"In 2011 Energy Conversion Devices moved 140 jobs from Michigan to Mexico to save money. This week the Obama-funded solar company went belly up. Energy Conversion Devices managed to blow $13.3 million in tax credits before filing for bankruptcy."
I invent the Future of Solar Light technology! There is nothing worldwide even come close to my Products! It saved 80%-90% of Material and Costs! It also can be used to grow up Foot! Full Waterproof, also and a complete Solar Revolution! SEE ALSO THE FIRST SOLAR LED FOOTBALL STADION LIGHTS! Have a look on my Chanel, if you like my Products! It is already Patent Pending! With my Invent its first Time possible to use Solar technology in Areas where they now Solar only from TV!
everything sucks if your head is in the wrong place... I think this is great, I was raised in Wayne county but live in AR now and we have a lot of sun here. I would love to go green, and I believe solar cells are the best thing going..
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Way to go Dave. We were illegally foreclosed on purpose to track how the illegal activity happens from a~z we fought the banks on their bogus assignments & forged documents to no avail and worked tirelessly gathering all the evidence but thanks to Neil Garfield who's insight helped me fully understand the entire process from SPV's,Yield Spread Premiums,Derivatives & how judges pensions are based on foreclosures :) We stayed happy, made the best of difficult times & moved on~ Starting OVER again
If your having finance trouble like a lot of people are, and want to make some extra cash for yourself then check out my webpage. Make $20+ an hour for online marketing. Ill help you every step of the way plus i pay you DAILY. im not charging anything and ive helped a lot of people out. So Check it Out!
If your having finance trouble like a lot of people are, and want to make some extra cash for yourself then check out my webpage. Make $20+ an hour for online marketing. Ill help you every step of the way plus i pay you DAILY. im not charging anything and ive helped a lot of people out. So Check it Out!
I invent the Future of Solar Light technology ! There is nothing worldwide even come close to my Prototypes ! It saved 80%-90% of Material and Costs! It also can be used to grow up Foot! Full Waterproof also and a complete Solar revolution! I hope i find an Investor to bring it on the Market! have a look on my Chanel if you like the working Prototypes! It es already Patent Pending! With my Invent its first Time possible to use Solar technology in Areas where they now Solar only from TV!
Being an Ypsilanti Citizen I am proud of this; but, Mayor Paul Schreiber is a plague to the city. The video would have been more effective by not highlighting him.
i live in ypsilanti and the ypsilanti food co-op is literally three blocks away from my house. i was so proud to see this commercial. i had no idea they were doing this. i love that there's people in my community fighting to find alternative sources of energy and help our planet out a little. :)
Hey read don't laugh at this!just do it. Start thinking of something you really really want because this is astounding. The person who sent this said their wish came true 10 minutes after they read the mail so I thought what the heck! You have just been visited by Dr. Suess's cat in the hat, he will grant you one wish make your wish when the countdown is over 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 MAKE A WISH! send this to 10 videos within the hour you read this. If you do your wish will come true
Cool work! nice job! love this. Would love to see it in person...maybe one day I shall! will be sharing this locally in Indianapolis. Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you and keep you!
In Denver, Colorado, you can find 250 watt panels for around $350. This is the highest power (along the standard efficiency panel gamut) for the cheapest price I've seen since entering the solar market 2 years ago. Pretty awesome.
Wow, I live really close to Ypsilanti, and I didn't even realize that this was happening. That is pretty darn awesome. It's always nice to see a something hopeful coming out of Michigan. Many of my fellow Michiganders seem stuck in a rut; entirely opposed to, even fearful of, any change. Seeing something like this so close to home really brightens up my day.
He said couldn't use solar panels they cost thousands of dollars but the millionaire apears to be lying because his house roof is pack with several thousand dollars of panels was this guy on pills when he was making the vid or what
Didn't the oil companies receive grants and subsidies for the research and development of their products from the government? Do you know the story of Ford, Rockefeller, and Goodyear? With Goggle behind this now, solar can have a story just like Fords. I don’t believe Goggle has any ties to oil and/or coal like our politicians and government does.
Yeah... free money from government. Too bad Detroit and the Unions produced such cruddy cars over the last 30 years... maybe they would still be in business!!
Nothing is free !! The wasted government money over the last 3 decades should have focused on "Quality Control"... so you guys might still have a job. Glad you are trying to help... but invent something new!! Be more self sufficient rather than taking money. Steve Jobs did it... why cant you?
