What's the solution for storage outside of pressure vessels or cryogenics?

Metal Hydrates (e.g. 1:3 palladium/silver alloy).

How about this then: Enough fraudulent takedowns and the copyright is revoked and becomes public domain.

Unfortunately the trolls aren't always the owner of the copyright or acting with the owner's permission or in the way they told the owner they'd "protect" his/her interests.

... if [companies like Google] find that someone is abusing DMCA requests, they absolutely do have a right to sue the abuser. Google has done this at least once, and rather recently, at that.

They should use it as a revenue source. Troll the bogus-DMCA trolls for $ome big buck$.

Maybe let the people hit by the bogus takedowns join the suits as co-plaintifs, boosting the bite by THEIR damages and giving THEM a cut of the swag. (Provide running and lawering the suit as a service, for a cut of the winnings-if-any for any co-plaintifs who want to sign up for that rather than run their own lawyers. Google: win, Co-plaintifs: win, Trolls: LOSE!

An elephant in the room is the efficiency, Solar electricity through electrolyser and fuel cell to power for the forklift (including electronics such as max-power-point trackers for solar panels) vs. equivalent devices (inverters, charge controllers, etc.) for alternatives such as battery-electric.

LFP and several other lithium battery systems are now 93-97% efficient round trip from solar or line input to line-equivalent AC. Going to motor control should be at least that good. Last I heard, electrolyzer/fuel cell systems were nowhere near that. Charging time vs. refueling time issues can be handled by swapping low battery packs with fresh ones on chargers. (The packs-on-chargers can also do time-shifting for shifts during no-sun periods.)

I hear now NASA used to find hydrogen leaks was by having a worker hold up a big sheet of cardboard as he walked forward. When it caught fire he'd found the leak. Hydrogen burns with an almost invisible (in sun or bright light) but VERY hot flame and "There's no such thing as a hydrogen leak that's NOT on fire." after non-trivial time.

Banning high-sulfur fuels in cargo ships was a good move when it comes to reducing acid rain - but it became obvious very quickly that the ocean-spanning clouds seeded by the resulting sulfur dioxide had been causing a powerful global cooling effect, and removing them is nearly doubling the rate at which the planet is warming.

In particular, as of a couple months ago the climate scientists were estimating that the sulfur cleanup driven ship track reduction was more than enough to explain ALL of the ocean surface temperature rise during the last two years.

US-ians hate the idea that something everybody wants can't be owned and used for profit-making.

"US-ians" understand that if you can't own it, you can't keep others from taking it away from you/.

These two things (fascism and socialism) are not related.

Actually, they are: Like Communism, Fascism is a particular subset of socialism. But it's gotten such a bad reputation that the rest of the socialists want to avoid the fallout and go so far as to claim it's their opposite.

The fascist approach is to pick a limited number of winners - sector labor unions or corporations - and heavily regulate them.

National drug store chains turning over patent records to the cops etc. without a warrant also lets them track their movements arounjd the country.

Not as find-grained, but much quicker than trying to mine license plate reader and surveilance camera imagery from around the continent. "Where's Wally Suspect?" "He was at this Walgreens in Tacoma on June 7 but that Kroger in Phoenix yesterday."

If you're against the surveillance state over cameras, library checkouts, browser histories, or TV show selection, you certainly should be against this data leak.

"But I don't have anything to hide so I don't care." doesn't cut it when, say, some piece of a cancel culture gets control of the machinery of government (or just some piece of law enforcement) and uses it against anyone not perfectly aligned with their particular ideology.

Trump wants to be a king,

Dictator, not king. But only for a day.
Oh wait that wasn't comedy that as Trump's actual words.

They were his actual words AND comedy. He was cracking a joke.

If you had actually watched the Hannity giest-appearance / interview where he cracked it (and aren't too closed-minded to get it), you'd see he was promising voters he'd spend his first day writing executive orders undoing Biden's "first 24 hours" spree of orders shutting down all Trump's first-term policies, along with Biden's later policy changes implemted by Biden, establishing or reestablishing his own policies.

