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Good advice, I got mine.

Good advice and sorry to hear you guys are sick. Get well soon.

Are you buying or renting spaces for domicile?

Randy you have a great system. In 1997-2003 (when we were full-time) no batteries or solar like your system today were even available for RVs except for home built systems that did not have much capacity and back then may have cost more than your more capable system. See my Tesla car uses similar battery packs as the Powerwall (NCA and LFP) and it has zip for maintenance. No cables or connectors to clean, no gases produced, liquids to replenish, 15-20 year life with 80% capacity if charging guidelines followed. I plug it into my 50 amp outlet for a few hours a week and that is it, charged to 80% (Except on trips) and a slower charge than a Supercharger for battery longevity. Tesla energy Division (Powerwalls/Solar panels/Solar roof tiles/Utility backups) has been virtually last priority for battery use as the demand for the cars worldwide is still high if priced right, and when the Cyber Truck and Semi are fully ramped up and in production battery production should be able to begin meeting demand for the energy division too. But prices are coming down - from August 2023: "(Powerwall) Price drop! After years of consecutive price rises, 2023 has seen two reductions taking the price down to just under $13,000 dollars in Australia (excluding installation), a total drop of $3,330 in just 4 months." Must read source for those interested with all 2023 Powerwall Plusspecs/prices: https://www.cleanenergyreviews.info/blog/tesla-powerwall-2-solar-battery-review

Clay good history lesson and I remember that project. https://www.respec.com/project/battery-energy-storage-system-bess/ That was done with Ni-Cd batteries too! They did that in 2003! Lots of misconceptions about the Powerwalls and folks get testy sometimes when I clarify. The Powerwalls are designed for residential use. Here was the first Tesla battery for power generation support. https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/ Their webpage is kept up and the info you have a background in is on this page. Definitely not a residential Powerwall. Other companies are also building some. Battery production demand is the hold up for these taking off faster. As the transition to EVs and demand slows down we should see an increase as batteries become more available. The Tesla system in Texas is outlined here with pics and a video: https://electrek.co/2022/01/06/tesla-unveils-giant-megapack-battery-project-texas/ Here's a great video discussing the Powerwall with 13.5 kWh Not about investing either, and why I am doing 2 Powerwalls with my solar system. That is to support our home in a very sunny city and two EVs the second we are getting in January. IN this video you can see the differences from utility backups. They all do use Li-Ion batteries in their cars, residential, and utility systems which are all very different only sharing the battery tech currently. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tesla+powerwall&docid=603520059917867255&mid=557FB091BCD8ED5A1F9E557FB091BCD8ED5A1F9E&view=detail&FORM=VIRE Thanks for the info Clay. I'd love your comments on the Tesla Big Battery systems as I do not have your background - similar controls are incorporated. Comments from your perspective not about investing either. Many folks think they are just backup direct power systems when in fact they are just to get through a brownout situation without powering up backup plants. Like my UPS that my computers are hooked up to, they are designed to give me have some minutes of time to gracefully shut down, not to run my office equipment in place of the outlet. I am always up for friendly discussions about battery storage. I am surprised that despite their weight, we have not seen articles about RVrs adapting a Powerwall for boodockinking in their million dollar motorhomes. As you pointed out there is more to them and their controls than just batteries. Sorry forgot the Hornsdale link. Edited to add it.

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Excerpt: "Apple lost nearly $200 billion in market capitalization over the past few days amid multiple reports of iPhone curbs for workers in China. Over the last five days, Apple shares slipped almost 5.5% after losing nearly 1% over the last month. Despite the recent drop, shares were up Friday and targeting their largest percent increase since Aug. 30, 2023, when shares rose 1.92%, according to Dow Jones Market Data Group. As of Friday afternoon, Apple regained about $40 billion in market value. Apple did not respond to FOX Business' request for comment. The Wall Street Journal first reported that staff at China's central government agencies received instructions from superiors in recent weeks in workplace chat groups or during meetings about the new directive meant to curb Beijing's reliance on foreign technology. The move was also branded as a way to bolster cybersecurity amid a campaign to curb the flow of sensitive information outside China. Sources also told the newspaper that China has limited iPhone use for years at government jobs, but the new directive widens the ban and signals a greater effort on Beijing's part to enforce the rules. Similar messages about restricting iPhone use at work have been relayed to employees at some central government regulators, sources added. As Beijing's rivalry with Washington, D.C., intensifies, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been stressing national security, prompting a tightening of state control over data and digital activities in recent years, according to the Journal. The Financial Times cited unnamed sources at government institutions and state-owned companies in China who said they have been told to stop using Apple technology." Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/apple-lost-nearly-200b-in-market-capital-in-matter-of-days-on-reports-of-iphone-restrictions-in-china/ar-AA1gs4nn