Maybe you could trickle water through the solar panel and drive for producing hydrogen right at the panel its self. Now hydrogen could be stored and used in a cell to produce energy. Just a thought
An acre of the best solar panels can produce between 17,000 to 18,000 BTU per hour at peak time of the day. A single gallon of gasoline can produce 125,000 BTU per hour day or night. Trickle charge technology.
Such enterprise could be funded just as WPA programs in the depression--putting people to work and producing energy while also helping our environment.
This is far and away better to military arms, destruction of infrastructure in countries that don't pose a threat to us. We are allowing the war mongers to destroy our country and our reputation for truth and justice.
Go solar! Down with the banisters and military industrialists. ENDTHE FED dot COM
This is something I have always believed in. I can't understand with this power at our fingertips how did not put it to work. Their should be solar panels all over the country.
@risingsunmusic1 Not only that, but every vehicle in the united states should be burning Natural Gas, Vegetable Oil, or Ethanol. There really is something corrupt about our government and something wrong with the way people in our government think. If everybody had an ambition to put up solar panels the demand would create the supply and it would be affordable. It takes a forward thinker to understand the impact of fossil fuels on the planet. Oh well, maybe next life time.
@MudDauper And do you know why the government is subsidizing the oil companies? So when they stop making so much money from gasoline when the price drops their profits won't drop at all. The oil companies have been subsidized for ever and been given tax right off's for ever screwing everyone else. Solar cells and panels have been around longer than I've been a live and I'm a Viet nam vet. The gov should put so much money into solar as oil.
@MudDauper With about a couple hundred million or so dollars the US could set up a 10 square mile solar panel plant in the Mojave (land which is almost entirely uninhabited) that could eventually power the US, of course it would be a while before we could fully switch because we would need to build up reserve power etc. But, of course, then politicians wouldn't get their million dollar campaign donations from big oil. Same reason marijuana's still illegal.
@MudDauper solar takes a lot longer to pay itself off, which does not benefit the current politicians in place. They aren't willing to spend all the money now which they will never see returned during their time in office.
Oil companies may have a small part to play in why solar isn't getting many grants. Mainly though, you can even check the website in the video, they aren't producing enough power to be profitable, any money they have mad has came from the grant they were given, not from putting electricity back into the power grid.
Solar and wind power just are not efficient enough to be profitable.
@MrWastedfate I don't buy the argument that wind power is not profitable. In the town where iI grew up they put up about 100 wind turbines. The people of the town don't have to pay any property taxes anymore (Invenergy pays all property tax in the town). Each farmer gets 6,000 to 10,000 dollars a year for having the turbine on there property. No tax money went to the project and they have been making money for years now. Google high Sheldon wind farm if interested, just trying to inform.
In my College thermodynamics class, we found old Coal plants have just 8% efficiency (I am NOT kidding). Nuclear was just 20%. If you look at ALL subsidy's for those, you'll 'get' how Big Energy can afford to purchase Inhofe and Hutchison.
G.W. Bush gave oil companies $8 BILLION in tax breaks in 2005 to "find oil" - Yup, the GOP said record profits were not ENOUGH incentive to find oil without taxpayer help.
Solar: Buy it ONCE, use it nearly forever - not so with Oil nor Nuke.
That efficiency might be descriptive of old coal power plants, but today, we get about 30% of the potential energy of coal in the form of electricity. That's a lot better than 8%. But I agree with you fully about your comparison between solar and nuke/oil.
If your definition of nearly forever is 20-25 years, then yes. It will last nearly forever. They, like everything else also require routine maintenance.
Your figure for coal power plants is also very vague. Are you saying steam input to electrical output efficiency? Because for both nuclear and coal, that is about 33% efficiency, not 8 and 20. And as far as total electrical output.
On top of that, less than 1% of our energy currently comes from solar power, and only 2% from wind.
@MrWastedfate Oh, I don't know WHAT you are doing WASTING your time on YouTube when there are so many UNSOLVED crimes you could solve...
Steam is Steam (and - News flash: Electrons are Electrons) so your CLAIM that they are BOTH 33% efficient means you're comparing the SAME turbine electric generation vendor equipment in a different plant. WE did fuel input to energy output. YOU F'TARD!
Satellites are Solar powered - Zero maintenance.
Let's hear MORE "statistics" from your crowded butthole,..
In that case, the current average for fuel input to energy output for nuclear reactors is 57.6%. You probably left nuclear reprocessing out of your calculations completely.
Panels in space suffer much more degradation than panels on earth, and have to be replaced almost once per decade. The United States actually generates more electricity from burning wood than they do solar power.
