With the ongoing energy crisis happening in Europe, Anton Howes has some interesting ideas on how the Euro nations could convert the short-term pains of fossil fuel shortfall into a long-term surplus based on a mix of renewables and non. In the article he explores why energy commodities globalized, some extremely quickly, creating a global-scale marketplace for resources (Egyptian oil is competing with Venezuelan, for example), but renewables like solar and wind have not. Most energy from, say, solar is consumed very close to where it’s produced, due in...