Regarding Nordstream 1, besides the collapse, maybe Gasprom says that preemptively because they know that Nordstream 1 is under consideration as a terrorist object by people with an interest in destabilizing Europe, or someone who is not satisfied with Germany and others buying gas in Russia, or someone who thinks gas and energy in Europe is still too cheap, or someone who thinks Germany has not supported Ukraine enough. Or it may be because they think some changes will happen in the Russian approach to the war, for instance if Kaliningrad is not opened up due to Lithuania and the US.
Whatever they may be thinking, they are not thinking in terms of their citizens in an already dire situation.
Without gas, no electricity as well.
As much as Germany has migrated other energies - solar energy will not be of much use in the following months, it is not compensated and - I assume - that is why news like this comes out....
‘The situation is more than dramatic’: Germany is rationing hot water and turning off the lights to reduce natural gas consumption
Rationing hot water?
This week, a city official in Hamburg—Germany’s second-largest city—warned that “warm water could only be made available at certain times of the day in an emergency,” forecasting the possibility of a severe natural gas shortage. And on Friday, residents in the eastern German state of Saxony were told by their housing association that they could take hot showers only between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day, the Financial Times reported.
I may be imagining things but, unless things work differently than in other countries... here in Mexico each house/apartment has its own gas tank and each family "rations/saves" itself with the use of gas or electricity.
The article mentions that the association of houses are practically the ones who will deliver? at different times.
Question... Do the German apartments/houses have their own boiler?..... Or, is it just one? It must be very powerful to supply hot water to all of them at those times? Isn't it dangerous for hot water to circulate in the pipes - longer than in a single house?..... Besides, if the temperature drops, the water will reach the last house already cold.
But it turns out that it will not only be for bathing, gas will also be used to prepare/heat food. Yes, many households may be able to heat it in a microwave oven, but not all food is microwaveable.
It seems to me that they will also be able to heat/prepare food within the shower schedule.
I get the impression that the food industry will also be rationed either by gas or electricity. They would not produce the same. Just to clarify, I haven't read anything that specifies this, though.