I am thinking long term.

Trump’s methods are beyond stupid and will cause nothing but harm.

The way to force China to alter its ways is to isolate it. We’ve done the exact opposite. Rather than team up with our allies to give China no choice, Trump has attacked our allies as well in his stupid trade war - driving them…

Nonsense.

There’s plenty of coverage of problems with China. The big issue right now is that Trump’s methods are economic suicide that are virtually guaranteed to do the exact opposite of what is needed.

It’s not the restart that I see as the problem - its that our utility would just cut power to your A/C, rather than actually use the thermostat to shut it off properly... If they simply gain some control through the thermostat, that would actually help protect the equipment. But cutting power is a terrible idea,…

Lucky bastard. Our utility is only willing to offer $2.67 a month. And for that, they say you’ll typically lose your A/C “a few times a month” for 2.5-3.5 hours at a time. My A/C is well sized for my house, and if they shut it off for that long, it could take another 2 hours to get the temp back to normal. And their…

The correct answer is you want both - you want the ability to charge quickly, but you want to charge slowly whenever possible.

If you’re doing a longer trip, a slow charge makes an EV impractical. You need fast charges for those cases.

But for everyday driving where you won’t use your full range and will be parked for…

A study by energy regulator NVE showed that Norway faces a bill of 11 billion crowns ($1.2 billion) over the next 20 years for low- and high-voltage grids, substations and high-voltage transformers - unless it can persuade car owners to charge outside peak afternoon hours.

Hey, we give more credence to equally troubled Consumer Reports data all the time...

There actually is a lot of great looking improvements in the pipeline for bringing down costs of panels and improving efficiency.

Its the overhead costs and installation costs we really need to go after now.  For my system, I faced $1200 in permit and engineering fees no matter how big the system was - overall,…

100 years?  Your math probably sucks.

I live in the Midwest and don’t agree with that. :)

I’m actually sick and tired of people showing those maps and then arguing that they somehow represent the will of the people - and then if you point out that things aren’t so obvious when you rescale based on population, they argue that small/rural states need…

Branches?  You shouldn’t be placing solar panels under trees anyway.

Yep - my neighborhood used to have 1-2 outages a year on the hottest days when transformers blew or something overheated. I installed solar and we’ve had ZERO outages in the past 5 summers. The utility didn’t change anything - but with west facing panels, my generation peaked at about the time demand peaks - and I end…

Those are real costs - but distributed generation actually helps with those costs, too. It takes stress off your distribution system and is known to improve reliability. It’s only a concern when market penetration becomes high - and only a tiny portion of the country has come anywhere near those limits.

No, its…

Where on earth are you getting your information? Shattered during every windstorm?

Solar panels are rated for winds higher than what your roof is in most cases. They can also take impacts from large hail at high speed without damage.

And heavy metals? The amounts in standard panels are best described as minute traces -…

And yet Trump picked the dumbest strategy one could possibly take in dealing with China - Rather than working with allies and the rest of the developed economies to tackle China together, he decides to piss everyone off and try to go it alone. You see, China can survive with a restricted US market. They can’t survive…

It is generating less than half of the electricity expected because the panels could not be angled directly at the sun and Normandy isn’t exactly known for its year-round sunshine

Don’t count too much on that cargo space. For the Rav4, they’ll count all the volume up to the roof. Sure, it is useful at times, but do you really want your bags flying through the cabin to hit you in the back of the head? Realistically, you’ll tend to limit yourself to below the top of the rear seat back. That’s a…

Honda’s AT issues on the Accord disappeared years ago. They’re statistically very reliable now.

Toyota, however, is seeing a very large spike in transmission and powertrain issues with the current model.

There was NOTHING predictable about the Camry rental I had earlier this year. If you stepped on the gas, you never knew if it would respond at all, if it would shift properly, etc.

And that seems to be a running problem based on the large number of complaints over at NHTSA.

Very true.

But the problem is that most set their stock compensation as options with ludicrously low strike prices. As in, the stock trades at $100 today, so set a strike price of $80 in 3 years. The executive is in the money even if the stock drops in value. A more logical thing would be to take the current price, and…