They end up in a landfill instead of being recycled.
That is nonsense. Obviously they get recycled. Facepalm.

They[reactors] can be far smaller and more efficient.
That is nonsense. Reactor efficiency scales with the size. A 400MW reactor is never as efficient as a 1.2GW one.

The problem is that inverters need a stable grid to synchronize to when feeding power back to the grid. They cannot help stabilize the grid like base-load generators do.
That is wrong. You can tell the inverter to run a split second ahead. And industrial connections, do exactly that.
Also solar farms are gigantic capacitor, they can be used to slow down the grid frequency.

so the problems with inverters will have to be addressed
There is no problem with inverters. You are misinformed.

California has many steep coasts. The could use sea water. By building the storage on top of the cliffs, close to the coast. As a side effect they can produce salt.

What are you about to do with the desalinated water?
If you can not sell it as cheap as the other fresh water on the market, it is pretty pointless.
And usually: it is not that cheap but super expensive. Four to eight times as expensive than natural fresh water.

Pumped storage's round trip efficiency is about 25%
That is nonsense or a typo. It is >85%

On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.

Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?

They don't - something like this needs an Act or Congress.

SCOTUS made up some BS "Chevron Deference" in the 80's which has been abused like this since.

The current /Maine Fisheries/ case should dissolve Chevron deference.

We may like the FTC proposal on this one but with that kind of power and no representation it's only counting the days until they do something we absolutely detest. And then there's no effective recourse.

Weren't the founders and top management of Google citizens of Israel?

It dozen't seem all surprising from that perspective.

These protesters should have gone back to writing code to surveil Americans, I guess?

Sometimes a Good paperback at ThriftBooks is $1 less than a new one at Amazon so I just get the new one.

Weird market!

PS unless the recent printings have been Trust & Safety'ed.

I would need at least 5 Powerwalls for 1 day of consumption. Earlier today, my PV produced 123.7 kWh, 107.7 kWh of which were exported to the grid, and only 16 kWh self-consumed.
5 Power Walls are much more than 16kWh.

But it's not like the leather is going to be thrown away and Apple is pulling cowskin out of dumps.

Wrong

The global leather industry creates four billion pounds of scrap leather waste every year. Currently, thatâ(TM)s mainly sent to landfills or incinerated

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Good flick if you want to get a feel for how Pharma sales work.

I'm surprised it hasn't be Pfbanned yet based on who it highlights.

Classical base load mostly does not exist anymore.
So a non dispatchable wind plant: is of course base load. What else would it be?
You orchestrate your load following and load balancing plants around the fire and forget plants and the variations of wind and consumer behaviour.

Wind is by all means base load.

More efficient than a Diesel generator.
And as bonus points it provides clean water.