I guess this puts me in an interesting spot where I'm both

A) content with the progress given the existence of the beacon chain

B) don't care if the merge is delayed again, delayed indefinitely, or Proof of Work never gets turned off for some reason

so although its tempting to get defensive I guess my real response is "okay? I don't care."

Doesn't it seem like PoW is a bad use of our limited electricity resources?

Electricity resources aren't limited; electricity gets cheaper when you install more solar panels, not more expensive. That will continue to be the case for the next three orders of magnitude of marketed energy consumption growth.

When does it start? https://www.statista.com/statistics/183700/us-average-retail...

In six years, most places, though places like Chile and the UAE are already seeing the benefits.

How are you measuring this? Got a link?

Some of my older notes on the topic are listed in https://dercuano.github.io/topics/energy.html, and there are further notes in Derctuo and Dernocua. Unfortunately I don't have a very clear summary anywhere.

Those are some cool reads!

Thanks! I didn't know anybody was reading any of them.

I actually stayed at Arcosanti for a few days in college. Very cool concept that I wish had more traction. Maybe with a touch of what people are ready for today.

I hope I have a chance to visit!