Recent content by TFCooper

Word has it that powder coating your wheels can double their value, or more!

Thanks for that. I'll call my guy first thing Monday!

Are these still available? They're exactly what I'm looking for...

That would be a large upgrade over my 3 Powerwalls, which aggregate to only 40kwh.

Well, Fidelity is no longer lending my shares. It was fun while it lasted!

For those of us with Teslas and Lucids, the Tesla Universal Wall Charger is a great choice. Mine works flawlessly and handles scheduled charging well. I schedule charging from 9:00 to 2:00, to take advantage of excess output from my solar array...

As a pilot, I disagree. For a person under stress and under the influence of alcohol, 60 seconds is no time at all.

Logged out and logged back in... it worked!

Good point, I hadn't considered that!

I did exactly the same thing. Going old school is much more convenient.

FWIW I have the same problem

True. It's also possible to borrow shares and not sell them. A borrower may want to vote them, for example. Mostly false. It's not possible to "disrupt the supply of real shares". Borrowing shares doesn't create more shares, nor does selling short. The number of outstanding shares remains...

Since every transaction requires a willing buyer and a willing seller, market transactions are always in equilibrium. Sellers don't disrupt an equilibrium any more than buyers do. The US Treasury, which borrows trillions of dollars, facilitates the actions of short sellers through repo...

My experience is that utility-based voltage surges never happen.

There are rational arguments for and against securities lending. Lots of institutional investors give their custodians a blanket authorization to lend out all their securities. OTOH, I remember when I worked at Goldman, the bond traders had a list of Treasuries they wouldn't lend out. But I'd...