You're both right but talking about different things. They are talking about battery storage as a grid supplier in a time of need. MW numbers quoted here are very much in terms power provided by batteries, not total energy stored. CAISO had over 49GWh of energy capacity back in 2024 already.

It is industry nomenclature to call power provided by storage facilities "storage" and talk about MW or GW when talking about how much it can instantaneously provide to the grid. These units don't come from journalists, they come from the California Energy Commission directly.

MW is storage, or rather the power provided to the grid by storage. The journos got it right as far as the nomenclature used by the California Energy Commission. They are talking about power capacity provided from storage. It's 17GW from battery storage. The actual stored energy capacity (I don't have current numbers) but was already 49GWh back in 2024 when the storage system only provided 12GW total.

"A labor union wants to be, and often is, the exclusive provider (that is, seller) of labor to a company or industry. "

Labor Union do not provide exclusively labor to companies. What they do is have the power of collective bargaining, job protection, safety - which is utterly different to being "exclusive provider of job".
You may confusing normal labor union, with hiring hall union (e.g. in construction/actors/voice actor). That is a widely different type of union. Most union are NOT hiring hall union.

Feel free to correct me.

There are more VR headsets that Nintendo 64s and Gamecubes combined, and the VR community is very active. It's a niche yes, but there's nothing "flop" about it. The question is one of price and performance. Apple flopped on price.

Also listing weight along shows you have no idea what you're talking about. Weight distribution on the head and the head mounting arrangement is orders of magnitude more critical than weight alone. The 100g numbers is arbitrary and useless.

No, the latency is a number that is bigger than you arbitrarily care it to be, nothing more, nothing less. Latency always exists, the question is what is the performance criteria required for the latency number.

That's where you fall down. You play racing games? Great. Now tell us how the 70ms affects you directly. Right now you're only complaining about a number, nothing more. You've provided no objective performance criteria, nor defined how it affects you.

I call bullshit on your blind testing. The requirements for a test setup to measure this in a blind way are extensive, and frankly useless to anyone unless you can link to your university paper where you've done so.

Anyway the reality speaks against you. What you measure, what you care about is irrelevant. The reality is virtually no consumers give a shit about latency that's even worse than the product you are talking about here and are successfully using it every day.

Don't like it? Don't buy it. But don't pretend it is unsuitable to produce a product with better performance than other products that countless people have already agreed is suitable.

You're applying an early adopter approach to products which are no longer early adopter category. At the start of any new technology you can expect precisely the problems you described, it was an incompatible cluster**** of problems.

But that was close to a decade ago now. The reality today is that anything that works on the Quest 3 that supports the hardware of the Quest 2 still works on that 6 year old headset. The reality is that anything you bought on PCVR for the a Rift CV1 back when you connected cables to your headset from your GPU in 2016 still works today on the current line-up.

Time to update your knowledge of the industry.

And frankly I've never head of Half-Life Alyx not running on *ANY* headset. Being a PCVR game targeting SteamVR means it runs completely independently of anything any headset manufacturer does. If your headset still supports the Oculus API, or Revive for the Vive API, or supports WMR, then there's zero reason that Alyx would crash for any reason other than you screwing up something on your PC. Alyx doesn't care what hardware you use, it only sees the SteamVR API.

There's nothing "foolish" about this. One of the biggest problems with early VR was tethering via cable. It was a miserable experience in every way and on that not infrequently caused people to actually ruin their headsets.

As for the latency, sorry but you are talking rubbish. VR is one of the most latency sensitive things we do. The slightest latency causes motion sickness and makes any fast paced gaming impossible to play. And yet both work perfectly fine with countless PCVR fans happily using the system from everything to high speed rhythm games to fast paced shooters.

The latency issue is something complained about by people who have not used the product. What you want is something you made up in your head, not a realistic requirement.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Sodium helps solve for intraday storage. It does not suddenly lower costs to the point where, eg, the UK could get through a winter lull lasting a week. But that’s ok, because that’s the last and hardest 10% of decarbonisation of electricity, and we can focus on the other 90% first, including the massive expansions needed as we electrify transport and heat.

1. Don’t expect those prices to last. Distribution costs are rising everywhere and really sharply. Go watch a Mr Global video on this
2. Californians earn more. The 10 states whose electricity is least affordable (ie costs compared to incomes) are all red states

They've been pretty open about it. At least when they don't think anyone is listening.

The most famous example is probably mitt Romney being recorded by the help potentially costing him the election. But a quick Google search for something like "billionaires talking about the labor market" yields plenty of good results.

They are a little more careful since Romney but they still slip up all the time because frankly they don't think very much of you.

They're after low wages. You have to think about the labor market as a whole not just your slice of it. When you get to the c level that's what you're doing. You're hanging out with your other multi multi-millionaire or billionaire golf buddies talking about how you're going to lower wages in your industry so they can lower wages in their industry so that everybody's wages can be lower.

This is important because even if it costs you slightly more overall you get a lot more power out of it. And it's not about money at that level. It's about power. It's about the ability to tell you what to do and you have to do it or they take away your access to food and shelter and healthcare.

That's the difference between you and them. They think in a completely different way about everything.

Actual journalists didn't stop doing journalism by choice. They were fired and it's difficult for them to get by without an income.

There are some people left trying to do journalism. Mostly keeping their heads down and hoping that psychopath like Elon Musk don't rip them off while waiting for the public to come back to their senses...

I guess what I'm saying is I'm not blaming the journalists. The propagandists can go fuck themselves. Anyone working for Fox News knows what they are. I dabbled a little in journalism in high school and college and I respect actual journalists. It's a tough and miserable and largely thankless job.

Most of that money was spent bribing politicians because what they're doing is illegal. They also were paying the drivers a reasonable amount of money in order to tell the public that it was okay that all of the traditional protections for workers had been gutted.

So yes Uber did have a short-term amount of money they had to put out in order to do something profoundly illegal and antisocial and something that your great-grandparents died to prevent...

But they weren't losing money because of a lack of profitability or even how much they were paying the drivers. They could have of course competed honestly with the taxi cab system but they were massively underpricing taxi cabs.

So like I said yes paying the driver's okay will cause fares to go up slightly. This means that people who take Ubers for casual use like say I don't feel like driving to the grocery store or kids putzing around in them will no longer be able to afford them. That will more than be made up for by the people who have to take a taxi cab for a variety of reasons. For example every year I go see my eye doctor and I don't have a choice I have to take a cab because everyone I know works during the day so I don't have anyone to drive me in the middle of the week and when they dilate my eyes I'm basically blind. So yes they can double the price of my trip and I will pay it.

But here's the dirty Little secret they already doubled the price of that trip. Because they have a shitload of data and they know I have to pay it

You need to accept that you're wrong. That we can have a decent civilization that pays people a living wage and you won't have to give up your lifestyle for it. That we don't have to torture people just to make you happy.

On the other hand you might not want to accept that because you might be one of those deeply unhappy people who desperately need somebody else to be even more unhappy. I meet a lot of guys like that and they are always anti labor and right wing