"Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" (Politik)

Reviewer, Mittwoch, 09.03.2022, 11:00 (vor 1382 Tagen) @ Thomas
bearbeitet von Reviewer, Mittwoch, 09.03.2022, 11:17

Eine Nebenstory des US-Importstops von russischem Öl und Gas:

White House aides, for instance, have studied plans to dramatically scale up U.S. production of energy-efficient heat pumps that they hoped could be used in Europe if European leaders decided to cut imports of Russian oil, said three people with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. Biden officials have weighed whether these heat pumps could be produced through the Defense Production Act, an emergency national defense law, or through procurement programs at the Defense Department, the people said. Some advocates close to the effort have compared the idea to the Lend-Lease Act program through which the United States sent critical supplies to the Allied nations that had been invaded by Germany in World War II.

WaPo

Die Idee "Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" stammt von Bill McKibben, einem Klimaschutz-Aktivisten, der in seinem Artikel ausdrücklich die LNG-Exportpolitik der Biden-Administration kritisiert.

Auszüge:

If manufacturers had a guaranteed federal contract, they could ramp up production quickly: perhaps by fifty percent in a month, and before the summer was out by far more. There would be supply chain issues—”there always are”—but the experts think they’d be manageable. Some of the components currently come from China—but Biden has already said he wants to move such manufacturing back to our shores, and this would be a way to do it. [...]

If America did this, it would jump start our own capacity—which means, as one expert put it, “what you do in Montenegro this year helps in Minnesota two years out,” as we try to wean American from expensive and dirty fossil fuels. [...]

I’ve begun to lose faith in the energy officials of the Biden administration. So far they’ve been great friends to our oil and gas industry, granting more drilling leases than the Trump administration. And in the Ukraine crisis they’ve mainly toed the line of the fossil fuel industry, which is that we should ship natural gas to Europe as a replacement for Russian gas. [...] Since fossil fuel is a global industry with global pricing power, it’s only when we switch to ever-cleaner electricity that we really undercut Putin’s power.

Mal von der Realisierbarkeit abgesehen: Wäre schön, wenn es dazu taugt, den nationalen Politikern in den EU-Mitgliedsstaaten Feuer unterm Hintern zu machen.