You need to do the math. I live in an all electric house up north. 12 KW goes to the various heating units. The stove is rated for 11 KW if everything in on like say Thanksgiving dinner. The water heater is 5 KW. I can't read the clothes dryer tag but it's on a 30 amp circuit just like the water heater.

Then add a dishwasher, microwave, and a vacuum cleaner (which is a surprisingly big power hog).

So the 200 amp service is pretty well loaded if all that is on at the same time, and that is what you have to design for. Sure a Smart home could juggle loads to some extent, shutting off the dryer and the water heater if the load goes up too high, but the prioritization is not simple.

And don't whine at me to get a heat pump. I have one and I like it, but it stops working at -5 F, then it's up to the resistors.

Just for reference my wintertime power use is three times summertime use. Last year I used the heat pump in AC mode for part of 21 days, typically 6 to 8 hours. It is in heating mode from mid October to the end of April.

Don't forget the earthquakes.

However I must applaud them for using dirt from the ground. Dirt from the sky doesn't tends to be too fine grained. Dirt from the ocean is also substandard.

"We have more land than we could reasonably populate and plenty of natural resources. We could absorb enormous numbers of people and we would be better off for it."

Plenty of open land, perhaps. Plenty of water, no.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu...

Even the open land is questionable unless you want to build a new city in, for example, Dixie Valley Nevada. Or maybe southern Owyhee county Idaho. But you still have the water problem.

https://transmission.bpa.gov/b...

Oh look, three straight days with no significant wind. The graph includes PV too, but it's 2800 MW wind and 140 MW solar so the graph is mostly wind.

So you need enough batteries to carry 3000 MW for three days, and enough extra wind turbines to recharge them.

There is the problem.

Cats can hear two octaves higher than you can, it's more likely they heard something ultrasonic.

If they were all this funny I wouldn't complain.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

"... it turns out that we really do need reliable energy."

"Is that a revelation to you?"

It's a revelation to some people when a solar panel can't keep the lights on after sunset. Or when the battery never gets charged during the day due to heavy overcast, or the 8000 tons of batteries needed to keep a 50 MW data center running through a 15 hour winter night. Yes I did the math.

It might also be a revelation to you that the owners of the data centers have no intention of turning them off at night. Since hydropower is tapped out, coal is classified as unclean, gas turbines are back-ordered if the gas supply is even available, solar and wind are intermittent at best and batteries boost the real cost of that power if you can find the land to install it, the list of options gets thin. Geothermal only works in a few places, and that leaves fission and fusion. Only one of those is known to work.

By the way, you managed to come off as a larger "biased, ignorant POS" than the original poster.

I have a camera mounted to the rear of the camper. I need to have a seperate screen in the truck to use the camera. GM in its lack of imagination did not leave a simple composite input as an alternate feed to the back up camera, but they did include a setting to always show the backup camera's view in the infotainment screen.

And yes the guide bars in the camper camera are a great help in backing it up.

The drone war in Ukraine has rearranged the tactics much like the machine gun did in WW I. Infantry is hunted down by drones that fly through open doors and windows. Armor is mobbed by multiple drones that eventual break something important.

Drones have deleted the Russian Black Sea fleet.

The U.S. Navy so far fought off the drones burning through large numbers of very expensive missiles that can not be replaced all that quickly. On top of that the destroyers have to return to a safe port to reload the vertical launch systems. The destroyer tenders that used to exist for such purposes were all scrapped decades ago.

The military has discovered once again it's ready to fight the previous war.

Rats, no mod points, but you are correct.

But there was also the visor thing and the car that never was. Nothing really remarkable has happened on the phone. Of course that's true for everyone else as well. The $129 Motorola I bought is entirely adequate.

Then Tim has overseen the flop of Siri and the great AI bungle. Then there is the feud with Nvidia.

Yes he got the transition to Apple Silicon done very well but at the cost of abandoning the workstations. His insistence in staying at 8 GB Ram and 256 GB storage as the standard configuration didn't endear him to anyone either, nor did Liquid Glass. Oh, and software quality is on its ass although that seems to be an industry-wide problem.

He was not perfect, but not totally horrible either. Running a company that big is not an easy task.

Considering that the very blue Washington State Democrats keep raising taxes and doing this sort of thing, I'll take the lower tax option.

Socialism is all about control and ideological conformity. Go look at England. Also, which administration wanted to set up a Ministry of Truth?

I had a Bernoulli drive. It worked until it didn't. I replaced it with a Zip drive and that worked as long as I had it. There was another built into a G4 Mac tower I bought used. It was working the last time I tried it. I still have some disks, I should see if they still work.

It's also rumored that a SCSI Zip disk will work on an Apple IIGS if you have a SCSI card.

With a decently built PC and proper Linux drivers this could work well for those who are fixated on gaming. The Apple M1 turned out to be all I need in a laptop, and my Linux desktop has a Ryzen 4600G and no separate graphics card. It is also fine.

I'll be interested to see what comes out and how it works in the real world.