Immediately did the Windows 7 recovery which was unattended and smooth, to be fair to MS, but then I got a 1 hours countdown to Windows 10 install once I logged in, took about 4 clicks to navigate away from the "Go ahead and upgrade" buttons that were present at every step but did manage to cancel out.

Changed the Windows Update setting so I no longer do automatic updates on this PC and hid the Windows 10 Update so hopefully it'll stay on Win 7 now.

And while Win 10 seems perfectly usable, I let a spare laptop update itself and have Win 10 Insider running in a VM on another PC I'm old enough to believe in the *Personal* part of Personal Computer and having the Windows User Experience altered without my explicit consent is an absolute no-no, especially as I'm pretty sure Win 10 breaks a game I (still) like playing, Diablo 1 with the IPX over TCP/IP patch for local LAN play on Win 7 / Win Vista.

I've been reading some articles about electricity "demand destruction" from customers deploying rooftop solar, adopting energy efficient lighting and other energy saving systems in the near term and potentially seeing increasing use of home energy storage in the next few years..

Have power companies been working with GM to find ways to accelerate the adoption of electric cars as this might be an area where these companies could spur demand for electricity?

It seems like in the next few years a few car companies, GM, Tesla, Nissan, maybe Ford, are planning to release EV models with ~200 mile range at around the $30K price point, after rebates.

Given that range and price are 2 of the key metrics when most (?sweeping generalisation?) potential EV buyers evaluate an electric car do you think that having a number of models available to buyers with similarly high range and low price points will trigger a big uptick in the number of electric cars on the road?