I changed my roof from black to white. Sufrace Temperature went from 155 to 95 degrees F and I save about 30% minimum on cooling. In a hot climate, a dark roof just makes NO sense.
Not if their using the radiant barrier polished aluminum on the inside. That will reduce radiant heat transfer into the home WAY more than the color of the tile will.
@@natelee3643 doesnt matter. Why use something that creates heat in the first place. If you use good terracota tiles and that foil you get much lower heat issue along with really good insulation.
I am from Germany and here we build the houses out of stone bricks (or partly with concrete) It is (for me) quite sad to see that in the US even wealthy people build there houses in such a cheap way with chipboard ... I know that is normal in the US, but I don’t understand it
Astoria my neighbor has a wood house - but he has a proper wood house. He is using real logs and not these chipboard. Like that : images.app.goo.gl/VnP25rjrYs9sxfw17
@@bestofbritish4998 when you travel to the uk you turn the clock 1 hour and 40 years back, its nice to see as a tourist (like when i was a kid) but living in it...no
@@KCJbomberFTW No, it is super true. I live in Northern Arizona, not far from Dan's house, and put good o'l Canadian solar panels on my roof, with 1 inverter, and they paid for themselves in: 2.5 years and I have a $10 elect. bill, every month (service fee only). We'll end up saving over $50,000, over the next 30 years, with the panels and save thousands of tons of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere. Solar panels make sense virtually everywhere.
Yeah, it doesn't take a certified Tesla installer to install a battery pack. Back-up home batteries have been installed for decades, Tesla's Powerwall isn't that unique. Unfortunately, excuses are shallow and lame.
@@RussellFineArt Lol yeah all that is needed in a qualified registered electrician that already installs solar equipment and batteries like LG Chem and others.
@@gregandkaruna6674 Very true. They've been successfully installing the Powerwall in the UK, Australia and many parts of the U.S., for the past 4 years with no certified Tesla electricians. Waiting for a Tesla tech is just another lame excuse.
My grandfather could install electrical stuff, he was doing it over a century ago. Details change, and there's a few things he'd never have seen in this stuff, and some things don't change that really should. This is looking to be a pretty lame excuse from Tesla. One of the things to think about is how many power sockets you have and where you put them. Here in the UK, partly because of the different house structure, most sockets were close to floor level. We need more today because of all the electrical stuff we have: Once it was just a TV. Now we have a TV, video recorder, a game console, maybe more. And think about ethernet rather than relying on Wi-Fi. That has to be kept apart from power cables. One thing I saw that might be a problem for Wi-Fi signals is the metallised roof lining. It doesn't really matter if you can't get Wi-Fi on the roof, but I can see how similar materials for the wall and window could be a problem. It wouldn't be hard to mount a Wi-Fi base station on the outside, in a weatherproof box. I don't think you can do that for your mobile phone inside the house. I think I am starting to ramble a bit. Be careful how you run cables, what happens when you need to fix them?
@@jpjay1584 maby, or just because of all the different pieces of roof, in stead of just one big simple roof layout. That might be why it looks like a house of cards.
Depending on family size scale back alot. My family of 11 lived in houses no larger than 1,800 sq ft. Yes we were stacked like cordwood but we are a close family.
@@ruukas97 that's not the point at all. Let's say they use 3,000kwh/month on this house compared to 1,000kwh/month on a reasonably sized house. Yes, 10% savings on both homes would mean the larger house "saves" more bc 300>100, but you're still using 2,700kwh vs 900kwh. Just build smaller, you dont need all this space.
Exactly, Gates was suggesting the cost of powerwalls just do not make sense for the majority, therefore not a solution. Depending where you live, considering labour and material costs, it maybe 20 years or more before you break even. That's considering there are no issues along the way which have added expense through the years. There was no indication regarding storage or capacity.
There are other videos about this. If you are in california for example, power wall makes no sense. Because there you can basically sell energy back to the energy company at the same rate they are selling it to you. So basically, you can just sell all the solar you generate to the company, and then use from the grid when your solars aren't working. Ofc, at night or early morning electricity is more expensive, but the thing is, when you look at how 'more expensive' it is, the change is like 2 to 3 cents. Which is like 5% change from highest rate to lowest, so it really doesn't matter. When you consider that you are losing about 10% of the electricity you put into a power wall, and the depreciation of the power wall over years, yeah, it makes no sense. Ofc, most companies don't do the exact exchange like in CA, so in other areas it may make some sense, tho i still doubt it would be cheaper than relying on the grid for when your solars aren't working. At the end of the day, it is pretty obvious that the power walls aren't for saving money, they are for having energy when the grid isn't working. It is for having a backup. So if you are getting a power wall for saving money, forget about it. It is just like Bill Gates said, it needs have 5 to 6 times longer lifespan for it to actually make financial sense. Or you basically need to be in an area where the power company doesn't pay anything to you for providing electricity to the grid. Now that can make sense.
I have two questions for you if that’s ok. 1) Are you going to put non Tesla solar into your electricity system, and 2) Why do you use black tiles and for that matter made of concrete , in such a hot climate?
Hello I'm just trying to respond to the second side of that question. The reason why they used concrete, and black concrete at that is because it absorbs a massive amount of the heat. Concrete is also great at insulating heat. I'm sure you've walked on concrete but try digging a hole in the ground near concrete and you'll find that on the other side of the concrete it's cool to the touch! Hope I helped!
To sum up the comment section. 1. Foreigners talking about how we need to build with brick not wood. 2.People saying just go with another company for Solar. 3. People insulting them on how they don’t know anything and are getting ripped off.
@@mattlane2282 we also use wood since it's more flexible and more esiser to repair and cheaper then brick, the only people who can afforded brick houses this size are doctors or anyone who is rich as for old small houses there getting to point there falling apart over 100 years. our wooden house was built around 100 years ago and it was added onto 4 times, first part of the house only had a crawl space and used newspapers for installation. also eathquake area homes with brick there insurance will go up since brick can crack easily here are the difference for brick www.homesforheroes.com/blog/pros-cons-buying-brick-home/
That's easy. The hard part is storing the electricity generated by the solar panels. Otherwise, when the sun doesn't shine, you got nothing. Going green requires round-the-clock power delivery. Maybe panels alone are better than nothing. Don't know for sure. Far from ideal.
Tesla is not the only battery and solar panel company in the world. Just buy elsewhere. As for the batteries don't just look at different manufacturers but also different types of batteries.
We are fecked as a species. The most efficient design would be a small passive house. Think of all the oversized homes we build and all the materials and energy that could have been saved. But still we carry on like nothing is happening to the climate
Mh. That they care over energy efficiency is the right way. And it makes totally sense to talk about that especially in big houses, where also more money is avaible, on more efficient ways, which they are also doing... (95% astead 80% HVAC, Sprayfoam-insulation with triple the price astead normal insulation)... The way for us in the scheme of climate should be exactly this. Energy-wasting is harmful to the clima for one reason: because we produce it wrong. And our climate sucks because of Gasoline Cars - which they even also avoid! what a surprise... In all theyre ways of thinking and doing, they probably do more good for our eartht han you all.
That's always driving me crazy when i see that houses in the US are build only with wood, i call them cardboard houses, here in Europe, they're build out of concrete !
Looks like the builder sold you a couple of cheap upgrades as far as efficiency goes. 95% AFUE on the furnace is pretty standard practice in most places anymore, and then they put it in an unconditioned attic (huge penalty on performance, should have put it inside the house along with the ductwork). A 97% Fully Modulating furnace, and VRF on your A/C system, with an ERV, and possibly a whole house dehumidifier would be a true performance upgrade on your HVAC. Wood Windows does not make an "extremely efficient" window, Triple, or Quad pane glass with multiple seals is where you need to get your window performance. A Word of Caution on your vaulted ceiling insulation: When you foam the roof-line, make sure use at least 2" of Closed cell foam on the roof-line before switching to open cell foam. Open Cell will not provide vapor control and have condensation build up on the bottom of the roof sheathing. Exterior insulation and a quality house-wrap are also essential to a more efficient build.
