Actually no PC/Mac ever failed completely on me.
I have one SCSI drive that makes the bus hang, so I had to remove it to boot a comluter from 1997 ... no idea if it is really broken, did not investigate.

The only thing I replaced often on one of my old
PCs was the CPU fan ... it needed like a dozen of them.

Since I switched back to Macs, 2003 or so, and I only have Laptops, there was only one incident with a 12" Mac Book Pro from like 2004/2005 where a small doughter board on top of the motherboard burned out.

An underground shop, http://www.apfelklinik.de/ fixed it by replacing the motherboard and the doughterboard ofc. for an apple and an egg ...

Also, increased CO2 has been shown to be a powerful plant growth stimulant.
Ofc it is: in a greenhouse. The natural level we have right now is not a big difference for plants.

Nice article though!

That is factual false. All deserts I know about are increasing in size.

Well,
I guess we can perhaps forgive the author of said article.
From a buying point if few, a mainframe and a Hollerith machine are no difference.
The 'punching card' machines at that time were the bleeding edge of computing. And a mainframe as we define the term right now is the supreme computing power in a single machine.
So for a stupid journalist: that is definitely the exact same thing.
If you had ever read a steam punk novel, you would know that bleeding edge mainframes run on compressed air, holes in metal cards and rarely on an electromagnetic gate to sort/move a card to a certain output.
So yes, the nazi/IBM machines of that time were Mainframes.

For everything you do - or don't do - in your live, there is only one responsible for: that is you.

Strictly speaking "off peak" is just another name for "base load".
In germany we have two systems: high demand, called HT, and low demand, called NT. The other system is called peak/off peak, it is more for industrial customers.
Both systems simply divide the day in two 12h periods of high (HT/peak) prices/usage and low (NT/off peak) prices/usage.

Then the base load plants increase their level of output. Eventually a new base load plant is build. However in modern times, like right now, I assume a load following plant will take the burden, as new plants don't really distinguish anymore between the two operation modes. Especially as "base load" plants get replaced by solar/wind.

It would increase the range of latitudes for food production
It would not. northern and southern latitudes unusable for food production have the dreaded polar day and polar night cycle.
It is irrelevant as it leaves a band of deserts closer to the equator anyway.
and mitigate future ice ages
Wow ... a thing that might destroy your own property or that of your children - and where you have full control about by reducing CO2 production - is less important than a thing that will happen in 100,000 years and you have no control about?

What is unpredictive with "climate change"?
Increase CO2 levels: global temperatures goes up, pretty simple to predict!

Depends.

If it is running 24h: yes. The 24h/365d plants need to cover it at night

If it is only running at daytime: no. The load following plants have to feed it.

Does the factory change load between day and night? Then at night it is fed by base load plants and at day time partly by base load plants and what exceeds that load by load following plants.

my stepson had to ask me what a good program would be to use if he wanted to write an essay.
Reply to This my stepson had to ask me what a good program would be to use if he wanted to write an essay.
Actually, the sad thing in our days is: there is no good program for that.

I believe if I need to do that I would use the very simple "TextEdit.app" on my Mac.

Modern Word-Processors like Word and the OpenOffice variant are completely unusable imho.

How can it be that you need a training to use a simple "program" ?????

There are no "base load" consumers.

There is only base load feed ins into the grid.

The largeness has nothing to do with it anyway.

Draw a curve on a sheet of paper from left to right, going high and down.

Mark left side with 0:00 and right side with 24:00.

The lowest valley on this curve is base load. The highest is peak load. The amount of energy/power a consumer is drawing has nothing to to with it (nor the question if he is able to "drop" it on request)

... we know that Assyrian or more precisely Sumerian is tricky.

hm, that is strange. for a turbine it does not really mater (laymen term) how much yield it has to get from 0% to 100%.

Even a state-of-the-art turbine needs at least 10 minutes to come to full power from cold shutdown.
No. It should always be in the 1 - 3 minutes range. There is no difference between "cold" and "warm" for a turbine anyway.
Perhaps you refer to 30 years old turbines with strange side effects?

The (gas turbine) power plants I have visited all proclaim a full start up from 0% to 100% in about a minute.

In germany Computer Science is a topic in "high school" since 30 years.

Actually I belonged to the first class in my federate state who took it.

Or do you mean with "mandatory" that it is mandatory for pupils? If so: that is retarded.