Community Solar Is Bringing Renewable Energy to Everyone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2021
- A new business model for residential power enables people to switch to solar without the up-front cost of home installation, a critical step in bringing lower-income Americans into the green fold.
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It is the cheapest, most profound source of energy. I fucking love this.
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.
Same
@@adamfrisk956 I love a system that doesn't really on other people or things. Thats why solar will reign supreme
This is such a important point you guys have touched. Benefits of renewable energy and its incentives should be made more available to lower income community rather than the rich that can easily afford it and take advantage of it.
It failed in Germany
I literally live now days feeding myself watching bloomberg quicktake videos.
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I have 36 solar panels installed in June 2016. Have Generated over $9000 kwh credits off my electric bill net energy.. annual output over 13,000 killowatt hours /year
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?
Voice Over is Gold, What a lovely voice
Likewise with cinematography and lighting.
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This should be the future of energy industry. Localized generation but still interconnected. Closer generation will improve efficiency to the roof.
Wondeful story. Love to see the massive decrease in solar costs and proliferation of this tech.
The solar farms can, and should also be used for regular farming eg grazing sheep goats or cattle if the panels are mounted high enough. Even vegetable crops.
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
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There is, it is called agrivoltaics.
this makes me so happy.
I wish developing country can use renewable energy as fast as possible 😥
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
This is fantastic. I hope they also educate people to try and schedule their electricity use for during the day (where possible).
We are all ready!
Solar keeps winning and winning. It's now the cheapest energy source in history.
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
The Rock`s little brother is invested in solar, Yay!!
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
Can't wait for this technology to take over along with other renewable energy tech
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It is so great that community solar allows people to benefit from this cheapest (and clean) form of energy! People won't have the burden of the high upfront installation cost, or denial because they rent their house. This brings the benefit of lower energy bills AND a reduction in pollution energy-generating industries to these communities.
Great work! Thank you.
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Great initiative!
Great Idea. I hope they can make it work.
Planet of the Humans is a really informative documentary about the Green industry.
Wow. I am new to the movement but very happy to be apart of it
Hi, I'm looking for data about the environmental impact of the production of solar panels, it looks quite hard to find updated information. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Just asking for your opinion on a different concept of my own that is quite basic. The build can at least be of 2 ultra strong permanent magnets, one above another where the top magnet stays stationary on a plastic* container filled with water while the other is inside that container. Between the top magnet and the container needs to be a very narrow gap for which a light sheet of lead* can easily slide between the magnets just enough to cause the bottom magnet to fall as if it were a delicate power switch that the rise and fall will help* generate more electrical power than it would take to move the lead* sheet in and out of that gap in least frictionless way, maybe levitated by other magnets. The water is basic to prevent damaging and even far to much noise.
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In summary... it would be as if the permanent magnets can be switch on and off like electro-magnets.
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I tend to come up with a whole lot of various ideas that worked out awesomely, but... not always able to test some of my ideas out.
I work at a csg development company. Best choice of my life.
Just wasted 10 minutes of my life and I still have no idea how community solar works
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.
Great content
Great news for some !
We love solar in South Australia.
Thanks
Community solar is a subscription based, solar power plant. They’re just calling it something different.
in India we all businessmen(who have large industry) have contributed for solar, wind turbine, tidal energy.
That is an amazing and also a huge project whch will help the planet
Just 2 major problems with this most people dont use the solar during peak production. Number the batteries are far from being able fill the gap in usage curve.
@@user-nu1vn3yy9s 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.
@@user-nu1vn3yy9s that's still not peak usage. Look I'm not gonna argue because I'm correct. Look up the duck curve .
This rocks...
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Pure energy
Put solar panels on the roof tops.. All that surface area. Why use land?
Yes
Ampion is the best company route for community solar.
Checkout Starlink for better internet service. Also look at vertical wind turbines to boost your output. There is a new company called Solar Windows Technologies. It’s an upstart but will be cheaper than regular solar panels and will more than triple your energy output if you can get it going. Imagine how many windows that you have facing sunrise and sunset plus your regular solar array.
