I’ve seen this in news articles but I don’t get it. if the US is blockading Iranian traffic, and Iran is blockading all other traffic, then what does it matter what flag the ship actually traversing the strait flies?
What are the stats on the turns to win of the best players? I recognize that every game is different, specific turn count for a given game might depend on opponent actions (eg. how fast people Break), poison/constriction tokens, etc.
But insofar as the game is in some ways a bit of solitaire, does anyone have numbers on what string players put up at turns before they cross?
I feel like when I first learned (layperson’s understanding) about concepts like grid scale batteries in the 2010’s, these were pipe dreams. There were clever solutions like gravity based batteries (lifting a train up a steep hill during energy surplus, harnessing its energy back down during deficit), same with pumping water up into reservoirs, etc. but these weren’t scalable. The Tesla home battery packs were expensive toys, not serious grid technologies. Batteries were a missing link in the puzzle of transitioning to renewables, given the generation vs consumption mismatch.
Seems like nowadays, grid scale battery technology is an accepted fact. Which is fantastic news. My question is how did we get from there to here. Slowly or all at once? Was it a few breakthroughs or just grinding out efficiency gains? Was the above discourse wrong only in hindsight, or wrong even at the time?