Don't expect much from a person who is so blinkered on Tesla solar and batteries, making a video on how they are not available, and abandoning the concept altogether. At least I learned that only Tesla makes solar panels and batteries....
This is so true... however was the ac really in an unconditioned space? But yeah... so many things could have been done to make this place more efficient but at a higher cost... funny how the people pushing $$$$$$$ ev's won't cough up the money when it is not for something they want...
Wood is a really good material for construction. It's often better than concrete or steel when comparing strength to cost, and it tends to be better for the environment. What are buildings made of in your country?
In an earthquake prone area, wood is one of the best materials to use. It can give without collapsing like brick and block, and is a lot cheaper to build with.
the thing is he doesnt want normal solar panels he want the tesla solar ROOF. which is actual rooftiles that has the capability of capturing the suns energy like a solar panel. It looks just a lot nicer than a big chunky solar panel.
Alain - Conventional Solar is NOT as Efficient as TESLA Glass Roof Tiles. TESLA actually sells Conventional solar as well for Customers with a Roof that's less than 20 years old. However, if your Roof need replacing anyways , the TESLA Glass Roof tiles are a no Brainer. you can get TESLA solar for $100 down now, no reason NOT to get it.
@@Robert-cu9bm - TESLA has a Solar calculator online. you can easily figure the Correct size you need and weither Conventional or Solar tiles would be best. either way , no matter the size you can get TESLA solar for just $100/down.
@@darryldee467 Right? You can't win with some ppl. If he were to speak assuming you can't afford the things he can, then he'd say "he talks down to ppl"...
99% of the houses in America are built that way. 30-50% cheaper than Europeans. 50-80% faster. One area the Europeans are better? SHELF LIFE. American houses only last 50-75 years average.
David, as a Norwegian I disagree. Wood insulates better than stone. When I travel around in Europe, I notice brick houses and stone houses in the rest of Europe are significantly colder than Norwegian wooden houses. Not to mention wood is a wonderful material. When you build your house out of wood, you have permanently captured CO2 in your walls. More houses, building etc should be built from wood, not less. Having said that, American houses don't seem all that well insulated. But that seems to be because they make rather thin walls, don't use triple glazed windows, don't insulate the ground level etc.
@@erikengheim1106 Well that's not true. Stone/brick holds heat significantly better, and I mean significantly! So once you bring a house to the desired temperature, it will remain for much longer and require less energy to maintain that temperature.
@@NickLiang Heat capacity and insulation is not the same thing! Stone/brick acts as a temperature moderator not as an insulator. If you have massive blocks of stone/brick which are cold, then you will have to spend a lot of energy to heat up that stone. You don't have that problem with wood. A cold wooden house that is well insulated will heat up much quicker. However stone is quite smart in hot climates, because it will take time for the sun to heat up the stone. That will keep you cool for longer. However once the stone has gotten heated up you got the benefit that the stone can radiate that heat back into the house during night time to avoid that it get too cold. This is a problem we have in Norway. Our well insulated houses with little stone has basically no heat capacity. Thus the houses can heat up quite a lot in summer, due to our large windows letting in the heat from the sun. I am always impressed by how cool houses in southern countries are inside even without air conditioning. However we do use the heat capacity of stone in some instances. We have these special types of wood burning ovens with a lot of stone around. They burn hot, and then transfer the heat to the stone around them. This is a nice concept because you avoid getting a dramatic increase in temperature. The stone from the oven can then radiate out heat over a long time and give a moderate comfortable temperature over a long time period.
If you're looking at those window sizes, the frame material doesn't make much difference. Yes, it is correct that a wood frame is slightly better at insulating than a plastic frame but the main part of the energy goes directly through the glass. So upgrading from a 3-layer window to a 4-layer windows would make much more sense imho.
Yeah, I didn't think that he seemed tripped up by the question, he seemed to be very knowledgeable about the subject. He has a lot of the same concerns as many experts. Most battery banks cost a ridiculous amount of money and only last up to 10 years. You won't recoup the cost, as they currently are.
Bill is correct and the host doesn't understand solars place in the world or how to use it. You would never charge a battery with another battery, that's elementary. You bank credits with your utility and charge cars from the grid ALWAYS. This guy would need 20 Powerwalls for this house, not an exaggeration. Unfortunately this American Rothchild can afford it. House batteries will be leap-frogged anyway. Powerwalls are 13.3kW, cars are 90-100kW. When your home and your car is plugged in IT can be the battery for your house. Your welcome.
I was dying laughing because he was basically trying to imply that he and his son were smarter than Bill Gates and were more knowledgable than him on this subject. 😂
funny thats your reference !! think about the evolution of car batteries to the evolution of window operating system.. prices will fall it just takes time
Nice video! I just got a note from my certified installer of Powerwalls in Charlotte NC, but they are asking $11,000 per unit installed. This is a lot more than $7,800. This is not practical price yet. If it drops below $10,000 fully installed, then maybe I will do that. In my area, you can get powerwall, but not Tesla solar. I ended up installing SunPower panels which are more efficient (23%) compared to Tesla panels under (21%). Take a look at SunPower with Solaredge inverter and LG chem batteries. They will do what you are looking to do anywhere in the country with local solar installer.
Awesome panel, the best one we use them when the project have reduced space, I'm a professional installer and can tell you that there are a lot of better options than Tesla powerwalls
DO NOT use a Tesla certified installer, they are NOT needed. Just hire a local solar installer, who installs back-up home battery systems, they will charge far, far less and do the exact same job. Tesla is charging a premium because they know they can get it from so many suckers out there. I've installed solar and battery back-up systems and they're pretty easy. The Powerwall is not unique, it has a positive and a negative connector, just like all other batteries.
@@RussellFineArt you're really wrong, the Tesla battery don't have a positive or negative terminal, it is installed on what we call an AC coupling where everything is Alternate current when the DC is direct current, for your comment I can tell you have installed something in your house but Tesla is different there is no DC connectors, however they don't sell the battery if there is nobody certified by Tesla for the exactly same reason of your comment.
@@miguelito2796 I've designed and sold battery back-up systems for many years and am very familiar with them. I've worked as an electrician, installing solar panels, distributed wind turbines, which I also installed both on my house and property and yes, the Tesla Powerwall has both a positive and negative terminal, along with a ground terminal and communications terminal to connect to. And yes, the Powerwall is designed to be wired in an AC coupled system, I'm very familiar with them but that does not turn the battery into an AC system, the battery/Powerwall is still DC and is wired from the battery to an AC coupled inverter to invert the power from DC to AC. The inverter makes the system AC, from inverter to the service panel but the battery stays DC. And no, Tesla does not require a Tesla certified installer to install the system before someone buys one as numerous electricians, who are not Tesla certified, have installed the Powerwall in the U.K., Australia, Germany and many other parts of the world where there are no Tesla certified technicians. It's an option. If you can find a battery without positive and negative terminals, I'd like to see it. Cheers
you okay over there? I have 2........ some guy here on youtube has 6. and didn't get solar through tesla or get them with his Solar city he purchased and installed them
I work at a material handling company, we sell batteries, forklifts, racking, chargers used and new, refurbished batteries and resell them. I work on the batteries and chargers, mainly reconditioning neglected batteries. If I had $10k to spend I'd consider buying a refurb industrial lead acid battery, a new charger that's good for stationary power, and an inverter. I'd get a nice almost at cost price, but it's still a lot of money.
@@timmontanus4311 It's someone's taste in how somebody wants their house to look. If they wanna spend extra or wait longer for a product, let them be. Don't be so toxic.
Bill Gates was surprisingly right about the fact that as of now batteries are much more expensive than the grid. I use LiFePO4 for energy storage (best in therms of cost amortization) and still around $0.2/kWh for the battery amortization alone (that is DIY so just the price of the cells). The power wall best case scenario (a bit idealistic) is $0.4/kWh So for grid connected houses (I'm fully offgrid) grid connected solar PV is great but not battery storage.
They quoted me $98k for a 2400 sq foot house. My bill averages around $125 a month. So it'll never pay itself back even if the roof lasted over 100 years.
