I'm just sick of it being shoved down my throat. Anyone want to start the Butlerian Jihad with me?

This is just drug pushing. The first hit is always free, but after that it will cost you, usually a lot more than you though.

It doesn't matter if your investments weren't successful if you got ten times as many people to invest as the guy who did have a successful portfolio. These guys are like bookies, they get paid their cut regardless of whether someone wins or loses. What makes them successful is not necessarily what makes their clients successful.

Let's create institutions designed to develop the minds of young adults and teach them how to think and then turn around and use a technology that does just the opposite. This ranks up there with people who try to gamble their way out of debt or who tell themselves they'll only smoke a little bit of crack.

Good on them and I hope they realize there are other things than tits and dick that their government doesn't want them to see.

Building much of the state over a swamp probably didn't help much either.

I don't think you've been following current events at all. Germany has decommissioned their nuclear power and the U.S. has been looking to build more of it. France has enjoyed much lower carbon emissions (and energy costs) due to their investments into nuclear power many decades ago.

What was "woke" about this movie? Just because a movie has a rock person (person of rockiness?) in it doesn't mean it's trying to subvert your value system.

Life on the planet in general is better now for more people than it ever has been in human history. If 60% of the population is a paycheck away from homelessness (I doubt this is even close to true, but you've provided no source to argue with) it's because they're bad with money and are spending more than they need to.

Somehow average intelligence increased during all of the decades when people were much worse off than they are now. Were the previous generations that lived through a decade long depression, world wars, and the threat of nuclear war between the east and west dealing with less difficult and more certain times than we are now?

You must suffer under a lot of stress yourself, but I think much of it is self-inflicted.

Part of what makes the CO2 capture feasible is it is being captured at the site it is produced, specifically in the making of cement. If the cement is made in Norway then it is likely to have cured and be worthless in the shipping to where it is needed. So something would still be shipped, it is that it is more convenient to ship the CO2 than then cement.

If this were some system that extracted the CO2 from the air then maybe you'd have a point but that is not the case.

Not just a sunshine law but also a large population, with more people there's just a greater chance of wild things to happen. Given any other population of 23 million or so people there would be plenty of wild stuff going on every year. Oh, and the mild weather helps, more people out and about to enjoy the weather and interact with each other.

True.

The problem is that LLMs need to learn from somewhere, and Stack Exchange is a major source of knowledge. Once it's gone, LLMs may stagnate, or, even worse, suffer from model collapse, as they recursively rely on their own output.

That's a silly analogy.

I don't have a wallet (just a pouch on my cell phone).

I keep my money in my bank account in "someone else's building".

The intent I got from this is the technology is to better match the intermittent nature of wind and solar power to the demands of the grid, which is also a helpful technology in matching the steady state nature of large thermal power plants to the demands of the grid. This works both ways.

But then if there's something that gets really hot like a fusion reactor then there's options for varied means of thermal energy storage. There was a hint of the potential for thermal energy storage that went with the mention of concentrated solar power. I expect nuclear fusion to continue to be vaporware for many more decades, if it ever becomes a reality while anyone alive at the time I write this is still around to see it happen. What is the problem that fusion is supposed to solve that fission doesn't already provide? I read an article just a few days ago on how there were plans to use nuclear fission reactors to produce the rare fuel needed for fusion power. Okay, maybe we can use fusion as a means to get the most of the byproducts of nuclear fission, it's not likely to replace nuclear fission for energy production any time soon.

If we have some combined fission and fusion power plant producing energy for us then there's much simpler thermal energy storage systems to match the supply to the demand than using liquid CO2. I'm pleased to see more discussion on solutions than complaints about the problems and how something needs to be done. At least this way I'm seeing people recognize the problems and working on solutions. I'm not seeing this liquid CO2 system as all that practical.

It's great to see an energy storage system built for long term energy storage but their definition of "long term" is 8 to 24 hours. To mitigate against wind and solar power variability we'd need storage that can last many days, perhaps weeks, or even months so the sun collected in the summer can be used for heat the next winter. We can do that with pumped hydro. We can do that with nuclear fission as the fuel is a long term energy storage system.

I'm expecting future energy storage to look a lot like past energy storage. We will have hydroelectric dams to store up water for use to spin a turbine as needed. As we search for alternatives to fossil fuels for hydrocarbons I expect long term energy storage to be large tanks of synthesized analogs to natural gas, LPG, fuel oil, and the various liquid hydrocarbon blends we use for transportation. We could use solar power in the summer to synthesize methane which is then burned in the winter for heat.

If we do somehow get to 24/7 fusion energy to dominate the energy supplies then any storage is likely to be thermal as it is well understood, very simple and cheap to construct, and doesn't involve pressurized domes of suffocating gases that could break and kill people. That is assuming the local geography and climate somehow rules out the option of pumped hydro storage.

Then we will just have to make more.

Is this a closed loop system do they intend to extract CO2 from the air and then release it back to the air with every cycle?

If this extracts CO2 from the air with each cycle then there is a loss in energy in taking that CO2 from the air. I recall a video showing the process of producing liquid nitrogen and the first two steps were the extraction of water vapor then the step of removing CO2. There's more than one way to get the CO2 from the air but the process I saw sounds like much the same as with this energy storage as the goal was a liquid gas, compress the air until what you want falls out. The step to compress the air until the water falls out is lost energy, perhaps there's another process that somehow recovers some of the energy lost in the water extraction but that just minimizes the loss some.

Once the CO2 is liquid there's likely more energy lost in the heat produced from compression. If they are storing the CO2 for hours at a time in a big dome then they will have to build this to be quite heavy or allow for lower pressures by allowing the CO2 to cool.

I've seen plans to liquefy air before as a means to store energy. A recurring issue is that of heat. Compressing gases will heat them up, and releasing compressed gases will cool them down, it's a basic phenomenon behind refrigeration. When releasing this liquefied CO2 into the air, or some lower pressure vessel if a closed loop, the some of the liquid CO2 would likely solidify and fall as "dry snow" unless heated somehow.

I have a lot of questions. Where they will find enough CO2 isn't really among them. I have some expectations on where they will get the CO2, and it's not likely to be all that "green" of a source. The CO2 source will likely also serve as a heat source to keep the CO2 from freezing solid and plugging up the pipes.