She seems like a very nice person. But you are not bringing solar to Seattle where it is cloudy most of the times. But I'm glad she is doing what she's doing.
Let's put solar panels on every home, business and covered parking rooftop and switch to electric vehicles making nearly everything we do solar powered while completely decentralizing our power supply and empowering everyone as power generation owners.
Solar power is CHEAPER and electric vehicles are soon to be CHEAPER to make and already are considerably CHEAPER to maintain and operate, especially if charged from your own solar power.
A 3 year ROI (return on investment) for a solar array that will generate power for decades is a no-brainer and the panels can even be made locally too.
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what about winter?
Important points. But for some reason, I felt like this was a bit more boring and dry
Presented by "GM" tsc tsc
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Be careful, small scale solar in residential area in places like Baltimore can be more expensive than getting electricity from the grid.
Wait til all these solar panels are filling up landfills...
Nobody wants to recycle them.. this is gonan be real bad if nobody wants to do it in the future... I wouldn't invest all into solar... not right now. But technology should definitely continue research in efficiency and hopefully comes with durability and longevity. I do hope this part of my comment aged unwell though. We'd all win if its not true.
I'm still a nuclear power plant guy. I think we should have nuclear lead the forefront for energy until wind and solar becomes highly efficient, then we can ease off nuclear. Then again.. having nuclear + wind + solar would be the truest zero-carbon emission for energy. Especially if we finally have a workable thorium-based nuclear power plant. Now even the environmental cost will be significantly reduced.
But either way.. all renewable energy path leads to some form of environmental damage later, best to split the load until we discover something to deal with it.
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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Indian Narator im 100% sure about that
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Where is the battery?
@Bloomberg Quicktake. Are you a bot? Do you want me to call that phone number?
From Elon: "10,000 km2 x 0.24 GW/km2 x 21% = 500 GW
, Which is more than current US electricity consumption of 425 GW."
Applause!
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If it's so great why are so many abandoned
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Community solar should be used for any roof over an 8/12 pitch and for systems under 6kW as well. It's a waste of everyone's time to do projects on steep roofs and small systems.
Jeey! The more solar the better! But: Dear Americans: How messed up is your system?
Here in Europe every household can choose its energy provider.
So all that stands between you and solar power is a phonecall to your network operator.
Why is this such a big issue in the USA?
Tara Narayan Is indian,love to see you
wind turbines are better that turn around even when no wind
You would have watched above video
Now
What was your thoughts
Did you also think
We can also encourage some one here in our region to do the same
Hang on
But
Should it be solar ?
Can it be anything else ?
If so,
What it could be
For your region
Or
ward / council / county .. whatever your place is termed
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For the UK? Definetely not solar totally. I think wind power is the goal for the UK. (Awful weather) What about you?
r/writingformatswiththreateningauras
@@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
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Aye Baltimore
SLTZ HOLDDDD
Why not elevate those solar panels 12ft or so off the ground so they become more environmentally beneficial as shelter for flora and fauna, less prone to damage, functional garden canopy, improve ground water retention, etc.
Elevation not necessarily required for that. Is site goal specific. Check out agrivoltaics.
Blood solar panel from Xinjiang
Soo it is pay by taxe.... Why just make this public.
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What is community energy?
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.
Google
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they use 20grams of silver in each solar panel! and we are expected to make 70k solar panels per hour for the next 5 years! INVEST IN SILVER NOW
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
ROOF TOP SOLAR
No explanation of how this works 🤔
Yeah, the poor community is suffering from a lot of the air pollution from buring fossil fuel for electricity generation. All I'm saying is that it wasn't their fault. Statistically speaking the richest 10% is responsible for 50% of pollution and climate change.
Solar energy is renewable but the equipment isn't plus inefficiencies remain but a few of the hurdles.
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@@bloombergquicktake.1825 You are a catfish thou...
