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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 2 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source
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mytailorisrich ◴[16 Sep 25 14:06 UTC] No.45262444[source]▶
Another level of irony is that this is partly because Europe does not want to develop shale gas for environmental reasons, so it imports US LNG... which is mostly shale gas [1].

The US love Europe's policies...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/surging-us-lng-expor...

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GuB-42 ◴[16 Sep 25 14:15 UTC] No.45262558[source]▶
Also, both Europe and the US are happy to have China do the dirty jobs so that they stay clean in their countries. With the consequences we all know today in terms of dependence.

Furthermore, China doesn't want to be dirty anymore, in fact they are maybe the ones who take green technologies the most seriously. So the dirtiest jobs are pushed to other countries, mostly in southeast Asia.

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1. nxm ◴[16 Sep 25 21:17 UTC] No.45268186[source]▶
"China doesn't want to be dirty anymore" and yet China boosting coal capacity at record high
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2. ViewTrick1002 ◴[17 Sep 25 09:19 UTC] No.45273583[source]▶
The Chinese coal usage has recently in absolute terms started to decline.

Their renewable buildout is large enough to both cover the grid expansion and force coal off the grid.