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I wish it were true. If you research it, solar is not the cheapest form of energy to produce. I guess in the video they are saying with government subsidies, it’s the cheapest for the consumer.

Solar is not yet the best. Nuclear is where it's at.

@@adamfrisk956 Nuclear is great. It's great because you can use it 24/7 but it's price parity won't be enough. Also there is the fact that it's..nuclear.

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@@adamfrisk956 I love a system that doesn't really on other people or things. Thats why solar will reign supreme

It failed in Germany

In Cali? If yes send help to Bill Mahr

not Cal

@@biofueler As expected. Cali is a hell hole for small businesses.

how much did it cost for both the installation and the solar panels themselves?

Yes. They're quite tasty. I even feed on the membership. It's cheap and keeps my full :)

@@prakash_77 We love to hear that, Prakash! Let us know what else you might want to see us post for members.

Likewise with cinematography and lighting.

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Wind is cheaper in northern areas with less sunlight, but yeah solar is awesome!

Absolutely true.

So lets remove subsidies and tax it and raise lots of money.

@@Nickle314 Remove subsidies on oil companies first.

@@Nickle314 it makes sense to subsidize solar though because we *should* incentivize people to do behavior that benefits others. It's the same reason charity is a tax deduction

They build solar farms near communities, then they get people in those communities to use them as the energy provider. So those customers get bills from the community solar project, pay cheaper rates than traditional energy providers would charge, and the community solar project uses any profits to build out more solar or to reduce rates. So it's kind of like having solar panels on your own roof except the panels are installed and maintained in a shared remote location.

@@CL-gq3no thanks that's much better. Wonder if they have storage for nights and cloudy days so customers can disconnect from the traditional utility altogether

@@anuj3956, in the near term probably not because solar and wind still make up a smaller portion of grid energy than fossil fuels. So currently fossil fuels are still providing that buffer/baseline power. Longer term, as solar and wind overtake fossil fuels, battery storage will need to be deployed and fossil fuels will be phased out (because of higher overall costs compared to renewables w/ battery storage).

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First they get funding from Governments. Than they request builder for a project. The builder deploy the panel and manage them. So they basically do nothing beside demand founding. The builder and operator do the work and The money of the investments come from taxes.

Why not roof top solar?

@@sprhr0 there is some research into the benefits of a solar set up like this. Namely providing a shaded area for animals and the turf keeps the ground temperatures lower making them more efficient. Roof top is great but they can be more inefficient because of how hot roof tops can get.

@@parkerj9868 also Accessibility for maintenance Large scale project is better on open space . Roof top has limited space ? Oh, here its all concrete buildings having open terrace clogged with water tanks, wires, dish antennae, etc Certainly city life is not at all civilised . Humans here have sixth sense thats nonsense .

There is, it is called agrivoltaics.

They do. They use is if they don't smash them for fun.

That's racist

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 I saw it. They smash the pannel with hammer.

Arguing for renewables in the third world is equivalent to mass murder. First world can pollute all they want, get rich and now the poor are forced to use expensive electricity? Fossil is still far cheaper than renewables in the cost of energy basis and reliability.

@@MrFujinko I think government should subsidize green energy rather than fossil

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Racist

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 He has the eyes of the Rock, didn`t he ? What is racist about that ? Your too sensitive my dear..

Yes I am

@@денисбаженов-щ1б peak power production is between 9 am to 4pm . I'm not home during those hours like most humans I work during those hours .. look up the duck curve. I work in power production I know when peak demand is.

@@денисбаженов-щ1б that's still not peak usage. Look I'm not gonna argue because I'm correct. Look up the duck curve .

Nobody wants to recycle nuclear power plant.

It'll take a long time to ease off of nukes. What would you do with ALL the nuclear waste? Can't RECYCLE nuclear waste, can you? Safely? The facilities has to stay till the end of time so no demolitions and repurposing that land.

Solar panel recycling plants already exist and are being being built around the world though

@@robertlee8805 There are now technologies for reusing "spent" nuclear fuel to completely consume it.

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Right on!

@Bloomberg Quicktake. Lets talk more as it seems logic and reason seems to be a weak point in your presentation. Always go to diatribe to cancel someone that is honest and forthcoming, way to go!

@@ryanstucke7811 Thanks Ryan. You are one of the few that seem to actually understand a stable, well planned, well produced product would create a trust from the public that would actually push this harder than all the snake oil in the world could.

@@JimNichols that's a fake bot 😂🤐

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Ikr , it's a money problem not a racial problem ,the fact that those people don't used this technology it's totally relate to theirs economic situation.

