No doubt, there are a lot of talented people, even in ancient times. We're talking about the idea of AI being old though. Spinning scythes and clockwork automata don't count. In literature, which is the closest we get, if it has intelligence then until recently it's just magic. I can imagine and write about a lot of scifi-ish ideas. Doesn't mean I deserve any credit for coming up with anything.

When I was travelling in the third world about 25 years ago one of the locals was telling me how, unlike developed countries, everyone who could afford it had to buy a generator to produce power when the grid couldn't.

Yeah.

Reliable power is just so 20th century. Probably fascist too.

> They were workers from Hyundai which were setting up a battery plant and EV manufacturing plant in Georgia who were there to oversee the construction and the training of American workers

And presumably didn't bother to get visas?

They seem to have dropped a lot in the UK as well if the Youtube video I watched the other day was showing real numbers.

Though much of the problem may be that most working people there simply can't afford any kind of new car any more. They have to be on welfare to buy one.

"He who does not work shall not eat" - Lenin

I now pay for high-speed Internet so I can sit waiting for 20 seconds for Cloudflare to "check I'm human" when I click on a link.

Technology destroying their 'security system' sounds like a good thing to me.

For the general population yes. For Amazon's use probably not. Since Amazon paid for the whole thing, it might be easier/faster to connect directly from Amazon data enter in Maryland to Amazon data center in Ireland than to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or New England and then switch to another optical line for land based traversal.

I do not understand. Private companies have been laying undersea cables since Morse code was the default communications protocol. Your objection is over a hundred years too late. Second, while the summary does not detail what Amazon plans to do with the cable, the primary use will be to connect Amazon's internal systems first. The excess capacity might be leased. So this cable may not really connect to Europe at all for you or the general population.

A battery for a small amount of power is not hard to make. A battery large enough to power a city overnight does not exist. The alternative is a very large bank of batteries. While working with hydrogen has problems, there is a great deal more experience with large scale hydrogen use like in refineries today.

The main obstacle I see is you need to build large banks of batteries. There would be less infrastructure involved with storing a large amount of gas. Also this plan retrofits an existing gas turbine so it is being repurposed.

The number one objection that opponents have against solar or wind power is that it is not always available. Storing excess electrical power has been a goal. Large banks of batteries is a possible solution. Or pressurized caves. Or molten salt. This proposes using hydrogen. The main advantage is that burning hydrogen can use existing infrastructure if it is modified.

So you admit the article identifies a source; you simply dismissed it because you think it will not work.

I see there is another person who did not read the whole summary.

Only if you did not read the next paragraph of the summary.

None of those had a constructed brain though. It would be more akin to say life was "breathed" into them. They have "living"minds but no brains.