@@sebastianmuller1210 Middle of the range estimate for a concrete tile roof installed is approximately is $22,500 for a roof my size in my area. So that would save me $75k that I could then put in an index fund and earn on the low range a 7% return. If I leave that $75k in an index fund for the entire 50 year life of the roof, that's $2.1M of returns on the original $75k principal. Saving $125 a month after putting $98k down would never get me close to that.
@@DarientheG correction,i saw i a differite video someone comenting that the actual price is 2.5 mil where 500 k was the land itself.As showecased at the house show
From your kids TH-cam project. Then complaining that you can't use your $5500 discount because you already have three Teslas, but they better get you your power wall now.
I love to see how American houses are build. I live in Germany and our outside wall is about 15 inches thick Stone and insulation and our windows have a rollable aluminum shield at the outside to insulate and protect the glass. But our house is also build to stay a much longer time, it is about 18 years old and is very modern compared to most others our old house was over 100 years old and there are still people living in it today.
@@bigbadbear2962 Yes in most of Europe it's normal but in America it's by far more common to build your own house. And the construction is often simple and cost effective. In Germany and most of Europe a house as big as this would only be build by extremely rich people
Your house is like 500 sq.ft? That house is probably about 4,500 to 5,000 sq.ft. The garage looks like it is oversized, maybe a 6 car garage from the previous video, which would be about 1,500 sq.ft (not counted sq.ft), the pool house/office maybe 500-700 sq.ft also. The main house looks to be between 4,000 to 5,000 sq.ft, it also has a larger footprint because it's a ranch. It could be as high as 6,000 sq.ft but probably not.
Overthinking bit more green by destroying half a forest for 1 house he much likely gonna live in only for a dcade maybe!? Yep, totally ecological and green 🙄 He himself said he may sell it one day and move elsewhere.
Bill is 100% correct about the storage and life in the batteries, if he wasn't correct then there wouldn't be companies looking at technologies like magnesium-ion, your tesla cars would be able to go more than 300 miles without a charge, charge times would be as fast as a fill up at the gas station, batteries would be able to be reliably used for more than the typical 3 years (300-500 charge cycles).
Why do people in USA build a house with so thin wood??? You should build with bricks with 15 inch thick walls before the insulation... Even my garden house doesn't looks like this house. You should come to Switzerland and take a look how we build here..
Maybe you could explain why we need 15inch thick brick walls... when we can just have... a frame with siding... that brick may delay tempture shift for a while but... in winter it's 15 inches of cold... and in summer its 15 inch of hot... also... WE HAVE TONS OF WOOD HERE
Ground mount system if you go solar is the way to go, less stress on the pretty new roof, and easier to maintain, clean and trouble shoot on the ground.
instead of waiting for tesla get regular solar panels this is a no brainer cheaper then tesla and still solar. i dont get why you are stuck on tesla solar stuff when you can still do the same thing cheaper with regular solar panels can you explain this in a reply or another video?
@@jojodroid31 phones and computers are electronics, runs on electricity. Doesn't stop companies like Apple creating and restricting their ecosystem does it?
Exactly! Idk why so many people are on the solar train when we are all standing on a hot ball of Fire that we can tap into which is way more efficient and available 24 hours a day lol.
Power storage is still expensive man just because you're privileged doesn't mean that battery storage is cheap. Bill understands this that's why it must be 5 times cheaper and have higher capacity. He knows this because he's deeply invested in battery companies... It has to be cheaper and more convenient than energy from the standard grid. Also Bill regularly stutters nothing unusual
Michael Chen America builds houses really fast and cheap to “boost” the economy. Government also encourages homes built in flood plans so they get destroyed and than built back again
Well, If you choose good wood the outher wood dosent rott for 80+ years. Then its also easy to change it. The inner wood if done right shuoldnt root for hundreds of years if taken care off.
People complain about the extremely thin studs, but it's important to keep in mind that our EU houses are built to support a lot of snow and extremely cold winters.
He can actually get solar shingles/tiles & home batteries from other companies that make them. Tesla didn't invent them and they aren't the only ones who make them. I'm amazed that he didn't do the research into other companies that actually do these. Solar roofs/ shingles: arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/five-solar-roof-shingles-that-arent-from-tesla/ Home batteries: www.businessinsider.com/rechargeable-battery-options-compete-tesla-2017-5
@@clintelawson Sooooooo true, Clint. I stopped watching anything by this guy after seeing this video and hearing how little he truly knows. Very irritating inded!
that is too funny to give you $5,500 credit to a car. In other words, your reward can only be claimed if you pay $35K and up. No spank you! That roof looks awesome, btw.
@@slavenrasic2204 Of course one can sell it. The issue is that Tesla won't do what they say they do and the alternative involves them getting more revenue and sales. If I remember right he, supposedly, still wouldn't be allowed his power wall even if he got a certified installed to travel to him. It was a flat out no. If he took this deal and sold the car he is still rewarding their bad and inflexible behavior.
Wow, the US has a LOT to learn from European houses as regards energy efficiency. I think this house is less insulated than an average garden shed in Europe I'd say...
Well Mr. Euro elite - what's the R value of your garden shed? Let's talk R values and not speculation. You have to meet minimum R value for walls and ceilings (dependent upon climate zone) - no one penalizes you for increasing the R value - that's up to the person building the house.
You're correct. However, the radiant barrier sheeting they are using is 97% reflective and will do more for cooling the home in the summer (and keeping it warm in the winter) than the color of the roof will. The color of a roof will affect attic temperatures by 5 to 10 degrees. The radiant barrier will decrease attic temperatures up to 30 degrees. It will also provide more warmth in the winter. It really doesn't matter what color your roof is if you're using a radiant barrier. ecochiefproducts.com
The model 3 performance performs less than a model S p100d. The reason they went for another model x was because they will get the roadster for free anyway which will be obviously the new fastest Tesla after the S p100d
Your videos are an amazing blend of information and entertainment. I am an SEO Content Writer and appreciate your valuable insights into Tesla vehicles, expanding my electric vehicles' knowledge base to develop quality write-ups.
Couple of guidelines if you want to build your house energy efficient and environmentally friendly: 1. Use windows with triple thermopane glazing. 2. If you care for the environment, the spray foam is the worst insulation from the stand point of recycleability and embodied energy (energy required to produce 1kg of insulation). In that regard - rock wool insulation is way better option. 3. I hope your HVAC comes with recuperation (heat recovery system).
Their problem is mostly one of over-expansion. The problem is they simply don't have enough certified techs and enough throughput in their Gigavolt plant to both do powerwalls and to make their Model 3 numbers, since they all come out of the same plant. They've expanded as fast as they could, and it still isn't fast enough.
Your wife didn’t look at all disappointed when you didn’t fall! She must really adore you in spite of the over-the-top electronics being built into your new home. You’re lucky. It took me three marriages and three divorces to get one that felt that way!
well this video is two years old but I would say take delivery of your powerwall, then look for an installer later. BTW mine was backordered for 18 months just getting it installed now
Have you considered using solar panels to power your home & charge your Teslas? Using your Teslas effectively like power walls? Check out H2V and V2H (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid). A viable option where you are? Good luck with your project and may you tread lightly 🌍 🙏
Wow! As far as I know, I was the only one that asked this exact question in your last "house video". So excited that you addressed it. Thanks. Haven't seen the video yet. Edit: I was wrong! Lol
If anyone is building or re-roofing their home, I work for a company called Eco Chief and we manufacture energy effecient roofing underlayment. It's very similar to the radiant barrier (shiny stuff) you saw on the inside of Dan's home. Our website is ecochiefproducts.com, ask your local contractor about it. Best way to save energy!
@W N I watched news articles about how bad the are for health. It also has to be done in a certain standard. It's also hard to remove those insulation if I remember right to remove those sprayed insulation from the roof u gotta take the roof of. It also looks painful for electrician to do upgrades on later on the years
@Robert Blackford I don't think there are many companies that use formaldehyde blowing agents these days. Certainly not in the home construction industry.
In India building with Bricks cement and concrete roofs and pillars is far cheeper than building with wood Those who have wooden interiors are super rich. Where as in USA if you build with bricks you are super rich lol
You don't just get solar to save money. You live in a very sunny area. Most of your power does not come from renewable sources. For me it would be a no-brainer, especially if you drive electric cars as much as your family does. You don't have to have Tesla solar of course, you can just get (cheaper) solar panels and you're set.
