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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jsnider3 ◴[16 Sep 25 14:08 UTC] No.45262472[source]▶
Renewables solves this.
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roadside_picnic ◴[16 Sep 25 18:02 UTC] No.45265626[source]▶
The largest source of "renewable" energy (not just electricity) in the EU is biomass [0], which, in many cases is wood pellets shipped (using bunker fuel to power the ships of course) from North America to the EU.

Page 8 of this report [1] gives a pretty good visual of how this trend has increased over time.

Europe is basically reverting to using wood for it's primary heating fuel.

0. https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/renewable-energy/bioenerg...

1. https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/Report/DownloadRepo...

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1. 8note ◴[16 Sep 25 22:14 UTC] No.45268908[source]▶
wood is carbon neutral, after the first chop, at least.

in canada and the US, a lot of that wood is going up in smoke without powering any industry already