Agreed, yet, you know that, since this is a new technology in development, it is more subject to accidents. What’s more is that media are more inclined to report any even small accidents about it. So, finally, information and news here are not necessarily representative of the whole reality.

Thanks anyway for this striking breaking news i didn’t know about 😌

… 3000-megawatt Moss Landing energy storage …

“megawatt” is not a quantity of energy.
Also, are those battery fires more frequent // important than petrol ones ?

Never call someone a massive asshole, call them massless.

We don’t know yet if humanity will succeed. And you are absolutely right : my proposition here is quite forced and incomplete. Yet, if we consider a broader perspective : on many planets, similar to the Earth, there must be somewhere, at some moment, a sentient species succeeding in something like this.

Let’s look at humanity as natures’ invention that could protect the Earth against total destruction of life from huge meteorites : in this context, our actual partial destruction of the biosphere (and of 99.99%? of our civilisations) is not so important.

… 44,544 computer processors, … is verified to perform 1.742 quintillion calculations per second …

This is another burning hot California topic.

Ans And by free …

You don’t have free speAch if you don’t have speech.

this article that is © 2024 TIME USA, LLC, says :

“They’re (Chinese) clearly getting much better use out of the hardware because of better software,” says Ritwik Gupta, the author of the research, who also advises the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit.

Down voting reality doesn’t make it go away.