Or university students. I believe UCF=University of Central Florida.

Dealing with uppity university students, I'd presume.

First graders? Unless I'm running into a namespace collision, UCF is University of Central Florida.

Going by Wikipedia's figures, 75kWh of nickel-iron batteries would be weigh about 1500kg and take up about 2.5 cubic metres of space, which is about the size and weight of two fully-loaded refrigerators. And they'd handle 150kW peak load.

I believe grenade launchers can be used to fire canisters of tear gas.

Which is why you don't bother with machines, period.

Up here, it's paper ballots, marked with pens, counted using Mk1 eyeballs at the polling station in full view of witnesses from any candidates that wish to send one. The only machines involved in anything are the printers used to make the ballots and the telephones used to call in the stations' results to the Returning Officer.

The entire nation of Canada says you're full of shit.

Only if "where you want to go" is in the same city as where you are.

Sure there is. With existing car sharing systems or rentals, you either need to go to where the car is via some other means, or someone needs to drive it to you, then drive back to the office, before you can go where you're wanting to go.

With autonomously driving cars, the car can drive itself to you and then you go directly from where you are to where you want to go. It makes it far more practical.

One could always go the old school route and move the backup offsite yourself. e.g. an external drive in a safe deposit box.

Has anyone taken a shovel to the coordinates in part 2?

Monitor, modem, and router plugged into a UPS
Actual computer (which is a laptop) plugged into a surge protector.

You mean the various municipalities being told by state governments "Oh, no you won't."?

Competition? What competition?

No need to be that complicated. Just use an absorption chiller.