Holy crap London is a tiny little town. my small town has 100,000 population and the nearest mid sized town has a population of 500,000 I never realized that London was equivalent to a backwater small town in the USA. What's the population of the UK? I'm betting NYC has more residents than the entire UK has if London only has a population of 9000.

Or do you brits count people using the metric system?

No they dont. They do not install a special substation to handle my solar power, in fact they do nothing at all.

Connections to a solar home and a non solar home are 100% identical. In fact my connection is well over 25 years old and my solar install is less than 5. They changed nothing at all. when I installed the system they did not even turn off the power. just the main house breaker for 5 minutes by the electrician when he tied everything together.

Whoever is telling you they have to install "special" equipment on the power grid to support solar home installations is making things up.

it costs them? You have ZERO clue how electricity works or solar grid syncing systems work?

I pay 100% of the equipment costs, I pay 100% of the installation costs, I pay 100% of the inspections and certifications. they pay NOTHING. Then they get to resell my power to my neighbors. Their meter does not run backwards to give me any credits. They do nothing at all.

I strongly suggest that you learn about what you are spouting off about before you open your mouth and sound like a complete and utter fool to the rest of us that actually have solar installations.

More than night time storage needs to be dealt with, where I live you need 7 days of storage, honestly having 14 days of storage is safer as in the winter the possibility of nothing but dark cloudy skies for 2 weeks straight are possible. So I need 14 days of storage that can be charged up at a very high charge rate, so when the sun does come out I can get the battery bank to 100% charge in a single 8 hour day.

yes they do. Around here you can not legally live in your home if you do not have electrical service at your home. it specifically says, electrical utility with an active account.

Also they fight like hell to make it illegal for solar installations to have grid interties.

They dont want you to be off grid, as you dont make them money.

honestly it is completely dumb for most of the internet. Slashdot does not need to be encrypted, blogs, etc...

the problem is that sysadmins and web developers are to underskilled to figure out how to do it properly.

The fact that slashdot on it's own requires 10.5mb in freaking Javascript is the other part of the problem.

Low quality web designers that cant figure out how to do something without 600 pounds of "libraries"

Glad to see shoppers in the UK are as brain dead as American shoppers.

No we havent. ISP's still heavily oversell.

at 8pm on a friday, I can not get more than 13mbps. I pay for 25mbps. Friends pay for 50mpbs and they cant get more than 13.

ISP's are still dramatically oversold.

All of the ISP's have NOT upgraded their backbone for years, they are now overselling it by never before seen levels making even 500Gb Cable Internet feel like DSL.

The problem is people are not screaming about it to their congress critter forcing ISP's to deliver what they sell. They need to pay a $1000 per user per month fine for not delivering what they promise or advertise.

That would get the lazy executives at Comcast moving.

Only if it's white. Problem is American homes are not built strong enough and will crush instantly under the weight of a Slate roof.

We build complete crap here in the USA.

If you bothered to read the article, you would see they talk about using Titanium Dioxide. the WHITE COMPONENT IN WHITE PAINT.

Or astrology, or scientology, or anything that has OOGY BOOGY aspects.

Basically Stay away from anything with oogy boogy aspects with one exception, Quantum Entanglement feels very much oogy boogy. but it has been demonstrated as real with real scientific process. It's simply something we do not understand but HAVE PROVEN does exist.

So if it has oogy boogy and no proof of it's existance, run away.

EA did the exact same mess with Battlefield 4 and simply told customers " STFU you were stupid to buy an EA title!"

I guarantee the GT executives all got dirty filthy rich off of the failure.