Let's make a list:

• Mercedes eActros
• Iveco S-eWay
• Volvo FH Aero Electric
• MAN eTGX

That are just some cab-over long-haul semi trucks I can think of from the top of my head. They are already running in truck fleets right now all over Europe. German YouTuber Elektrotrucker has a vlog running since July 2024 driving them on long haul services.

Until my parents built their own bathroom into the apartment, we were using a bathroom which still had a coal fired boiler. So yes, we had the old infrastructure. My aunt, who lived in an apartment across the street, even had the water closet outside the apartment with a separate entrance from the stairwell. So yes, the infrastructure, at the time 70 or 80 years old, was still in place. And heating was done by tiled stoves in each room - every morning, my father had to light each oven, and each evening, we had to carry the ashes down to the trash bins at the road.

Luckily, wind turbines don't need much service. The farmer moves his equipment across his field way more often. You can schedule the maintenance during the time when there is no crops on the field. You also don't need to build the wind turbine as much away as possible from the next path. Why not place it directly beneath the access road which is already there? And for maintenance, you only need a small service van. If you have to replace anything large, you use the helicopter. There are not many mobile cranes which are able to lift something into 500 ft height. The rent contract with the farmer contains wording about the rules for access. As someone who has serviced cell phone antennas somewhere in the nothingness, I call that a non-issue.

As someone who grew up in exactly those supposedly haunted houses, I call bullshit. The house I lived for my first 10 years was built in 1905, the next house in 1895, and my children grew up in a house built in 1822. My brother moved into a house from 1378 (sic!), and has since moved into a house from 1890. None of those houses ever felt haunted.

I am still wondering which level of irony you are aiming for.

Actually, they don't occupy much land. You can easily use the land around a wind turbine. Most wind turbines I know of are built somewhere on a crop field, and around the wind turbine, the crops are still growing. Many wind turbines in the U.S. are built on land which was not used anyway for anything else. And if the wind turbines are off-shore, they use no land at all.

What I've just said is that it makes economic and business sense to move away from coal and oil as the main source of energy. And it also makes sense to do this in a coordinated way, because for instance right now, Sweden and Norway provide hydroelectric storage for Germany's Renewables, and there are many other opportunities for cooperation. If a bunch of business men would meet in a resort to form an alliance, no one would twitch an eyelid. But because it's politicians, suddenly a lot of people cry foul and throw around buzzwords to steer up emotions.

End the dependency from is not equal to end the usage of. If you use it, because it is convenient, but can easily switch to something else, it's not dependency.

Not exactly. It does only mean that people are not 100% perfect and recognizing patterns. But they are amazingly good at it, and the number of false positives is quite small. It's just confirmation bias on your side that you only notice the pattern recognizing mechanisms when they fail. But every letter you recognized in the previous post, every word you understood was a successful pattern recognition. Look at the size of data centers you need to build computers even close to the abilities the average person has!

But apparently not to the E.U., where the imports are already plummeting again, especially from the U.S..

The problem with that idea is that the numbers don't match. While indeed, Germany imports now about a million tons more from the U.S. then they did in 2019, it's already down from a maximum in 2023 with 9 million tons to 7.7 million tons in 2025. At the same time, Germany stopped importing coal from Russia completely (11 million tons in 2022, now zero). In total, Germany reduced the imports of coal from 35 million tons in 2019 to 21 million tons right now. The country which increased its exports of coal to Germany the most was Columbia, more than doubling its exports to Germany to 4.8 million tons.

Whatever the resurgence of the coal industry in the U.S. was, it had peaked in 2023 - at least when it comes to exports to the E.U..

The problem is that the crude oil the U.S. is exporting is not the crude oil the U.S: needs to refine into gas and diesel. That means the U.S. is not self-sufficient in crude oil because it is essentially producing the wrong kind of oil for their own refineries. The U.S. would have to redesign their whole refinery infrastructure to rely on their own oil.

You know that in 20D chess, you can't possibly checkmate the king?

People using the word "Dunning-Kruger effect" are in most cases ignorant about the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect does not mean that people not studied in a field think themselves to be better in the very same field than the expert. It's just that they tend to overestimate their own abilities. An amateur might consider himself a pretty good chess player. But by no means he would consider himself a better player than a grand master. What he underestimates is the actual advantages a professional chess player has over him. And that's the Dunning-Kruger effect (Dunning and Kruger, 1999).

The same for an EV. I don't see the difference. There is no point in letting your EV sitting idle somewhere and not charging, while its battery is nearly drained. The same with your ICE, where you also refuel as soon as the gas tank runs empty. The advantage of the EV is that you can do it in your driveway, which is not an easy task if you have an ICE. Even the cars with the largest batteries are completely charged within 10 hours at a measly home wall charger with 11 kW. That's the time it takes for you to get home, eat dinner, take a shower and go to sleep. In the morning, you will always have a fully charged car - and that's under the condition you get home with a completely empty battery. But you will get home with maybe 40% state of charge, and your car will be back to 60% after dinner, and to 80% when you go to bed. Your ICE car will still be at 40% in the morning.