{"id":6687,"date":"2016-11-18T21:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2016-11-18T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:20:14","slug":"no-more-nasty-solar-panels-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/18\/no-more-nasty-solar-panels-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Nasty Solar Panels?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up to date on <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/29\/no-more-nasty-solar-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>, Elon Musk announces his new roof will cost less than a conventional roof &#8211; right out of the gate. <em><strong>Electrek<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/11\/17\/tesla-solar-roof-cost-less-than-regular-roof-even-before-energy-production-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\">has the news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6688\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?resize=800%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"anatomy\" width=\"800\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?w=938&amp;ssl=1 938w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?resize=300%2C116&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?resize=768%2C296&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?resize=250%2C96&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anatomy.jpg?resize=150%2C58&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Elon Musk made quite the announcement today. During <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/11\/17\/tesla-and-solarcity-shareholders-approved-merger-by-more-than-85\/\" target=\"_blank\">the special shareholders meeting to approve the merger with SolarCity<\/a>, which they approved by 85%, he said that he was coming back from a meeting with the SolarCity engineering team about the solar roof and that he now feels confident that they could deliver the product at a lower cost than a regular roof \u2013 even before energy production.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s different from what the company was claiming before the meeting today.&lt;<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s an incredibly bold claim since if it turns out to be true, no\u00a0homeowner would have any reason not to choose a solar roof when buying a new roof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That opens a few questions, such as what is the profit margin on these roofs? What is the profit margin on a traditional roof? Will those suddenly shrink in order to remain competitive? Are we in danger of putting small businesses out of work? Or will they have a part of the new business as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up to date on this story, Elon Musk announces his new roof will cost less than a conventional roof &#8211; right out of the gate. Electrek has the news: Elon Musk made quite the announcement today. During the special shareholders meeting to approve the merger with SolarCity, which they \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/18\/no-more-nasty-solar-panels-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6689,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}