Trump knows the media outlets opposed to him will take his comments out of context - and try to censor his own actual statements and their context. So he uses it. One way is to crack jokes they'll distort into ludicrous flames. Later, when people hear what he actually said and understand how they've been gaslight, the media that distorted him are discredted and some of those people switch to supporting him.

... Google will automagically disable the site's advertising (demonitizing the entire site)

Oops. "Demonitize" is the wrong word for that, as it's denying them traffic and exposure, not money for displaying their content (which is a different branch of Google.)

Google ... says it will deindex offending platforms from search and also remove their ability to advertise. "Since this is a dynamic blocking, the search engine therefore undertakes to perform de-indexing of all websites/telematic addresses that are the subject of subsequent reports that can also be communicated by rights holders accredited to the platform," AGCOM writes. "Google has shared a procedural mode for the communication of the blocking list, and the Company has also committed to the timely removal of all advertisements that do not comply with the company's policies, having particular regard to those that invest the promotion of pirate sites referring to protected sporting events."

Did I read that right? Anyone can repost a link to a pirate feed to any free-speech discussion site and (once a purported rights owner - for instance: the operation that also posted the link) complains Google will automagically disable the site's advertising (demonitizing the entire site) and stop displaying anything from the site in response to searches (effectively hiding the entire site from Google Search users).

What an opportunity for censors worldwide! Corporate, State Actor, Political Party, Terrorist, Political Pressure Group, Vandal, Extortion, etc.

I note that the study was of the correlation of population death rates with pollution from coal plants. Attributing the entire improvement to the coal pollution reduction misses things like coal-polluted areas tending to have lower average income than cleaner ones, with all the other health hazards and service shortages that brings. It's across time, and as the areas clean up they also tend to gentrify, changing that factor. (Though some of the resulting mortality improvement might fairly be credited to the pollution reduction - even though not due to direct chemical / micromechanical effects on bodies.)

Since it's across time, EVERYTHING ELSE changed as well, and some of that (such as improved medical treatment) might also have caused much of the improvement. To sort that out you need to do a multivariable analysis against pretty much everything (and then you STILL have a correlation-as-causation issue.)

(I'd also like to see how much percentage-wise the coal pollution dropped across the study groups, which would also be indicative.)

Nevertheless, though the number might not be right, pollution from coal combustion IS some very nasty stuff, and a lot of it has been eliminated. So perhaps most of this stat IS from that cleanup. (Or even "more than all of it", if the total of conflating effects was net negative.)

If I'm following the description correctly, it causes heat to move across the special substance, which can make it cold on one side and hot on the other.

Nepe. It's a chunk of dielectric in a capacitor that gets hotter as the capacitor is charged and colder as it's discharged. You have to bathe it in a fluid and pump the fluid past it and to the cold or hot ends of the system at the appropriate times in the charge-discharge cycle (or do some other auxiliary heat-moving thing).

Peltier systems work similarly,

Nope. Different system entirely. Moving charge carriers carring differenct amounts of heat between hot and cold ends, vs. locked-in-place atoms becoming more or less spin-aligned, and hotter or cooler, as a field is applied and revoved, with the heat moved to the hot end or from the cold end by a pumped fluid.

You can add a little heat, or pull out a little heat, but it's not gonna make ice in the desert.

Or you can stack them in series in a shrinking pyramid and reach cryogenic temepratures. (Such coolers are used for some infrared cameras to cool the sensor so it can detect cooler things.)

But Peltier systems are mostly not used when there's room for other solutions because they're terribly inefficient,

Why weren't they already doing that? Is it simply cost?

Almost certainly. (Could be the current output of their one mine is already committed elsewhere, so it had to wait for other mines to be opened or that one to be buy another truck or the like.)

If worst came to worst we could just MAKE it from any convenient carbon source. But that would cost about twice as much - give or take a tad depending mostly on what form you needed for your process' feedstock.

But why pay $2 for what you could buy from China for $1, or from any of several other sources for maybe $1.15? Until China decides to keep itheir production for themselves. Then there's a flurry of price fluctuations as the other suppliers ramp up or start up and the customers get other suppliers under contract.