Perhaps some good news for those who are vaccinated and/or previously infected. But it is early research, we will see. I am taking all vaccines available and masking to be sure. US CDC says existing antibodies can work against new COVID variant Excerpt: "(Reuters) - Early research data has shown that antibodies produced by prior infection or existing vaccines against the coronavirus were sufficient to protect against the new BA.2.86 variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration in the coming days is expected to authorize the updated vaccines that target the XBB.1.5 subvariant of Omicron, and early data provide encouraging signs for the new shots, CDC said.The public health agency added that the new BA.2.86 lineage of coronavirus was not driving the current increases in COVID cases and hospitalizations in the United States, but rather attributed it to other predominantly circulating viruses. Since CDC's initial risk assessment last month, BA.2.86 has been identified in nine U.S. states as of Friday. The Omicron offshoot has also been identified from both human and wastewater specimens in countries including Japan, UK and Canada. This is in contrast to CDC's comments in August that the new variant may be more capable than older variants in causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received vaccines." Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/us-cdc-says-existing-antibodies-can-work-against-new-covid-variant/ar-AA1grHYu?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Randy, so you said the demand across Texas daily is 39kWh, and Powerwall's are 5kWh? Then it will only take ~ 8 Powerwalls? That doesn't sound right.

The topic is in the first link. Everyone can read it. 🖖

A picture is worth a thousand words. The virus is contained in droplets by and large. To survive the virus needs to stay moist/wet. So dry packages, letters, objects in a store etc. - like doorknobs, do not pass it along. Infection depends on a large viral load of the virus and the masks lower the load with just my mask. Much less load if I am masked and the folks I am around wear masks. Large viral loads result in the more severe infections. As well, if you check the statistics the cases of Influenza dropped way down to almost zero while most of us were masked. Coincidence? Hope that helps.

Linda, Just saw this. The data is not collected from home testing necessarily but from medical testing. If you get a positive test at home most folks would then go see their, or a, doctor for treatment. Since the home tests are less accurate and the user may cause false positives or negatives, docs will do another test because tests in medical labs are more accurate they will test you to be sure and treat or not accordingly. For example I got tested knowing the new variants are increasing and more transmissible. I was pretty sure it was allergies as with the rainy summer here the plants have gone bonkers and docs are saying they have been inundated. Here the local VA clinic has a daily COVID testing station in their parking lot. from 10am -2:00pm. So when I got a runny nose and a tickle in my nose and throat for several days I drove there and I was the only one there so it took just couple of minutes and they emailed and called me the next day to let me know my test was negative. EZPZ. I also got the RSV Vaccine and my flu shot last week and will be getting the new bbooster that is not for the newest variant of COVID but is for some the booster in 2021/22 did not cover. They are rushing new vaccines after that for the newest very transmissible variants. So I will likely be getting two boosters in the next few months. Not a problem as I am not afraid of shots and vaccines. We had many more in the military and nary an issue, not even from the dreaded Anthrax vaccine. I had a terrible case of Swine Flu in 1975/76/77 I forget exactly which year but I was about 24 y/o give or take. I will never ever forget how sick I was. But I don't remember ever getting more than a sore arm overnight or two at most, and not bad the second day. Having given thousands of shots, blood draws, and starting IVs I can tell you from my experience it is more the big guys that turn pale green, sweaty, pass out, or even get shocky and/or vomit. Even when I worked Peds ward there were less drama kings than with the adults. Oh sure some cried and tried to escape but I cannot remember one child turning green or getting shocky. I even did the basic training line a couple of times with no needle that shot the vaccine into the muscle with high pressure. But I am masking in public indoors again. I got our 51st anniversary dinner take out and it was as good at home as in the restaurant, a Greek place called "The Purple Onion." We wear masks so we can be around for our 60th.

As for wasps no need to throw it and create a fire hazard. There are dozens of videos on YouTube showing people doing this. It is important that the water in the shop vac be soapy too. Or use just the gas fumes: The gas stays in the cup. They pass out and fall into it. I think this method and the soapy water are much safer than throwing gas at your building where those missed can sting the thrower.

80° here and 20% humidity. I can't deal with the heat and humidity down there as it was as bad in Louisiana and that's why we moved Glenn. You can always put on more clothes and layer for the temperate cold here. But like I said for all the years I was stationed in Louisiana and San Antonio, "once you are down to your skivvies you get A/C . . . in the holding cell for indecent exposure! I feel for you folks in the extreme heat and near the wildfires. Be safe Glenn.

