1. This is why solar power generation at great scale is important: when it's cloudy and cold in the North, it's still often sunny (even if still cold!) in the South. Calif already exports power surplus to northern States (and BC in Canada) - and has been importing hydro and nuclear power at night and at winter.
2. It's also why wind power generation is important. The winds from the West are persistent.
And beyond the USA, that combination of solar (grid and endpoint), wind (mostly onshore*) and batteries will get you a long way. Not the whole way, mind you, but certainly most of the way. Then, peaking power gen is either residual fossil fuels (if Calif., for example, keeps CH4 power gen but at 10% of the total, that's still a win) or nuclear.
I have a pov that offshore wind is poorly suited for the west coast (mostly: a short continental shelf and few deepwater ports suitable for servicing wind turbines), but well-suited to the Gulf and much of the US East Coast.
Meanwhile, a while ago, was flying from Germany to London, and flew over the North Sea. It now has this immense grid of huge wind turbines. One part - the Dogger Bank farm will have 8GW output; but the whole area is being set up for TW-scale power generation.

In under two years, Calif. - the whole state - has quietly converted to a mostly-renewable energy system. Yesterday: grid-scale renewables (mostly grid-connected solar) peaked at 24TW. Including behind-the-meter solar end points, there's as much as 49TW peak power generation. The day--peak surplus goes to batteries (5GW at peak) and exports (to Oregon, Washington and BC - also peaking at 5GW).
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caiso.com%2Ftodays-outlook%2Fsupply%23section-supply-trend

You are correct and the error is in the article. The current estimate is that the Calif. grid has about 16TWh of associated battery (excluding batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations).

Here's the link that backs you up: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fvw-electric-cars-battery-costs-versus-tesla-2019-9

Too bad the authors of the original study and of the MIT Tech Review didn't know how to use, you know, Google?

Aramco, Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron and Shell. (+ Toyota and a few others).
http://energy.mit.edu/research/mobilityofthefuture/

You can call bullshit all you want, but if you look at the work from Cal (lab of Jack Gallant) and the dozens of others who have replicated his work, you'd find you're wrong.

If you go to her company's website (opnwatr.io) you can see that its approach is based on high precision infrared imaging. If you look at what is going on in infrared imaging (e.g. via conferences, etc.) you will see that this is very much the focus (pun intended) of a lot of current research. AND that BOLD (blood oxygen level detection), which is what is measured in fMRI, can be measured with similar or greater precision via near-infrared techniques. And on and on ...

Oo, that's cool.

1. Neural lace creates digital I/O to the brain ...
2. Neural lace kills neurons ...
3. No problemo! Off board memory and proessors to the rescue - we're all backed up to and supported on some cloud service: AWS on steroids, almost literally.
4. Shared cloud service! We're all collaborative because we're all ants under the same control.

I'm not actually in favor of a/ injecting into my (admittedly defective in some ways) brain or b/ having my skull cut open, or c/ having probes jabbed into my grey-ish matter or ... well, actually, any of this.

"How is this even legal?"
Because the Internet Archive received a waiver from the DMCA for the purposes of archiving software that is no longer commercially available.

Taiwan is China? Same way that Japan is China and Vietnam is China and Korea (all of it) is China. Ethnically, Han; culturally not.

Taiwan was administered as a Chinese territory for only seven years of history - and spent rather longer (over 50 years) under Japanese rule. The only land you can see from any part of Taiwan (the island) is ... Japanese. The dominant ethnic groups are Han, the dominant languages are Chinese, but the dominant culture is Japanese. The island's dominant population until early in the 20th century was of the aboriginal groups (tribes?) which are not Chinese at all, but Austronesian. Taiwan has a vigorous and messy democracy, parties vie energetically for power. Rule of law, mainly, pertains, with corruption at a level comparable to the US.

And Taiwanese of many ages now think of China as having both the past - an historic link to culture - and a present and future - China the nation as a terrifying borg-like entity, not at all as being "we're China, we just disagree on where the capital". They think the capital of China is Beijing, and the capital of what should be the independent nation-state of Taiwan is Taipei.

And, while I'm white ... I live in Taiwan.

We're all grownups, many of us are nerds, technically literate and so are completely used to the idea of using reasonably long words for the precision they offer.

Can we please ban "pee" and "poo"? Always and forever.

I should have made more clear.
I was talking about value to the customer / user.
You're talking about costs. The incremental costs may become small (but they're not yet, see - for example - Gettys work on bufferbloat).
Meanwhile, lots of folks buy Apple computers for 2x the price of a more powerful Windows machine because, well, perceived value. Apple has high margins. Perhaps, in your worldview, we should regulate Apple's prices and margins?

A rather silly over-simplification.
Of course, voice is carried as data. However, it requires more than low latency - it requires that the latency be sustained as low. And it requires low error rates.

The reasons are buried deep in human behaviors.
Delays easily realizable in IP networks with error correction are perceptible to the listener. Then, however, they're not ignored (as they are in a video stream being re-aggregated for playing) but are heard by the listener as hesitation.
The Q&A: "do you want to go out for dinner on Friday?" A: "yes" ... becomes "do you want to go out for dinner on Friday?" A: (slight pause) "yes".
In human interaction, that silent pause is extra information.

(Of course, the degradation of voice quality on mobile networks means that the Q&A leads to answers like "huh? what did you say?")

There's a BIG difference between saying "voice is data" and the fact "voice is carried as data".

Some of this loss, doubtless, *is* caused by the copyright nuts.
However, another part is caused by the decline and fall of curated media (good record stores, good radio stations) in favor of search engines whose algorithms are basically popularity contests, gamed to sell ads. These show the fallacy of the long tail argument (tm), because - as this /. thread shows - the search engines, and predictive algorithms (if you liked xx you should like yy) herd people into more tightly knit winner groups. The interwebs haven't hurt Lady Gaga; they've crushed lots of minor classical ensembles.

Naxos recordings are hit and miss. Some good, some poor, none stellar ... it has breadth, but if you're looking for a breathtaking performance of Goldberg Variations, for example, you aren't going to find Glenn Gould or Murray Perahia or ... on Naxos.