That’s comically bad.

Hey I got 30 bucks from Zoom

Was it though?

I don’t know what “they” you’re talking about, but I think it’s clear I’m referring to the person responsible for writing the original title. Not OP and not the article author if the publisher is choosing the title.

I’m so hyped

Ah, yeah I must’ve misunderstood. Cheers

That’s the opposite of how it should work

Not in the title

Ah I knew I’d seen it somewhere!

Playing Kingdom Hearts without knowing who he was and having him show up as a secret boss was wild

https://youtu.be/7_6mpKet-KI?feature=shared

The opposite way could work, though. A label that guarantees the image isn’t [created with AI / digitally edited in specific areas / overall digitally adjusted / edited at all]. I wonder if that’s cryptographically viable? Of course it would have to start at the camera itself to work properly.

STBSQL?

Wow that’s a good one

I hate anti-ai mania as much as the next person but the post is funny and it does have a point.

30% is NOT trivial lmao

Do you know what else decreases when the sun goes down? Power demand.

You linked the Wikipedia page on electric batteries. Of course it’s going to talk about the things you put in your remote, because Wikipedia is not a dictionary and that’s what most people mean when they say “battery”. See also, the pages on energy storage that refer to them as batteries:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Thermal_Battery

You could also look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page for “battery”, found at /wiki/Battery, which mentions electrochemical batteries as the most common meaning and then has an entire section on energy storage that mentions “Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical”.

You are wrong.

To answer your actual question though, we need about 85 times our current pumped hydro capacity to transition to a fully renewable US. This seems daunting, but:

• Pumped hydro is growing rapidly
• It’s not the only battery storage technology (heat batteries look promising imo)
• Any increases in storage allow more renewables, less pollution, and overall contribute to making our future better

Pumped Hydro doesn’t need to singlehandedly handle the storage load of the entire US because there are other options to use in conjunction with it and even a partial storage solution produces benefits. This is good, because Pumped Hydro is geographically limited.

If we built 43 Hoover Dams, we wouldn’t need to build any other renewables at all-- the Hoover Dam doesn’t just store power, it also generates it. I’m not sure of the numbers for pure pumped storage hydropower systems (I don’t think “pure” systems even exist, everywhere gets some rain), but we only need enough capacity to take over when the normal grid is underproducing.

Right-- batteries don’t power cities, they just smooth out the power generation. The size of the battery is determined by the reliability of power generation, desired uptime, etc., not just by the power consumption of the city.