I’m surprised we’re not doing more green hydrogen as an energy battery system to balance out the grid.

It seems like that would work quite well, with the only energy loss being the pressurising to liquid hydrogen, but even then you can recover some of that by recovering the heat when it expands again.

Bad idea for cars, but giant canisters sat around near wind farms seems like it would be fine.

It was one of the reasons I left academia. I doubled my pay within two years.

Cost of living is significantly lower, and the social safety net means you don’t need as much anyway.

My gut feel is wages are so much higher in the US because everyone is responsible for looking after themselves if life turns on them, so you’re obliged to stockpile wealth in case you’re suddenly jobless or have a giant medical or education bill to contend with.

Guessing it could be venomous sounds pretty reasonable. Being locked in an enclosed space with an unknown Australian snake? No thanks.