Well… 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. Perfectly safe. Until it’s not. And if we’re talking about having to recycle lithium batteries… what does one do, exactly, with the consumables from nuclear?
It’s just not simple.
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The best local power system I ever heard about was from a colleague who had a friend with a farm.
They built a wooden tower with a water tank each at top and bottom, and a windmill on top. When the wind blew, the electricity generated was used for powering various utilities and any excess was used to pump the water from the bottom to the top. When there was not enough wind, the system would open a valve in a downpipe to let water flow from top to bottom past a dynamo, topping up the power.
In other words… a battery where the dominant chemical was H2O. Need more storage? Build a bigger pair of tanks. Need more continuous power? Use bigger pipes.
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Are we still talking about MacOS 27?
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No, something much less divisive 
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… which is why I suggested to split to a separate thread so the nuclear stuff can continue in, check Categories, hmm, “AI” maybe?
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Water is also used on a grid-scale. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity Is the biggest energy storage method worldwide by far. In Los Angeles County, we use two large lakes (Pyramid and Castaic) for this.
Drawing the line here on the energy/AI policy discussion. Any posts after this need to be more about macOS 27. 
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Getting the thread back on track, I installed the Golden Gate public beta in my computer yesterday. Didn’t seem that much of a disruption as nothing was evidently broken, nor did I find a lot of new things to try without going the AI way. What was noticiable is the new Liquid Glass implementation which I much prefer and I think there is a new accessibility option to emphasize the borders which was previously put in the “Increase Contrast” display section, so you can now emphasize borders without changing the display contrast.
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