SERIOUSLY?? If not Tesla, then there is no solar energy? 🙄🙄 DUDE import solar cells and converter from China, and ask Lincoln to do some wiring, and there you get it all for less than 1500$s.
I think Bill Gates was talking about making batteries like the PowerWall cheap and accessible enough for everyone as a standard. If you already have the correct circumstances then it’s probably cheaper. But most people don’t have the money for solar panels or $5k batteries. So I think that’s what Bill Gates was saying.
I changed my roof from black to white.
Sufrace Temperature went from 155 to 95 degrees F and I save about 30% minimum on cooling.
In a hot climate, a dark roof just makes NO sense.
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@@1WRLD Quartz?!?! It could be made from light-colored, fiber-cement shingles or could be painted metal.
@@1WRLD Coated the black shingles with Ultra Roof 1000, goes nice with a wedgewood blue color for the house.
@@1WRLD will be putting white colored panels when I do a metal roof later
You can also use an gras roof with plants. It looks nice, it cools down your house a lot and its good for the environment. Win win win situation
Black roof tiles, and you want to save money on the AC?
and concrete!! That will make it even hotter....and fragile!
Not if their using the radiant barrier polished aluminum on the inside. That will reduce radiant heat transfer into the home WAY more than the color of the tile will.
@@natelee3643 doesnt matter. Why use something that creates heat in the first place. If you use good terracota tiles and that foil you get much lower heat issue along with really good insulation.
Insulation...
I have black Roof tiles and actually it is not that hot.
I am from Germany and here we build the houses out of stone bricks (or partly with concrete)
It is (for me) quite sad to see that in the US even wealthy people build there houses in such a cheap way with chipboard ...
I know that is normal in the US, but I don’t understand it
Casskario Many houses in Germany are built with wood though...
Astoria my neighbor has a wood house - but he has a proper wood house.
He is using real logs and not these chipboard.
Like that :
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@@bestofbritish4998 when you travel to the uk you turn the clock 1 hour and 40 years back, its nice to see as a tourist (like when i was a kid) but living in it...no
Casskario so that when we have an earthquake we aren’t smashed my tins of heavy bricks haha
depends in the u.s. there are both brick houses and chipboard, i think brick cost way more as well it's easier to fix then brick
Just install conventional solar panels instead...they're even more efficient and way less expensive
Tim H. Super not true in Nevada and Utah
KCJbomberFTW how?
@@KCJbomberFTW No, it is super true. I live in Northern Arizona, not far from Dan's house, and put good o'l Canadian solar panels on my roof, with 1 inverter, and they paid for themselves in: 2.5 years and I have a $10 elect. bill, every month (service fee only). We'll end up saving over $50,000, over the next 30 years, with the panels and save thousands of tons of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere. Solar panels make sense virtually everywhere.
@@RussellFineArt Love those Canadian Solar panels!!! I got a single 300 watt running my water fountain :)
@@toysareforboys1 Yeah, I bought mine from a local solar warehouse, for cheap, and installed my system watching TH-cam vidoes :)
Become a certified installer, then quit that job after you install.
Yeah, it doesn't take a certified Tesla installer to install a battery pack. Back-up home batteries have been installed for decades, Tesla's Powerwall isn't that unique. Unfortunately, excuses are shallow and lame.
@@RussellFineArt Lol yeah all that is needed in a qualified registered electrician that already installs solar equipment and batteries like LG Chem and others.
@@gregandkaruna6674 Very true. They've been successfully installing the Powerwall in the UK, Australia and many parts of the U.S., for the past 4 years with no certified Tesla electricians. Waiting for a Tesla tech is just another lame excuse.
get the power wall delivered and wait for them to roll out a certified installer.
Parts are 80% of the cost. The install is cheap.
My grandfather could install electrical stuff, he was doing it over a century ago. Details change, and there's a few things he'd never have seen in this stuff, and some things don't change that really should. This is looking to be a pretty lame excuse from Tesla.
One of the things to think about is how many power sockets you have and where you put them. Here in the UK, partly because of the different house structure, most sockets were close to floor level. We need more today because of all the electrical stuff we have: Once it was just a TV. Now we have a TV, video recorder, a game console, maybe more. And think about ethernet rather than relying on Wi-Fi. That has to be kept apart from power cables.
One thing I saw that might be a problem for Wi-Fi signals is the metallised roof lining. It doesn't really matter if you can't get Wi-Fi on the roof, but I can see how similar materials for the wall and window could be a problem. It wouldn't be hard to mount a Wi-Fi base station on the outside, in a weatherproof box. I don't think you can do that for your mobile phone inside the house.
I think I am starting to ramble a bit. Be careful how you run cables, what happens when you need to fix them?
-*Wants energy efficient home*
-*Buys black roof tiles in the middle of the dessert*
Exactly buy a White House
More AC more energy? ahaha
He should of got the white tiles, white reflect the sun more than black.
He could always paint them.
Its better to get Tesla solar.
As a european, this house looks like it is buildt from playing cards...
exactly. why not bricks?
@@jpjay1584 maby, or just because of all the different pieces of roof, in stead of just one big simple roof layout.
That might be why it looks like a house of cards.
@@jpjay1584 right? it doesn't make any sense
It looks like matchsticks and paper towels. That's how we build garden sheds in Europe.
lol i said the same, i can have a house twice as big as theirs, if its cheap wood instead of bricks
You want to talk about energy efficiency, you could scale the house back a bit for starters
Depending on family size scale back alot. My family of 11 lived in houses no larger than 1,800 sq ft. Yes we were stacked like cordwood but we are a close family.
Lol, no kidding - it's a ridiculous huge house. It's probably an investment for them as they can sell it for a ton of money when the kids move out.
The bigger it is, the more of a difference efficiency makes. 10% saved on a big house is much more than 10% saved on a small house.
@@ruukas97 that's not the point at all. Let's say they use 3,000kwh/month on this house compared to 1,000kwh/month on a reasonably sized house. Yes, 10% savings on both homes would mean the larger house "saves" more bc 300>100, but you're still using 2,700kwh vs 900kwh. Just build smaller, you dont need all this space.
Will Olds ...Exactly
What bill gate is referring to is the battery life cycle or span, not the capacity or storage in general.
Exactly, Gates was suggesting the cost of powerwalls just do not make sense for the majority, therefore not a solution. Depending where you live, considering labour and material costs, it maybe 20 years or more before you break even. That's considering there are no issues along the way which have added expense through the years. There was no indication regarding storage or capacity.
There are other videos about this. If you are in california for example, power wall makes no sense. Because there you can basically sell energy back to the energy company at the same rate they are selling it to you. So basically, you can just sell all the solar you generate to the company, and then use from the grid when your solars aren't working. Ofc, at night or early morning electricity is more expensive, but the thing is, when you look at how 'more expensive' it is, the change is like 2 to 3 cents. Which is like 5% change from highest rate to lowest, so it really doesn't matter. When you consider that you are losing about 10% of the electricity you put into a power wall, and the depreciation of the power wall over years, yeah, it makes no sense. Ofc, most companies don't do the exact exchange like in CA, so in other areas it may make some sense, tho i still doubt it would be cheaper than relying on the grid for when your solars aren't working. At the end of the day, it is pretty obvious that the power walls aren't for saving money, they are for having energy when the grid isn't working. It is for having a backup. So if you are getting a power wall for saving money, forget about it. It is just like Bill Gates said, it needs have 5 to 6 times longer lifespan for it to actually make financial sense. Or you basically need to be in an area where the power company doesn't pay anything to you for providing electricity to the grid. Now that can make sense.
This ppl only know how to buy. Lol
I have two questions for you if that’s ok.
1) Are you going to put non Tesla solar into your electricity system, and
2) Why do you use black tiles and for that matter made of concrete , in such a hot climate?
