As I said,

You haven't been following A.I. closely have you? Because it's being used in many high value applications and exceeding the current human experts in those fields.

Even in it's current dumb state, combined with robots, the current A.I. can replace about 60% of human beings and that includes some fields that require a masters degree or doctorate to get a job.

Most manual labor jobs are easy to replace (stocker, shelving, janitorial services, landscaping, simple assembly, etc. etc. etc)
And A.I. is already replacing radiologists and other analytical jobs.

I agree with the other guy, if your breakeven is over 9 years, then solar isn't worth it yet.

Get a smaller off grid system for disaster planning and then wait for prices to drop further (and another 40% decline is due within the next 5 years.) Plus the panels are getting smaller for the same power. 10 years ago, a 100w panel was 32sq feet and $750. Last summer, a portable 100w panel was 16 sq feet and $129. A fixed panel was under $100 and also about 12 sq feet. And that's after 10 years of inflation on the price.

You face significant risk of inverter failure over 15 years. Maybe twice. At about 10 years, you would need new batteries.

But you can have a small, non-grid tied system to keep your refrigerator, a fan, a router, a laptop/tv, and a couple lights going. Saving a fridge full of food is both a reduction in misery *and* potentially a $200 to $400 savings so one disaster outage will reduce your payoff period quite a bit (2 to 4 panels are suddenly "free" or 1 battery is suddenly "free").

You haven't been following A.I. closely have you? Because it's being used in many high value applications and exceeding the current human experts in those fields.

Even in it's current dumb state, combined with robots, the current A.I. can replace about 60% of human beings and that includes some fields that require a masters degree or doctorate to get a job.

That's why you combine generation and storage (and note I didn't say "batteries"). That storage can include turning atmospheric co2 into fuel.

But underlying your point is that we simply have too many people. Generating baseline power for the current population is rendering the planet uninhabitable.

Seems to me that focusing on increased efficiency would have huge payoffs. Brains do this with a very tiny amount of electricity so the potential power efficiencies are vast.

Oops... senior moment. Should have said 2024.

Also, it's Türkiye. Because Türkiye saw how well the rebranding worked out for Myanmar and decided it wanted nothing to do with dumb flightless birds from now on.

Seriously... this is the first I've heard of it. At 9:22 pm on 4/15/22.

Here at Ford, GM, Toyota and Honda, we plan to make you watch a video ad each time before your ignition key works. Our marketing directors thought it would be a brilliant way to screw more bucks out of you peasant consumers. This is why we're paid the big bucks and you're not. We have trophy wives and you don't. We're better than you dumb f****.

Er, why are our sales dropping?

It's very simple : if you don't have a hard copy of the installation media, that works on a machine without serial, USB, WiFi, Ethernet or RFC 1149 access to any network of any sort, then (this is the hard bit - concentrate! - you can get there! ) YOU do NOT own IT.

You may have temporarily leased a copy of $WHATEVER$ software, but you own it as much as you own your taxi driver's vehicle. (I don't know about Uber's vehicles - if they operated within an hour's drive of me, I might pay them enough attention to find out.)

Come on "digital natives", this argument was over while you were still trying to master bowel control. It's not news, and if you believe anything else, then you have been lied to, successfully. The people who lied to you are probably intending to steal from you, somehow. It's called "life" ; get used to it, because humans (and businesses) aren't going to change if they're successful in hoodwinking people like this.

I think a lot of Linux users will wait a bit to get the bleeding edge from now on...

for the rest of his working life?

I admire him for doing that. He essentially torpedoed his entire career for the sake of doing the right thing.

Few people would walk across even a small city in any reasonable amount of time.

Define a "reasonable amount of time". I live in - and walk around (I should start the car some time this year, but it's probably rusted solid. Meh. Useless machine.) a small city of about 50,000. (It was the nation's capital for a century or three - I'd have to read it's history to check.) Takes about an hour, edge to edge, which I find perfectly reasonable. If I want to travel faster, I walk to the bus stop, wait for a bus, then use that. It doesn't really save much time. Because the road network was designed for horse and cart, using the car doesn't save much time either.

Of course, I could think of the small town I grew up in - totally nothing special, about twice the population of the small city I live in, slightly larger, and takes twice as long to get anywhere, unless you go out ti the outskirts and use the ring road - which normally means driving twice as far as necessary. And oddly, still takes about the same amount of time to get anywhere. A fifth of the number of bus routes though, so you really need a push bike if you want to get around fast. Road network designed for horse and cart, about the same time as the "small city".

How many bald eagles' wingspans would that be?

Plucked or un-plucked?