what do posts like this even accomplish? No sources, no *actual* plan.

You think you can just say something and people believe you?

Cutting energy waste should be a broad goal, not just around insulation or individuals.

Those AI datacenters should be made to pay dearly for their absurd waste of energy (and associated environmental impact).

May I humbly suggest significantly prioritising building insulation.

Most homes leak far too much heat energy. I'm writing this to you from one now. I can't afford to heat the place. The owner doesn't seem to care that there's no loft insulation.

Please let's get maximum possible insulation as a legal requirement, and subsidies for deploying it? Comments welcome.

there's some excellent "prior art" from Australia. even though power demand is going up, that is being more than accommodated by rooftop solar on people's houses, and household batteries!

people are even making a little money by feeding back into the grid.

perhaps not quite as effective in all of Europe, but there's a lot of roof-space out there that could be providing "free power"!

Nations free of the fossil fuel industry yoke are nations who get to enjoy agency, autonomy and sovereignty.

Less money going to the funders of fascism means keeping money within the local economy and not having national GDP drained by oil oligarchs & petrostate despots.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

This is somehow incredibly funny timing considering Finland just had high price electricity peak because windmills froze stuck and there is no sun in winter!

But I do agreee coal&gas needs to go away, we need modern nuclear energy for reliability to back up the unstable sources.

However, we can't just allow companies to generate more waste the more power is available, tech needs to be way more optimized and overall scaled down when it doesn't do anything useful (such as AI).

*cough* invest in solar *cough*

I've been saying for years that Europe only needs to cover the houses along the Mediterranean with solar to supply ALL their energy needs.
Problem is that would give too much power to Spain, Italy and Greece, and central Europe can't have that.
Where would germans retire if Spain became a powerhouse!?

will this also be for companies aswell?
Given they are the biggest energy users and all.

I think that short term (also climate relevant) companies with high energy usage need a second look over towards efficiency.

On the papers sounds like a miracle.
We'll see what we'll see in practice.

Also surveillance (eg. chat control) is wasting electricity. What's about that?