I recently bought 4 lifepo4 12v 100ah ~1200 wh for $159 off Amazon as a retail customer. Battery storage is indeed cheap and accessible to the average person. Pair it with new 24% efficient solar panels and you can see why there's little to be gained by running expensive lines to distribute power when it can be sent everywhere wirelessly.
It's not too different to how developing counties rolled out wireless Internet and gained a huge benefit without much infrastructure investment.
Indeed, and that is current state; renewables and battery manufacturing continues to ramp, which will encourage further cost declines. This is objectively good, it democratizes low carbon, cheap energy.
It's been quite a show! Some nice CMEs, flares, comets and now a big alignment. I feel really blessed to be under clear skies to see these ancient celestial bodies dance across the night sky.
Yes and it can be quite absurd and right on the nose.
While Putin feeds humans to the dogs of war, he will at the same time chide his countryfolk that they are not having enough children.
There is a softer version in the west where elders and the wealthy are 'concerned about birthrates' while at the same time squeezing their young on living costs(shelter+food).
Ironically, you are already more advanced than you can imagine. In your human form, you set yourself apart from existence. Most humans don't identify as the the ground of reality, but you are as much as you are human, just as the rocks and trees are, and so on.
OMAM's "Numb Bears" track off their "My Head is an Animal" album is delightful. We are already there.
The most sensible thing to do here is found a religion and have your adherents ascribe a sacred quality to your writings and they'll then preserve it over millennia regardless of the format changes / translations required.
Once you get with the new gods, it can feel limiting and antiquated to go back.
But you might smile and feel a little nostalgic seeing an old timer plowing data in the modern era, just be careful not to spook him with any of your new runes.
Adjust some galaxies in the early timeline and changes would appear downstream as if they were always there. For affected lifeforms, these structures (e.g. a smiley face or whathaveyou) would appear upon waking in the present morning to the data, yet when the affected search their memories, the structure would have always been there.
Unlikely configurations could be interpreted as communication from beings more advanced than typically imagined, or as cosmic engineering projects, or perhaps more likely, the shape of the universe is just different than previously imagined.
It's not too different to how developing counties rolled out wireless Internet and gained a huge benefit without much infrastructure investment.
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