Solar really isn't much of a direct competitor with oil, unless you live in Hawaii or some other place where coal is too far away to be shipped economically. I would guess the reason there aren't more grants for solar (and actually, there are quite a few incentives both federally and state wide, depending on which state) is because power plants and utilities don't want to lose consumers. Solar distributed energy reduces the profits of people wanting to consolidate power, literally.
Right on Dave! Answers, not complaining...you STEPPED UP TO BAT...and kicked it right outta the filed homie!!! Much appreciation for folks who r changing our planet for good.
I am so glad that Solyndra is being investigated, its very clear that Obama gave Solyndra "OUR" tax money to wash money for his re-election efforts. A true scum bag. No one is above the law! NOBAMA 2012
I wanna have some scientist create the most powerful solar powered battery and put it into a car the front battery will run then the back will charge from solar panels on top of car
Like I said before, fuck Detroit, fuck solar and fuck every goddamned DemocRAT that has destroyed places like Detroit and who are trying to destroy America. Fuck you Union Rats and DemocRATs.
Great video , just imagine how many homes and families would have gotten help if instead of giving a half a billion to solyndra we had converted 5000 homes and freed 5000 families from the electric bill
You can argue and you can blow a fuse, but this man is chasing a dream and this is true American entrepreneurship. You can beat him down but this guy is determined.
Plus, he's not making a solar powered community, he's making a solar power research lab, it's just made out of the people of Ypsilanti.
There is too much political spin on solar panels! ....Where is the objectivity and truth? Seems to many of us there is a definite positive future for this technology to come about but, at what cost? Can anyone tell me about the latest 1/2 a billion dollar default with this "promising" new solar power factory which has become a embarrassing situation for the President.. The real truth is short supply these days! .
Its not just a fantasy. Those things really work. As prices fall more people will get interested. Having lights on being able to use your appliances if you loose grid power for whatever reason is comforting insurance. Just about anyone can build their own off grid solar electric system with a few thousand dollars. If you don't like buying your electrical service from a coal company, this is how you protest.
how well does it work in the dark? how long does it take to recoup the costs. Do you have to make structural changes to your roof to support the weight of a heavy snow plus the panels? How many elect appliance can you really run with solar panels? Course you could add a wind generator. Then start over with the questions. Ya can't just "put it up and turn it on" I would like free energy too but me thinks thou doth protest too much!
@pgm98387 You are far from having a grasp of the reality of the situation...So continue to live in your world of grand illusion...I do not own stock in any coal burning generator..Your knowledge and awareness of the facts is lacking! Remove all coal burning electrical generation in this country tomorrow..be prepared to answer to over 40% of the electric customers in this country who would be out of power...Why are you so willing to ignore the facts? Solar is still an EMERGING technology.
@lclaughton He never said anything about removing all coal burning electrical generation... He simply proposed that solar is a great alternative. Don't be so quick to judge brother.
Men like this guy are what American Freedom is all about. The government created the housing bubble by mandating banks to make sub prime loans. They also regulated manufacturers into submission and outsourcing. The people of the US are AMAZING at coming up with cool things and working on new projects. It's the fear of being sued, or fined, or shut down that limits creativity like this. I don't care if it was a grant- he'd had the cash in a good market to go bigger.
Im an Environmental Studies major in Hawaii and your story inspires me....
Im glad to see other parts of the world investing and using Alternative energy resources.
It gives me hope that one day the world will have a conscious collection that we have only one earth and that everyone has to do their part to help maintain and preserve it for future generations to use and enjoy...
"In 2011 Energy Conversion Devices moved 140 jobs from Michigan to Mexico to save money. This week the Obama-funded solar company went belly up. Energy Conversion Devices managed to blow $13.3 million in tax credits before filing for bankruptcy."
---Reuters and Gateway Pundit, 14 February 2012
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I invent the Future of Solar Light technology! There is nothing worldwide even come close to my Products! It saved 80%-90% of Material and Costs! It also can be used to grow up Foot! Full Waterproof, also and a complete Solar Revolution! SEE ALSO THE FIRST SOLAR LED FOOTBALL STADION LIGHTS! Have a look on my Chanel, if you like my Products! It is already Patent Pending! With my Invent its first Time possible to use Solar technology in Areas where they now Solar only from TV!
