In effect, what Russia weaponizing hydrocarbons accomplished was a shift to clean power and heat decades ahead of expectations. But the awkward reality is that Russia was and still is too large an energy powerhouse for it to be immediately and completely excised from global energy markets. This is just as true of a transitioned, clean global energy sector as it was of fossil fuels.
In fact, multiple rounds of sanctions packages imposed on Russia by the West carefully avoided cutting of energy exports until many months into Putin’s war against Ukraine because Russian energy was simply too important for markets to give up quickly. The world, and Europe in particular, was not ready to do without Russian oil, gas, diesel, coal, uranium, and more.
This hard fought freedom has coupled with the surge in renewables investment to achieve what political will had not—the energy transition. The uncomfortable irony is, however, that Russia is still essential to that very same transition. The largest country in the world by land mass, Russia is dominant in one area absolutely critical to powering the world without carbon emissions—nuclear generation—and it is also an important supplier of the minerals necessary to achieve decarbonization at scale.
Experts generally agree that reaching carbon neutrality—“net-zero”—in industry, transport, heating, and so on, depends principally on electrification. The world’s reliance on electricity is set to explode as we phase out fossil fuels in heating and transport, among other sectors, and replace it with electricity powered cars, heating, and more.
The Russian-made poloidal field coil number 1 that will serve to confine plasma in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor vacuum vessel, sits on a barge during a ceremony to send the coil to the ITER construction site in southern France, in Saint Petersburg on November 1, 2022.
Squeeze Russia's economy tighter! Make the Russian people realize it's Putin's War! And, the Russian Oligarchs are as guilty as Putin! STAND FIRM! DON'T LET UP! TIME IS NOT ON PUTIN'S SIDE!
No. russia is vital to corrupt politicians.
Yeah they need to stop dropping bombs.