A serious response to a tongue-in-cheek question, with a link that not only answers my question, but also has cool stuff like graphs on how often words are used!

Thank you! This is why I still love Slashdot.

When did "compute" become a noun?

I'll second that. You are not alone. The surface Duo phones are great for getting work done.

Wow, I can't remember the last time I saw someone admit an error, on the internet. Is that even still allowed?

The tickets to this movie about shoes cost $300. Let's get em!

Dear whoever modded this post as "informative,"

You are the reason I visit Slashdot. Thank you!

I would mod this up if I had points today. A wise old professor once told me something similar: the law can be simple or the law can be fair, but not both.

Actually, it's not impossible at all. The UK grid needs about 3 times the amount of wind and much more solar and 2 terawatts of underground hydrogen storage.

There's enough salt caverns around the UK that can give it that storage, and the hydrogen can be manufactured via electrolysis when the wind and solar is producing too much. It's not very efficient, but renewables are cheap.

It CAN be done.

The Australian grid is rather different, it's a LOT closer to the equator and their renewables are a lot more consistent, so they need a lot less storage in percentage terms.

Not really, but the grid operator is basically the government for the grid, and they're highly incentivized to not fuck up. They're the ones that sent out the request for quotes.

FYI as of 2021 the UK had 1.3 GW(h) of battery storage on the grid:

https://www.solarpowerportal.c...

I'm not sure what the total storage is now, it's going to be over 1.5 GW(h) with this installation, and probably a lot more. Note that large batteries aren't needed, it's the total battery storage that's important.

The UK grid operator was particularly keen on getting batteries on it, because the HVDC interconnectors to the continent have been unreliable, and they tend to suddenly break with no warning. That has meant that the grid needs to have a couple of gigawatt of spinning reserve instead, particularly spinning overnight, but with enough batteries they can shut most of that down into hot standby.

The last outage the grid had, due to a lightning strike, they didn't quite have enough battery, and that meant they had to do load shedding and that caused chaos. They should have enough battery now to keep it up long enough if there's a repeat to get backup power running and avoid any load shedding.

The other thing these batteries can do is help smooth out the production curve. If we had enough batteries to smooth out the evening power demand, the CCGT gas turbines would be much more efficient. When they first start up they use about twice as much fuel per kWh until the second cycle kicks in. If they start up less, costs should go down. But we'd need a lot more batteries to make that work.

You have a user ID number over 8 million, and you just used the word "disk space" in the context of a mobile phone. I want to know the backstory that resulted in you!

I liked it. Better than The Hobbit films, not quite as good as the LOTR films.

What do you define as "victim"? Certainly not "any person who was infected" I assume. Otherwise it's like to see a reference for that statement.

I didn't do a thorough search but CDC saw that 5000 covid-related myocarditis in the hospitals over the course of a year:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

Ehm? Blood oxygen is usually not measured by sending blood samples to the lab, but rather with a real-time non-invasive pulse oximeter, as started by the paper that you cite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

That said, p.o. indeed tends to give low values under certain conditions, though mainly if the oxygen saturation is critically low anyway (based on a quick look at this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... )