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Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company
Jason Koebler (3528235) writes One major investment giant has now released three separate reports arguing that Tesla Motors is going to help kill power companies off altogether. Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley stirred up controversy when it released a report that suggested that the increasing viability of consumer solar, paired with better battery technology—that allows people to generate, and store, their own electricity—could send the decades-old utility industry into a death spiral. Then, the firm released another one. Now, it's tripling down on the idea with yet another report that spells out how Tesla and home solar will "disrupt" utilities.
I'd believe in small-scale power systems in basements that run off natural gas, or all-in-one nuclear reactors being more likely to disrupt the power industry/grid complex than solar and stored charge. Wind power still has a chance in rural areas were people have larger backyards, though.
Why is this marked troll? If you disagree with an opinion don't just mark it troll, argue the case! I must disagree about the wind power though. I don't think it will work.
My belief is that, generally, things like this are marked "troll" because the moderator(s) who marked it such is/are stupid or careless. (Either this should not be a surprise or welcome to /.) There are times when it's misused to slam something disagreeable to the moderator (usually a political comment, sometimes a spot-on political comment), but in this particular case, you are correct, there was absolutely nothing trollish about the parent remark. Just my $.02, which will probably get marked "troll". :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
You're so ignorant of combo solar/wind turbines it's not even funny. Get the fuck out of here. Entire standing structure, plus blades, solar-paint coated. Generates electricity directly via photovoltaics, applied as a replaceable paint. Reduces the need for a larger wind turbine, reducing the need for larger more expensive generator head, also reduces te need for longer feeds of expensive thick copper cable.
You may run shit but you don't DESIGN shit like I do, so you need to shut the fuck up.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.