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qmarkthatjunk 2 weeks ago
everything sucks if your head is in the wrong place... I think this is great, I was raised in Wayne county but live in AR now and we have a lot of sun here. I would love to go green, and I believe solar cells are the best thing going..
methylman6 2 weeks ago
solar is cool. Nice job
leamyelectricinc1 2 weeks ago
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Way to go Dave. We were illegally foreclosed on purpose to track how the illegal activity happens from a~z we fought the banks on their bogus assignments & forged documents to no avail and worked tirelessly gathering all the evidence but thanks to Neil Garfield who's insight helped me fully understand the entire process from SPV's,Yield Spread Premiums,Derivatives & how judges pensions are based on foreclosures :) We stayed happy, made the best of difficult times & moved on~ Starting OVER again
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I invent the Future of Solar Light technology ! There is nothing worldwide even come close to my Prototypes ! It saved 80%-90% of Material and Costs! It also can be used to grow up Foot! Full Waterproof also and a complete Solar revolution! I hope i find an Investor to bring it on the Market! have a look on my Chanel if you like the working Prototypes! It es already Patent Pending! With my Invent its first Time possible to use Solar technology in Areas where they now Solar only from TV!
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Scattnam 2 months ago
Great Stuff
CEGAinc 2 months ago
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paul8kangas 2 months ago
Being an Ypsilanti Citizen I am proud of this; but, Mayor Paul Schreiber is a plague to the city. The video would have been more effective by not highlighting him.
jayemiller1982 2 months ago 2
nice video thanks! love Ypsi!
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itsrickinaz 2 months ago
Fantastic!
itsrickinaz 2 months ago
The big unions ruined MI! And the worst thing is most of the people believe what the unions tell them while their cities crumble..
SanEverett 3 months ago
i live in ypsilanti and the ypsilanti food co-op is literally three blocks away from my house. i was so proud to see this commercial. i had no idea they were doing this. i love that there's people in my community fighting to find alternative sources of energy and help our planet out a little. :)
rachjessee 3 months ago
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nevaldry111 4 months ago
Google is better than Bing
StefanKahler 4 months ago 2
@StefanKahler Bing Is Not Google
tyu3456 4 months ago 2
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well, that is what i also mean^^
StefanKahler 4 months ago
dang I wanna do something like that. That guy's a genius
pete2872 4 months ago
Dave, that is awesome solar you have got going there!!!!
pmzq0123 4 months ago
11 people work for the coal industry
thekidoftheyear 4 months ago
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WHYRAGEBRO 4 months ago
This is what i like to see. people using there brains to make progress. Great job guys
4gameplay 4 months ago
0:13 Angry grandpa?
ninetaledj 4 months ago
Hey read don't laugh at this!just do it. Start thinking of something you really really want because this is astounding. The person who sent this said their wish came true 10 minutes after they read the mail so I thought what the heck! You have just been visited by Dr. Suess's cat in the hat, he will grant you one wish make your wish when the countdown is over 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 MAKE A WISH! send this to 10 videos within the hour you read this. If you do your wish will come true
1jj901 4 months ago
i thought this was about epic beard man...
Point2shopUser 4 months ago 2
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qseanx 4 months ago
guy in the thumbnail looked like angry grandpa only reason i clicked
angelacevedo2112 4 months ago
dave = dang hippie
LongboardCali 4 months ago
fantastic job, saw this same video on Monday night Football. This needs to be funded. I want to help. I'm retired, but maybe can give something.
memorast 4 months ago
I only clicked on this "Featured Video" because I thought the guy on the video thumbnail looked like Red Green. Disappointment.
gustoonz 4 months ago
My community college is 100% solar powered now. They got money!
jtw18 4 months ago
looks like angry granpa
mechtech104 4 months ago
Cool work! nice job! love this. Would love to see it in person...maybe one day I shall! will be sharing this locally in Indianapolis. Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you and keep you!
mertletertle 4 months ago
Is that the white guy that gave that niggah a beat down in seattle? on the bus
MedicinalGamer 4 months ago
how much is one panel
repententertainment1 4 months ago
@repententertainment1 They're around $500 range now, prices have fallen greatly.
volumedealer1 4 months ago 3
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In Denver, Colorado, you can find 250 watt panels for around $350. This is the highest power (along the standard efficiency panel gamut) for the cheapest price I've seen since entering the solar market 2 years ago. Pretty awesome.
OpenYourMindQuaid 4 months ago
ROBIN WILLIA- oh wait that isn't him..
Eddiexx4 4 months ago
Wow, I live really close to Ypsilanti, and I didn't even realize that this was happening. That is pretty darn awesome. It's always nice to see a something hopeful coming out of Michigan. Many of my fellow Michiganders seem stuck in a rut; entirely opposed to, even fearful of, any change. Seeing something like this so close to home really brightens up my day.
