Trump said wind power is for ‘stupid people.’ Five days later, European countries agreed to build one of the planet’s biggest wind farms | CNN
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As President Trump tries to strangle wind projects in the US, nine European countries have signed a deal to build a vast offshore wind farm in the North Sea, the epicenter of the continent’s oil and gas industry
  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    some more links, partially a lot more direct:

    • in parts of Asia, oil is still used for electric power generation. For now, it is essential there for air conditioning in hot and very humid weather, and life-critical during heat waves, but can be replaced with solar panels in relatively short time.
    • also, oil and gas are so far used for heating, and this is being replaced by electric heat pumps. This has already gone a long way in Scandinavia, and is being ramped up in the rest of Europe. The heat pumps can be powered with wind power, which is quite abundant in European winter, especially in coastal and Northern Europe.