The countries reliant on Russia's fossil fuel industry for energy and utilities are starting to look for alternatives.
The Associated Press reported today that Germany is creating a giant thermos to heat homes in the winter. The tower can hold 15 million gallons of water, making it the tallest tower in the world. If there is no Russian gas this winter, the building can use spare electricity from wind and solar farms to keep the water near boiling.
"It's a huge thermos that helps us to store the heat when we don't need it," said Tanja wielgoss, the head of Vattenfall's heat unit in Germany. We can let it go when we need it.
The scale of the project is quite large. In the summer it can handle most of Berlin's hot water needs, but in the winter it can't.
According to the AP, other stations are being built in the Netherlands to handle the needs of Berliners on their own. Europe has a lot going on in the renewable energy space, even if it took a broken climate and a war to make a difference.
The US will not require civilian causality to take action.
Scientists have invented a way to grow plants in complete darkness.
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