TheFantasmatron 4 months ago
Oh yeah, Oh yeah!!! Go, Go Go Ypsi!! LOVE IT!!! We have to move in this direction. So cool!
LIFEGUARD805 4 months ago
what a badass
RAYtheIMAN 4 months ago
Santa Claus is real! He is trying to make the earth greener.
MrPajamaSamurai 4 months ago
Anyone else think that was Angry Grandpa from the thumbnail ?
Thiiz 4 months ago 8
@Thiiz you read my mind, haha xD
DirectorLincoIn 3 months ago
check this out 3rd coast X)
SOMAWEEDLOVE 4 months ago
He said couldn't use solar panels they cost thousands of dollars but the millionaire apears to be lying because his house roof is pack with several thousand dollars of panels was this guy on pills when he was making the vid or what
gogles2012 4 months ago
@gogles2012 you did not listen he said he could not afford the software out there that monitored the solar power from solar panels...listen a little.
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gogles2012 4 months ago
Angry Grandpa
UltimateHater666 4 months ago
Solar Intellect
musicintellect1 4 months ago
Didn't the oil companies receive grants and subsidies for the research and development of their products from the government? Do you know the story of Ford, Rockefeller, and Goodyear? With Goggle behind this now, solar can have a story just like Fords. I don’t believe Goggle has any ties to oil and/or coal like our politicians and government does.
HartlandElectric 4 months ago
<3 google
FcSteezey 4 months ago
Why should solar or any other energy source recieve grants from government? If it is profitable and sensible, the free market would do it.
classiclibertarian 4 months ago
all of those solar panels are made by coal power and pollute more heavy metals into the ground water than lead batteries. Go NUCLEAR OR GO HOME
proxy4718 4 months ago
Good going Dave! Nice looking project.
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pwolfe1987 4 months ago
put hangin wit the wierdos thefrancine5 its hilirous
TheFrancine5 4 months ago
thumbs up if you clicked because you thought it was the Amberlamps guy
nigeleckzdee 4 months ago
Yeah... free money from government. Too bad Detroit and the Unions produced such cruddy cars over the last 30 years... maybe they would still be in business!!
Nothing is free !! The wasted government money over the last 3 decades should have focused on "Quality Control"... so you guys might still have a job. Glad you are trying to help... but invent something new!! Be more self sufficient rather than taking money. Steve Jobs did it... why cant you?
TechPirateDougo 4 months ago
@TechPirateDougo Yes but Steve Jobs is dead....why can't you do it.
sperk31161 4 months ago
Great for solar power. BAD FOR THE METERS THEY WANT TO USE. SMART METERS MUST BE BANNED!!!!!
ianblair74 4 months ago
Maybe you could trickle water through the solar panel and drive for producing hydrogen right at the panel its self. Now hydrogen could be stored and used in a cell to produce energy. Just a thought
Pasovineyard 4 months ago
An acre of the best solar panels can produce between 17,000 to 18,000 BTU per hour at peak time of the day. A single gallon of gasoline can produce 125,000 BTU per hour day or night. Trickle charge technology.
Pasovineyard 4 months ago
@Pasovineyard a single gallon of gasoline also burns 1 gallon of gasoline, an hour of solar power affects nothing.
7Liquid7Luck7 4 months ago
Scroogle needs one of these hahaha
DoctorGleich 4 months ago
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CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
STFU 2011 and youre finally installing solar panels? where is this retarded country actually going! wake up!
y0utUBeH8r 4 months ago
Such enterprise could be funded just as WPA programs in the depression--putting people to work and producing energy while also helping our environment.
This is far and away better to military arms, destruction of infrastructure in countries that don't pose a threat to us. We are allowing the war mongers to destroy our country and our reputation for truth and justice.
Go solar! Down with the banisters and military industrialists. ENDTHE FED dot COM
whole2th 4 months ago
ANGRY GRANDPA
Pjor1cp 4 months ago
Hey, is that (0:18) the 67 year old Nam Vet that beat up the black guy on the Oakland Bus?!?! He really got his act together after that incident!
ididcramsmom 4 months ago
why does the web site not work?
sezarf1945 4 months ago
Nice guy. This is the spirit we should all have to learn and grow into the future:)
hartistry1957 4 months ago
This is something I have always believed in. I can't understand with this power at our fingertips how did not put it to work. Their should be solar panels all over the country.
risingsunmusic1 4 months ago
@risingsunmusic1 Not only that, but every vehicle in the united states should be burning Natural Gas, Vegetable Oil, or Ethanol. There really is something corrupt about our government and something wrong with the way people in our government think. If everybody had an ambition to put up solar panels the demand would create the supply and it would be affordable. It takes a forward thinker to understand the impact of fossil fuels on the planet. Oh well, maybe next life time.
