Also, you can't have these solar panels without the power companies. The solar panels only produce electricity while the sun is up so the people with solar panels are essentially using the utilities as free batteries - produce power during the height of the day when less power is needed and use more power ~5pm when the grid is at its max.
Power is almost always more expensive in the middle of the day. You can see this if you look at the energy component of the hourly electricity price (day ahead or real time) for any of the organized electricity markets (though you aren't totally wrong, the winter load profile does have a local minimum 14-17). Residential use lags in the midday but commercial + residential almost always peaks midday. In other words, solar generation occurs closer to peak pricing (i.e. solar electricity is more valuable electricity).
That's simply not true. For the majority of the United States, solar panels don't make economic sense. Your average kWh price after solar installation needs to be less than what the utility charges for it to be feasible. This only happens in places with really high rates (e.g. Hawaii), extremely sunny places (e.g. Arizona), or places with high tax incentives (e.g. Louisiana).
Also, solar production doesn't peak with consumption.
Exactly. Also, the argument that solar provides the grid with power when it needs it most is incorrect. Solar production peaks at around noon while electric consumption peaks around five when people arrive home from work. Solar houses basically use the utility as a no-cost battery.
Commercial consumption peaks at noon, residential consumption peaks at 21, but with a much less prominent spike.
In addition, the price of energy and the economy behind new plants is based on the commercial peak ("please run your washing machine in the afternoon", used to remember you state-run companies with every bill). Nice graph at http://www.mpoweruk.com/images/elec_load_demand.gif from http://www.mpoweruk.com/electricity_demand.html (please note that that graph is from 1999's Californa; now the commercial spike is much higher due to air conditioners being active in almost all office).
Another thing to help is if solar is overproducing around noon, homes could leave their AC temperatures cooler than they normally would, and the AC wouldn't have to work as hard when they get home.
I.e., using the home's temperature as a very inefficient battery but better than throwing it away.
You should check out Ramsey's Ultimate Cookery course (or 100 recipes to stake your life on). Last time I checked most of the episodes were on Youtube. Consists of simple recipes while showing basic techniques (e.g. in one of the first recipes, he shows how to properly cut a bell pepper).
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pertinent parts: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Also, this is an article about the New York Times creating an app and website about cooking. Maybe it gratifies your curiosity, maybe not, but that's what is has to do with.
Exactly. It took several individuals two months to get into his files. I don't understand why number one on their list of attack vectors is physically breaking into his house. You're pen testing an individual and number one is B&E?
Under "What to Submit":
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Since it's being upvoted, then I guess it's gratifying enough people's intellectual curiosity.
