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As do probably all the folks here who write algorithms to do their trading for them like I know you do. Obviously @BlacknBlue doesn't have any experience in that segment of the trading world. Which is no big deal, if he wasn't so insistint on telling all the folks who do live and work in that...

The scale economy is pretty big on this, so it's very possible that a 25 kW solar plus storage system wouldn't even come close to $40/MWH while a 100 MW and up system would. Xcel was able to attract a number of bids at that price...

That's a policy discussion, like I said anyone is free to disagree with her policy positions. Personally attacking her as uneducated is a far different thing, it's both factually incorrect and says far more about the insecurities and lack of education of the poster than anything else. It's long...

Congressman Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University with a degree in international relations and economics. By most definitions that's "well educated". Where is your degree from and what kind of honors did you graduate with? It's fine to disagree with her politics, it's even...

Those are all what we called "levelized costs". And when you take that all into account, solar farms are right now delivering solar at prices as low as $13.50/MWH. By comparison, the next cheapest source of electricity is combined cycle gas which has a levelized cost of around $38/MWH. Those are...

What "efficiency" are you questioning? Solar farms can generate electricity for a fraction of the cost of coal and cheaper than the cheapest fossil fuel or nuclear plants on a levelized per MWH basis. How is that not "efficient" in any universe?

Does it really though? The levelized cost of combined cycle gas is right around $38 (https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf). And keep in mind, any renewable project will happily sign a contract to deliver that power to you at the same price for 20 years. No natural gas...

To be realistic in order to get to 100% renewables you need storage to cover the intermittency. It's not nearly as much as the fossil fuel and nuclear lobby makes it out to be, but it is real. The great thing is that the cost curve is so steep and we're so far along it now that you can quote...

I quoted $13.50 for pure solar, $36 for solar plus storage from Xcel in CO (https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/record-low-solar-plus-storage-price-in-xcel-solicitation). The storage costs the same anywhere, and the difference in MWH/MW of installed solar between Boulder CO and Trenton...

If you have a college education it must be from Trump University! Not realizing that there isn't a guy named Milton Keynes isn't sarcasm, it's rank stupidity if your claiming to know jack shit about economics. Perhaps you should google the definition of the word "sarcasm" in the same place as...

Are you really stupid enough to criticize some else for their knowledge of something that you clearly don't know the first thing about because you can't even spit out the right name of the guy (or guys?) you think you're talking about? Dunning Kruger at its finest here folks!

I also had no problems today with SPX and NDX COB orders, but didn't do any RUT.

What's the levelized per MHW cost of those technologies even if they achieve their wildest dreams? Less than $13.50/MWH? Because that's the latest unsubsidized solar tender result. Less than $36/MWH, because that's the latest solar plus storage tender result. And those are mature technology...

How do solar farms kill birds again (keeping in mind mirror based concentrated solar is dead). You know what kills birds? Cats and windows. Orders and orders of magnitude more than solar panels or even wind farms.

Elon is full of himself and a shitshow when it comes to running operations at any company. But he did create Paypal and SpaceX. And made Tesla what it is today. I had the good fortune to be able to do a deep dive into Tesla in 2007 as an MBA project back when no-one outside of the valley knew...

Let's be realistic, FTT has zero chance of happening under Biden. It's not even in the top 20 things the far left of the party wants, there are plenty of Democratic senators who won't vote for it (they're not beholden and terrified of Biden like Republicans clearly are of Trump), and Biden...

No feelings involved, those are just facts. If you disagree with any of those specific facts or have a secret way around them then please do explain in detail. Otherwise, your advice is again singularly useless.

How do you calculate the "return" of bridges or highways or airports? Private investment in these things is exceedingly rare and not viable in most cases. And without them we'd be about as prosperous as all the third world countries without sufficient infrastructure. I've started two companies...

My supply chain days are over for sure, there's few areas that are tougher to do well and yet completely underappreciated and underpaid than that one. Plus the whole military industrial complex sickens me. Most of the crying you hear about this whole alleged insidious breakdown of our military...

I think you'll find the following quite interesting and surprisingly non-partisan despite the fact it's entirely about partisanship! It turns out the partisan makeup of the military is somewhat deceiving. We all tend to think of the military as tending to be more conservative. Which it...