Delticola 4 months ago
thumbs up if you clicked on this video because you thought the thumbnail looks like robin williams
spatz0r 4 months ago
I know that man! we live in the same town. :3
MolestacheVG 4 months ago
Is that Epic Beard Man on the roof with the solar panels?
Two things that scare black people, solar power and Epic Beard Man.
YTRulesFromNM 4 months ago 2
@YTRulesFromNM I'm black and fear neither of them. I debunked your claim.
CosmicGrounds 4 months ago
detroit lions 4-0 right now
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EPIC BEARD GUY!
ExplodyMan 4 months ago
I know that guy! and i live in ypsi! this is so awesome :D
514232415 4 months ago
Cool story bro.
bullcrapper14 4 months ago
iloveypsi. and the ypsi food co-op. yay!
cloxwork 4 months ago
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TheBboyLexa 4 months ago
theres a lot of negatives being said about detroit. for some positive news type in 3 unlikely words (utube) johnny knoxville detroit.
werspansio 4 months ago
I'm having trouble accessing your site right now. "Directory Listing Denied"
russypt 5 months ago
and Google did something unique here.. how?
serbwithblade 5 months ago
@serbwithblade they shared the story with you. :) Regular media did not.
paulineprojectlove 5 months ago
I really want to know who would ever dislike a video like this.
imzownagepker 5 months ago
@imzownagepker oil companies...
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ChicoBlancoFilms 5 months ago
Why not more grants for solar?
two words - oil companies
MudDauper 5 months ago 48
@MudDauper And do you know why the government is subsidizing the oil companies? So when they stop making so much money from gasoline when the price drops their profits won't drop at all. The oil companies have been subsidized for ever and been given tax right off's for ever screwing everyone else. Solar cells and panels have been around longer than I've been a live and I'm a Viet nam vet. The gov should put so much money into solar as oil.
keysB3P 4 months ago
@MudDauper With about a couple hundred million or so dollars the US could set up a 10 square mile solar panel plant in the Mojave (land which is almost entirely uninhabited) that could eventually power the US, of course it would be a while before we could fully switch because we would need to build up reserve power etc. But, of course, then politicians wouldn't get their million dollar campaign donations from big oil. Same reason marijuana's still illegal.
Shadowmaim 4 months ago
@MudDauper solar takes a lot longer to pay itself off, which does not benefit the current politicians in place. They aren't willing to spend all the money now which they will never see returned during their time in office.
bengoetz 4 months ago
@MudDauper /watch?v=CNMJOhl79XM Check it, dumb ass.
hooplablahblahblah 4 months ago
@MudDauper Too true
Knyajo 4 months ago
@MudDauper
Oil companies may have a small part to play in why solar isn't getting many grants. Mainly though, you can even check the website in the video, they aren't producing enough power to be profitable, any money they have mad has came from the grant they were given, not from putting electricity back into the power grid.
Solar and wind power just are not efficient enough to be profitable.
MrWastedfate 4 months ago
@MrWastedfate I don't buy the argument that wind power is not profitable. In the town where iI grew up they put up about 100 wind turbines. The people of the town don't have to pay any property taxes anymore (Invenergy pays all property tax in the town). Each farmer gets 6,000 to 10,000 dollars a year for having the turbine on there property. No tax money went to the project and they have been making money for years now. Google high Sheldon wind farm if interested, just trying to inform.
buzz851 4 months ago
@MrWastedfate
In my College thermodynamics class, we found old Coal plants have just 8% efficiency (I am NOT kidding). Nuclear was just 20%. If you look at ALL subsidy's for those, you'll 'get' how Big Energy can afford to purchase Inhofe and Hutchison.
G.W. Bush gave oil companies $8 BILLION in tax breaks in 2005 to "find oil" - Yup, the GOP said record profits were not ENOUGH incentive to find oil without taxpayer help.
Solar: Buy it ONCE, use it nearly forever - not so with Oil nor Nuke.
CI9TK 4 months ago
@CI9TK
That efficiency might be descriptive of old coal power plants, but today, we get about 30% of the potential energy of coal in the form of electricity. That's a lot better than 8%. But I agree with you fully about your comparison between solar and nuke/oil.
OpenYourMindQuaid 4 months ago
@CI9TK
If your definition of nearly forever is 20-25 years, then yes. It will last nearly forever. They, like everything else also require routine maintenance.
