That's literally an entire person's salary just for cyber security for

The going salary for that would actually be beyond $100k per year, so this is the "budget" option.

Instead of making an army of anti-woke soldiers, they will concentrate it all into one anti-woke supersoldier.

There is nothing that I want to say that I can legally type

Well yeah, that's what they get for challenging papal authority.

Having his corpse used as a procedural barrier is, like, probably for real what Mitch would have wanted. Great composers never die, they simply become music.

Silly Kier, you don't have to wait till you get back to Britain.

Damn socialists always cutting corners on building construction.

With all the concrete and steel this requires, it's probably not economical. I kind of agree with the Youtube skeptics on that one.

What I'm guessing is that this is a strategic investment in case the supply chain for battery manufacturing hits a brick wall at some point in the future due to any number of reasons. So if China finds itself with plentiful solar electric generation capacity, but unable to build battery storage to match it... this is an alternative. And it's an alternative with a lot shorter of a supply chain, requiring only materials and manufacturing capabilities that China has plenty of within their borders.

Pumped-storage hydro is a super useful tech, but it's dependent on existing natural features to make it economical. That is: a body of water that you can pump from, and then a nearby feature (valley maybe) that you can move a bunch of earth to dam. And then enough height difference that you can actually generate worthwhile energy, since that height difference is where your potential energy is coming from.

While I couldn't tell you the exact numbers, I suspect that pumped-storage hydro would give you orders of magnitude more energy storage for how much capital you expend.

I'd imagine the wear and tear on all the gears, cables and whatnot is gonna be insane.

Fortunately, we've put two centuries of R&D into making these components very reliable and relatively cheap to produce. This is basically just a tower with a bunch of hoists and regen breaking. The wire ropes, bearings, service brakes, gearboxes and motors will need regular maintenance and inspection. Their lifespan and failure rates are a known factor, so you can predict your ongoing costs with a high degree of accuracy. Industrial cranes will regularly operate for 60+ years with regular maintenance before you need to replace components. The 35 year lifespan mentioned in the article seems overly conservative to me.

Maybe the libs can find it in their hearts to believe women again if it means they can ratfuck someone they think is too lefty.

Have they tried not being complete shit?