Richard J tu parles français?juste comme ça…
@@ternietorrinque6348 non je ne parle francoise
I hope he puts solar up
Hello I'm just trying to respond to the second side of that question. The reason why they used concrete, and black concrete at that is because it absorbs a massive amount of the heat. Concrete is also great at insulating heat. I'm sure you've walked on concrete but try digging a hole in the ground near concrete and you'll find that on the other side of the concrete it's cool to the touch! Hope I helped!
W N the thing I don’t understand is why they don’t build with bricks, from our eyes it looks like a cardboard mansion...
This is fastest house build I ever seen
Then you have never played Minecraft
Dr. Dyess Not as slow as the Skyscraper in GTA V. It has been under construction since 2013 and it hasn't grown a meter since then.
Yes its quick, but the first video was way delayed.
Yeah
Mr. Norris I have played Minecraft but it just a game 👍
To sum up the comment section.
1. Foreigners talking about how we need to build with brick not wood.
2.People saying just go with another company for Solar.
3. People insulting them on how they don’t know anything and are getting ripped off.
Levi G hahaha
@@stanvanillo9831 No, we have tons of wood here... other places do not... so we use wood...
@@mattlane2282 we also use wood since it's more flexible and more esiser to repair and cheaper then brick,
the only people who can afforded brick houses this size are doctors or anyone who is rich as for old small houses there getting to point there falling apart over 100 years. our wooden house was built around 100 years ago and it was added onto 4 times, first part of the house only had a crawl space and used newspapers for installation. also eathquake area homes with brick there insurance will go up since brick can crack easily
here are the difference for brick www.homesforheroes.com/blog/pros-cons-buying-brick-home/
@@knightwolf3511 My family owns a house like this out Of brick, and it only Cost us 145k. Were not that "rich".
But could also depend on where you live. I, for example, live in germany. We got pretty lucky with our home but still.
Put solar panels on roof and make electricity for yourself
Lol
Raymundo Velasquez how is that funny?
@@NN-cj6qv ur not smart enough to know
That's easy. The hard part is storing the electricity generated by the solar panels. Otherwise, when the sun doesn't shine, you got nothing. Going green requires round-the-clock power delivery. Maybe panels alone are better than nothing. Don't know for sure. Far from ideal.
N N cuz this person is smart
Please get Linus from Linus Tech Tips to do all the technological stuff and wifi and ya know that stuff, 1.good collab + Video 2. Good wifi
ItsPizzy he goes to other youtubers all the time to assist with stuff like this, and they have all been in the US
Pretty sure Linus would turn it into a mess
linus is mostly clueless
Yes and a 200TB server
Jacko plus MOORE DROPPING AND DESTRUCTION OF TOOLS
Tesla is not the only battery and solar panel company in the world. Just buy elsewhere.
As for the batteries don't just look at different manufacturers but also different types of batteries.
Fanbois be fanbois. They'll realise soon enough.
Incorrect you can not beat the new program see on Aug. 2019
Matthew - TESLA Solar roof tiles are a Superior Product.
Also, you are building a giant home and are talking about efficiency which I find hilarious.
i know right. Does not make sense
It's possible to have a giant home and hav efficiency too.
@@blackjack8556 yeah not really
We are fecked as a species. The most efficient design would be a small passive house. Think of all the oversized homes we build and all the materials and energy that could have been saved. But still we carry on like nothing is happening to the climate
Mh. That they care over energy efficiency is the right way. And it makes totally sense to talk about that especially in big houses, where also more money is avaible, on more efficient ways, which they are also doing... (95% astead 80% HVAC, Sprayfoam-insulation with triple the price astead normal insulation)... The way for us in the scheme of climate should be exactly this. Energy-wasting is harmful to the clima for one reason: because we produce it wrong. And our climate sucks because of Gasoline Cars - which they even also avoid! what a surprise... In all theyre ways of thinking and doing, they probably do more good for our eartht han you all.
That's always driving me crazy when i see that houses in the US are build only with wood, i call them cardboard houses, here in Europe, they're build out of concrete !
They are built with concrete in Florida due to hurricanes.
Not in whole Europe. I live in a house made from wood, in Europe!
Some of that concrete is autoclaved aerated concrete, which provides a lot of insulation value.
@@mariushaakonssen in a Nordic country right?
@Rafa Cena yes I do, why are you asking?
Looks like the builder sold you a couple of cheap upgrades as far as efficiency goes.
95% AFUE on the furnace is pretty standard practice in most places anymore, and then they put it in an unconditioned attic (huge penalty on performance, should have put it inside the house along with the ductwork). A 97% Fully Modulating furnace, and VRF on your A/C system, with an ERV, and possibly a whole house dehumidifier would be a true performance upgrade on your HVAC.
Wood Windows does not make an "extremely efficient" window, Triple, or Quad pane glass with multiple seals is where you need to get your window performance.
A Word of Caution on your vaulted ceiling insulation: When you foam the roof-line, make sure use at least 2" of Closed cell foam on the roof-line before switching to open cell foam. Open Cell will not provide vapor control and have condensation build up on the bottom of the roof sheathing. Exterior insulation and a quality house-wrap are also essential to a more efficient build.
Don't expect much from a person who is so blinkered on Tesla solar and batteries, making a video on how they are not available, and abandoning the concept altogether.
At least I learned that only Tesla makes solar panels and batteries....
He snapped with the facts
This is so true... however was the ac really in an unconditioned space? But yeah... so many things could have been done to make this place more efficient but at a higher cost... funny how the people pushing $$$$$$$ ev's won't cough up the money when it is not for something they want...
@@mattlane2282 it's harder to show off some non Tesla brand batteries. Worse still you can't drive it around to further show it off.
@@TsLeng Not even talking about that talking about going with a smaller home... spray foam, t studs, zip r, etc...
Why are all houses in the USA constructed as a theater decor piece? Everything is made of wood.
Jan Wytze fast and cheap
Wood is a really good material for construction. It's often better than concrete or steel when comparing strength to cost, and it tends to be better for the environment. What are buildings made of in your country?
In an earthquake prone area, wood is one of the best materials to use. It can give without collapsing like brick and block, and is a lot cheaper to build with.
But using wood is chaos when come to fire.
Wong Ling Shen Wood that is used in building homes are usually always has some sort of protective coating to help protect the home from burning.
You can get normal solar panels. You don’t need “Tesla” panels.
the thing is he doesnt want normal solar panels he want the tesla solar ROOF. which is actual rooftiles that has the capability of capturing the suns energy like a solar panel. It looks just a lot nicer than a big chunky solar panel.
@@bonnie_rabbit749 maybe, so but you can still do it so he's not helping anyone, is, he
Alain - Conventional Solar is NOT as Efficient as TESLA Glass Roof Tiles.
TESLA actually sells Conventional solar as well for Customers with a Roof that's less than 20 years old.
However, if your Roof need replacing anyways , the TESLA Glass Roof tiles are a no Brainer.
you can get TESLA solar for $100 down now, no reason NOT to get it.
@@markplott4820 if its not as efficient, the why are large scale solar not tesla tiles.
@@Robert-cu9bm - TESLA has a Solar calculator online. you can easily figure the Correct size you need and weither Conventional or Solar tiles would be best.
either way , no matter the size you can get TESLA solar for just $100/down.
He talks like everybody has the money he has ....
Jose Civile fr
That's nice because he talks to people on the same level.
@@darryldee467 Right? You can't win with some ppl. If he were to speak assuming you can't afford the things he can, then he'd say "he talks down to ppl"...
Like to know this guys income.. what major company does he own ~ or is he a lucky lotto winner
Themachinewon he’s a TH-camd with millions of subscribers multiple channels and billions of views... that mighttttt be how he’s rich
This house is made from matchsticks lol
They are called studs. Either 2 by 4s (interior) or 2 by 6s exterior.
yep a American ego fool
kim okla who?
Colin K Europeans like to call Americans super arrogant and then proceed to act arrogant it’s really funny to watch
99% of the houses in America are built that way.
30-50% cheaper than Europeans. 50-80% faster.
One area the Europeans are better?
SHELF LIFE.
American houses only last 50-75 years average.
The only solar powered device I have is my calculator.
I have solar pathway lights. I'm saving the planet one light at a time!