Your figure for coal power plants is also very vague. Are you saying steam input to electrical output efficiency? Because for both nuclear and coal, that is about 33% efficiency, not 8 and 20. And as far as total electrical output.
On top of that, less than 1% of our energy currently comes from solar power, and only 2% from wind.
MrWastedfate 4 months ago
@MrWastedfate Oh, I don't know WHAT you are doing WASTING your time on YouTube when there are so many UNSOLVED crimes you could solve...
Steam is Steam (and - News flash: Electrons are Electrons) so your CLAIM that they are BOTH 33% efficient means you're comparing the SAME turbine electric generation vendor equipment in a different plant. WE did fuel input to energy output. YOU F'TARD!
Satellites are Solar powered - Zero maintenance.
Let's hear MORE "statistics" from your crowded butthole,..
CI9TK 4 months ago
@CI9TK
In that case, the current average for fuel input to energy output for nuclear reactors is 57.6%. You probably left nuclear reprocessing out of your calculations completely.
Panels in space suffer much more degradation than panels on earth, and have to be replaced almost once per decade. The United States actually generates more electricity from burning wood than they do solar power.
MrWastedfate 4 months ago
@MrWastedfate Now even the Muppets know you're a liar. When calculating efficiency, the total can never exceed the worst efficiency in the system.
The crooked never include Nuclear fuel PRODUCTION when talking about energy. Mining, milling, refining and prep is COSTLY and ENERGY intensive.
Nuclear fuel is a net loss. Why make it?
Cost? Taxpayer pays.
Energy used to make? Countries using it for electricity want bombs.
Reprocessing warheads save but spent fuel? Not really.
The Sun IS free.
CI9TK 4 months ago
@MudDauper how about one word. Solyndra
claton95 4 months ago
@MudDauper
Solar really isn't much of a direct competitor with oil, unless you live in Hawaii or some other place where coal is too far away to be shipped economically. I would guess the reason there aren't more grants for solar (and actually, there are quite a few incentives both federally and state wide, depending on which state) is because power plants and utilities don't want to lose consumers. Solar distributed energy reduces the profits of people wanting to consolidate power, literally.
OpenYourMindQuaid 4 months ago
Why not more grants for solar?
two word - oil companies
MudDauper 5 months ago
It's Angry Grandpa!!
1227weaverb 5 months ago
HoIey Macaroni Batman, this is a week oId and ViraI ! ! !
bRadicalmagic1 5 months ago
its awesome to see people take a situation like theirs and turn it around on its head. this is great to hear about! :)
iLife1point0 5 months ago
omg this guy looks exactly like the guy who kicked that fail gangsta's ass on that bus :O
ZeroXYZ4 5 months ago
Very Inspiring!
thecloudchamber 5 months ago
its hickok45 with a beard
MACEX1000 5 months ago
Way cool
AL2TUDE 5 months ago
Right on Dave! Answers, not complaining...you STEPPED UP TO BAT...and kicked it right outta the filed homie!!! Much appreciation for folks who r changing our planet for good.
funkateerkitty 5 months ago
I'm getting them when I get a house.
filitalian 5 months ago
I want solar panels on my house!
rdtatx 5 months ago
5 Oil Company CEOs watched this video.
Sethermieseter 5 months ago 2
@Sethermieseter or 5 tea partiers
detroitdawg81 5 months ago
Everyone should make this there opening video on their channel!
DarkHypno100 5 months ago
I am so glad that Solyndra is being investigated, its very clear that Obama gave Solyndra "OUR" tax money to wash money for his re-election efforts. A true scum bag. No one is above the law! NOBAMA 2012
truth2honor1 5 months ago
...Until a tornado comes along and rips that solar array right off the roof. God hates people who live in trailer parks and Michigan.
JesusBuiltMyH0TROD 5 months ago
Im here for Santa Claus.
ICExRED 5 months ago
Good idea, the software, real-time meter checks.
Keep going!
MEGAXSTU 5 months ago
I wanna have some scientist create the most powerful solar powered battery and put it into a car the front battery will run then the back will charge from solar panels on top of car
XxTheMedicxX99 5 months ago
who else thinks the old guy looks like TheAngryGrandpa?
reedhappens03 5 months ago
angry grandpa?
DeltaCookies007 5 months ago
@DeltaCookies007 Damnit Delta!!! you beat me to the punch. I came on here solely to make an Angry Grandpa joke.
Lionel4482 5 months ago
@Lionel4482 hahaha
DeltaCookies007 5 months ago
Great video!
