Yep - just look at their oil/energy situation: they still buy it by the boatload from you know who, but just through 3rd parties.

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yurishimo a day ago | parent [-]

But look at solar adoption across Europe since 2022. It’s going gang busters and now with sodium batteries coming online next year, cheap home energy storage is about to boom as well.

Europe doesn’t want to buy Russian gas, but there is also the very real political reality of what happens if your citizens freeze to death. I will be very surprised if any EU state is reliant on Russian gas by 2035.

	▲	panick21_ 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When people start talking about battery technology that has not even reached scale as any kind of political solution, you know people have lost the plot. Taking one look at just the cost required for the network, even outside of the cost of any generation at all, you realize this is an insane and slapping a few solar panels down is far from a solution. And also lets not ignore that places that have done a lot of the 'lets just build renewable and hope for the best' have very high energy prices. And maybe possible maybe sodium batteries might show up will not solve these issues.
	▲	cpursley a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's positive news, but I'm talking about oil - which is still needed for modern industrial economies (plastics, diesel, etc).