I don't even have that 😂
Gabriel lopez dead 🤣🤣
Only one I got is vitamin D
@@stevenvictx me too
" We wanted energy efficient windows so we went wood"
Europe please help this guy understand 🙏
Wood takes way less energy to burn away into ashes in case of a fire, pretty efficient if you ask me! Oh wait.
David, as a Norwegian I disagree. Wood insulates better than stone. When I travel around in Europe, I notice brick houses and stone houses in the rest of Europe are significantly colder than Norwegian wooden houses.
Not to mention wood is a wonderful material. When you build your house out of wood, you have permanently captured CO2 in your walls.
More houses, building etc should be built from wood, not less.
Having said that, American houses don't seem all that well insulated. But that seems to be because they make rather thin walls, don't use triple glazed windows, don't insulate the ground level etc.
@@erikengheim1106 Well that's not true. Stone/brick holds heat significantly better, and I mean significantly! So once you bring a house to the desired temperature, it will remain for much longer and require less energy to maintain that temperature.
@@NickLiang Heat capacity and insulation is not the same thing!
Stone/brick acts as a temperature moderator not as an insulator.
If you have massive blocks of stone/brick which are cold, then you will have to spend a lot of energy to heat up that stone.
You don't have that problem with wood. A cold wooden house that is well insulated will heat up much quicker.
However stone is quite smart in hot climates, because it will take time for the sun to heat up the stone. That will keep you cool for longer. However once the stone has gotten heated up you got the benefit that the stone can radiate that heat back into the house during night time to avoid that it get too cold.
This is a problem we have in Norway. Our well insulated houses with little stone has basically no heat capacity. Thus the houses can heat up quite a lot in summer, due to our large windows letting in the heat from the sun.
I am always impressed by how cool houses in southern countries are inside even without air conditioning.
However we do use the heat capacity of stone in some instances. We have these special types of wood burning ovens with a lot of stone around. They burn hot, and then transfer the heat to the stone around them. This is a nice concept because you avoid getting a dramatic increase in temperature. The stone from the oven can then radiate out heat over a long time and give a moderate comfortable temperature over a long time period.
If you're looking at those window sizes, the frame material doesn't make much difference. Yes, it is correct that a wood frame is slightly better at insulating than a plastic frame but the main part of the energy goes directly through the glass. So upgrading from a 3-layer window to a 4-layer windows would make much more sense imho.
And Bill Gates is spot on about batteries being too expensive.
He's amazing. Instant response and spot on with current and valid facts included, I know because I'm interested in the subject. He reads a lot!
Yeah, I didn't think that he seemed tripped up by the question, he seemed to be very knowledgeable about the subject. He has a lot of the same concerns as many experts. Most battery banks cost a ridiculous amount of money and only last up to 10 years. You won't recoup the cost, as they currently are.
Bill is correct and the host doesn't understand solars place in the world or how to use it. You would never charge a battery with another battery, that's elementary. You bank credits with your utility and charge cars from the grid ALWAYS. This guy would need 20 Powerwalls for this house, not an exaggeration. Unfortunately this American Rothchild can afford it.
House batteries will be leap-frogged anyway. Powerwalls are 13.3kW, cars are 90-100kW. When your home and your car is plugged in IT can be the battery for your house. Your welcome.
I was dying laughing because he was basically trying to imply that he and his son were smarter than Bill Gates and were more knowledgable than him on this subject. 😂
funny thats your reference !! think about the evolution of car batteries to the evolution of window operating system.. prices will fall it just takes time
Nice video! I just got a note from my certified installer of Powerwalls in Charlotte NC, but they are asking $11,000 per unit installed. This is a lot more than $7,800. This is not practical price yet. If it drops below $10,000 fully installed, then maybe I will do that. In my area, you can get powerwall, but not Tesla solar. I ended up installing SunPower panels which are more efficient (23%) compared to Tesla panels under (21%). Take a look at SunPower with Solaredge inverter and LG chem batteries. They will do what you are looking to do anywhere in the country with local solar installer.
Awesome panel, the best one we use them when the project have reduced space, I'm a professional installer and can tell you that there are a lot of better options than Tesla powerwalls
DO NOT use a Tesla certified installer, they are NOT needed. Just hire a local solar installer, who installs back-up home battery systems, they will charge far, far less and do the exact same job. Tesla is charging a premium because they know they can get it from so many suckers out there. I've installed solar and battery back-up systems and they're pretty easy. The Powerwall is not unique, it has a positive and a negative connector, just like all other batteries.
@@RussellFineArt you're really wrong, the Tesla battery don't have a positive or negative terminal, it is installed on what we call an AC coupling where everything is Alternate current when the DC is direct current, for your comment I can tell you have installed something in your house but Tesla is different there is no DC connectors, however they don't sell the battery if there is nobody certified by Tesla for the exactly same reason of your comment.
@@miguelito2796 I've designed and sold battery back-up systems for many years and am very familiar with them. I've worked as an electrician, installing solar panels, distributed wind turbines, which I also installed both on my house and property and yes, the Tesla Powerwall has both a positive and negative terminal, along with a ground terminal and communications terminal to connect to. And yes, the Powerwall is designed to be wired in an AC coupled system, I'm very familiar with them but that does not turn the battery into an AC system, the battery/Powerwall is still DC and is wired from the battery to an AC coupled inverter to invert the power from DC to AC. The inverter makes the system AC, from inverter to the service panel but the battery stays DC. And no, Tesla does not require a Tesla certified installer to install the system before someone buys one as numerous electricians, who are not Tesla certified, have installed the Powerwall in the U.K., Australia, Germany and many other parts of the world where there are no Tesla certified technicians. It's an option. If you can find a battery without positive and negative terminals, I'd like to see it. Cheers
“I think Bill is a really smart guy” 🤣🤣 that’s the validation he needs
sad state of FOOLISH YOUTH in USA
Thats why we are making DIY Powerwalls, we still can't buy them.
u da man jehugarcia!! keep it up!! been watching your videos for a while now.
you okay over there? I have 2........ some guy here on youtube has 6. and didn't get solar through tesla or get them with his Solar city he purchased and installed them
@@JuanCarlosTapia Anything Jehu makes is cool af. Informative as well. H2 powered by electric. Hotrod? Sounds legit....
DIY Powerwalls FTW!
I work at a material handling company, we sell batteries, forklifts, racking, chargers used and new, refurbished batteries and resell them. I work on the batteries and chargers, mainly reconditioning neglected batteries. If I had $10k to spend I'd consider buying a refurb industrial lead acid battery, a new charger that's good for stationary power, and an inverter. I'd get a nice almost at cost price, but it's still a lot of money.
Why not get a normal solar panel system from a different company?
Tom Foolery tesla, apple and starbucks fans shall never betray their companies
Because the other solar panels are ugly
@@ternietorrinque6348 oh noh they are so ugly😫😤🤢🤢 that's like really important!!!1!1!
Maybe they are waiting for tesla to come to his area
@@timmontanus4311 It's someone's taste in how somebody wants their house to look. If they wanna spend extra or wait longer for a product, let them be. Don't be so toxic.
So the video *should* be called "Why We're Not Getting *ANY* Solar."
And the answer is: because your electricity rates are dirt cheap.
Because if he can't get the coolest solar he doesn't really care.
cheap now but how abought in 15 years?
Bill Gates was surprisingly right about the fact that as of now batteries are much more expensive than the grid. I use LiFePO4 for energy storage (best in therms of cost amortization) and still around $0.2/kWh for the battery amortization alone (that is DIY so just the price of the cells). The power wall best case scenario (a bit idealistic) is $0.4/kWh
So for grid connected houses (I'm fully offgrid) grid connected solar PV is great but not battery storage.
Tesla quoted $70k for a solar roof.
My electric bill is 90 bucks a month.
Lol that’s the other problem with solar. It’s way too expensive 😂
Mine is $7 🤷
They quoted me $98k for a 2400 sq foot house. My bill averages around $125 a month. So it'll never pay itself back even if the roof lasted over 100 years.
How much does your roof tileing cost???
Cause you replace that as well, so you can not just consider the electricity bill.
