Geography... it matters.
Hoover dam is in Southern Nevada, the factory is in Northern Nevada... big desert between them with not much infrastructure.
Also, most of the power from Hoover Dam goes to Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas.
Also... climate change and drought.

This confirms my suspicion that Tesla is really a battery company masquerading as a car company. The cars are just a vehicle to sell lots of batteries ;).
The grid in Reno might have a problem handling large swings in renewable power but since the factory should have lots of batteries, they can use them to smooth out the power fluctuations and use this as a demo site to sell battery grid backup systems.

Thanks for explaining the 35% fee is actually prepayment of income tax.
This is probably useful for getting some income tax from people who buy stuff but somehow manage to declare no income.

So... how do you disable the knife used to decapitate them?

No, Nevada lithium is in the form of naturally occuring brine. The brine is pumped from underground to evaporation ponds and dried.

Autoupdated this am.
Seems to work fine.
Memory use seems about the same. (I have 10 tabs open now... lots of "complex/rich" sites... 536 MB)

The banks are reaping the rewards of years of sticking their heads in the sand on security. Europe has chip and pin which is much more secure. US credit cards are ridiculously easy to counterfeit. I hear that they are finally, slowly moving to chip and pin since their losses to fraud are increasing.

I'm all for people getting paid for their work. It's usually called a job... sometimes you have to be an entrepreneur.
I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money. I call these people "the takers". They are leaches on society.

One problem I have with this study is that they didn't seem to record the types of carbohydrates and types of fat people were eating.
There are big differences among sugar, refined starches such as white flour, and whole grains.
Also, there is a big difference between animal fat and vegetable fat.
All of these different nutrients are metabolized differently and have different effects on weight and health.
If the "high carb" people ate lots of sugar and refined starches, they would not be healthy.
If the "high fat" people ate lots of olive oil and not much animal fat, they would be healthy.
Bottom line is that you can't tell much from this study.

The car is simply a vehicle to sell batteries ;).
Actually, the car is just a big battery and a motor plus lots of software to run it all.

I believe that Tesla has this as a target market. A recent article about a Tesla factory tour mentioned that they were in the process of assembling a 4000 kwh battery pack to be used for fixed place energy storage (the cars are 60 or 85 kwh). Tesla will have an amazing capacity to produce batteries once they build their "gigafactory" (supposedly greater capacity that all of the existing Li battery factories) and it seems that they are looking to have a business selling battery packs.