Post #977677
2026-04-06 08:27 UTC
Germany should have give everyone solar panel and a battery for free instead of taking care of cheaper fuel prices.
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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one 2026-04-06 10:12
@sn unfortunately, industrial energy is not as interchangeable as physics energy. There’s a lot of infrastructure that depends on fuel and can’t be replaced with electricity. Transportation requires massive investment to switch to electricity. A lot of chemistry runs on oil processing byproducts or oil itself and can not switch away at all. For instance we’ve got so much cheap plastic because it’s a byproduct. If we stop pumping oil for fuel plastic will become extremely expensive. It might be beneficial in the long run (better recycling, use of other better materials) but it would require a global production chain reshaping. It can’t be done in months.