Three more years.

According to the graph the best model was off in predicting by 100km after 48 hours. Not breathtaking.

A direct line between County Cork and Loudon VA does not go through the east coast of Maryland on a spherical earth, that was the only point I addressed. Even if you wanted to maximize how much is laid in the ocean as opposed to land, there are still shorter distances that would land you on at least in Delaware. While I am sure there are logistical reasons to do it where they are doing, that is irrelevant to my point.

I'd be curious what the breakdown is between 'addicts', in the compulsively-does-thing-despite-knowing-it-is-contrary-to-their-interests sense, and sad but locally reasonable behavior from people with tepid options.

'Addict' is a comparatively easy call to make when people are getting fired because they no-showed to play WoW; or spending all their time scrolling tiktok despite having a school or college worth of peers to socialize with; but if you are retired, less physically able to get out and about than you used to be, and at the age where your friends and peers are starting to die off, it seems like a much more open question whether having an engaging if ultimately rather hollow hobby is an 'addiction' or just a kind of depressing local maximum.

It's obviously not some ideal of perfected human flourishing; but if you are doing it because you don't really have things to do, rather than at the expense of things you have to do, that's not really classic addict behavior; just a mediocre hobby.

For the general population yes. For Amazon's use probably not. Since Amazon paid for the whole thing, it might be easier/faster to connect directly from Amazon data enter in Maryland to Amazon data center in Ireland than to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or New England and then switch to another optical line for land based traversal.

I do not understand. Private companies have been laying undersea cables since Morse code was the default communications protocol. Your objection is over a hundred years too late. Second, while the summary does not detail what Amazon plans to do with the cable, the primary use will be to connect Amazon's internal systems first. The excess capacity might be leased. So this cable may not really connect to Europe at all for you or the general population.

Yeah that sounds off. Probably mean digging at coastal shallower waters then just having it lay on the floor elsewhere, that's the standard.

Could you help me understand the 'irony' here? Is saying impolite things about a dead guy the moral equivalent to being perhaps the most pivotal figure behind a war with an estimated half-million dead and a causus belli that was transparent bullshit; not to mention the elevation of extrajudicial torture to official policy? I'm not sure I follow.

And, if you'd like to expand on the 'political leanings' thing; I'd be more than happy to call anyone whose politics involve thinking that Cheney did a great job a monster as well; especially when it's so hard to argue that any of Cheney's ugliest aspects even paid off. Flirting with more expansive theories of the ends justifying the means can be a dangerous business; but, bare minimum, you can attempt to rank means by degree of atrocity and ends by degree of effectiveness; and on that score Cheney's work was honestly pretty shit.

Remember the 'Pax Americana' that the neocons assured us could be bombed into the fractious elements of the middle east? Lol. Bin Laden? Dude was chilling in an upmarket suburb in Pakistan while we were pissing away blood and treasure on hitting a mixture of hapless civilians and 'insurgents' who had the temerity to suggest that our puppet government was not the legitimate local administration in one peripherally involved country and one uninvolved one.

So, go ahead, please, explain your other level of irony. Tell us whose political loyalties are to this grade of not-even-effective violence. What'll it be?

That's assuming we live on a flat earth. A shorter line between County Cork and the US would have the US terminus much further north.

A battery for a small amount of power is not hard to make. A battery large enough to power a city overnight does not exist. The alternative is a very large bank of batteries. While working with hydrogen has problems, there is a great deal more experience with large scale hydrogen use like in refineries today.

The main obstacle I see is you need to build large banks of batteries. There would be less infrastructure involved with storing a large amount of gas. Also this plan retrofits an existing gas turbine so it is being repurposed.

The number one objection that opponents have against solar or wind power is that it is not always available. Storing excess electrical power has been a goal. Large banks of batteries is a possible solution. Or pressurized caves. Or molten salt. This proposes using hydrogen. The main advantage is that burning hydrogen can use existing infrastructure if it is modified.

So you admit the article identifies a source; you simply dismissed it because you think it will not work.

I see there is another person who did not read the whole summary.

Only if you did not read the next paragraph of the summary.