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so the power went out yesterday
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lightning struck thank you powerwall
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this was such a good decision and for me
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it was a waste of money and i regret it
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the power doesn't work on this one it
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works on all the other ones not that one
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i gotta get that fixed what you're
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seeing right here is actually the
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stormiest that it gets in our little
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town in southern utah
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so much for a good time lapse the camera
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literally almost slid off of the car we
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get rain we get lightning in the
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summertime they're called summer monsoon
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storms they have them here in the
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southwest and it is really fun in fact
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yesterday our power went out for five
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minutes and these power walls turned on
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and ran the house for five minutes all
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by themselves we have had tesla solar
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and tesla power walls for six months now
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and i'm not gonna wait until the year
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review to tell you my thoughts on having
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the power wall before i go into all the
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reasons why i need to first tell you
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that i definitely regret buying the
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tesla power wall and for me it was a
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waste of money and i regret it and i'm
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going to tell you the reasons why from
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my perspective and maybe that'll help
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some of you in your decision to buy
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tesla power walls
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i am not a power wall hater i do like
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the power walls
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but i shouldn't have bought it let me
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explain
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got my tesla surfboard that we cut in
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half for a video a while back
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still have half of it i wonder if it
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still floats
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it still floats tesla surfboard first
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time i've seen the water since the ocean
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yes i am grateful to have the solar up
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here and i am grateful to have the power
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walls and i think it is a great thing to
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have in the future and i see a lot of
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people in the future having battery
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packs to help them when the grid goes
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down but from a straight financial side
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of things there are considerations to
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have when you're deciding whether to
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spend ten thousand dollars on a battery
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pack or ten thousand dollars on more
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solar panels and i'll share all the
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reasons why and what my considerations
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going to go back to looking at the data
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behind
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a power wall is it a good decision or
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not
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i don't think it is but let's find out
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why
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we have solar panels on three places on
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our route we bought tesla solar so
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they're not the tesla solar tiles that
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you see where you actually get the full
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roof roofed but they are solar panels
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that are bought through tesla we were
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lucky enough to get one tesla power wall
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for free thank you to all of you guys
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that used our tesla referral code to buy
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your teslas tesla just gave us one for
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free which is really cool because those
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cost around 8 500
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one of them is not going to do much
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especially for the house that's as large
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as ours is with our entire office built
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onto it so we bought a second power wall
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at full price which was about 8 500 and
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then with installation it's around 10 to
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11 000
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our solar is covering about 35
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of the energy usage for our house which
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is pretty good considering we have one
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two three four electric cars we only
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drive electric we only charge at home
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really unless we're on a road trip and
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then we've got all the air conditioning
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units we have the studio where we work
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inside of there there's a lot of things
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going on in the house so right now it's
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the middle of the afternoon but as you
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can tell it is pouring rain so my solar
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is currently generating uh zero and i'm
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using around 6.5 kilowatts we have our
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pool cleaner going on right now we have
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some lights on in the house but i'm
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going to show you i'm kind of curious by
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this
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how much energy does our house use when
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we're charging all of our cars and
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running our air conditioning units
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one way to test it out let's just plug
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all these things in and test it out all
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right are we ready i am screen recording
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you will see it live i'm gonna put it on
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the screen right now so you can see my
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screen recording of what it looks like
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this is for the roadster let's plug in
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the red one over here
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beeping at me
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we are at 5.3 currently
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and
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oh i hear some fans going
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it turned yellow that should mean that
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the charge is about to happen and there
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we go 13.5 kilowatts right now let's
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plug in the next car tesla model x we
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have plugged that in
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and
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it is humid in here we're gonna let it
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go up okay 16.1
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it's gonna go higher than that 19.1
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tesla model s
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34.7 okay let's go inside where the air
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conditioning is
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oh
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that's so hot
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alexa turn the house on
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what this will do is open up every shade
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and it will also turn on every light in
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the house there we go all the lights are
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on let's see what that bumps it up to
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all right so that's what the lights on
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we got a couple more kilowatts now we
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are going to turn on all of the air
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conditioning units because right now
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they are all turned off i turned them
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off just before this let's set the house
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to a nice
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71 degrees how about that
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that should be all of them now we're at
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38.2 oh there we go 50.
