Do you have any citations on why you think you'd need 5-6 days worth of storage with Wind/Solar?

I have to admit, I had to double check the article myself. Didn't realize it was a BOGO pricing deal.

I think that the critical part is that while still too expensive for grid storage that extensive for the power company, I average around 40 kWh/day. $2,800 for a Power Wall type system capable of powering my house for a day? That isn't a bad price at all.

At companies? I worked on the project to write the missing scheduling software for the Veterans Association about 12 years ago, the absence of which led to thousands of veterans not getting the surgeries they needed.

They hired me and two other developers, total, laid off the other two guys in a month, then me after two months.

That's the total budget government bureaucrats had allocated for development, out of $300 allocated. It took another 4 years and a few more rounds of funding by Congress before any actual company saw enough funds to do anything useful.

Way ahead of you, bud. Look at my Karma. :D

Besides, I have no idea how to add a sig.

I seriously want to steal your .sig.

On the other hand, consider two recent wars that spiked oil prices. First Ukraine then Iran. China is scrambling right now to conserve oil. Every EV on the road is one less vehicle dependent upon that supply chain.
Now, there is a lot of industry still reliant on oil and oil byproducts, but they can fudge with refinery products to make less gasoline and more of them. Plus, there are generally substitutes, even if they are a touch more expensive.
No solution is perfect, but the less they need to change the easier.

Amazing how far you have to scroll down to find a comment not infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome!

Trump told them this 6 fucking years ago.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

Do you think that actually happened, or was intentional if it did? I personally believe the IRGC made it up, or did it themselves.

But then I'm not some disgusting propagandist for the Iranian regime.

My school? Way to show that you skipped the first part, where I made it clear that I don't consider going to or leaving school in the dark a real problem

There was one called Inside UFO 54-40 that had an ending you couldn't navigate to. You had to "cheat" to find it, by just reading a section of the book that you had no way to reach. I thought that was pretty clever.

Similarly, Infocom had a text adventure game called The Lurking Horror that needed you to enter a computer password at some point to continue with the game. The password was only provided in the physical materials included with the purchased copy of the game. But if you knew how to hack into the game binaries, the password was actually there -- multiple times -- in plaintext. That had to be intentional.

Except ICE isn't ordinary police. They're described as law enforcement officers, but their jurisdiction encompasses only a very small range of laws, related to immigration and customs (hence the name). Plugging multiple rounds into U.S. citizens who piss them off for some reason is not within their mandate.

What does it matter if they were eventually released? What business does an immigration agency have imprisoning U.S. citizens ... let alone murdering them?