Because there is an element of it ? Black people lack the generational wealth(enslavement and redlining etc.) of white people so they get left behind on many issues like switching to green energy.

Probably because as stated in this video, the benefits have not been evenly distributed. But more to the point just because it’s being discussed (sexism/racism) doesn’t mean it wasn’t always there, it shows that those who are traditionally discriminated against are beginning to be heard and as we can see from this story, are taking the lead in addressing the challenges they face.

@@BlackDoveNYC That was a brilliant answer. Unfortunately, many people like to spend their time being upset about race and gender being discussed than taking the time to learn why that is. If only they used that anger to address the issues that they are tired of hearing about…

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@Bloomberg Quicktake. Are you a bot? Do you want me to call that phone number?

we'll get over this period eventually but the core is solar power, don't let their politics get in the way

USA: literally enslaved people for hundreds of years and justified it using race, followed by Jim Crow and segregation by race, leading to lack of generational wealth by race USA: wow why is everything suddenly about race??

There's an obvious historical reason why large groups of black people in America don't own their homes and don't have the high credit needed to get solar panels on loan. It has everything thing to do with race. Don't be a dick.

Someone’s getting their trolling rocks off.

@@ThomasBomb45 , what’s your point?

Elevation not necessarily required for that. Is site goal specific. Check out agrivoltaics.

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Maybe technology changes and they don't need that much silver or any at all

@@tomlxyz even if they change technology they will still need materials to make it And the element table is pretty limited

For the UK? Definetely not solar totally. I think wind power is the goal for the UK. (Awful weather) What about you?

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@@iainphillips3725i have been proposing a solution that helps money needless, commercialisation and industrialisation all be made secondary Proposal is to Make dairy, rearing cattles, fresh immediate local manure available, growing own vegetables garden, flowers gardens , fruit groves , honey and such needs in own place or community initiative Rain water and Used water should be diligently let into soil without mixing Soap shampoo chemicals oil grease paint tar cement civilwastes electronic wastes, etc.. Thus make directly drinkable water bodies available again in every place This should become prime importance When such needs are made locally available, need for venturing out Reduce drastically Such dairy, vegetables, fruits, flowers, honey... Should not be sold Or made commercial Don't know how people will get due share, but humans claim to be having extra sixth sense, literates, knowledgeable, high tech, scientific, claim capacity to learn from past, reorient present, create better future for every living and nonliving beings, So needs become available, preserved, nourished, and made perenial when such situation is created Need to venture out becomes very rare. Money or such like cards, digital , etc becomes secondary and in due course unnecessary Life becomes easy effortless efficient healthier life for all in the eco chain, ecosystem So no need of kneejerk, bandaid solutions like building malls, bridges, cement concrete jungles, alternative fuel, etc . .

It`s 3n3rgy for the community dawg !!

A community coming together to purchase solar panels for a local solar project. Can be opt-in or funded by local taxes

In the UK, community energy means energy co-op. Owned by members who each have one vote, regardless of investment amount.

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@@bloombergquicktake.1825 You are a catfish thou...

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If this video was made only by white people, and interviewed only white people, would you be this outraged? Please take a moment to consider

@@ThomasBomb45 if they said "white" or "asian" or any damned fucking thing im jumping in on that like how you people always have. my point is why not just say either "person among many/few" or "(name of person)" .why they gotta make it a race thing? why do you have to make a race thing

@@unitedbrony5907 ignoring race only makes sense when there is equity between races. That is sadly not the case in America. We may have stopped enslaving people but the long term effects have not gone away. Jim Crowe, segregation, redlining, political disenfranchisement... It's all a history that leads up to today. We are still part of the civil rights movement. And it's not over yet

@@unitedbrony5907 When you try to ignore race at a conscious level, you delegate those decisions to unconscious bias. Everyone has unconscious bias. But we need to move past our biases in order to move forward The people who say they want to ignore race usually end up making decisions that benefit white people. They hire white people or white laws that benefit white communities. Ignoring race makes things worse

They can't get solar panels since they don't own their homes and and can't get loans. That is a direct result the discrimination that entire communities have faced historically. Why are you being obtuse? She literally explains it in the video. Maybe instead of being triggered by people being aware of their blackness and how it affects them you should be more aware of the things you take for granted.

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Always a naysayer. "Automobiles are a fad! "

@@vicmorrison8128 I'm just frustrated that the laws of physics make it difficult to achieve anything higher than 25% efficiency (while still making it affordable). The video represents progress. You just misinterpreted what I was saying.

