Building nuclear plants and supplying them with fuel, then dealing with the waste always has a cost too.

Much of the wind energy is off shore anyway, so zero land is lost except for maybe a landing area for the cables.

The peaks will be flattened out by shifting demand. As we move towards more and more electric loads (cars, heating etc) there will be even more opportunities to shift demand through pricing.

For very short peaks batteries work well.

So when has the wind stopped all over the United States? On what date was there not enough wind power for the entire country?

Nuclear has been good for their emissions (but don't look too closely at where the fuel comes from or goes to) but it's been very expensive for France. That's the main reason they are ditching it, it turned into corporate welfare for the likes of EDF.

Has there ever been a time in history when the wind stopped blowing everywhere?

If you look at the stats there is always more than enough wind energy, particularly off shore.

What history? When have we ever had enough capacity to run that experiment?

There are examples of nuclear failing to live up, such as in France during hot weather.

There were plenty of people calling for him to be boycotted and never work again. That was one of the reasons why he was dropped, until the NFL realised it was on the wrong side of history with that one.

On what do you base that claim? Why wouldn't wind be able to meet all our needs?

So what was the plan to properly de-orbit it?

I know they considered using the Shuttle to collect it later, but as far as I can tell when it was launched there was no plan beyond "figure it out later".

No, just saying that it's not exceptional and this is how space is at the moment. Similarly the Russians have had some pretty big stuff deorbit uncontrollably, as well as NASA (e.g. Skylab).

It's not great but it's not like anyone else has a better record.

Unless they miss and the bullet lands in Mexico... Of course people on the Mexican side could shoot U.S. military and law enforcement personnel and there probably isn't much anyone could do about it. The wall itself makes it hard to see and identify them even if extradition was possible.

Turns out a border wall isn't such a great idea after all.

It could also result in legally recognized changes, e.g. in some jurisdictions if a mistake about where a boundary or border is happens and isn't noticed for a long time, people build stuff there or make use of the land, it can become official.

Happens to land in the UK sometimes, someone builds something over the boundary of their property (like erecting a new fence in their garden) and 15 years later when someone checks the official record and notices they can't get the mistake undone.

45% in the United States: https://www.phonearena.com/new...

In any case market share isn't the only definition of a monopoly. It also depends which market you are talking about. Smarphones in general may be 45%, but iOS app stores and iOS payment processing is 100%.

Regardless of any taxes many companies moved to a "just in time" manufacturing system simply because keeping stock on-site costs money. It takes up space, it has to be inventoried and tracked, and if it isn't used immediately sometimes it ends up not being used at all due to engineering changes or cancelled orders. Best to have it arrive just as it is about to be used.