<story><title>No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wojcech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure i&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity&amp;#x2F;Tesla: an old-ish idea, made &lt;i&gt;sexy&lt;/i&gt; and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt;  finding a way to maximally exploit government subsidies for clean tech.)&lt;p&gt;The tesla car itself could count as well, but felt less &amp;quot;design driven&amp;quot; imo. If this fails, everyone will call it obviously due to bad tech. If it succeeds, I&amp;#x27;d say it was because the tech was barely sufficient to keep up with the excellent luster.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I wonder whether or not the heavy government subsidies will be forgotten in the lore of clean tech, just like silicon valley seems to have forgotten the complete and utter reliance on government funding in it&amp;#x27;s infancy(or possibly even today)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aerovistae</author><text>Another side note: it always annoys me when people insinuate that Musk using government funds is a bad thing.&lt;p&gt;The government is literally just US....it&amp;#x27;s our money and a collection of individuals from among us who we&amp;#x27;ve appointed to handle the general administration of us and the space we take up.&lt;p&gt;Why should American entrepreneurs, particularly ones doing such an outstanding job of moving technology in a positive direction, not get our financial support (a.k.a. the government&amp;#x27;s support)?&lt;p&gt;Who exactly is losing out when we support our own business initiatives with our own money?</text></comment>
<story><title>No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/no-one-saw-tesla-s-solar-roof-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wojcech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure i&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity&amp;#x2F;Tesla: an old-ish idea, made &lt;i&gt;sexy&lt;/i&gt; and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt;  finding a way to maximally exploit government subsidies for clean tech.)&lt;p&gt;The tesla car itself could count as well, but felt less &amp;quot;design driven&amp;quot; imo. If this fails, everyone will call it obviously due to bad tech. If it succeeds, I&amp;#x27;d say it was because the tech was barely sufficient to keep up with the excellent luster.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I wonder whether or not the heavy government subsidies will be forgotten in the lore of clean tech, just like silicon valley seems to have forgotten the complete and utter reliance on government funding in it&amp;#x27;s infancy(or possibly even today)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m sure i&amp;#x27;m not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity&amp;#x2F;Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point&lt;p&gt;Except one ingredient is missing: most people cannot afford one, even if they tried really hard.</text></comment>