@@sebastianmuller1210 Middle of the range estimate for a concrete tile roof installed is approximately is $22,500 for a roof my size in my area. So that would save me $75k that I could then put in an index fund and earn on the low range a 7% return. If I leave that $75k in an index fund for the entire 50 year life of the roof, that's $2.1M of returns on the original $75k principal. Saving $125 a month after putting $98k down would never get me close to that.
This episode should be called, what's inside our bank account?
Half a million dollars in debt.
Cislord SoyBlue Uh no
Cislord SoyBlue That House is probably 1.5 mil $ after my estimates.500.000 will only get you a third of what they have showcased
@@benjaminsagau wtf it's made of chipwood though why us it so expensive
@@DarientheG correction,i saw i a differite video someone comenting that the actual price is 2.5 mil where 500 k was the land itself.As showecased at the house show
Imagine having enough money to buy a mansion just from cutting stuff in half
Imagine having enough money to buy stuff just to cut it in half.
From your kids TH-cam project. Then complaining that you can't use your $5500 discount because you already have three Teslas, but they better get you your power wall now.
It’s not really a mansion
I love to see how American houses are build.
I live in Germany and our outside wall is about 15 inches thick Stone and insulation and our windows have a rollable aluminum shield at the outside to insulate and protect the glass.
But our house is also build to stay a much longer time, it is about 18 years old and is very modern compared to most others our old house was over 100 years old and there are still people living in it today.
@@bigbadbear2962
Yes in most of Europe it's normal but in America it's by far more common to build your own house.
And the construction is often simple and cost effective.
In Germany and most of Europe a house as big as this would only be build by extremely rich people
This guy is so out of touch with reality!!!
Most Americans are...
Cant blame him. He lives a different life
When ?
@@Ant-sn4rc thank you for not straight up bashing him because he has money. I'm sure a lot of us would behave like this if we had his wealth
Agreed 110%
News Reporter: “Lincoln how many famous characters have you met/spoken to in your lifetime?”
Lincoln: “Yes”
judging by the look if the house from the air it is 9-12 times larger than mine
the boi its prob like 4 times for me 🤷♀️
Your house is like 500 sq.ft? That house is probably about 4,500 to 5,000 sq.ft. The garage looks like it is oversized, maybe a 6 car garage from the previous video, which would be about 1,500 sq.ft (not counted sq.ft), the pool house/office maybe 500-700 sq.ft also. The main house looks to be between 4,000 to 5,000 sq.ft, it also has a larger footprint because it's a ranch. It could be as high as 6,000 sq.ft but probably not.
The air is more expensive than mines
Want’s the house to be energy efficient
Uses black roof tiles in a hot climate
NOT
Yea lol you want to see energy efficiency look at my videos this house is an efficiency joke
@@SolarTechFL nice house
surfie007 his wife probably like the dark ones thought they look nice😂
Best energy saving of all DONT HAVE A FRIGGIN MANSION get a simple house......
Exactly!!
He has the money for it, I see no reason. He wants to be a bit more green, so let him.
6c per KWH that half of national average solar would never pay for itself in that area.
I wonder what the cost in efficiency is for the black roof tiles over say white.
Overthinking bit more green by destroying half a forest for 1 house he much likely gonna live in only for a dcade maybe!? Yep, totally ecological and green 🙄 He himself said he may sell it one day and move elsewhere.
Bill is 100% correct about the storage and life in the batteries, if he wasn't correct then there wouldn't be companies looking at technologies like magnesium-ion, your tesla cars would be able to go more than 300 miles without a charge, charge times would be as fast as a fill up at the gas station, batteries would be able to be reliably used for more than the typical 3 years (300-500 charge cycles).
Tbh they should be replaceable like old androids
Why do people in USA build a house with so thin wood??? You should build with bricks with 15 inch thick walls before the insulation... Even my garden house doesn't looks like this house.
You should come to Switzerland and take a look how we build here..
Yeah wooden houses are safer during earthquakes that’s why
Our building codes are set up so houses become obsolete in 50 or fewer years....
yeah same why they build houses with cardboard???
Maybe you could explain why we need 15inch thick brick walls... when we can just have... a frame with siding... that brick may delay tempture shift for a while but... in winter it's 15 inches of cold... and in summer its 15 inch of hot... also... WE HAVE TONS OF WOOD HERE
thats the reason why our houses are so much bigger than yours.
Ground mount system if you go solar is the way to go, less stress on the pretty new roof, and easier to maintain, clean and trouble shoot on the ground.
As if everyone has the room for that or want that in their garden...
Solution: become a certified installer yourself. That can't deny you then.
Doug Beckinsale they only certify in certain city’s
instead of waiting for tesla get regular solar panels this is a no brainer cheaper then tesla and still solar. i dont get why you are stuck on tesla solar stuff when you can still do the same thing cheaper with regular solar panels can you explain this in a reply or another video?
He’s want Tesla solar panels, so it can go with the eco system
@@mohammedalqudah8379 ecosystem what are you talking about this is electricity...
@@jojodroid31 phones and computers are electronics, runs on electricity. Doesn't stop companies like Apple creating and restricting their ecosystem does it?
@@AQHackAQ two different things wtf
Tesla needs to fix this!
Yeah! Also, you really need to get verified mate. You deserve it.
Spray foam encapsulation also adds value to your house when you sell
It's so easy to spray insulation but in the uk it's difficult to pass fire regulations with it. It goes up in seconds
I'm from Latvia and this house is like wearing t-shirt in - 20 °C
lol
They’re in a desert
Geo thermal heating and cooling is the way to go. I installed it at my house and it can be up to 400 % efficient.
i've never even heard of geo thermal things. i live in a hot country so the cooling part is what attracts me. need to check it out.
Exactly! Idk why so many people are on the solar train when we are all standing on a hot ball of Fire that we can tap into which is way more efficient and available 24 hours a day lol.
That is against the laws of physics
Energy can't be created but can change forms
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know it is a joke btw
@@myra961 Geo uses the ground temperature, it works really well.
@@imaginesagi lol yes
Power storage is still expensive man just because you're privileged doesn't mean that battery storage is cheap. Bill understands this that's why it must be 5 times cheaper and have higher capacity. He knows this because he's deeply invested in battery companies... It has to be cheaper and more convenient than energy from the standard grid. Also Bill regularly stutters nothing unusual
This channel shouldn’t be what’s inside it should be everything about a Tesla
Where I come from, wood burns, so we don’t use wood. 👍
And it also rots...
Michael Chen America builds houses really fast and cheap to “boost” the economy. Government also encourages homes built in flood plans so they get destroyed and than built back again
Where I come from, brick collapses in earthquakes, so we don't use brick (or stone).
Korakys I don’t like brick either, that is why i don’t use them. Second where I come from there have never been earthquakes lmao
Right... cause what you use has no flaws right?
Well, If you choose good wood the outher wood dosent rott for 80+ years. Then its also easy to change it. The inner wood if done right shuoldnt root for hundreds of years if taken care off.
Woooow, you must be so proud to have a son asking such critical question... Wonderful story...
People complain about the extremely thin studs, but it's important to keep in mind that our EU houses are built to support a lot of snow and extremely cold winters.
Do you guys not use roof rakes to remove mass amounts of snow off the roof?
He is not getting it, because the waiting line is to long.
Get *regular solar panels* then !
He can actually get solar shingles/tiles & home batteries from other companies that make them. Tesla didn't invent them and they aren't the only ones who make them. I'm amazed that he didn't do the research into other companies that actually do these.
Solar roofs/ shingles:
arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/five-solar-roof-shingles-that-arent-from-tesla/
Home batteries:
www.businessinsider.com/rechargeable-battery-options-compete-tesla-2017-5
@@cherylynl.tompkins7049 Most of the Tesla fanboys know nothing about solar. This video is just irritating....
@@clintelawson Sooooooo true, Clint. I stopped watching anything by this guy after seeing this video and hearing how little he truly knows. Very irritating inded!
@@cherylynl.tompkins7049 These people worship all of Tesla like no other
This framing job would have been a great showcase for insulated studs.
I install solar for a living you should look into LG and solar edge
will you buy a model Y with the 5500 off?
He could also buy a Tesla and then sell it to someone for 5500 less, who couldn't buy one without a rebate.
