Somebody doesn't understand how tides work. Are you a Pierson's Puppeteer?

Ok. Laptop probably 50 watts. TV maybe 200.
The web says fridges run between 30 and 75 watts (average over the duty cycle)
3 hours x ~300 watts = ~0.9 KWh
Looks like he added a K prefix and he meant 870 Wh .

Your expectations are different to Police expectations.

Maybe she looked like she knew martial arts and was about to leap off the walls, run across the ceiling and kick their heads in while doing cartwheels and dodging bullets. They've probably seen that police documentary series, Lethal Weapon.

Never before on wikimedia have there been so many searches for skittles and toothbrushes.

That's interesting. It's varying from 49.9 to 50.1
2% is a lot more variation than I thought they would have.

It would still be detectable even with a notch filter.
Back when it was still worthwhile to do, I built several stereo amplifiers, either from kits or designs in magazines. Getting rid of the 50hz hum was always the hardest part.
Earth loops, wires passing close to the power, you name it, it would make the buggers hum.
50 hz notch filters were common in the cheaper designs, but they would only reduce it. You might gain 30 or 40 decibels with a good one, but modern signal processing will still pull the hum out of that no problem.

Good point, it is still a cyborg. But given the relative difficulties of production, and hardiness of the components, I consider a mechanical thinker wandering around in a meat body to be very unlikely.
It would only make sense as an infiltrator (as in the movie) and would be easy to detect anyway.

I do think add-on mental components are eventually likely though, eg I would consider buying mods for fast calculation, perfect memory, improved senses, faster reflexes, etc.

Cyborgs are by definition cybernetics combined with an organism. They don't need autonomous or self-aware AI programming, that's what the Org part is for. The needed programming would only be the on-board control of the enhancements, and the interface to the controlling intelligence, ie: the translation from thought to action.
I agree that the hardware is pretty much here, with the major exception of reliable, long-term, non-damaging, high-capacity, biology-to-machine interfaces. That's going to be the hard part.
Messy wetware. Yuck

No. I think there will be a strong selection effect on who goes. A distant planetary population descended from those smart, tough, and brave enough to get there is going to be several sigma better than this one.

That actually might be useful in an urban low-tech fight. If you can pull the aimed fire while supporting infantry you could reduce your own caualties while pushing the enemy into revealing their positions.
1 inch sloped armor is going to stand up to a lot of rifle fire. You could say, (puts on sunglasses) it's going to "tank" damage.

Just to be clear here, satellite to gound power transmission is microwave. This is a solved problem, efficiencies exceed 85% DC to DC.
The lasers are for powering the lift vehicles, which means they will be in low earth orbit and capable of focussing a couple of gigawatts on a very small area.

Space based solar power can do it. Minimum investment to start it though, is tens to hundreds of billions.
Requires a change in space access, favouring cheap over reliable, for cargo. The other option to get there is orbital laser assisted propulsion, which can make launches very cheap, but has a pretty big startup cost. (and worries people because of the honking big lasers flying overhead).

You mount it on a rifle. If the bullets are hitting the camera, so is the infrared laser.

Even a lot of hands on jobs have things you can do from home. Paperwork, planning, estimates, reports, emails, etc. You may not be able to do the core work, but you can usually clean up a lot of the crap that surrounds it, which makes it easier to catch up when you do go back.