Yea, ain't no smartphone, tv, or laptop coming with 50,000w of beat-your-ears-in sound system.

"because online storage in the capacities required simply doesn't exist."

Uh, yes, they do exist. You know what a flywheel is, yes?

Do you even basic power generation, son?

"Do you have any earthly idea how difficult it is to get all this going at 60Hz at once within the three interconnects without any large fraction of microinversion messing it up"

Yea, it's really simple - Transmit as HVDC at 0Hz.

"The states have the right to legislate their own local economy."

When it comes down to a product from one state being sold in another, no they do not. This is EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE CONSTITUTION.

" They are not preventing Tesla from selling their cars, they're simply saying "if you want to sell here, you must be an auto dealer."

Wrong, they are not saying that. They are saying they are not allowed to sell directly in that state without licensing the dealership rights to someone, first. That is an illegal restraint of trade and violation of Tesla's right to license their invention/product as they see fit, among other things.

"You have to break them too (or at least get blocked from acting due to the laws) in order to gain standing for any court actions."

Just drop it in federal court for the states violating the Federal Government's right to control interstate commerce, thus causing Tesla damages.

Done, provable, evidence in spades. RICO lawsuits to follow against car dealerships after that ruling.

And I'll guarantee you Tesla won't settle. They'll end this shit once and for all.

"Do you have a theory on what grounds Tesla could use to take the matter to court?"

This is an interstate commerce issue and thus Tesla has the right to sue the fuck out of the states for violating that.

Done, easily provable, absolutely indefensible in the courtroom.

The states will fall in this legal battle. They hung themselves with this, and since there is record of it happening in a lot of states, Tesla is going to win.

I won't be surprised to see car dealerships getting named in the lawsuit, either. Tesla will win against them on illegal restraint of trade. Tesla will bring out every bit of campaign 'donation' and make the case that these states were bought out, bribed, and then go into RICO lawsuits.

Tesla's going to win. Any angle they take, there's evidence in spades to support their case and absolutely demolish the other side.

"The trash you buy for stainless silverware now a days is an iron mix and will rust"

No, the trash most people buy today that they think is stainless is usually chrome-plated crap.

Good stainless steel (that includes surgical-grade stainless, which is highly magnetic) will not rust.

"Anything that has a iron mixture will rust over time."

Except Austentite has iron in it, so that directly contradicts your claim - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Austentite sucks because it is too ductile, until you drop in other alloying elements and carbon. That's why it's used in pans, some silverware, etc. It is not typically used in things where a lot of pressure is expected unless it has undergone a two (sometimes three) step hardening and alloying process.

One thing it's REALLY good for - rotary hard drive enclosures, for shielding, exactly because it is not magnetic.

"Stainless steel is not magnetic."

What? Only Austentic steel is non-magnetic. Ferritic and Martensitic steels are.

And Austentite sucks.

" This is confirmation, not as bendable as believed!"

Correct, it's even more bendable. The iPhone 5 could take nearly double the force.

Which means the phone got weaker structurally with the upgrade.

Apparently the idiots downvoting have no clue.

No, it doesn't. If you want to get rid of the flicker, use a remote phosphor with persistence.

In case you didn't notice, both are wired as a rectifier, one full, one half.

"Unless you have a very big heavy-duty resistor (rheostat) in your wall dimmer, it's not directly controlling the AC line."

Welcome to a house built in the 1950s, where you have rheostats almost as big as your fist sheathed in asbestos for heat protection. They take FORCE to turn.

You think you know, but you're missing so much detail to the point that you don't know. Looks like jenningsthecat knows pretty well, too.

You're probably too young to even know how things were done half a century ago.

"This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut."

You could almost say the same for Apple products back in the G3/G4 iBook/PowerBook series.

When roughly two out of three came off the line defective and were immediately caught in testing and sent back for refurbishing.

Then repair depots getting shipments of logic boards with sand in them.

Glad I don't work that nonsense any longer. I'll take my home job where 15 minutes of work nets me 80 bucks, every day.

Excuse me? Cree has their own fabrication. What the fuck are you talking about?

"The real breakthrough in LED lighting is getting rid of electrolytic capacitors in the power supply."

That's nothing.

I just did away with the power supply entirely.

Give me a good remote phosphor with a fair amount of persistence, no more flicker.