Comments by "muh diversity" (@muhdiversity7409) on "How This Man Pulled Off a Billion-Dollar Solar Scam" video.

"They paid 150k to save 45k in taxes for 13k worth of equipment?" My neighbor got quoted over $80k by a solar installer for a system but she shouldn't worry because she can get 30% back from the government. I estimate there wasn't more than $20K of equipment in her install. But their get out of jail card is the "install labor cost".
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I guess that was back when Google search actually worked ?
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My solar panels are on ground mounts next to the house - not on the roof. So far I've had 3 rando's roll up to my house to "talk" to me about them. I hazard if I lived in a more populated area like commiefornia they may just grow legs.
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@ShinkuGouki Exactly. I built my own system at the beginning of 2020 after receiving an outrageous electricity bill. Thankfully being an electrician I was able to pick all the components myself and order them from all the right places. It took a while doing it myself especially the ground mount construction but it was satisfying by the end. Just rolled over 27 megawatts of solar since the install. Neighbor sent me her quote and I couldn't believe what I was seeing especially as it didn't include batteries.
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I worked for a small startup that somehow managed to get $40m to build something that was poorly defined for trading financial instruments. The guys that pulled off this coup were not engineers much less software engineers. After they had struggled for over a year they decided to hire real software engineers like me and a few of my former colleagues. You'd think that would be the end of it, right? Nope, the founders of this startup were so butt hurt that they had to bring in real programmers and computer scientists they would demean and belittle everything we built at any chance they got despite everything we built being objectively better than the spaghetti we were throwing out. The startup is no longer around and I and a bunch of us were constructively dismissed before I got to a year there. These guys absolutely would not have hired real engineers because gossip happens ...
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@davidcaudill7779 there is nothing more pathetic than up-voting your own comments.
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I cry for humanity. What's the saying? something along the lines of "The stupid don't know their limitations and will beat you over the head with their superiority."
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@graciearson It was a 16kW ground mount with Enphase Iq8 inverters. They said the ground mount was special as they prefer to mount on the roof - I advised her against that. When you add up the cost of the panels, the ground mount, copper and the switch gear in the house it doesn't come anywhere near what she was quoted. Not only that what they were planning to sell her was totally inflexible with a significant expense down the road to add batteries. Although it is nowhere near as expensive as California supply is 25c/kW , however, the electricity provider bills an additional about 60c/kW to deliver the electricity which is totally absurd. In summer with the central air running the bills can be astronomical.
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Oh and a big part of the scam quote which was explicitly written in there is that she would get 30% back (now 26% I believe) when she files for the tax credit at the end of the year.
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@OnTheThirdDay It really is a thing. In my tax filling for 2020 I sent my accountant a spread sheet and copies of all the receipts for all the components and supplies I purchased, minus any of my labor cost. I got 30% of it back. Then again I think about all the tax I've paid over the years that has just gone straight into the massive dumpster fire.
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That is why we fail. The scammers make it even more difficult for us while they fly around in private jets.
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@danielhale1 I commented about whether they would bring in competent people earlier in this thread. It should come as no surprise that the startup we worked at there was a phrase called "The Friends and Family Plan" what that meant was that anyone with influence through out the entire organisation was a family member or a very close friend - doesn't matter how incompetent that family member is they have power over everyone. Everyone else was on the outside and you'd frequently get comments like "stay in your lane thrown around". There's absolutely no way these clowns would have hired good people. It is even more shocking that they managed to survive and con so many for so long.
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@wedding_photography Don't worry, there's always someone like you sniffing around.
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@Moussiah I think I've spent about 40K which includes two ground mount solar arrays which I built myself, A Solark-12K, all the DC switching , AC & DC breakers and all the copper wiring (the copper wire is very expensive) and a massive 1600Ah DIY 48V LifePO4 battery bank that can run the house for 5 days without sun. That price also includes some false starts like buying a couple of crappy Chinese inverters that never worked properly AND my very first bank of LifePO4 batteries that were way, way, way overpriced. I can selectively chose what to power from the grid or from solar at a breaker level but for all intents and purposes I'm 100% off grid and will never sell back as my system isn't wired for that. Hope this helps.
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Oh, that also includes a small 1.5kW wind turbine that at permitting the town refused to let me install. The wind turbine and its components probably runs to about 4K. My bad for assuming I could just install the thing. I was never given a clear or coherent explanation as to why a small wind turbine is bad.
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@orboakin8074 Yep. I and the guys that I still keep in touch with laugh about it occasionally to this very day. Some of the most hilarious episodes were when the so called CEO who would go on a programming bender for 2 days without any sleep and come in on Monday with whatever nonsense he'd built to prove to us college educated losers how much better than us he was. Yes, he only barely made it out of high-school. To give you an idea of the types of people he was slandering, our junior intern back then, a Chinese lady, went back to Google and is now a senior person in their ad-sense business. I've visited her a couple times in the Google offices in Manhattan. To this day we still don't know how these people managed to get $40m from a single "investor". Maybe it was a money laundering scheme. Who knows.
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@orboakin8074 Had to repost as the original got deleted by YT censorship. Yep. I and the guys that I still keep in touch with laugh about it occasionally to this very day. Some of the most hilarious episodes were when the so called CEO who would go on a programming bender for 2 days without any sleep and come in on Monday with whatever nonsense he'd built to prove to us college educated losers how much better than us he was. Yes, he only barely made it out of high-school. To give you an idea of the types of people he was slandering, our junior intern back then, a Chinese lady, went back to [deleted] and is now a senior person in their [deleted] business. I've visited her a couple times in the [deleted] offices in Manhattan. To this day we still don't know how these people managed to get $40m from a single "investor". Maybe it was a money laundering scheme. Who knows.
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