Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

Turns out this is a moot point. If you look at the slide deck, the vast majority of solar generation is utility-scale deployments. Residential is, IIRC, about 20% of new capacity.

You are correct if there's ample money to invest and no urgency to achieve a difficult result. Then you don't care how efficient your investment is. But since we're taking about not having enough electricity, how we're spending our investment dollars matters. At a macro level we could get substantially more capacity if we buy at utility scale rather than residential generation.

(Of course, it's not that simple. On one the one hand, private people are spending their own money and can buy whatever pleases them. On the other, we're talking about an asset paid for by a group of rate payers where the rates are the result of a negotiated political process. The two buckets of money are not fungible.)

I kind of care about this because I believe the city I live in, San Jose, now has a requirement for new houses that they either include residential solar or you buy a share of a utility scale solar generator. If I wanted to solve California's energy woes, I wouldn't make residential an option because I'm looking for the most bang for the buck. But the policy was instituted when residential solar was a feel good nice to have, not a solution to an immediate problem.

I believe it. I don't think I get news from Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat so I don't have a good feel for what's available.

...there are news reports of a massive spike in tiny violin sales.

For every ad-supported service, you bet it's about advertising. Netflix doesn't produce a show to put on their ad-supported tier without the advertisers wanting to know the reach of their ads. While I'm sure Netflix, Amazon, Sling, and everyone else produces metrics of what ads were inserted, reading from the display is an interesting way to cross-check the metrics.

That said, I have zero interest in participating. I want my display to be dumb as a bag of hammers.

Most of the range anxiety goes away once you see how effective overnight charging is.

If, in fact, you are one of those lucky enough to be able to park offstreet and charge at home overnight....

Depends where in the world you live. For the hundreds of millions of people living in Europe or countries like Singapore or Malaysia, thereâ(TM)s no need for a second car. People take the train for longer journeys. I was 43, married, with two kids aged 9 and 11, before I got a first car ten years ago - and it only had a range of 90 miles. I live in north London, and we just didnâ(TM)t have much need for a car up to that point. When we went to see my parents in Manchester, it was easier to get the train.

We're talking the US...and here it's hard to get by with only 1 car per family, although it can be done.

But in most middle class and up families, eventually everyone in the household has their own car.

Exactly this. People are not buying these large EVs without mandates or subsidies

This is the US.

The govt is supposed to be answerable to the people, not the other way around.

If the EVs can't compete on price and convenience without subsidies or even worse..."mandates", then they deserve to rot and it is not the governments business to step in and force people to to buy what they don't want, or is not ready for the market to compete for the consumers money....

The implication of course being that a substantial fraction on the entire country, after their weekly 9-5 grind and school run lines to kick back, have a few beers and haul trailers all weekend!

LOTS of boats down here where I live....lots of folks haut their boats to the launches and drop/pick them up over any given weekend...and often during the weeks for some people....

Myopic to the point of sociopathy.

It's only sociopathic IF you believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that through action or inaction to go EV only...that the world willl end soon. I'm not chicken little in mentality....so,.....

However, there's no convincing you that you might be wrong or just off a bit, Your ego won't allow it....your extreme view is the ONLY view....right?

I've had fewer problems with PayPal than with any bank, lol. After decades of financial activity.

Thanks. That's a very interesting slide deck.

That's because React2Shell *is* the exploit. That's what it's called. It's exploiting something called "React", which as near as I can tell is some sort of web server thing.

Same sad asshole making the same sad remarks. Don't like it? Move to Russia.

Why should I?

I live in the US.

I echo the same sentiments are pretty much most of the US...

Why don't YOU move to Russia and try to force them to go all EV...?

We know this argument is total bad faith bullshit because the same folks making it also hate and refuse to support forms of public transport or really anything that would reduce car dependency. AKA "my conservative media diet has convinced me a gasoline burning engine must be central to my personal and political self definition"

Media doesn't have anything to do with my views on this...

I just know what I've grown up with and what I enjoy and fits into my lifestyle.

I've never had to depend on public transport, and it just isn't realistically a part of my life since I do not and will not live in dense urban areas, sharing walls in apartments like college students.

I likely wouldn't mind an EV if they had a reasonably priced 2-seater sports car version...instead of family tricksters.

But aside from not offering anything I'm interested in, I don't have a way to charge at home, so not really something that works for me and there is precious little public charging infrastructure where I live...and if you cannot charge at home over night, it just is not as convenient to own and refuel as needed as an regular ICE.

I like my motorcycle too....EV cycles REALLY aren't as effective or fun as ICE ones...range sucks if nothing else.

I like what I have....I see no reason to change. I don't give a fuck about giving up my long lived and enjoyed lifestyle to "save the planet".

I enjoy my "car dependency".....it suits the way I live and how I want to live. I don't seem to be alone in this....and don't want to be 'forced' to change for other peoples' perceived reasons.