Absolutely!

What I think he meant was "20 Gigawatts of electricity FOR AN HOUR".

A capacitor is just a battery with a very fast discharge/recharge rate.

You mean "Deutschland über alles!!!".

Nah. They should have left is at "Gigawatts". Not "Gigawatts per hour".

For instance, if you were talking about velocity, that's like saying "meters per second per hour" instead of "meters per second".

At best you are three quarters right.

Only three types of solar power?? I could build you a vapor absorption cycle air conditioner working off solar power. It would probably be more efficient than any method tied above.

So at best you are only 3/4 right.

we built a network of superconductors between the sunniest deserts and the cold places where all the work is done...

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it"

That applies perfectly to copyright.

And don't kid me. Most of the "work" is done by the RIAA & MPAA in contributing to superpacs and otherwise trying to collect their enormous percentage as opposed to the artist's measly 10% (or whatever).

Copyright is theft. Kim Dotcom is doing everyone (except aforesaid RIAA & MPAA) a favour by liberalizing our culture.

Oh. Of course. He had guns. That proves he is a criminal and stole the money. No doubt about it.

I am a Norton libertarian. http://www.barvennon.com/~liberty/index.html Rothbard (your citation) is not economical with words.

So far as I read he was concerned with pollution. CO2 aside, I suggest that governments should tax pollution to reduce it's incidence. Preferably at a rate that would cover the cost of cleanup. Regulation doesn't work: the miscreant just pays the fine and starts somewhere else.

As for grid parity. Read your electricity meter. Divide the billed amount by the KWH used. Look at the cost of a KW solar cell array. Divide the cost of that together with installation cost by the life expectancy of the solar array. If grid KWH > solar KWH then you have not reached grid parity.

"economics and politics" only affect the billed price (via CO2 taxes etc) or the solar cell price (via subsidies etc). If a greenie hand makes the electricity cost more (at taxpayer's expense) or subsidises solar arrays etc (again at taxpayer's expense) then they will cop the electoral judgement. CO2 pollution mostly excluded, I would not object to most other pollution taxes.

Above you said "then no one has them."

There are lots of private webcams all over the place. In shops, parking lots and god alone (aka Tax Dept) knows where else. These are all accessible by government (subpoena as last resort). Since they are privately owned and on private property, you are unlikely to be able to access that information as a right. And I don't see any practicable way of stopping people from photographing what is going on in their own property. ("practicable" here in the same sense as it was impracticable to control alcohol in the 20's, or psychoactive drugs since then. Sure you can make laws, but they won't be obeyed.)

So stopping governments putting out webcams only makes the situation worse. The info is there. Governments can access it. You have no right to access it.

You also said (further down) "It is good that you don't feel threatened but when you do it will be too late."

Not if the government thugs are photographed on public webcams doing questionable arrests. The more open we make information, the harder it is for the government to keep secrets. And government wrongdoing relies on keeping government activities secret.

Also "And this information is kept forever and could be trotted out many years in the future. Do you want to be justifying what you did twenty years ago?"

OTOH. If some miscreant was doing something very naughty I would love it if he was caught even 20 years later. I view it as a situation similar to those people who are now being convicted or set free because genetic technology not previously available either proves or disproves their guilt.