TheVeva1 5 months ago
Call the amberlamps
jellogarden 5 months ago 13
This is a very nice story and I applaud the fellow who spearheaded it. I do think the unions, overall, have done a disservice to Detroit however.
yesyoumay 5 months ago
Like I said before, fuck Detroit, fuck solar and fuck every goddamned DemocRAT that has destroyed places like Detroit and who are trying to destroy America. Fuck you Union Rats and DemocRATs.
lamontsanford33830 5 months ago
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hankbeasley 5 months ago
lol helping detroit get solar energy is like spraying febreeze into a sewer system and screaming DAMN RIGHT IM HELPING.
Reddytwobyfour 5 months ago
Great video , just imagine how many homes and families would have gotten help if instead of giving a half a billion to solyndra we had converted 5000 homes and freed 5000 families from the electric bill
WHITEHOUSE1600DC 5 months ago
You can argue and you can blow a fuse, but this man is chasing a dream and this is true American entrepreneurship. You can beat him down but this guy is determined.
Plus, he's not making a solar powered community, he's making a solar power research lab, it's just made out of the people of Ypsilanti.
Keep chasing your dreams and never faulter!
daynebaughman6 5 months ago
There is too much political spin on solar panels! ....Where is the objectivity and truth? Seems to many of us there is a definite positive future for this technology to come about but, at what cost? Can anyone tell me about the latest 1/2 a billion dollar default with this "promising" new solar power factory which has become a embarrassing situation for the President.. The real truth is short supply these days! .
lclaughton 5 months ago
Its not just a fantasy. Those things really work. As prices fall more people will get interested. Having lights on being able to use your appliances if you loose grid power for whatever reason is comforting insurance. Just about anyone can build their own off grid solar electric system with a few thousand dollars. If you don't like buying your electrical service from a coal company, this is how you protest.
pgm98387 5 months ago
how well does it work in the dark? how long does it take to recoup the costs. Do you have to make structural changes to your roof to support the weight of a heavy snow plus the panels? How many elect appliance can you really run with solar panels? Course you could add a wind generator. Then start over with the questions. Ya can't just "put it up and turn it on" I would like free energy too but me thinks thou doth protest too much!
jhldsc 5 months ago
@jhldsc See my channel. I built my own system that does just that.
pgm98387 5 months ago
@pgm98387 You are far from having a grasp of the reality of the situation...So continue to live in your world of grand illusion...I do not own stock in any coal burning generator..Your knowledge and awareness of the facts is lacking! Remove all coal burning electrical generation in this country tomorrow..be prepared to answer to over 40% of the electric customers in this country who would be out of power...Why are you so willing to ignore the facts? Solar is still an EMERGING technology.
lclaughton 5 months ago
@lclaughton He never said anything about removing all coal burning electrical generation... He simply proposed that solar is a great alternative. Don't be so quick to judge brother.
franciscovalmusic 5 months ago
Omg Thank LORD
Someone is Finnaly helping us detroit Ppl!
LogoWire 5 months ago
Angry grandpa?
macho844 5 months ago
great start. this tech will be just one more tool in American ingenuity and utilize energy right here at home.
LordKaisen 5 months ago
Men like this guy are what American Freedom is all about. The government created the housing bubble by mandating banks to make sub prime loans. They also regulated manufacturers into submission and outsourcing. The people of the US are AMAZING at coming up with cool things and working on new projects. It's the fear of being sued, or fined, or shut down that limits creativity like this. I don't care if it was a grant- he'd had the cash in a good market to go bigger.
briansmobile1 5 months ago 3
@briansmobile1 The housing bubble was also created by "flipping houses"..
Finacial bubble = increased costs inflated by service fees, not product demand.
1DigitalFlow 5 months ago
@1DigitalFlow Good call that is also correct- you're a smart man.
briansmobile1 5 months ago
i think dave here might have the biggest penis in the universe
ishoothead 5 months ago
Solar does not work, night,clouds,ect...
ClarksonsinUSA 5 months ago
Im an Environmental Studies major in Hawaii and your story inspires me....
Im glad to see other parts of the world investing and using Alternative energy resources.
It gives me hope that one day the world will have a conscious collection that we have only one earth and that everyone has to do their part to help maintain and preserve it for future generations to use and enjoy...
kamakazi11 5 months ago 2
@kamakazi11 Your an Environmental Studies Major...and your youtube username is Kamakazi11? Wow, thats creative.
dbucks1099 5 months ago
@dbucks1099 It's 'You're'.............Nuff said.
MrMaryJanes 5 months ago
@MrMaryJanes Its "enough said"..........Nuff said.