Okham Man

@DrMichaelBonner I wouldn’t learn the history of my own country from the white man. Lmao. Do you even know how to pronounce Shahnameh Mr Boner?

The correct response to the current energy shock is essentially to double down on Energiewende policies according to @avilewis. Europe dug itself out of the 1970s oil shocks with 54 nuclear reactors built in 20 years in France, the North Sea offshore oil and gas developments of the UK and Norway and Russia’s pipeline diplomacy Ost-Politik with the Soviet Union. These policies created near energy self-sufficiency by the 1990s. Cheap energy made Germany an industrial powerhouse that even largely weathered the China shock of de-industrialization of the early 2000s. However this bounty led to a soft generation of leadership swimming in luxury beliefs. In the meantime, these decadent leaders divorced from physics, production and the factory floor, allowed and even encouraged these energetic foundations to wither on the vine. The nuclear phaseouts were perhaps the most egregious example of this phenomenon. Now Europe consumes 38EJ of hydrocarbons but only produces 6EJ and it needs a whole lot of gas to power through its weeklong periods of wind drought (Dunkelflaute) and its dark winters. Energy illiteracy was survivable for a political class living blindly off the bounty of the infrastructure our grand parents built in response to the 1970’s oil shocks. It will not serve champagne socialists like @avilewis in our current energy shock.