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Depends where you live. If you live here, sun wouldn't be up for a few months at a time, so the battery would have to be pretty big. And it can easily drop below -30C for long periods

>(unfortunately you can’t “overload” a nuclear reactor to make it generate more power for a few hours on a regular basis..

You could throw excess power away from an oversized reactor and not throw it away when it's needed. Financially not very smart, but technologically feasible

I imagine even encrypted messages could be replayed if the protocol wasn't designed against it. It also doesen't say what kind of encryption it uses, it could be a very weak in-house "encryption", for all we know it could be only an unknown encoding.

Maybe it's just me, but rare harware isn't something I'd look for in a reliable storage system unless I had a really special need general hardware just couldn't be made to do

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just build any NAS and chuck Debian on it if you didn't care about the OS and vendor software to begin with?

The only thing making S3 a no-go for me is their outbound traffic costs at $90/TB, which at 100TB restore would make out $9K just to transfer the data back once

It's wild consumer drives are so much more expensive than enterprise Exos drives with better performance, reliability and warranty