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Until the computer turns off...

I would still argue that this is another reason to pursue technology exchange, to make the tech available outside of that oppressive country...

The people of the US would still benefit immediately by access to cheap batteries and solar...

Massive disaster!

I still wonder how this adds up against the constant daily carnage of automobile transportation?

I would take this the other way.

Maybe the people who think this is OK should offer themselves?

Let's line up the MAGA and implant some electrodes in their brains.

Maybe we can understand what makes them so irrational...

Its important to qualify that:

A decade or so behind, in the US.

If the US didn't block import of Chinese tech, we could have electrified a decade ago.

The tech available at the current moment, is even more capable of replacing petroleum based electricity.

But our government is banning Chinese tech to serve our outdated industries instead of importing it to serve the population.

As any wise country would do when faced with superior technology, we should import it with the condition of technology exchange. Chinese manufacturers should be training US workers and industrial ownership how to produce cheap, efficient, sodium batteries.

This benefits the populous immediately, and the industries are able to advance into the current century's tech.

Typical non-informed incorrect opinion.

The overwhelming majority of generation and storage is best deployed at the point of use.

Grid scale anything, is a massive inefficiency.

The only reason grid and city scale is so prevalent in public discourse is because this is the only electricity the utility is paid for, and they are very actively impeding any other solution.

In the US, there is a very large inventory of flat roof industrial buildings, in the industrial parks that are using huge amounts of electricity. Covering all of those roofs with solar (especially here in the west US) would prevent a tremendous amount of grid scale generation, and implementing storage there would eliminate a large part of the transmission line upgrades the utilities are calling for.

The biggest problem in the US isn't technical, it's the governments desire to primarily support the solutions that are best at serving utility shareholder returns, instead of the technically superior solutions.

Why would you not want to keep them open?

I like it!

I have a ton of these tabs. I don't consider them "neglected" though.

Some things take years to come to fruition. You can't just go buy them at home despot.

Maybe younger people don't yet have an appreciation for things that assume an air of legacy and heritage after many years of "just sitting there".

When finally re-visited, they have a meaning that can only accumulate with the passage of significant time...

Me too, Thank You!

Isn't a solution to simply not use unreachable()?

For me, that's another reason not to have one.

I like silence.

I consider noise from things like a refrigerator, or a computer case fan, to be distracting, and a reduction in the quality of my environment.

White noise is still noise, and there's no noise like no noise...

Unless you were already well acquainted with the time-nuts universe, this is news...

When is it time to run a world class time reference in your basement?

For time nuts, it's always time...

If you don't get it, then, you just don't get it...