{"id":234911,"date":"2025-12-16T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/234911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:20:11","slug":"the-green-energy-push-is-a-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/234911\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green-Energy Push Is a Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Your report \u201c<a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/europes-green-energy-rush-slashed-emissionsand-crippled-the-economy-e65a1a07?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Energy Push in Europe Backfires<\/a>\u201d (Page One, Dec. 3) underscores how Europe\u2019s aggressive effort to decarbonize undercut its economic growth and industrial competitiveness. China is outcompeting Europe in heavy industry even as the Continent builds an intermittent power system beholden to China\u2019s control.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Chinese manufacturing dominance is a significant security concern, but the ultimate power is the ability to control another nation\u2019s power. Czech researcher Erika Langerova warns that \u201cChina holds a kill switch to European power grids.\u201d Beijing already weaponized critical rare-earth magnet supply chains. Europe shouldn\u2019t empower it to turn out the lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your report \u201cGreen Energy Push in Europe Backfires\u201d (Page One, Dec. 3) underscores how Europe\u2019s aggressive effort to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[381,18,4625,7520,440,1015,22180,19,17,124816,2336,3499,133,26243,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-234911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-green-energy","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-linki1-sb10720608081322344621504592549610409938768","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-power","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-synd","22":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115726622889789597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}