Bumi LP but if he bought one to sell it would then be used which takes more than $5500 off of the resale value
Didn't he put a down payment on a y already?
The 5500 off will expire after 12 months
@@Forexyz name an example where they can invest in?
that is too funny to give you $5,500 credit to a car.
In other words, your reward can only be claimed if you pay $35K and up.
No spank you!
That roof looks awesome, btw.
He can sell it tho?
@@slavenrasic2204 Of course one can sell it. The issue is that Tesla won't do what they say they do and the alternative involves them getting more revenue and sales. If I remember right he, supposedly, still wouldn't be allowed his power wall even if he got a certified installed to travel to him. It was a flat out no. If he took this deal and sold the car he is still rewarding their bad and inflexible behavior.
incorrect white roof is much more effective.
We just got 37.7 KW of solar installed at our house with 3 powerwalls, we love it!
Built the house out of concrete it's way cooler in the summer and does not get as cool in the winter
Felix Prescher might cost only $200,000 .
@@ghengisnghe No, me and my family built a beautiful home with concrete and bricks and it cost us 100k
not any concrete but HEMPcrete! As hemp grows it sequesters carbon and helps the soil. . How many building materials do that while being produced?
Elin Musk after watching this video: Hold my charger....
I think Bill is right ... the specific energy of current Batts aren't high enough yet.
Pov: Everyone came here since he got Tesla Solar panels
My guyyy
nice edit 😂 and I love those house updates! it all comes together so quickly... excited for the smart home stuff
1 year later:
We got Tesla solar
Wow, the US has a LOT to learn from European houses as regards energy efficiency. I think this house is less insulated than an average garden shed in Europe I'd say...
Well Mr. Euro elite - what's the R value of your garden shed? Let's talk R values and not speculation. You have to meet minimum R value for walls and ceilings (dependent upon climate zone) - no one penalizes you for increasing the R value - that's up to the person building the house.
Question, isn’t a black roof tile not as efficient as a lighter roof tile? Black being heat absorbing rather than heat rejecting?
You're correct. However, the radiant barrier sheeting they are using is 97% reflective and will do more for cooling the home in the summer (and keeping it warm in the winter) than the color of the roof will. The color of a roof will affect attic temperatures by 5 to 10 degrees. The radiant barrier will decrease attic temperatures up to 30 degrees. It will also provide more warmth in the winter. It really doesn't matter what color your roof is if you're using a radiant barrier. ecochiefproducts.com
@@natelee3643 Oh that's interesting, thanks for explaining that!
I like how Bill treats the kid like a normal person with a genuine question instead of laughing at him in a "aww how cute" kinda way.
Buy a model 3 and give it to Lincoln when he can drive
Mase 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
You guys should just get a model 3 performance with 5500 dollar discount
Bradley's Car Reviews no they should sell them all and buy the upcoming Tesla roadster
FlatBreadSub he already has the new roadster ordered
@@JulzOGLoc in fact he has enough refurral codes for the roadster so he gets his one for free
The model 3 performance performs less than a model S p100d. The reason they went for another model x was because they will get the roadster for free anyway which will be obviously the new fastest Tesla after the S p100d
He should get the s p100d well
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Haven't seen a single house made of wood here in India!
@@user-dr2pg8fk2i Is wood a better material for building a house than brick and concrete?
Early car for Lincoln
Give me that fourth Tesla. My dream cars that i never could afford.
For better energy efficiency lookup Spray Caulk Air Sealing or Misting
Happy for you, how exciting! It must be cool being a kid learning how a house is built from the ground up. Awesome your son met with Mr Gates too!
My crazy wife says she wants a spiral slide put in our next 2 story house!
Steve lol, get to work Steve
Couple of guidelines if you want to build your house energy efficient and environmentally friendly:
1. Use windows with triple thermopane glazing.
2. If you care for the environment, the spray foam is the worst insulation from the stand point of recycleability and embodied energy (energy required to produce 1kg of insulation). In that regard - rock wool insulation is way better option.
3. I hope your HVAC comes with recuperation (heat recovery system).
Tesla: “we are going to be the pushing edge of innovation!”
Also Tesla: *dodgy as hell towards customers and loyalists*
Their problem is mostly one of over-expansion. The problem is they simply don't have enough certified techs and enough throughput in their Gigavolt plant to both do powerwalls and to make their Model 3 numbers, since they all come out of the same plant. They've expanded as fast as they could, and it still isn't fast enough.
It’s growing pains
@@BirdTurdMemes You mean "growing pangs?" The word pain is a misinterpretation of pangs. I know you feel pain, but it's not the correct word choice
Literally if you tweet at Elon musk he will prob be like I’ll make it work
Seriously though.
Your wife didn’t look at all disappointed when you didn’t fall! She must really adore you in spite of the over-the-top electronics being built into your new home. You’re lucky. It took me three marriages and three divorces to get one that felt that way!
Have JRE build custom solar panels for you!
Just get a Tesla Powerwall and cut it in half, who needs an installer for that?
Lipo batteries, get sliced, boom.
well this video is two years old but I would say take delivery of your powerwall, then look for an installer later. BTW mine was backordered for 18 months just getting it installed now
A few years ago, it was Powerwall v1. The Powerwall v2 today is double capacity. Bill’s statement was true at the time.
Who is watching this 5 months later and like “USE THE MONEY ON THE TESLA TRUCK”
It would have expired by then
Have you considered using solar panels to power your home & charge your Teslas? Using your Teslas effectively like power walls? Check out H2V and V2H (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid). A viable option where you are? Good luck with your project and may you tread lightly 🌍 🙏
“Energy efficiency” lol nice vaulted ceilings
But Tesla is not the only producer of lithium energy storage for homes?
Yet the MOST COST EFFECTIVE NOW
You guys really are the best candidates for down sizing.
Wow! As far as I know, I was the only one that asked this exact question in your last "house video". So excited that you addressed it. Thanks. Haven't seen the video yet.
Edit: I was wrong! Lol
Govindaraj D sad man
@@velocity5425 lol
Energy conservation=using jcb as stairs #logic
If anyone is building or re-roofing their home, I work for a company called Eco Chief and we manufacture energy effecient roofing underlayment. It's very similar to the radiant barrier (shiny stuff) you saw on the inside of Dan's home. Our website is ecochiefproducts.com, ask your local contractor about it. Best way to save energy!
Spray foam is way better. It insulates so much more and bug can’t get through it. My dad has it and his ac bill is very very low.
And if you put in the walls it'll make the house more structurally sound.
@W N I watched news articles about how bad the are for health. It also has to be done in a certain standard. It's also hard to remove those insulation if I remember right to remove those sprayed insulation from the roof u gotta take the roof of.
It also looks painful for electrician to do upgrades on later on the years
@Robert Blackford I don't think there are many companies that use formaldehyde blowing agents these days. Certainly not in the home construction industry.
In India building with Bricks cement and concrete roofs and pillars is far cheeper than building with wood
Those who have wooden interiors are super rich.
Where as in USA if you build with bricks you are super rich lol
Wth? Rich people don't use bricks for building. Bricks are only used for aesthetic
JGirDesu I am taking about india and other Asian and even European countries
You don't just get solar to save money. You live in a very sunny area. Most of your power does not come from renewable sources. For me it would be a no-brainer, especially if you drive electric cars as much as your family does. You don't have to have Tesla solar of course, you can just get (cheaper) solar panels and you're set.
Sell one tesla and buy it back
Oh my Lord please be joking 😂
SERIOUSLY?? If not Tesla, then there is no solar energy? 🙄🙄
DUDE import solar cells and converter from China, and ask Lincoln to do some wiring, and there you get it all for less than 1500$s.
Kketansa Art not anymore, since your president create a tax on anything from China!
@@fabulously695 yea that 25% tax thingy is really a bad idea
yuqi teoh why
I think Bill Gates was talking about making batteries like the PowerWall cheap and accessible enough for everyone as a standard. If you already have the correct circumstances then it’s probably cheaper. But most people don’t have the money for solar panels or $5k batteries. So I think that’s what Bill Gates was saying.
Your bg music is too loud man. Which headphones do you use when editing?
A laptop speaker.