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This is relatively common for a new model car that is in demand charge a markup to people who cannot wait, then when those people run out lower prices. sometimes this lasts for a week sometimes for a month.

the real question is how soon until they start making deals.

Several thousand dollars (including labor) is not cheap. Now scale that to every house.

Still the cheapest source of energy long term but when you need to come up with the money up front it is expensive.

10k needs to be reported to federal authorities, which is annoying but not a big deal. They would someone prefer you to withdraw less, but they won’t tell you this as withdrawing just under 10k a few times to escape reporting is a bigger deal than a single larger withdrawal that must be reported. (come to think of it, this 10k number is 20 years old, probably changed since)

When dealing with that much money It is generally best to work electronically. There are logs of what happened so if there is trouble investigators can figure it out. Cash is anonymous and so if there are problems you have less ability to catch whoever stole it. I’m assume that your need for money is legal of course.

This needs a full analysis, but I suspect it is far more costly than the grid while being less reliable overall. Ukraine because they are at war is a partial exception, but even in their case it probably makes sense to fix the grid where possible and when the grid is down greatly reduce energy use to minimize the need for local power.

Batteries are expensive. Solar is expensive. By having a grid you can trade energy around. When your sun is shining you send some someone elsewhere (very far away) under clouds, then when you have clouds you get energy from them. In this way you both need much less batteries and/or much less need for solar cells (that sometimes will not produce used energy because your batteries are fully charged)

0 - 100% of my electric comes from wind. Which is the real win for ev, we have a path to better.

I don’t know, I know Germany has a tank, UK has a tank, and Poland is building the Korean tank. I’m not aware of others, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you are right. I agree 5 is too many, 2-3 is a good number, enough that nobody gets stuck on a bad design. Not so many that scale (which is already low on a tank until we are at war and need many) can’t happen at all.

You should have at least two different tank models. Not 20 but one is too small and you risk a flaw being a problem for everything

If you have a proper secret vote, then getting paid cash to vote is not a problem. The election judges just need to tell everyone that it is perfectly moral (a stronger case than just legal) to vote for something and collect the cash for voting against.

That doesn’t change anything. unless you have a perpetual motion machine the energy comes from somewhere.

while not wrong solar does not use most of the sun either and what plants use is where a large part of the energy is. Plus your add in the rest of the inefficiencies of the grid. So I’m back to not seeing how this can be enough better.

i’m sure you can grow plants this way I just don’t think you can ever make it a good way

Sure, but where does the energy for that light come from? If the answer is burning things (this is the most likely answer today!) then you are making the world worse. Renewable answers all go back to the sun so why not use the sun directly and avoid all the inefficiencies from turning the sun into electric and then back into light? Which leaves nuclear - which is dieing because of expense.

I don’t see how vertical farming can make sense. There is only so much sunlight striking the ground and you just changed the angle and so shaded something else.

Sure, lots of other ways. Use some imagination next time you are in the kitchen. So far I haven’t found a better way, but I’ve tried lots of things and I’m open to someone finding something I haven’t yet that is better.