No, of course they invested $600M in a new plant without thinking about hail.

Jokes and sarcasm aside, panels today are very strong. And you can make them tilt over to deflect big hail when you know it is coming.

Can't you just open a new private browser window and go at it again? How have they blocked you?

The original article give the answer:

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/s...

Keep in mind "faults per 100 vehicles" is perhaps an indicator of the same car models YoY, but not a great way to compare. My first car was a tiny Toyota Aygo with basically zero features and thus very little that can go wrong. While my Toyota Land cruiser had more issues, it was still a much higher quality car overall. Just as an example.

And it is very easy (at least with an iphone) to swap battery when it is worn out after two years or more. Make an appointment, walk into the store, come back 1-2h later and pay $60.

And it is trivial to buy a phone unlocked in the US. This is a non-issue.

It is pointless for your daily energy consumption. But it is very useful that one day of the year when an ice storm takes out the grid and you are stuck sheltering in the home for 24h waiting for power and everything to get back to normal as well. Here is Texas outages usually come together with stay-at-home directives for many workers, anyway. So it does not apply to everyone, but it could help lots of people those rare cases. And that in turn hello first responders.

In practice, when a solar system without a battery is installed, power is routed from the panels to the grid. There it gets âoestabilizedâ by being blended with other power with the right frequency (60hz). Then you get your power from the grid, from that pool of mixed power, yours and others.

So if the grid is gone, your panels are configured to shut down, because there is no place to push excess power (when panels are overproducing) or pull extra power (when you home wants more than panels produce)

A battery is needed to stem the ebbs and floods so to speak.

And yes this is a simplified way of looking at it. But it should help.

And yet, that's what we've been doing for the last 200 years. It isn't long ago the common practice for getting rid of toxic stuff was to simply put it in barrels and dump overboard.

I like the competition, so seeing more upcomers is good news.

Why i'm not impressed with the Mercedes announcement is the limitation. Sure, it is lvl 3. But only at slow speeds, on highways. Even a basic lane assist and adaptive cruise control of an entry level vehicle can easily handle that. Follow the car in front of you at slow speeds, staying in the lane.

While you are right that not paying interest on your debt is a bad idea, you draw a flaky conclusion. There are other ways to afford paying debt and interest than borrowing even more money. Generally, living within your means is something every person of this planet should strive to do. As well as countries.

Maybe in California.... I live in Tx. I charge my battery during off peak, and release it during the expensive peak. And i donâ(TM)t have solar.

They are leading the way! (but not the way you say)

https://www.apple.com/recyclin...

https://www.apple.com/environm...

You are barking up the wrong three

It isn't the phones faults (at least not all of them). it is user.

I've averaged 3-5 years with my iphones since the 3g. Current 11 just had a battery replaced. Book appointment, show up, pick it up 2h later, for $69. Will give me another year or two, no problem.

The problem is the people who need the newest phone every year. The companies that let you subscribe to the latest, with little regard for what happens to the old one. They do last. That's not the problem. I have an iphone 7 as a backup/secondary phone. Still works great. Fully supported.

This is only available on small sections on autobahn (think highway) in slow speeds 60kph/40mph. So it is more to support drivers queuing through some congested areas. Still a nice startâ¦

Well,as the L3 only work on some fragments of the autobahn (think highway), and only up to 60 kph (40 mph), this is hardly going to save many pedestrians in LA