nhc.noaa.gov is the best for quick, up to date official info about expected impacts. Also local county and municipality pages are important to check for evacuation orders and routes.
For anyone who wants technical deep dives into the meteorology of tropical storms, I can't recommend www.tropicaltidbits.com enough.
For example, I used to use generic eye drops. Then there were a bunch of recalls on eye drops made in India because they weren't kept sterile and people were getting eye infections. So now I make sure to only buy eye drops that are manufactured in countries with actual controls on health codes. It turns out that imposing that restriction elliminated all the generic options. I'm certainly not happy to be paying double for brand name pataday, but I don't care to mess with the chance of eye infections.
A smart tv without an internet connection is usually close enough to a dumb TV. It's not like your TV needs regular security updates so leaving it off your home network is fine.
Likely unrelated, but after I've cut raw garlic cloves everything feels weird, almost sticky, no matter how much I wash my hands.
Or get a $25 digital multimeter that can be used for a wide variety of diagnostic purposes.
The headline says worlds first all-electric train rather than worlds first all-battery-powered train. There have been many all-electric trains before. So the headline as written is incorrect.
I believe the customary phrase is "pull my finger."
There is also the issue that if building nuclear plants takes too long and is too expensive to be the solution, then such a project would also be too late to matter. Also transmission losses likely mean this is a solution for much less of the world population than you think. If we had a truly global lossless grid, then we would need much less energy storage to begin with.
Impracticalities aside, absurd geoengineering what-ifs are entertaining. Thanks for sharing.
Pumped hydro is both very geologically limited and environmentally detrimental. That technology alone will not substantially reduce the need for other power storage technologies/ peaker plants.
Imagine thinking that PhD's and postdocs aren't exploited by capitalism.
Prime video should also have to sink or swim on its own.