Diabeetus!

Damn, now I won't be able to create Sora videos with lightsaber fighting cats or a mustachioed crusty old Wilford Brimley giving dire warnings of diabetes and crab people! What's this world coming to?

If you install a balcony solar system and it produces more energy than you are using at the time the energy you are putting back into the grid is counted as energy consumed and you end up being billed for it.
In what country is it legal to sell such balcony solar systems?
And what country has such odd meters that flow into the wrong direction makes it count the same as the right direction?

Sorry, that does not make any sense at all.

In general if solar panels are put on land, they are put so that agriculture is still possible. The simplest is gassing cattle. More complex is agrivoltaics, see for example: https://www.nature.com/article...
Of course there are exceptions. In the EU we had plans to reduce the amount of land used for agriculture. For some stupid reason, the EU demanded that such land that got repurposed can not secretly still be used for agriculture, so plenty of farmers put low mounted solar panels on it.
Some of them did that close to rail tracks, as there was a second pot of subsidies covering installations (of what ever) along rail tracks.
The very little win : win of that is, that usually the power gets feed directly into the rail overhead line. Note: German Railway has its own grid, with its own frequency.

Sure, you don't want to pay full sticker price, because that's the sucker price. You have to waste a day of your life haggling with the dealer so that he can charge different prices to different customers. If you buy straight from the manufacturer under a no-haggle system, they have to offer the same price to everybody. So it's likely to be quite a lot less than the sticker price of a dealership-sold car. The manufacturer still wants to segment the market and milk more money out of less price-sensitive customers, but they have to do it by selling more luxurious trim levels.

Okay, then please make a list in your mind, what all has to be done to what kind of quality standard, when you install a 100MW solar plant.

Hint ... having 4 human mules carrying a $500 panel per piece around: is not the main factor of manual labour.

The robot can very well work on parking lots, and with minimal adaption on flat industrial roof tops.

Your parent is just a troll, with typical troll questions, to make him look interesting.

In my eyes he just looks dumb. He could visit the web site of the corporation producing the robot, and ask for a quote ...

Then you get USians complaining about the rest of the world freeloading and non-USians complaining that they're not getting paid.

Depends on the model. Wix (the Windows installer builder, not the website builder) has switched to a model whereby the source is always available for free but they charge for compiled binaries.

Exactly the same as the approach to the movie version of The Martian.

s'okay. Biology is the only scientific discipline where division and multiplication are the same thing.

Topics that do not have much to do with each other at the moment.

uh, no. You didn't win.

Places like Bell Labs were more like university research centers than corporate dressing on mandatory-overtime grind. They were not expected to directly turn a profit as business units of the company, because what they did was to lay the groundwork for technology that the other business units could then adapt into products. The return on the investment paid into running them took years or even decades to realize. Without the pressures of needing to turn quarterly or even annual profits they weren't working their researchers to the bone and they were fostering a culture of internship for college students into joining their ranks as researchers to perpetuate the institutional knowledge.

Zero crashes on my Macs since 10 years or more.
5 blue screens on my Windows 11 acer last 28months.
Minimum 10 times "windows discovered a problem, and needs to reboot now", often by two or even three reboots in a row.
Not even telling what the problem is ... might be ... could be.

How do you come to 10x when you have on one side zero crashes and on the other side 2 dozens, depending how you count ... well, I guess someone rounded zero up to 2, or something.

Well, when I read it was all pounds, in Europe, I wondered how much that is in kg. As I am lazy, I just divided by 2 ... but the result was a kind of odd number, so I lost a few bits of accuracy.

Then, considering that this is at the Swizz and German border, I wondered if they used forced workers, like the many refugees to get the container on the truck!

I am relieved to read, they used a crane!!

Now I only have to figure what exactly -half a thousand degrees Fahrenheit is. I guess I can google for an AI to find that out.

*ow!*

uh, found it...