We gotta build a lot of solar and batteries. And wind.

Let's go.

Not a good sign that the first person they quote, Merz, is so anti wind turbines that his right-wing business supporters had to tell him to shut up about it.

His new position is that they are "temporary" and will be replaced with fusion.

Unlike with Russia in 2022, there's nothing Europe can realistically do about it, only path forward is now the renewable energy. Time horizon is too short for nuclear, Russian supplies are already outlawed and beyond realistic control anyway (Nord Stream pipelines are rotten in the bottom of the sea and Ukraine won't agree to renew transit to matter the pressure, even if it is abandoned and has to fight alone - in drone war there's very little leverage anyone has on them).

EU is highly energy efficient and already uses a lot of renewables, more than any other large country or block of countries. So in a relative sense, in terms of competitiveness, we win in an energy crisis.

It's a much bigger problem for Africa, Southeast and South Asia, and Latin America. They simply have no way out and will suffer, having no say in this situation and no recourse no matter how politically poisonous it was. They will absorb all the real harm. While suffering they will provide global demand for renewable tech making it even cheaper and transition, faster.