Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "" video.

@InXone It's insane because it's not precisely correct. "Net metering" rules apply in most states. You aren't limited in how much you can produce but oversizing your array won't do much for you. Power companies don't have to mail you a check for your excess production but they DO have to let your meter "run backwards" (although not below zero). Here's how it works in Illinois: "Illinois net metering law requires investor-owned utilities (ComEd, Ameren, MidAmerican) to offer one-to-one net metering for renewable energy generation that is sized to offset the household’s energy usage." That does NOT mean they get to "keep" it because at night they have to give it back. Bear in mind that net metering rules as they are today were a tremendous step forward for consumers. If you don't like that you can always go entirely off-grid and pay two to three times as much as for a utility-interactive solar installation.
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@Aditya Chavarkar He's basically advocating a nationwide version of California's "Million Solar Roofs Initiative" which was launched in 2006 and achieved its goal in 2019 (13 years later). It's not entirely impractical but would certainly take more than a few decades to accomplish on a national scale. We DO have more than 130 million underutilized roofs. What's not practical is idiotic scams like "Solar Freakin' Roads" which managed to trick a bunch of idiots into donating to their Kickstarter, trick the Department of Energy into granting the scammers a bunch of taxpayer money, and even trick our shiny new "Boy Mayor" SecTrans into thinking the scam has even a trace of credibility. Spoiler alert: It does not.
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@willythemailboy2 Spoken like a true Authoritarian. Either that, or an attorney eager to cash in on the inevitable endless series of lawsuits.
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@willythemailboy2 Did you actually READ what you wrote? "NIMBYs" is a weird word to substitute for "property-owning, voting citizens with Constitutional rights who pay taxes" which in NO way justifies deploying Stalinesque tactics because advocates failed to make their case in the public forum. I'm sure that the private companies who own the transmission networks (a point not mentioned once in this clip) are excited at the prospect of raising mercenary armies to wage war against their own customers. Which badly-written dystopian fictional world do you think you live in?
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@willythemailboy2 Apparently you lacked the ability to make that clear. Your comment in your last post should have been part of your first post.
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@walkerwillis2563 The fact that there are 3 grids has nothing to do with that. There are at least two problems with your "unigrid" suggestion. One: A glitch in Miami could impact service in Seattle. Two: Over the distance from Arizona to New York, you'd lose 100% of the power due to transmission (resistance converting electricity to heat) and parasitic losses so ZERO watts would ultimately reach New York. Unless you've invented an ambient temperature superconductor and are hiding it from the world because you hate the idea of becoming a trillionaire, you're confusing physics with magic. Congratulations! Your application has been rejected by M.I.T. AND Hogwarts.
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