Europe has:
Ice storms: they are called snow rain, or depending on situation, just Blizzards.
Twisters: they are called "Tornado" after the famous war bird (oh, erm, well some will get the joke)
Hurricanes: in German they are called Orkan. No idea how to translate it into "proper British English", wait I check: it seems British English took over the term hurricane from USA ... so much to that.

We have a few Tornados every year in Germany, and most certainly a dozen of Hurricanes every Autumn and Winter season. However: they are usually over the north Atlantic, and only hit UK with heavy rain. There was a majour flooding catastrophe a few years ago.

So Germany usually only gets hit by half a dozen each Autumn / Winter season.

And 2018 or so, all north Atlantic ship travel was closed for 2 weeks because of heavy hurricanes all over around Islands.

Why do you not know anything about that?
Simple:
a) nothing happened
b) your yahoo country is to yahoo to report any news about a country you think is yahoo
c) (you actually never have any news about what is going on in the rest of the world, unless an American base got attacked for what ever reason)

And why is not much happening? Because weather warning is telling all people: STAY THE FUCK INSIDE OF YOUR HOUSE.
And still some people die. Just 4 or 5 in Germany each winter. Why do they die? Because of the self fulfilling prophecy: weather warning is exaggerating. Proof: only 4 or 5 die each year, because they say: hey you saw how exaggerated it was last year? Only 4 idiots died! And rinse and repeat, every year a few idiots go the Darwin, because they consider weather warnings exaggerated.

It is easy to die if a robust house roof loses a single shingle, and hits your head. Or you drive a forest route and a tree considers to fall on the road 30 yards in front of you. Oh, who the funk would have thought a tree might be collapsing during a Hurricane? Oooops: Orkan!

We do not have Ice Storms, Twisters or Hurricanes: which (begs) raises the question: "how farking stupid are you"?

The power costs in Europe are taxes.
CO2 tax.
General power tax.
VAT.

Why is that so?

To have an incentive to save power, and buy stuff that uses less power.
Create less CO2.

The result is that an European uses roughly 1/4th to 1/10th of the power of a typical USAsian.

And: has less than half or down to a quarter, of the bill of an USAsian.

I never paid more than $110 in Germany, and even during price surges I managed to get he cost down to $85.

And that includes gas for heating in winter, it is not only electricity.

The power outage did not kill anyone.
Loss of power does not kill people.

This was an ACCIDENT.

In your country power outages ARE THE RULE.

Big difference.

Ice boxes are actually very common in south east Asia.
To ... store ice.

It stays frozen a week, even if you have a cubic yard sized box and only a small sack of ice in the corner.

In many municipalities being Grid-tied is a requirement for a building to be considered "livable"
In a farked up third world country, probably.

In a 1st world country like Germany or Thailand: no.
I do not think (but do not know) there is any EU country with a retarded rule like that.

Sometimes he has super silly ideas about what he thinks he knows and does not know he does not know.

The current tech is: sodium ion batteries, LFP is only interesting because the "assembly lines" are set up for it and will provide for a year or more batteries for cars.

In general the "cheap Chinese shit" is:
a) cheap - yes
b) Chinese - yes
c) shit - definitely not

Basically every installation we do in Thailand comes from China, like Sigenergy or Bluesun etc. I actually don't think there is anyone else "exporting" into Thailand, as most countries have tariffs and as China belongs to the ASEAN pact, the import is either tariff free or tariff is very low.

The quality of "the cheap shit" is the same as imports from Germany.

The farking problem with Solar power is, the prices for installations are falling so quickly that you basically are sitting there and think: I wait for the next price drop! And when in 3 months the new battery is out, you tell yourself: okay, another 3 months.

A few weeks ago BYD announced it's new house and industrial scale sodium batteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For a little bit more than that you get battery with inverter that can be plugged into a standard household plug, and has an off grid power outlet to connect big consumers, and: some solar panels

Also, I doubt that the typical American fridge/freezer can last 48h on a $199 battery :P

Wow,
in every other country: that would be shocking.

Seriously?

The only one or two power outages I had my entire life in Germany: were planned weeks ahead.
I know of a power outage, where a transformer house caught fire.

There was a big power outage in the former German east, when we had ice rain and some of the over land pillars carrying the cables got so much ice that they collapsed - blamed on inferiour quality of the steel.

Then we had a northern Spain power outage - a year ago or so - because France did not deliver. And once there was a north Italy/Swiss power outage.

Unless there is a kind of majour catastrophe, and a cascade of bad luck/bad planning: there are no power outages.

Not even in Thailand, where we have reasons for power outages, like a majour storm and falling down trees cut the lines, we have such events. If there is a power outage, it is fixed in 2h or 4h. And most other infrastructure like internet and phones and water supply are not affected. As they have back up power or their own grid.

it proves that light is a wave, not simply particles.
It is only sometimes a wave.

If it likes to be a particle: it is a particle.

Hence the pardoxons.

It gets nasty if you do the same experiment with electrons, and realize: oops they are waves too. More precisely: behave like waves.

We can bust on Microsoft all day and all night, and they deserve it, but the fact that their ability to find and fix these problems has greatly increased is a good thing. Software is incredibly complex, and no software more complicated than "10 GOTO 10" is free from the potential of security problems. Microsoft's QA has gone downhill in recent years, but now it's getting better apparently (even if it's after the fact). They are not going away, so this makes all our lives better.

[...]economics grads[...] May explain why they are near universally bad at it.
Because economics usually has nothing to do with running the business they are employed in.
If they would love their job, they would pick up the trade and figure how their economics skills fit into it.

However they lean back and tell everyone if the oil price is increasing, everything gets more expensive.

Well ... not sure if I need an Master of BA or Master of economics to grasp that.

The next thing is: we can fire half the people, the company will roll on its momentum for half a year, and has a huge profit increase, and then we rehire and see how to go on.

The blockchain is to know which person once owned the coin, that is all.
Not sure if that is an ridiculous overhead.

Otherwise I agree with you.

The first time I went into a business via a web site where I wanted to use "microtransactions", I wanted to sell stuff for 50cents. The fee was $2,30 per transaction.

No idea how that is in our days, Germany just introduced a new payment platform that is supposed to be fee free ... lets see.

Agreed on that.

Question is: is it the correct approach. I have actually no idea about that.

It would be more other way around.

You did not grasp what he said, and started indeed a "waste of time" for you and me :D

Would be easily resolved if you just clicked: back, back, and reread what he wrote.