this rate) could be gone by then and will have little to no real world impact until the far future. Utilizing smaller scale, local, (and at least in people's minds) greener alternatives would be far more reasonable to show some impact on how things are currently. As in all necessities, the lack of significant diversification is the lesson no one ever seems to learn. Being wholly and only dependent on someone else, especially one with a questionable behavior and history, is asking for inevitable catastrophe. Hell, this makes ditching fire places decades ago look short sighted now.
@thisismetoday
Why don't we just transition to green energy? Is that not the perfect opportunity for this. Seriously. Why are we looking at building more pipelines? Do we want to be dependent on a different human rights violator (Israel) instead? Or fund terrorism and environmental pollution in Nigeria? Can we think about these options properly please. They make no sense.
@nydydn
2:06 My congratulations for who figures out what kind of insect the eni logo depicts.
@thisismetoday
Interesting that the second pipeline was started by Kohl in 1997, and finished by Merkel in 2006 (Schroeder, who is currently blamed for all his Russia contacts, did neither start nor finalise this project during his term in office 1998-2005).
@christopherforbes5603
Compilation video of y'all saying "nonetheless" when?
@OtherWorldExplorers
I'm not keen on admitting it but Trump was right when he told Europe you're depending on someone you can't trust.
@AdAdishonline
Ironic that EU doesn't have any problem buying gas from apartheid Israel. Sadly not everyone has blue eyes and white skin.
@DontFeedTheTrolls
I like this channel but it's starting to really feel like an assault on my ears. The buzzer during the advert at the end is extremely annoying.
@RTDice11
Or we could've built more nuke plants years ago, but then we'd have a bunch of terrified Boomers and X'ers soiling their pants
@TLDRnewsEU