"Other Energy Storage" i.e not pumped hydro, which has been around for decades, reached nearly 9 GW this January. That's nearly double what it was 12 months earlier. To the extent regular hydro is available, it can act as storage by saving the water behind the dam when other renewables are running. The US also has nuclear supplying around 19% of utility power.

The first iron-air (reversible rust) battery plant has started construction in West Virginia. I ron is much cheaper than lithium, but also much heavier. So these will be stationary batteries. The first version is designed for 100 hour run time, vs. about 4 hours for Lithium-ion.

It will still take work to break our fossil fuel addiction, but there are solutions coming along in the near future.

Just as soon as it can make use of those new room temperature superconductors and that nuclear fusion generator that's only 10 years away.

Make some porn of him and the pope and I'll buy it.

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> I am [NOT] a US Army Veteran honorable.

Just going based off of typical Reddit and social media interactions.

So I will say what I think when I think it and you resorting to personal insults shows you lost the debate. "So I think I'm given carte blanche to run my ignorant mouth and demand it be treated equivalent as objective fact, but those considerations don't apply to you since you lost the debate...because army."

FTFY

Get ‘em Towson.

• from this (happily former) R271 (almost) Lead Genius.

… “almost”, because I was given the opportunity but refused to abuse my team the way store leaders demanded.

Hope things get / are getting better for you. The only thing that made it better for me was leaving and never looking back. Life is so much better - happier, more balanced, far less stressful, far more pay - on the outside. Do what you’ve got to do, and earn that self-promotion to customer. Best of luck.

I still love the products. I dislike the company, and I absolutely fucking hate the retail side of it. An absolute shitshow, for both employees and customers. Oof … the stories I could tell.

Edit (addition): fwiw I made $47,000/yr as a (sort of) Lead Genius, $23 an hour or something. $55,000 with all the forced overtime. I left, and two years later make $110,000/yr as an IT Analyst. It feels like playing the game on easy mode now. Apple set me up with good foundations (I still use basic customer service tools I learned at the Genius Bar in my career now) but that’s about it. They do a really good job at trapping you, always making you feel like the next step is just in reach, and then taking advantage of it; all the while making you feel part of something and that you won’t ever find anything better - even if you did, good luck! Heads up, just like an abuser who says all the same bullshit: it’s not true.

Edit 2: and ofc, here come the suspicious downvotes!

The retail stores in which they sell technology? Oh, right. The technology. The technology for Apple, the technology chosen especially to benefit Apple, Apple's technology. That technology?

Good. Pretend it's your sister, daughter, mother and tell me it's OK.

This is great news.

I'm not worried about deepfake images, audio, or video.

I'm worried about deepfaked websites. I want to know that when I go to Associated Press, or Reddit, that I'm actually seeing that site with content sources from the appropriate avenues.

I do not want to live in a walled garden of my internet provider's AI, delivering me only the Xfinity Truth.

Alphabet is a search monopoly, a cloud business, and a bunch of filler. Not much to break up.

How we like em now…

Huh?

Interesting. I wonder if they can just land it on pretty much any leveled area, or if they need a special landing area.

Not even supersonic yet.

Apple, Starbucks, the same people who use and support these brands are the ones kept from unionizing. At some point you gotta make a decision.

One of the biggest things that hit our store were the captive audience meetings. They brought in an entire team of managers to replace our 10 person leadership team so that they could hold several “round tables” a day where they tried to scare us out of organizing and create divide among the team. They picked team members with anti union stances and gave them the pedestal to read talking points from Littler-Mendelson (The union busting law firm) and allowed them to peddle wild conspiracy theories and go on aggressive rants about unions. They masked coordinated talking points as “just expressing their opinion” and made hand picked groups of people to create the illusion of strong anti union support in the store to gaslight team members i to thinking support for a union wasn’t strong. They scaled back coverage on the floor and blamed the stressful and overloaded work load on the union. They pulled people randomly for one on one meetings with the store leader outside of the store where they were interrogated about their level of support for the union so they could assess people. They read anti union talking points in every morning meeting and announced withholding new benefits to our team as a result of us organizing.

That’s not even getting in to the very suspicious harassment I got online from bot accounts after our victory.

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I read somewhere that SpaceX has a contract to deliver payloads to US armed forces anywhere in the globe in minutes, making war logistics incredibly efficient

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Plus theoretical materials and a theoretical infrastructure. NB, it hasn't even gone supersonic yet so the hypersonic part is still theoretical too.

>It's a theoretical design based on a theoretical concept

It can't be clearer. A prototype that's passed tests is not a theoretical design/concept.

Every single tech is expensive to begin with. New tech is almost always initially aimed at the rich, who can afford the expense.

If something is no longer an idea on paper but an actual working object it is no longer a theory.

Taking you up on that

God it was a whole thing. /r/SysAdmin had some fucking incredible threads with people figuring out how to roll back, how to unfuck Teams, etc.

It was a wild time to be alive and working in the industry.