Does anyone know what the drawback of a setup that distills the sea water and then air dries the brine. This always seemed like the easiest solution when I thought about it?

Their clients are open source, unless you are worried about the NSA being better at decryption than is currently thought possible, the only information you are giving is encrypted traffic, who you are, who you sent a message to, and if their press release are anything to go by, they are trying to muddy the waters of the identification part with moving away from phone # account creation. I’m also a proponent of xmpp for a similar reason, and I think that xmpp is the better protocol, but signal has more concessions to non techies

These studies generally take a high level approach, but coming from a technical side I fail to see where the grid forming generators will come from: wind & solar cannot be grid forming, I don’t think there is enough water to maintain a stable grid. The only way I can see the renewable only setup working in the near future is to change transmission to DC, which has much larger technical limitations than a few nuclear plants. I skimmed the PDF, I didn’t see anything addressing that issue, if I missed it please point me in its direction.

I’ve always been more partial to approval voting, but either is better than first past the post

That aspect is above my knowledge, I would be searching the same things you would be.

I would recommend making the switch in that case, qbittorrent is open source which both allows you to verify that the program is working securely, & probably accounts for the reason why the advanced features aren’t available for bittorrent

Why bittorent over qbittorrent?