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Green energy not yet mature enough to solve Europe’s energy crisis

Karl Moore
Published: 6 December 2022

Europe’s energy crisis has highlighted the gap between the green energy production that we want, and the fossil fuel energy infrastructure that we actually have. When Russia cuts off the flow of natural gas to Europe, there simply is not enough green energy to compensate, said Eric Reguly of The Globe and Mail in an interview with Prof. Karl Moore for Les Affaires. Twenty years ago, green energy was growing faster than it is today, Reguly said. Today, there is a lot of hype that it will save the day, but it isn’t capable of doing that just yet.  

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