Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs

juliusceasar

USA and mainly Israel are the biggest threat for the way of living in Europe. Especially for the economy and safety.

josefritzishere

If only the US was doing this too.

WarmWash

Trump might ironically end up being the guy that pushes society over the green energy tipping point. EVs were all the rage a few years ago, but they were expensive and gas prices collapsed. However if we get another $5-$6/gal gut punch, a lot of people will probably say "You know what? I'm done with this shit."

longislandguido

Yeah Europeans are going to stick to their little diesel city cars. Many Europeans cannot afford iPhones as they are an overpriced costly luxury there, yet I'm supposed to believe they're all going out tomorrow to buy solar panels. Right. Heat pumps? They're famous for hating air conditioning and mostly heat their homes with hydronic, but whatever.

storus

EVs are still a bit underwhelming wrt range - ideally either 450miles/700km or 5 minute 20->80% recharge at an acceptable price (35k EUR) should be the norm. For cities it doesn't matter but for longer vacation trips it's a must, nobody wants to waste 3 hours on a 1100km trip recharging. Chinese EVs might be able to deliver it at this price point (BYD) but EU adds additional (up to) 45% in extra fees to penalize Chinese EV makers and to prevent collapse of EU car makers.

DoctorOetker

I don't understand how both the international community as well as say US is dealing with the Iran / Straight of Hormuz crisis. From the repeated announcements that Iran is making such and such concessions and then repeat denial through other parties multiple things could be going on: 1) perhaps the White House is making up / being naive about who they have on the other end of a communication line, claiming to represent Iran 2) perhaps Iran is intentionally providing insincere promises only to humiliate the US through secondary channels by denial 3) perhaps there are in fact different factions in Iran and its simply not clear who gets to form the (new?) government. Watching this scatshow is in Nobodies interest. Is it reasonable to assume that leaders in Iran (politicians, functionaries, ...) can generate their own cryptographic keys, and acknowledge each others keys by signing claims that they met and confirmed the keys in person? At that point the international community can put up a website where different factions can sign up to different claimed internal coalitions, and prove their support for a specific coalition, with one constraint: at all times one can only support a single functionary allocation proposal (who sits where), and perhaps 2nd, 3rd, etc N'th preferences. While a regime is experiencing collapse the maximum signatory proposal will change frequently, until stabilizing to the new regime representatives. Assume it doesnt stabilize: Iran can't openly claim they are politically resilient against the US/Israeli strikes (regardless of their justice). Assume it does stabilize: at that point we have identified who is locally in power (again regardless of justice: perhaps some of the cryptographic signatures were made by pointing guns at heads; but that doesn't change the veracity of the result: who is in power?) Once it has stabilized, and it is clear who is currently in power, then the international community can simply either observe an Iran compliant with cryptographically signed claims not contradicting itself (improving its credibility in negotiations), or observe an Iran that cryptographically signs one thing when communicating with US and a totally different thing when communicating through other parties, damaging its own credibility.