Far more common are users running games intended for various platforms, about which I regularly see questions and advice in a number of online forums.

Behaving consistently as if these are the same thing will lead to unanticipated and frequently unfavorable results.

It is now a reasonable wager to think that these technologies are hastening the untimely demise of this civilization. This is a period in which decision making is of possibly unprecedented urgency, while a plurality of resources are being directed to the simulation of decisions, based on predictive models from obsolete normals.

The only hygeine product you actually need is soap. If you have a source of wood ash and fat you can make that.

There are also meteorlogical and transportation infrastructure reasons for California to have a higher concern about air pollution than most other states. If you look at the cities in the US with the worst air pollution by various metrics, usually California cities hold four of the five worst spots. So California is more affected by auto emissions than most states, and has enough scale to have clout with automakers.

Well, no. Power delivery is not *meaningless*, in fact it's quite important. For some applications wattage delivery may be a much more limiting factor than watt-hours of storage.

Consider a hydroelectric storage facility like the Northfield Mountain facilty. That facility has a storage capacity of 8.7 MWh and can deliver it at 1.17 MW. This balance between storage capacity and power is no accident; Northfield was designed to take power generated by the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant during off-peak hours and shift it to peak consumption hours within window of several hours. For that reason the facility needed to have roughly twice the power output of the nuclear plant it was designed to work with.

I think you're thinking in terms of keeping the grid running for a day or so with restricted supply. Sure, for that use case total storage capacity would be a limiting factor. But for grid stabilization, the engineers are thinking more in terms of minutes of operation. For example the extremely economically successful Hornsby Power Reserve in Australia is designed to generate peak power for about 10 minutes to help prevent rolling blackouts, and up to three hours or so of load management assistance.

Power delivery may be the Achilles heel of some of the new grid storage technologies that look simply amazing in terms of dollars per watt-hour of storage. The energy stored in a battery is useless if you can't get it out when it's needed.

I am against all government involvement into individual lives and businesses.

Well, Texas is performing a kind of experiment along these lines of running a minimally regulated grid with low barriers to entry. So far the performance hasn't been notably superior from a reliabiltiy standpoint, but to be fair it's the first of its kind. It isn't exactly untrammeled capitalism either, in that the grid is controlled by a non-profit corporation controlled by the state government.

You know, gun companies sell guns and governments around the world buy those guns and government sponsored armies even wage wars and do you know what they do? They kill people.

Amazing, isn't it? Governments kill people and companies profit from the sale of the weapons.

You know what else? The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. 9 years ago. To adopt those it took time, so *government* were perfectly aware of these issues decades ago, but you know what? Governments kept buying oil, coal, gas, kerosene, diesel, plastics, etc. Buying it, providing licenses to drill and extract it, taxing the sale of it, fighting wars to keep it going.

Spare the indignation, governments shut down nuclear power plants so that more gas and oil and coal could be burnt. Governments suing oil companies is rich, individuals on the one hand complaining about prices and on the other hand supporting idiotic lawsuits against companies that will inevitably result in prices going up is rich.

Hypocrites, the entire lot of you. I would sue all of you for preventing nuclear power plants from being built, at least that would make sense.

so that you can have it and do with it what you like. What do gun companies sell guns for? Around the world governments purchase guns and wage wars, people die. Who kills those people? Governments have entire armies using guns and bullets, is it companies that kill people or government armies?

if the state is suing the company for the sale of its *legal*, I mind you, product, it stands to reason the state doesn't want the product to be sold there, so is going to get its wish. Certainly the state must be fully prepared to run on something that is not producing CO2, like nuclear power, right? I wish them the best, they should absolutely stick to their guns and show all how this is done. Of course I wonder, how exactly can anyone legitimately expect to win such a case? The oil companies put out *some* CO2, but most of their product is delivered in a form that is very stable if unused - petrol, kerosene, diesel, plastics and such. It is the end customer, who has the tendency of turning a perfectly good liquid into heat and CO2 by burning it

I am unclear on what you want, isn't the goal to stop them from selling you oil products? Looks like you want that and so you will get that, why the complaining?

oil companies don't burn oil, they sell it. YOU burn oil.

however if a base aerosol is used instead, we can then not only block some of the sunlight but also reduce ocean acidity, which we have increased because oceans absorb near half of the CO2 we create.

https://slashdot.org/comments.... - my comment, when I state that these carbon credits are nonsense, designed to do nothing but to pretend that something is done or is it all of these world governments, corporations, who are only too happy to participate in this charade?

I tried using it and it is so politically correct and so constrained by its authors that it is completely uninteresting. Maybe I will spin off my own to have fun with because the ones that are widely available are not giving me answers to subjects that are unsanitized and I don't enjoy talking to anything that is politically correct.