The U.S.'s Energy Future Is Already Here

[@hellhound1389]

I have solar panels and a wind turbine on my business with a wall of batteries and a natural gas generator for emergency. I usually get a credit on my energy bill that I apply to my home energy costs. This summer I installed an electric heat pump water heater. A heat pump on my furnace. It's still a natural gas furnace but it only comes on when necessary. I switched to a conduction stove. I put in a bank of batteries and a natural gas generator. Then put an array of solar panels on the roof of the porch and garage plus my mother's house in back. Pretty soon I'll be getting a check from the utility company instead of me paying them. It'll probably take a year before I recover the initial cost but it'll make me money in the end

[@CarbonRobloxide]

Yay solar panels and wind turbines!

[@Futurestartsnow-m6n]

A leader that will not let America stay behind the race for the economy of the future that is a strong leader

[@beefmaster4]

As we are always working on the problems, its nice to take a step back and appreciate the positives for a moment. Thank you for the nice short video.

[@tenofivelips]

Solar powers the municipalities, schools, and street lights in my town. I'm surrounded by EVs and solar powered homes, too.

[@truthache8560]

Funny how you won’t even list the state…

[@tenofivelips]

@@truthache8560 Yeah, I didn't write the name of my state on the internet. Is that really funny to you?

[@truthache8560]

@@tenofivelips No, it’s just that when you say things without even a general location, you sound like a liar. Is there a sister town? One anyway similar to what you are describing?

[@tenofivelips]

@truthache8560 Why would I lie?

[@DaleMeese]

​@truthache8560 Her town must have received one of the 8 EV charginging stations that cost 7.8 billion. I live in Utah and have to get going, kids want to go outside to the beach (Arctic ice has melted as they said and now I have beach front property)

[@idied2]

more people using wind and solar for their homes will help. however, solar is most effecting in the summer and wind...needs wind....but it shouldn't stop people from using them :D

[@beefmaster4]

Solar can also work well with clouds (too much heat can be a negative), all depends on location. They also have solar panels that can convert energy from rain too. And wind converters designed for slow winds. Tech is always improving.

[@idied2]

@@beefmaster4 it's why I bought portable panels. To learn limitations and to better understand it

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Unfortunately this stat is incorrect. 30% of electricity came from renewables. Electricity is only part of energy. For all energy it's only 14% from renewables, with another 4% from nuclear.

[@gig2734]

30% of what? Do you mean energy through electricity, or total energy with combustion driving mechanical work? 30% of electricity is rightly an important development, but just calling it energy is misleading.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Yes it's 30% of electricity. For all energy it's only 14%. Incorrect to say energy.

[@JamesFox1]

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[@nicklang7670]

Yah, I do not believe 30 percent of our energy comes from renewables. Products that use renewable energy are much more efficient than products that do not use renewables. Meaning the products that do not use renewables waste more energy and have a higher cost and for their businesses have a higher profit. Conservatives in the past cared about energy efficiency now it only means less money to them. Using less money was a good thing but now private investors make gains off of inflation.

[@Weareallequal273]

Why worry about what you "believe"? Look it up for yourself, like she did

[@anthonymorris5084]

*"Yah, I do not believe 30 percent of our energy comes from renewables."* It doesn't. She's inflating the numbers because she's including hydro which we've always had.

[@Weareallequal273]

@@anthonymorris5084 forget it. How is including a renewable resource inflating the numbers

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@Weareallequal273 When she says "renewable" she's referring to wind and solar, but her stats include hydro, which we've always had. Remove hydro and wind and solar numbers are dismal. Secondly, she says 33% but she's only talking about energy for electricity. when you include energy for transportation and numerous other things that number drops even more. She makes the fallacious claim that it's cheaper. This is absurd. Firstly natural gas is almost at the same price it was 30 years ago. She's also ignoring that they are unreliable and require nat gas, nuclear or coal to back them up. None of these costs are factored in. Anywhere wind and solar are embraced electricity costs sky rocket. You should be asking the question, if she truly has an argument, why is she being willfully misleading.

[@Prolifelds]

Waste of money

[@stevemcclendon9297]

So the materials used in solar panels are very fragile and are very harmful to mine,( which we get from overseas. So we are paying china to give us renewable energy) on top of that yes we would need a skilled labor force to install and maintain the electric grid, unfortunately there has been major downsizing in energy maintenance and production here in the US becuase we buy our sources from other countries, another thing is lack of education in the field, no one is trying to sign up for a dangerous job, everyone is fighting to make you tube videos. Another thing is when slo Obama took over he started a windmill project that he never completed, he stopped construction after the first term. Then we let all that fiber glass and plastic rot under weather lack of maintenance. We know have thousands of windmills that can no longer be used and we can tear them down becuase beurocracy( government bought the land forcefully and now will not sell or give it back). And seeing that o ly the US and Britain were following the rules for a countries emissions, that 30% your talking about is us, and we only control 30 percent of land worldwide. So instead of making us pay and scrape our way to saving another 1% how about we focus on getting clean energy to other countries, the EV bill with everyone buying electric, what is the main source of our electricity, coal power plants, becuase people think nuclear are too dangerous, if you increase power demand we would need to increase coal usage, and ripping up the infrastructure to lay a new one down in a 20 year process that democrats are pushing to be done in 4, well when they first introduced it so now a few months. And there has been no headway on improving American lives and what your being told is lies, do your own research. Don't just take her word for it especially since she introduces everything in the "positive" space. Facts don't care about feelings, you camt ignore the bad and only think of the good otherwise your walking blindly towards your own failure. Hope this channel learns how to stop being a propaganda mill some time soon or we might have to cancel you.

[@anthonymorris5084]

This is so misleading. When you say "renewable", you're including hydro. We've always had hydro. The addition of wind and solar has been miniscule and fossil fuel energy use is also still growing. Also, this so called 33% is only for electricity production making the stat even more misleading and dramatically lower. Lastly, wind and solar will never be less expensive than fossil fuels, especially natural gas which is almost at the exact same price it was 30 years ago, because wind and solar are unreliable and require back up from nat gas, coal or nuclear. This is not factored in the cost. If it's so cheap why are electricity costs skyrocketing everywhere wind and solar are being used? This is why "people, mostly conservatives" rightly claim that "things aren't working", so spare us your sanctimony.

[@beefmaster4]

It already is cheaper in the right circumstances. Lots of examples out there. Just because a location might also need other types of energy doesn't mean that for that energy being produced by renewables isn't cheaper than if none of it had been from renewables. When comparing costs of a whole system, the entire cost of the system including all types of energy is included. Are renewables always cheaper? No. There are benefits and drawbacks to any energy solution in any particular circumstance, but a blanket statement that renewables will never be cheaper is misleading. And just because hydro has been around for awhile doesn't make it not renewable (though some people argue for other reasons on definitions), she's pointing out the amount to date, not only the newest projects.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@beefmaster4 Please enlighten me, exactly what price does nat gas, coal and oil have to be to be more expensive than wind and solar? You don't even know. Natural gas is almost at the same price it was 30 years ago. If wind and solar were cheaper there would be no need to subsidize them. Profits ensure good ideas succeed, subsidies ensure bad ideas are adopted. You cannot run a modern economy with unreliable energy. Period. Wind and solar will never be cheaper than nat gas, coal, oil or nuclear because you require these forms of energy when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. These costs are not factored in. Wind and solar is a fool's errand. Nuclear is the answer. People cite "renewable" all the time but they nefariously include hydro to bump the numbers. An honest person would say "wind and solar" and illustrate the actual numbers which are terrible.

[@timmylittle2406]

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[@p1randymarsh618]

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