Reinventing America's Electricity System - Dr. Frank O'Sullivan, MITEI

[@gregcollins3404]

I'm already installing residential solar in Arizona for less than $2.40/watt. Solar panel pricing is about 50cents/watt wholesale. Can we please adopt the Vermont model of no permitting required for residential solar? I could cut my prices so much if we could dispense with much of the red tape. I'm licensed, degreed, bonded, insured, trained, and certified. If we could just sell a customer on Wednesday and then go install it on Friday, everyone could afford solar on their roof.

[@ashnur]

you are not just licensed, degreed, bonded, insured, trained and certified but also a great deal ignorant of what the price actually represents, how scalable the technology is, how green it is, how much does it matter overall (hint: not very much). you can't sell yourself out of this problem.

[@ashnur]

@kirk mcloren anyone can disagree with anything, that's not a problem, try disagreeing and adding to the conversation. Or, try to sell yourself out of this problem, if you think it's possible.

[@myphonyaccount]

Behaviors - in California if you charge between 9am and 3pm it's cheap, mostly solar and doesn't hurt grid load. Same with 11pm to 5am (mostly fossil). Just avoid the morning and evening peaks. CAISO website click "demand" and "supply" notice the solar peak matches the net demand dip.

[@catalindochitoiu9599]

Why wasn't this scheduled on March 17th?

Amazing

[@MuhdZein]

American have many resources of electrical power plant and make economist price of electrical energy / watt. Democracy makes all of power plant resources can operation together and all of industrial growth rapidly . Just only how to manage sll of power plant resources can operate together.

[@wedgeantilles7731]

Excuse me, I believe something may have been lost in translation. But if I understand, you are saying that the U.S. has the potential to begin change. I hope your faith will be well placed! ❤

[@brandoYT]

No permits should be required - UNTIL 50% market penetration - then revisit and see if a NEED for permits (no just income for gov.) Feed in tariffs should be retail price - everyone already pays connection fees everyone should pay the same ENCOURAGE renewables - let feed in tariff = highest utility cost, this is to encourage storage and shut down of fossil fuel & Nukes (adjusted annually) pay in tariffs might come down after 50% market penetration -$0.01 per year until lowest utility production costs (no gaming - no considering buying on open market wind/solar projects, you get the idea) side note: Frank is pro Nuke. Interesting to see what he thinks after the next Fukushima - just a matter of time, right? It may happen in US. AND no one can understand their electric bill - and that is planned - the Utility doesn't want you to understand your bill/use.

[@Exo594-b5v]

Fukushima had warnings, plenty of them. Not only was that plant outdated, but it was also was build in a known flood area. And the FIRST nuclear incident took place 7 years before Chernobyl INSIDE the United States. You ever hear about Three Mile Island? That plant had a full meltdown, and the concrete silo kept everything sealed and contained. The whole reason for that meltdown was due to shitty alarm systems and needlessly obfuscated user interfaces and controls. Nuclear Fissile power can be done safely, and safeguards can be put in place. We know this, we know how to make safe plants. Nobody wants to fund renovations or new plants, and that is a damn shame.

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[@wedgeantilles7731]

I know it's low hanging fruit, but that guy at 1:32:35 sounds so jaded. People who are right make a majority? I'm not certain he understands how a democratic republic operates... I'm just concerned- loving concern.

[@robertcoutts926]

He was 100% correct, the association with climate change is irrelevant to the discussion and only virtue signaling to the room. The real snob in the room was the moderator who couldn't help assert his ignorance and lack of respect. I was ashamed for him.

[@cindytepper8878]

One EMP from the sun or an enemy, and all those solar panels are nothing but toxic waste

[@speculawyer]

1) They are not very toxic. 2) EMP would wipe out conventional generation too. 3) EMP would be from a nuclear weapon so you already have much bigger problems. 4) Why do people that don't know what they are talking about talk so much?