Grist: All new technology, no matter how innovative, arrives in a world of pre-existing laws and regulations. But not all technology catches the same breaks. A company like Lyft or Uber can do its thing right out there in the open for a surprisingly long time, despite being - essentially - appified versions of such already-illegal innovations as dollar vans and jitneys.
By comparison, solar energy, despite having made leaps and bounds both technologically and finance-wise, can`t show up at the block...