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What a bizarre response. A solar panel anywhere benefits everyone since everyone is impacted by climate change. You're criticizing a church leader for wanting to improve the lives of his community and the world?

@ Thomas Warner For some reason this video has attracted a fair number of trolls. They have no interest in the story, just posting to annoy. Please ignore.

@@BlackDoveNYC You seem to like assuming things as well as telling people what to do

@@aperson2730 You're the one who got mad about a church leader wanting to lift up his congregation. He made no divisive remarks. He did not say other people shouldn't get solar

@@ThomasBomb45Firstly I didn't get mad, perhaps you're projecting your anger onto me and secondly by saying "our people" TWICE it does come across as divisive imo.

Using less energy is great, but we can't stop climate change by burning 50% as many fossil fuels. We need to get to zero. We can't get to zero without renewables

@@ThomasBomb45, we don't need to get to zero actually. We just need to get to the point that nature can keep up. We can start with the lowest hanging fruit and work our way up until we find a balance. Commercial planes and large ships would be last on the list for example. But you are correct that some artificial ponds and some trees alone are not going to solve the problem. I live in FL and artificial ponds and streams would just make it that much more humid. Also, a tree or pond is not going to get me to work or charge my laptop. So yeah, every little bit helps, but solar is a giant piece of the puzzle.

@@CL-gq3no nature can't keep up if we keep burning fossil fuels. Every atom of carbon a tree absorbs is released when it dies. The vast majority of the carbon cycle is a closed loop. If a forest Burns, it releases a lot of CO2 but then the new trees growing absorb that CO2 back over 10 or 20 years. But once trees are fully grown, they don't absorb CO2. So without human activity, carbon dioxide levels would stay roughly flat. The problem comes from digging up carbon out of deep underground. All of that carbon has nowhere to go, because plants are too busy absorbing the carbon released from the tree that fell down to open up room in the canopy for the next tree

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Battery storage is the solution to that.

I was hoping they would talk about how batteries are going to be the piece that completes the circle.

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Low conversion rate? Wtf does that mean

@@ThomasBomb45 You don't know what a conversion rate is? Input vs output. Then consider loss during storage and the conversion rate is even worse. I don't have the numbers at arms reach but wind is slightly higher then solar and wind is really low. Another issue is the delivery of such energy. We have jump in on Lithium but within a couple decades we have exhausted the resource. They are trying to pull Lithium from Copper with little success. I am not saying one day but today is to early for mass application.

@@IDIOMRADIO The efficiency of converting sunlight energy to electricity doesn't matter. It does, to a point, but a roof without solar panels has a PV conversion efficiency of 0%. 20% is way higher than 0%. It's an infinity% increase! :)

@@IDIOMRADIO We don't need batteries to make solar viable. We can replace something like 20% of all electricity generation with solar and wind with basically no batteries. It reduces the use of existing fossil fuel generators and could even prevent more from coming on line. We also have more than just lithium batteries for storage. Pumped hydro is a mature tech that is a great option for the right geography. Redox flow batteries are being deployed at a total cost of ownership similar to lithium ion with less degradation. Plus theres research into lots of other storage technologies like liquid metal batteries, liquid air batteries, compressed air energy storage (CAES), and creation of fuels such as hydrogen or synthetic fuels

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Please look into which power sources caused the outages. Most of the lost capacity was natural gas. The natural gas lines froze because Texas has almost no regulations on electricity generation so the companies did what capitalism does: choose profit over people

@@ThomasBomb45 Solar accounts for only 3.8% of the state's power capacity and wind energy for 10%. The rest 86.2% comes from carbon and nuclear plants. But, of 46k MW outage in total, 18k MW was due to solar and wind energy. And, the wind turbines worked well during the outage. That means 18K MW of power outage was virtually only by solar pannels. The solar energy has contributed to only 3.8% of power supply and it contributed almost to 40% of total outage. Those numbers well explain the ineffectiveness of the solar energy.

@@dpfdkdl2 The problems with Texas's power grid were not caused by renewables. They were caused by corporate greed and capitalism, enabled by poor legislative decisions by Texas's (Republican) Congress

@@ThomasBomb45 It wasn't caused by every renewable, but solar power plant. I agree that the capitalism and Texas comgress are poor because they introduced solar power palnts in Texas.

@@dpfdkdl2 where are you getting your solar panel outage numbers from though? Seriously different from ERCOT's numbers