RE: QUESTION20 Nov 2018 09:30
onefcc - that's the solar roof tiles.
Anyone who has ever tried putting their own slates on their roof may appreciate that trying to do the same trick with things made of glass, whilst hoping that somehow there remains a continuous electrical contact between them all, will appreciate what a silly idea the Solarcity roof tiles is.
I've been told that Mr Musk is a 'physicist' - so I did a little bit of digging only to discover that he only stayed 2 days of the Masters course (the necessary starting requirement of a PhD) at the Applied physics department in Stanford in 1995. Turns out I was in the same department only two years early, but came back to the UK for my PhD. One thing that real research in experimental physics teaches you is that it can be surprisingly difficult to make reliable electrical connections. Who knew ?