100MB *symmetrical* is 'vast majority' sufficient.

Cable routinely doesn't even provide 30 MB up.

If you believe it won't be turned on I have a router to sell I mean rent to you

It's a feature their Wifi Shield product...which is free

Cramer is literally a fraud. Jon Stewart's Daily Show interviews with him nail him repeatedly.

The only thing worse than the drubbing Cramer got, is how seriously CC/NBC have memory holed those segments. Wiped the internet of the originals.

Renewables are always going to be a front loaded expense - it's entirely infrastructure and zero fuel costs. That was the entire point of the IRA 30% tax credit.

I'm with you on getting China to flood our market with cheap panels. A resource with a solid 20 year lifespan isn't going to become a natsec issue tomorrow. It will eventually, so we'd need to heavily push home grown stuff during that time. Call it a 'Sun Shot' development program to figure out our own manufacturing for the future. But now? Trump is absolutely hamstringing us for the next few decades.

It's hilarious because if someone had told him China was subsidizing the panels and so we were getting great 'deal' on them, he'd probably have gone for it.

no kidding. I just checked my June bill. We used 100 kwh less than last year...and the bill was 10% higher - a net 15% rate increase in a single friggin year!

Speaking of a DC micro grid, a company just got approval for a PoE on steroids setup. 1000 watts / 400 v DC over ethernet (18awg) called Fault Managed Power, and can be installed *without* an electrician.

https://www.panduit.com/en/pro...

this has some good diagrams

https://www.buildings.com/smar...

It's not aimed at existing edge PoE devices but higher power middle hardware that would feed those edge nodes.

regarding rates...we used 10% less power last month than a year ago. yet our bill was 10% higher. A 16% rate increase.

Data centers are here to make that grid stability go byebye.

They are huge loads that auto-trip offline if they sense even minute fluctuations to protect all the computer equipment. The grid isn't designed to handle that. NERC just issued it's highest warning over potential instability b/c these huge loads at multiple data centers will all follow similar patterns and all of a sudden multiple GW loads vanish.

US power rates outside CA are generally quite cheap and makes ROI longer, no argument about that.

Solar + batteries is basically locking in your power rates for 30 years, vs the 10-15% annual increases we're seeing. That makes the ROI shorten fast.

I had a 2003 Civic Hybrid with a battery that lasted 10 years/140k miles - 20 year old tech. Modern stuff is *much* better.

My current 2012 Insight hybrid is going on 14 years/110k miles and *just* starting to show some loss of capability.

https://www.indexbox.io/blog/c...

30 YEAR warranty.

The way I look at it is this.

If you pay $2000 annually for your power. In 10 years that $20,000....probably more like $25,000 with rate increases.

In 30 years, that's $60,000 without rate increases.

$25,000 in solar to reduce your power bill for 30 years vs a guaranteed $60,000 spend is pretty no-brainer to me.

Outside of CA, US power rates are, at least for the moment, pretty cheap on average so that does extend the ROI period probably into 10-15 year territory.

DIY'ing a home sized battery is a great way to have your insurance deny a claim when you have one.

Building codes are still slow to catch up to newer types, but if it's not 'approved'/UL certified etc, something that big and even a small fire risk is gonna punt you out of coverage.

A YT'er put in a system and if it was 25 kwh in size, code said it needed a dedicated sprinkler system...even if the LFP batteries don't have the fire risk of Lithium Ion. So he sized it just under that.

Yet the same code lets you park a 100kwh LIthium Ion car battery in the garage without a sprinkler.

Florida has invented the 'disappearing' insurance company though.

Unlike the MAGA general population, actuaries can do math and are "Peace Out" of the entire state.

If you can even get Home Owners insurance the premiums make solar and batteries look CHEAP.

good news! if the point my post would have been a landmine, you'd still be alive you missed it by so much

The point was that even in its infancy 15 years ago there were fairly reasonable options.

EVs are bigger sure, but tech has advanced considerably in 15 years.