That wall isn’t structural. There’s a much thicker wall behind it; this is just a thin internal layer for running electric and mounting drywall.

Levelized cost averages the fixed costs over the lifetime of the generation

They’re generally comparing utility scale installations, not home rooftop solar though.

The American spelling matches the American pronunciation, and it was one of the original variations of the word. Americans didn’t pick it out of nowhere.

That’s more akin to saying “it’s spelled aubergine, not eggplant, you stupid Americans”.

Quay is one of those words like bowline or boatswain that’s commonly mispronounced because people see it in writing without hearing it said. Bowline “properly” rhymes with pin, and boatswain sounds like bosun.

A similar thing happened to solder in Britain, where it originally had a silent l as a nod to its Latin etymology, but some people started pronouncing it.

Housing; this is where wealthy “liberals” are directly to blame. Dems say that they believe in housing that’s affordable, but wealthy elites–which are overwhelmingly Democratic in California–oppose zoning changes that would allow for high density, affordable housing.

It’s not so much wealthy elites that are the problem here as everyday homeowners.

Because of the zoning ladder-pull people started decades ago, there’s a lot of older middle class homeowners that bought an affordable house that’s now worth millions. They’re incredibly afraid of their house losing its value because it’s probably the single largest part of their net worth, so they have a ton of cognitive dissonance over affordable housing.

They want affordable housing in the abstract, but they’re 100% opposed to anything they think might lower the value of their house. And you can’t really make housing more affordable without lowering the value of houses; they’re kinda synonymous. So they come up with all kinds of bullshit special pleading to justify NIMBY policies.