It seems like you would black start some plant using its backup diesel generator to power pumps and controls, probably synchronize at least two units at the plant, then pick up some part of the transmission system. Perhaps the capacitance of the grid is and issue when it is unloaded, so the trick is to make sure enough real and reactive capacity is online for each subsequent transmission or load step. Probably a lot of transmission steps come with a significant amount of load too - not just picking up unloaded transmission lines. Sounds really fun, banging all the governors and exciters with once in a decade load steps

The “Stability” of a power system would relate to the ability to withstand changes in load conditions. I don’t see how residential solar contributes positively to that.

I associated this cheap power during summer days as when prices approach zero or even go negative. Power you have to pay to have somebody take is worse than worthless!

So some days the power is cheap but it still costs a lot for transformers, grid interconnections, power lines, battery systems if you want power on a cloudy day, so any solar farm that gets built has to cover financing of those costs, which means power is also expensive some of the time.

We can’t both have power so cheap we can dream up ways to use it when it is practically free and also be able to pay for it to be built and maintained.

Your cellphone transmits at 1 watt and you put that at a distance of zero from your brain and reproductive organs.

If you are worrying about power lines you should worry about cell phones too

People expect Tesla to grow by doing new things that other companies don’t have the ability to do, either because they have a cash cow they don’t want to disrupt, they don’t appreciate the value software can bring to automotive with some more love than it has been getting, they don’t have the people and culture to take risks and everyone is happy with small tweaks to existing designs, they don’t know how to go back to the drawing board and make a new car and new production line from first principles.

Tesla has learned how to do everything in a decade and has exceeded traditional automakers in some areas and has nothing to lose.

I don’t care about Elon, I have never owned Tesla stock, but I surely admire his ability to execute, and I think that is part of the reason the market assigns such a high multiple Tesla - they are going to be at the vanguard of any developments in the electric terrestrial transportation space.

Not to say the technology is hopeless, just in this instance it wasn’t done properly so maybe it isn’t as easy as people think.

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