These price wars make more affordable choices. Like computers and chips the Chinese EV imports here will make EVs even more affordable. "China's passenger vehicle sales returned to growth in August year-on-year. Consumers were tempted to buy with deeper discounts and tax breaks for electric vehicles. Industry data showed car sales were up 2.2% in August from the same month a year ago to 1.94 million units. It was the first year-on-year gain since May. U.S. carmaker Tesla was a major winner. The auto giant has offered big discounts for its vehicles and saw its share of China's EV market almost double in August to 13.2%. The data said Tesla sold close to 64,700 cars in China in August. Consumers bought up even though China's general economic growth was weak. Chinese automakers continued to bet on overseas markets as domestic growth eased. Data showed exports surged 31% in August on the year. Sales of new energy vehicles were also up more than a third last month. Rivalries in China's auto market have grown more intense as makers struggle with weaker demand. A price war started by Tesla at the start of the year also continues." More with a video here: https://news.yahoo.com/china-car-sales-grows-aug-140548967.html?contentType=VIDEO

Good news for investors. Excerpt: "A blockbuster initial public offering from SoftBank Group’s Arm Holdings is fueling optimism on Wall Street that an IPO logjam could finally break open after a two-year drought. The one bank that needs that to happen most is in a prime position to benefit: Goldman Sachs (GS). Goldman is one of several big banks behind Arm’s offering, which is expected to happen next week and be the largest since electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive (RIVN) went public in November 2021. Arm designs microchips for phones and tablets. 'What is the normal?' The lineup of IPOs is happening just in time for Wall Street, which is suffering from an extended dealmaking slump that followed a boom in 2021. Clients turned cautious about everything from the direction of interest rates to relations with China to the larger US economy, dampening the optimism needed to go public, buy companies, or take on more debt. Firms across Wall Street slashed bonuses and staff, announcing cuts of roughly 20,000 jobs since the end of 2022. "We've had a moment of clarity, where we realize that trees don't grow to the sky," said Donna Hitscherich, a senior lecturer at Columbia Business School and former investment banker. "There is going to be a new normal, but what is the normal?" Thus far the freeze has failed to thaw in 2023, which has been the worst for IPOs year to date since 2016 as measured by deal volume, according to data provider Dealogic. This current quarter is no different thus far, although most of the activity during third quarters tends to happen in the final month of September. 'Risk-on sentiment' No bank is in more need of some good news than Goldman, which is under an extreme microscope in 2023 as CEO David Solomon wrestles with everything from partner unrest to concerns about strategy as he tries to put a consumer banking experiment behind the company. Its investment banking revenues were down by 20% in the second quarter, which trailed performances at JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America. The drop at Goldman was worse than expected and contributed to a 58% pullback in profits across the firm. More in the article here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arm-and-instacart-could-help-break-wall-streets-ipo-losing-streak-094313390.html

Vlad where is your Kirk quote? It is blank! Do YOU think it is a good thing for Texas to allow Texans with Powerwalls to sell their excess back to the Texas grid? Be well.

I applaud Texas for allowing Texans with Powerwalls to get paid and add their excess power to the Texas grid. If being empathetic for Texans struggling and many dying in winter and summer because their grid can't handle demand is confirmation bias then I am guilty. If any disagree please say with which fact or assertion in the links and your source of different assertions. I am always willing to change my mind given new facts. Say so and hearsay and claptrap are not new facts. The article I started with is good news for Texas. And Jerry Jones did say what he said as quoted by a lot of Texas sources. What you do with that info is up to you.

I posted an article to answer this post above showing Jerry Jones as published in the Dallas Morning news that ERCOT had nothing to do with price gouging. Here are search results with hundreds of articles about it. https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=As+Texans+went+without+power+some+companies+made+billions However with the news daily of Texas power grid about to fail from the heat wave I thought since more than a few folks on here actually live in Texas I am all for anything that could help Texas. And this thread was about Texas approving some relief and making it a win for Texans with Powerwalls and Texans struggling with inadequate electric infrastructure for peak electric demands with the increasingly crazy summer heat and increasing witer killing cold.

Chalkie why do you do a personal attack to accuse me of not liking Texas? Did you stop beating your wife? Same kind of question. Perhaps I do not like some Texans Like Jerry Jones in the article below. The topic is the approval by the Texas Utilities commission to allow Texans to benefit by allowing Tesla Powerwall owners to sell back electricity which can then be used by their fellow Texans. Tesla did not get the deal, Texans with Powerwalls and their neighbors who might have more power available as the power augmentation by individuals works. I realized too late that the link was behind a paywall. Here is that article in the clear: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/texas-freeze-allows-jerry-jones-natural-gas-company-to-hit-jackpot#:~:text=Cowboys owner Jerry Jones owns a Frisco-based natural,northern Louisiana at premium prices the past week. Let me know how that article indicates I do not like Texas.

Good start! Best of luck.

"The highest rates of people testing positive for COVID-19 are in Texas and the states that surround it, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 15 percent of COVID tests in the U.S. were positive in the week ending August 26, the most recent week of federal data, up 1.4 percent from the previous week. Five states—Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas—had the highest test positivity at 20.8 percent, according to CDC data. In Texas, a ban on mask mandates went into effect earlier in September. Those states were followed by Nevada, Hawaii, California, and Arizona, which all had 16.1 percent of tests come back positive that week." Map and more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/covid-map-shows-9-states-where-positive-tests-are-rising/ar-AA1gnXxM

https://www.votervoice.net/iframes/AFSA/newsletters/354466?isInformationalBroadcast=true They have not published for the last two weeks. Hopefully they are back.

Sorry to hear your Dx.