There are only so many places where grid level pumped storage hydroelectricity works, and the capital and environmental costs are non negligible for most new locations.

That’s the same as asking “How many deaths have seatbelts prevented?”

Just like measuring the effectiveness of the TSA, it is possible to measure the effectiveness of seatbelts.

So yes, you can come up with an estimate of how many excess deaths TSA prevented. (Especially since the government tends to try to convict people who were trying to kill people.)

The only thing that changes is that more power shifts to the civil servants,

And most importantly, power shifts to the lobbyists who help advise on how to write the laws to maximally benefit their clients. It’s yet another carve out for billionaires and those who control extensive capital.

Apparently planned years in advance.

This launch, designated GT 255, was scheduled years ago, and is not in response to world events.

The law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered.

It’s way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.

Please turn on coredumps, get a backtrace, and file a bug (and even better, fix the issue if you can.)

The cost of energy inputs for desalinization and mitigating the environmental impacts of saline outflows make it impractical for many users of water (many irrigation, agriculture, and industrial users.) The Sun still operates the best desalinization plant on a global scale.