>It's a theoretical design based on a theoretical concept

It can't be clearer. A prototype that's passed tests is not a theoretical design/concept.

Every single tech is expensive to begin with. New tech is almost always initially aimed at the rich, who can afford the expense.

>Destinus’ Eiger Prototype which conducted its maiden flight on April 13th, 2022

>Destinus has been testing its prototype aircraft for the past couple of years, announcing successful test flights of its second prototype - Eiger - at the end of 2022.

Maybe you should read more than just the title.

It's so funny watching conservatives bash renewables and storage, and then quietly install it for themselves. This is while they campaign for more nuclear, while blocking its development anywhere near them.

Dumb searches are way more efficient though. How much more would ChatGPT-4 cost to run at the same scale as Google?

GPT4 can't even handle basic maths! I think it's a bit premature to set it loose on advanced physics.

Are you kidding me? During a time of record high gas prices, you complain about the only alternative not becoming cheaper faster?

Storage will get cheaper and cheaper. LCOE are the unsubsidised costs. Governments can subsidise them for now, which will help them get cheaper still. The more we invest now, the faster this will happen. This is standard practise for all energy sources. No one complains when fossil fuels are heavily subsidised in so many different ways.

$1 billion invested in a storage system will lead to less gas for decades. $1 billion dumped into gas is temporary. Just look how none of those fracking investments saved us from record high gas prices!

You really do sound like a fossil fuel shill.

Renewables 30% cheaper than over 75% of existing coal power plants. That's cheap enough to include storage.

>nuclear as base loads

You complain about cost and then promote the most expensive energy source of all!

They're definitely shills. They don't just attack renewables and energy storage (which even nuclea rpower will need), they also go after electric vehicles and even heat pumps.

Almost had me.

You're arguing with a free market fanatic. He'll just completely ignore what you say and continue to spam the same bullshit. He's been doing it for years on behalf of a libertarian lobby.

In his mind, anything other than a pure free market solution is communism. It's his holy war!

>The robotic trashcans encouraged social interaction, the researchers say.

Trashbot

>Global covid response was halting, half-assed, and resulted in millions of idiots mainlining horse meds instead of following official mitigation protocol.

By "global", do you actually mean America? Pretty sure millions of idiots weren't taking horse meds globally.

Saving millions of lives and creating vaccines in record times, using break through tech, isn't indicative of hopeless.

I'm guessing no amount of evidence will be enough for doomers like you.

The way in which the fossil fuel industry fights against climate action: deflection, delay, division, despair mongering, doomism.

Global covid response is evidence.

It's easier to counter what a handful of humans say to the deluge that an army of AI equivalents could pump out non-stop.

Sure

There was a study that showed providing financial incentives can effectively cut down nimbyism. For example, providing locals with cheaper electricity.

For saving ourselves from destruction? We probably waste more land on cattle ranching.

And even waste lands like landfills unfit for other purposes. Not all land is equal, after all.

Tech moves far more rapidly than it did back then.

>Shit, I grew up in the 80's and I can vividly remember seeing the price for a Macintosh in 1984 was $2500 not adjusted for inflation. That amounts to almost $7,200 today. The first computer in my house that my middle class parents could afford was the Tandy model in like 1988, and that was still like a grand at the time.

That's weird. There were plenty of way more affordable home computers back then. The ZX Spectrum was £125 (~$188) in 1982.

They're the ones advocating for UBI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advocates_of_universal_basic_income

More likely that automated restaurants would use robots to quickly and cheaply produce, serve or deliver food. More people could then take advantage of them. It would be more cost efficient than everyone having one at home.