I used to show up at work before 6 and leave after 19. I only did this three days a week, though. It was totally at my discretion how I put in my 40 hours, but it was too long a drive to do it more often, and driving during rush hours was also not appealing.

But since I am long retired, I chose the last option.

By the year 2200, sea level is expected to rise somewhere between 4 and 30 inches.

A more reasonable guess might be around a meter by 2100, plus or minus a half meter. What will happen in 2200 will depend too much on our actions before then to say much.

...this for ex (300 miles of power) which was just announced...

There is a lot of marketing speak at your link, and very little technical information. Some of it is just wrong, like the implication that rare earths are heavily used in batteries. My bet is it is a scam.

Way to go, Al. The stupidity of your colleagues was supposed to be a secret!

I watched the show. I may have missed the final episode (I don't remember) but it definitely lasted more than one season. It was a lighthearted children's show, and your ending would be completely out of character for it. I believe Wikipedia.

Something is wrong here. Small Wonder lasted four years, and the last episode description doesn't match what you say.

Not much electricity comes from burning coal out Stanford's way.

Pure water, without any dissolved gasses, has a substantial tensile strength. It is not theoretically stable, but in practice it is. Enough so that a siphon will work in a vacuum.

Such pure water is hard to find, though.

They're broke.

Indeed, but you should also mention it should have been "you're broke". It's obvious, of course, but it happens so often that some might have missed it.

The current Tesla cells are too expensive for grid storage. Nickle and cobalt are not cheap. Nothing says they can't make two types of batteries though, nickle cobalt for cars and manganese dioxide or iron phosphate for the grid. Or they could have a nice lithium sulfur chemistry they could use for both; there has been a lot of recent development in that area.

We do it now. What is NaN/NaN? NaN.

...D2O which is expensive but abundant (it makes up about 1 part in 40 million of water molecules)...

That 1 part in 40 million figure, while not wrong, is misleading.

Quoting Wikipedia:

It [duterium] has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6,420 of hydrogen.

So the hydrogen in the ocean is 1/6420 deuterium. Getting two of the deuteriums into one molecule is rare, but we don't really care. Chemical bonds are unimportant energetically compared to nuclear reactions.

A builder builds a wall. A week later, bricks begin to fall out of the bottom, but he continues to build the wall higher. In most cases, he would have to replace those lower bricks at his own expense and on his own time.

If the builder is an independent contractor it will depend on the bid. If it is time and material he won't, but if the contract is for the job he will. If the builder is an employee he is never responsible: He either learns not to do that or he should be fired.

It is the same for software development.

The lack of living grandparents probably has a negative effect on a child, or even might prevent his birth. Not a large effect, though.

Carlsen played a non-standard opening and included an unsound sacrifice. He had probably looked at the first few moves for his blitz games, but no deeper since he would never play it in serious games.

Gates had two minutes for the entire game. For someone who is not obsessed with chess that is not enough time to make even sort of good moves.