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that's so much energy 51.6
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oh my gosh
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you can see the spike this is where we
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were all day long we were around like
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8.8 and we went up to 17. had a little
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outage for a little bit there not a
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power outage just sometimes the data
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doesn't report properly the highest we
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got was around 25 and now
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we are all the way up to 51.4
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kilowatts for the first few months i
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would have the tesla power wall charge
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up during the day so whenever there's
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excess power coming from the solar
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instead of pushing it back to the grid
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it would push directly into our power
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wall so it would take it from 20 full
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all the way to 100
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and then what was cool is that for the
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first few hours of the evening instead
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of pulling power from the grid we would
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drain the power walls from 100 down to
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20 percent and then redo that every
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single day we didn't use any energy from
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the power supply for like eight hours
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and it was fantastic thank you powerwall
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this was such a good decision then i
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called my local power company and asked
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them how much is the energy company
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paying for the power that i'm pushing
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back to the grid and it turns out
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that any energy that i push back to the
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grid
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they buy it for 100 of the cost so
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basically give me a one for one credit
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for when i use it later in the day
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so the grid
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is my power wall it's really nice to be
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able to have a power company that buys
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back my energy for 100
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but to be fair they did tell me that
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next year they're only going to buy it
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back for 80
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the year after that they're gonna buy it
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back for 60 and the year after that
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they're going to go down to 40 percent
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so at that point
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give me a few years three or four years
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i think my tesla power wall will finally
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be worth its money because i can use it
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to store energy and feed energy back to
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my house because the energy that i'm
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selling back is only 40 so by me cycling
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through my battery power wall every
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single day i'm actually degrading the
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battery and the sooner that it's going
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to basically be dead and unusable and
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you need to go buy another one my
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battery pack is only there
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for an emergency like if something crazy
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happens like the power goes out which
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this is the stormiest weather that
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you're going to see in our little town
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honestly like this is it right now
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this is actually kind of crazy this wind
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but like the power went out yesterday it
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went out for five minutes because
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lightning struck i think i can survive
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for five minutes gosh that storm is
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looking pretty big i'm gonna go in the
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garage
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so yes it is good to have a power wall
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or a backup whenever the power does fail
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and when i say it's not worth the money
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what i mean is that i could have taken
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that twenty thousand dollars but it cost
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to put these on the wall and i could
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have put a bunch more maybe 20 maybe 30
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more solar panels
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on the house every single day that would
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be generating money for me and money for
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our house decreasing the cost now the
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thing that you have to understand is
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that the two power walls that we have
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they are only 13.5 kilowatts of energy
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inside of it so we have two of them so
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that's what 27 and the max output is 5
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kilowatt hours at one time so we can get
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10 kilowatt hours coming out in fact
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i'll show you what that looks like like
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if we wanted to use the power wall right
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now
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i can change it to self-powered
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and watch this
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we're going to take all the energy from
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the power walls right now and push it to
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the house so even with two power walls
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that are fully charged right now with
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all of our cars charging with all of the
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lights and the ac on which is not
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recommended we don't do this all the
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time we can only get 10 kilowatts out
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max out of the two different power walls
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five per power wall this is going to
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drain incredibly fast like maybe in an
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hour or two it's going to be gone and
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you can see we're still pulling 42
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kilowatts from the grid so yes i know a
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lot of you in the comments are like wow
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your house is like a commercial building
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yeah it kind of is luckily unfortunately
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for us the power cost in our city is the
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same day and night there's no like more
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expensive in the day cheaper at night
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time it is six cents per kilowatt so if
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we look at yesterday for example 256
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kilowatt
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hours 256 times .06 so yesterday it cost
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us 15.36
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for all of our energy usage that we had
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yesterday so basically um our solar
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panels saved us four dollars yesterday
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if we had more solar panels instead of
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the power walls we would have made more
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money right here because we're really
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not using our power walls every day so
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that's a decision if you are thinking
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about getting tesla solar at tesla power
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walls you really need to look at what is
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the cost of the energy of electricity
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in the city that you live in how much
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will they buy it back for when you push
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energy back to the grid and then also
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like how often do you have power outages
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if you have them a lot then the benefit
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of that is going to weigh heavier than
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just the cost of how much energy you're
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saving from that side of it for us
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probably not the most useful thing so i
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am thinking about getting more solar and
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i was thinking about getting one or two
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more battery power wall so that we could
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store more energy and use it but after
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watching this for six months and looking
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at the actual raw data i've learned i
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really need more solar i do not need
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more power walls i can survive with my
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two because if the power goes out and we
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just pull off of the power walls all
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that it will do is have the lights run
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for our entire house and then the ac
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unit for our studio because it's just
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one unit it's a contained place and if
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really it really got hot at night time
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we could run it in there so there is a
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video that i did not plan on making but
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uh i wish i didn't buy tesla power walls
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but i kind of wish we didn't buy it it
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was not the best use of money i'm
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willing to admit when i made a mistake
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with money and we did with that one i
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should not have bought the power walls
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now if we end up selling the house which
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we might with in a few years this is our
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dream home but the kids grow up they
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move out
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maybe there will be some benefit to the
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next owner and some value and we'll get
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our money back and selling the house and
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that it's already here but um as of
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right now i wish i had more solar units
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so anyway thank you guys for watching
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let me know your thoughts i hope this
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was helpful to some of you i know a lot
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of you in the comments are going to be
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like you don't know anything about what
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you're talking about
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blah blah blah that's fine let me know
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in the comments i love learning from you
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in the comments even when i'm wrong
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this is a rainstorm and this is about as
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bad as it gets where we live
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i love it i love the lightning i love
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the thunder
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i love the rain
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those storm clouds are pretty ominous
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and they look kind of reddish like they
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have a red hue to them
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compared to that one over there that's
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just dark and rainy
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look at those clouds
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so
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it is so wet out there i love this this
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never happens
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