Love how Project Solar is simplifying solar with a quick process, very impressive! ⚡👏

Factorio music... the soundtrack to getting no sleep

8:08 That laminator is huge. Everything's bigger in Texas

You can learn more about Alex and his projects here: www.honnoldfoundation.org/

I think I recall him mentioning donating a bunch of his income during the Free Solo documentary, what a guy.

Nuclear has to be the future

Solar can not provide the energy demand of the Ai/ iot, blockchain, XR/AR/VR future. Make Solar Great Again. Solar industry needs low energy costs to deploy. It needs low interest rates, and this administration is failing.

Jigar Shah is back!

Real great recap! Awesome!

Was Enphase not at the conference? Zero mention. I’m wondering who sponsors each participant in this panel. Let’s keep things impartial

The solar dream team ☀️

Try a question like: what is the average origination fee on a residential system? Or....what is the average price per watt? Throw a winger in there: what will all the SunPower customers do now with no warranty or recourse?

This panel was superb. Solarboi's segment was great as well

It's strange that they didn't talk about South Australia where they have one of the highest penetrations of home generation in the world. Question for ... anyone .... I can't put solar anywhere in my yard because of trees. I ain't gonna get rid of the trees. Does it make financial sense to get a modular battery system anyway? I don't care that much about backup power but I would love to be able to do the price arbitrage with the battery. I live in Colorado where an VPP is going to be available in February 2025. I also have a Tesla, and that might be the main reason to hold off on buying a battery because perhaps Tesla will eventually allow VTG.

They call it the Sunshine State for a reason

Pretty easy to build a substation that size in 6 months.

I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of The BESS Book. Swetha and Drew's insights into utility-scale energy storage perfectly align with my research interests. As I conclude my Master's in Battery Technologies next semester, I'm particularly interested in exploring their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing this critical technology. I appreciate their contributions to the field and look forward to gaining valuable knowledge from their expertise. Thank you to Suncast Media for hosting this interview. Best regards from Chile!

Congratulations❗️Great vision 🌎 🌺

Opening introduction mentioned _telling better stories_ ... and then spends most of the time after that throwing out jargon after jargon.

Drill baby drill. Hydrogen, nuclear

It's a great concept. Is there a deposit system to return pallets to vendors? How are they reused by overseas manufacturers?

What's the problem here they are biodegradable (wood) 😂

Gotta spend environment to save environment

Which pallets are only used once? Is this a US thing cause I've never seen that over here.

That sounds like a very simple problem to fix. They are timber, recycle them, they can be shredded and used to make OSB and such

Love these in person interviews 😉

There's a lot that goes into community solar behind the scenes!

Is this anything like the NFL , State Farm, and Aaron Rodger's Discount Double Check ? :)

That Instaflash solution seems pretty impressive. Crazy that it needs to exist, but it solves the problem of people forgetting how to do their job I guess

At the end of the day you still have hole in your roof.

Still have a hole going through all the layers, you've sealed to the top shingle but a little damage to the shingle above will now have a path into the roof.

🤣 No amount of innovation will change the fact that environmental energies are BOTH of low energy density AND unpredictably intermittent and highly seasonal. As a result they require VAST amounts of resources to harvest (which is another way of saying non-sustainable and expensive), VAST amount of resources in system costs (grid build out, backup power generation) and VAST amounts of resources for energy storage along with MASSIVE conversion losses. The EROI (Energy Return On Investment (Invested Energy)) is abysmally low. The EROIEI (Energy Return On Invested Environmental Impact) is atrocious. The only reasons “renewables” seem cheap: system costs are externalized, there are massive government subsidies, they are produced with cheap fossil energy (try e.g. the cost of producing solar panels only with solar, including industrial levels of energy storage to keep production going 24x7x365!), and there are still plenty of conventional energy sources to support the grid when renewables fail. Cost will massively increase as renewables go above 10-20% of the grid (depending on the location and type of renewables). A look here shows where the journey must go: energy.glex.no/footprint Note: renewables look better there than they should, because they are measured in the current context where they are supported by conventional power generation, so all the extra system costs a further expansion would entail are externalized. Similarly, nuclear is going to look better in reality, because this doesn’t account for possible runtime extensions (which would make it the cheapest energy), nor for new and more efficient reactor types. #TheFutureIsNuclear

No shit, we live on a stone

That "stone age" platitude became popular with peak-oil deniers in the industry, and now others are using it way too often. And importantly for the topic here: *we never stopped using stones.* We just added metal. Go look at your structures, look at your roads. Stones are involved everywhere. Same with fossil fuels.

Michael is a great guest ☀

pls delete the silly subtitles!!

Holy grail 🤣

Reality matters.

Thats cool its like a star wars droid

SLAM is still an issue! (simultaneous location and mapping). and some of this goes back to Shakey at Stanford!

Interrupt the guest less. Good interview!

Looks like WALL-E

Fact: you cannot eat money. Fact: do you have any inkling what a rising ocean level will do? How much it will cost, how many people get displaced, what wars it’ll start, how it is going to hurt food supplies, …? These are the facts you should care about, not just that your 3 boxes of proprietary printer ink cartridges cost a fortune.

Have you switched from Gas to Electric or Induction? What's been your experience?

Wishful thinking 😂

Quit comparing to smoking as a former smoker I say you are full of shit!

Induction is unaffordable, you have to match the pan size to the size of the induction ring. Maybe with time cost will make it competitive. A single researcher said a bad thing about gas that make you look like a lying fool roflol.