"Everyone who understood how power grids work ..." except the people who actually run the grids?

I think you are mixing up people who are running the grid with the CEOs and owners.
E.g. as in power plant dispatchers, people cutting trees, people making prognoses, foreplaning of fossil fuel purchasing, setting up trades for surplus power or balancing power etc. p.p.
The people actually working in power production most certainly know how to run a grid. The CEOs, most certainly not.
In Germany one of the biggest power companies had a subsection that was run by an ex CEO of a vacuum cleaner company. With results reflecting that. Could tell you some interesting stories about that, but you would not believe them.
The main company was restored to profitability by Utz Classen, a "CEO" of soccer clubs. He simply sold everything off from the holding company that had nothing to do with energy production and forced the workers to a 4 day week, and cut the salary accordingly.

Bottom line that is only an anecdote. But the idea that a CEO knows the business and engineering or physics the business is based on is flawed. See Boing.

If you invest in a mining rig, will you want to leave it idle 98% of the time? yes why not?
Same for an osmotic purifier. They are expensive and need steady baseload power to be cost-effective.
Only if you buy them and do not produce your own power.

You should stop thinking box wise. Because you are neither thinking outside of the box nor inside of the box. Ylu only look what a box is costing.

If I build a system that has two components, then I look at the cost of the total system and under which circumstances which part makes money. If the other part is idle: does not matter.

Regarding bitcoin mining: it is already used as balancing power plant. Same with freezing houses etc. If you use your own surplus, or buy cheap base load or buy for a negative price to power something that can stay unpowered for a while, and sell surplus power otherwise: obviously you have to look at the complete concept. Unlike an Osmosis plant, a mining rig does not rust when idle.

Yeah. I'd expect journalists to know basic grammar and not use present tense when talking about last year.

It is funny how you think that it is the red states that will kill this. Noncompetes are already not enforceable in many right-to-work states. It's the blue states where noncompete clauses had weight.

I actually believe that. Probably because that's what Hasan Ibraheem is quoted as saying in this article. He was already part of an organization No Tech For Apartheid. Here's the requisite quote from the article in case you don't feel like clicking on a link.

I don't see why this should be a surprising take. There are quite a few people that have become professional protestors. Nine people sat for a while in an office building with some very nice banners and somehow this has been in the national news for a week. These people came prepared, they were well-funded, and they clearly were plugged into the media well beforehand. He's done it once. I am sure that he has a long career ahead of him in this profession.

I want to make this very clear. I actually applaud this guy for his work. I am quite sure that he is genuine in his regard for Palestine, and it is hard to argue that it isn't an important topic. I just don't believe, even for a second, that any of this was a surprise to him. Hasan used his job at Google to catapult himself into this role.

I think it may be more the case of a longer transition.

If the hybrid runs on battery 95% of the time then it's more or less all the advantages of the EV but you don't have to worry about charging station availability on long trips.

As some point tech and infrastructure becomes good enough that you can drop the ICE component altogether, but it might be a more gradual transition.

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%

It is a bit of both. The tax dodge but yeah, nobody wanted to move to Austin because of the state government's policies on, well, health care. Specifically women's. The Navy I believe is seriously considering reducing Corpus Christie in the same way that the Air Force has more or less given up on Huntsville as a result of Alabama's policies and representation. Recruitment is down and sailors, like soldiers, are sometimes resigning rather than moving to a 'red' state with poor education and poor, repressive health care options, if the alternative of resignation is available.

Now, TN is still majority Republican and *could* go that way, too...but it would be more obvious the healthcare hand feeding them than Texas where the leadership only thinks in barrels of oil.

I think the larger problem of ANY "HQ" move is, well, getting anybody to want to go back to work in an office in the first place.

This was a KDE Wayland bug? I've never encountered in X11 with KDE 5.

There's actually a proposal before the Fedora steering committee to change the default desktop in Fedora from Gnome to KDE. It's quite a serious proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki...

I don't think it will gain traction, though.

Doesn't sound like Fedora is for you!

Fedora is, and always has been, a desktop-focused distribution. It's not used in the data center (or shouldn't be!)

There are lots of spins of Fedora. I use the Mate Desktop spin. Just means the default desktop environment is different.

I'm pretty sure you know all that. Well played. We all rose to the bait!