Batteries scale horribly and are extremely toxic themselves.
SOME parts of Europe are cheap some are expensive and are subject to bad price spikes.
The reality is we need everything. More solar/wind is great! But we also need secure stable baseline generation that works. Nothing comes close to nuclear.
Absolutely, and especially at a Corp as big as Sony, you have a lot of office politics in play also. Folks pushing personal agendas because it advanced their career.
They aren't though, pagers run in a separate frequency and their own towers with far greater range and penetration. Most aren't even bi directional they just receive so there is no way to track them.
Pagers have more in common with a transistor radio than a cell phone.
Fast food places in general have gouged consumers for multiple times the rate of inflation the last few years. Taco Bell has beaten everyone else by a fair amount in being evil though :(
Spent 12 years in commercial refrigeration. Absolutely, and "expensive" doesn't mean things are any cleaner. I was in some 5 star places that had some of the nastiest kitchens.