Behold, the future! Battery powered, totally spoiled and vaguely off grid - By Mark Morford
What sort of pseudo-pioneering, retro-independent dream do you harbor, modern hipster?
Getting your hands genuinely dirty for a change? Unplugging from the mainstream dogma? Moving slightly away from the madding tech-bro crowd to grow your own artisan tomatoes and organic opium poppies as you chant excerpts from Steve Jobs bio to the stars every night whilst surfing the Dark Net via personal, anonymous Wi-Fi router powered by solar-charged batteries cooled by private well water, everything totally invisible to the PTB but still supercharged for free porn and lots of excellent shopping?
Hey, I hear you. And I have news: Your dream is quickly being realized.
Look here: Our future savior Elon Musk recently announced that Teslas new battery division already has enough pre-orders more than 38,000 for their badass new Powerwall home battery thing to keep the Gigaplex factory cranking overtime through much of 2016.
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/05/19/the-future-totally-spoiled-and-vaguely-off-grid/