Wish more people talked about nuclear energy too. Way more energy efficient and environmentally safe than any type of energy resources.
"New 35 Mw solar array installed" no you have an at peak production a 35 Mw array that realistically in the real world, at 7 am produces 1 Mw, 8-11 am produces 5 Mw, 11-4 produces 30 Mw, from 4-6 produces 10 Mw, from 6-8 produces 1 Mw and from 8 pm until 7am produces 0 zero, nada, zilch as in nothing no electricity produced at all.
There is no systems built to store electricity that is overproduced and introduce it into the grid as demand rises or production falls.
Create this exact scenario and replace solar array with wind turbine and you see my point.
Perfect moment of wind and you have rated power output, the rest of the day in the real world and you have 50% or less production, again with no systems built to store electricity that is overproduced and introduce it into the grid as demand rises or production falls.
So basically you are selling snake oil to environmental folks that are so focused on the "prize" of Net Zero they ignore the reality of the situation.
I am a huge fan of solar and wind. But why not use this as a turning point in the history of mankind? A place where we as this new generation break away from the 'snake oil sales pitch' and actually create a power grid that is well thought out, stable, reliable and produces power in a cost effective manner? One that is generating a positive income stream so as to make it more attractive for business to invest in instead of the government funded, money grab that is occurring now.
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 😂🤐
Everybody can "participate" in the energy industry by simply buying and using electricity. If companies want to buy and own solar panels, that's great, there is plenty of demand for electricity; but when you try to blend "climate change" with "community engagement" you are almost certainly selling snake oil, subsidies, and uneconomic charity. Let the energy market work, and we'll all be better off.
Now if only affordable solar panels were 30% efficient...
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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4:52 what does is matter what color his skin is?! Besides, African Americans make up about 10% of the US population, so the share of African American business owners will obviously be low compared to the rest of the population. I don't understand why skin color is so idolized...
R y'all forgetting Elon Musk 😂😂?
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ESG mandates...
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Why was there need to emphasize that robert wallace is one of the few Black business owners in the Solar Industry?
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Are all Wallace bald????.....🤔😝
lol presented by gm
why do many want to make a racial and sexist thing out of everything nowadays?
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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Socialist Solar Co.
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Shame on Bloomberg for emphasizing her race and gender. The environment doesn't care.
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Thanks to increased Uyghur work force, we get cheaper solar panels
so, how is this scheme working Bloomberg? Try again ? ... be useful.
No one mentions that a solar panel has a 10 year lifespan ? is non recyclable ? requires silica to be made (rare) ? Major drawbacks that will not take this tech mainstream I fear.
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Funny how everything becomes race related 😂
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?
6:35
"OUR people".
Come on Rev we're all God's children
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.
0:37 Idk why you said she's a black woman??
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Why does it matter if she is a woman just do it just do it not just for a women sheesh
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Why is the business owners race matter to anyone? Race should be irrelevant in our society in today’s world.
She did absolutely nothing
Renewable the UNRELIABLE energy
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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Renewal energy is not the answer, you are just delaying the inevitable.
Nature is the answer, in Singapore they are redesigning their cities so that wind could flow easily, planting more tree and building artificial pond and water stream. It will result in decrease in temperature which will lead to decrease in consumption of Air Conditioner and refrigerator which lead to less CFC and green house gasses effect.
Reduce your electric consumption and you don't need these.
But these advice is only for poor or middle class, rich will do what they do.
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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Energy with a low conversion rate - waste of time and money.
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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“Presented by GM” hah. You guys will be out of business in 5 years. Astroturfing this late in the game won’t help. You had how long to make an EV or do literally anything?
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What a totally amnesic video! Texas power outage was just a month ago!
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
great and all, but why mention only black?? im confused here, like they mentioned black women and few black business owners ? why you gotta say black? why not interview other people as well instead of just "black" unless you mean to tell me its only "black" people running the show. not being a racist here but if people gone pick on things i say then id like to do the same here and understand whats going on
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.