But that's a problem which only appeared when UPS systems and large battery storage grew beyond a certain threshold. For a long time, it was fine to have the system checking the battery every minute, because not many battery systems were deployed to begin with and even less were constantly online and synchronized via NTP. And at some point in time, a single battery was added which was the last straw to break the camel's back.

It's a little more subtle. Fructose tastes sweeter than Glucose. Per serving you need less fructose for the same sweet taste, so you can label the food with lower calorie numbers. At the same time, fructose does not appeases the hunger as much, so people tend to eat more. But because the actual sugar in the blood stream is higher than the pancreatic system believes it to be, it throws the body off and causes it to become more and more accustomed to higher blood sugar levels, increasing the chance for diabetes 2.

Non-glucose sugars are really to blame here. As the pancreas reacts to glucose only and not to fructose, lactose, galactose and all the other sugars out there, high fructose corn syrup was a method to smuggle sugars beyond the appetite controlling system.

To me, that is basically an acoustic Stockholm syndrome. Motorcycles with their open engines are necessarily very loud to the rider. Like the hostages start to love their captor, motorcycle riders start to love the sound to cope with the fact that they can't flee it.

You are deeply mistaken. Denmark is the next state to go fully electric for new cars. Belgium and the Netherlands are following suit, with Finland close. Germany is at 37% right now (numbers from October 2026).

And that's just cars. Some countries don't buy diesel busses anymore (Denmark, The Netherlands, Luxembourg), all new busses are electric there. Long distance trucking is getting electrified already. Nanno Janssen, a truck operator in Northern Germany, runs 70 electric trucks already (and no, not Tesla Semi. But the likes of Scania, DAF, MAN, Mercedes Actros, which are available for a few years already). German Youtuber Electric Trucker has a video blog running since two years, where he reports his long distance drives all over Europe from Turkey to Spain and Scandinavia with electric trucks.

The reality has moved far more towards BEVs already as you seem to imagine.

Critical means that the supply of this material determines the whole production chain, because the supply of all other materials for the same production chain is better. How the supply of the material is limited is not relevant for the material to be critical, just that it is, which makes this material the kriterion, the means of judging.

But for most of Europe, sales of gas powered cars are going down, while the total number of cars sold is increasing. At the same time, most of the BEVs sold in Europe are actually made by European companies, by Volkswagen and its subsidaries (SEAT, koda), by BMW, Mercedes, Stellantis and Renault. U.S. based Tesla alone has more market share in Europe than all Chinese brands together.

Considering the example of Norway, it might be less than a decade from BEVs overtaking petrol cars in sales numbers to BEVs overtaking petrol cars in absolute numbers.

I routinely hire a car for drives of 50 km or less. That's what car sharing is for.

That correlation can be fully explained by the fact, that for any resource, national GDP is a pretty good predictor for the consumption of said resource. Oil is no exception.

So far, the maximum number was six. You were saying?

The problem is that the evidence points to the contrary. Teslas do last. They had some problems with wishbones and some suspension issues, but that's something you find with other manufacturers too, and later model years heavily improved on that.

Where I live you routinely find Teslas with more than 200,000 miles on the odometer still going strong.

And that would change exactly what? You still have to guess or look up when the usual starting time is at the West coast.

People manage not fine to work in the dark hours. A few might do, but in general, people working during the night tend to have higher rates of coronary diseases and similar signs of stress.

But then, when do you actually have to be at work? At 8 UTC? Which is somewhere after dark where you live?