Name: Bill Burr - Solar Panel Emails
Uploaded: 2014-06-03T13:02:28.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Solar Panel Emails' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-06-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Solar Panel Emails' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-06-03. Transcript available.

okay uh solar panels last week i talked about i was thinking about maybe
getting solar panels off
my house off my house on my house and uh i don't know if i want to go off the
grid but whatever
i sit here baking in the sun in this fucking house i might as well get
something out of it right
all right so here we go hi bill first off huge fan of your comedy podcast thank
you i saw you
perform brian regan well with brian regan cubs comedy while that was a that was
a bucket list
night for me to be able to perform with that guy show was absolutely hilarious
well thank you and
thank you from brian regan too um anyway regarding your question about solar
there is no solar power
that is completely off the grid you use all the energy that you can provide
through solar and the
rest that can't be provided by the sun like at night or if it gets shady on
your roof the utility provides
this is called interconnection uh you save a ton of money and you use clean
energy in the process i
work for a solar company i promise this isn't a bullshit sales pitch and i
manage the construction
timeline so i've learned a lot about this stuff here's a link to my company i
work for we install
a lot in la and in boston as well too i think we're in like 12 different states
anyways thanks you for
the awesome podcast hey you know something about this solar shit this every
person you talk to says
something different i watch people on youtube make up a solar thing um what a
solar thing put up their
solar panels broke down how they worked and uh and how you could get off the
grid but it was really
really really fucking involved this guy's digging a goddamn trench i can't even
remember what the fuck
was going on but i'm just like all right i don't have room for a trench all
right my little piece
of property here so i i don't you know i got room for a hole does that work i
can't even remember what
he was doing they dug this trench and he stuffed like a fucking tarp in there i
don't even know what
i can't even tell you what's going on but um i will definitely uh i'll
definitely look into it
um hopefully i'll have more luck with you guys and the fucking cunts who put
the roof on this house
fucking assholes i told you what they did right they put the roof on the house
and then like
the drain pipes because it's an old house old stupid design where the drain off
was it goes down
into a pipe that actually goes into like a i don't i have like a my attic is
actually you ever see
seeing john malkovich or being being john malkovich remember how they had that
floor we had to walk
around bent over like that's basically how much space there is between um the
ceiling on my top floor
and then the roof i don't even know what the purpose of it is all it is is just
it just traps air
that gets heated up and causes my house to be hot but anyways that's what it is
so the drain off
of the water on the roof goes into a pipe that goes in into the fucking crawl
space and then back out the
front of the house and down the side so you take water from the roof you bring
it into the house
it's inside a pipe but nevertheless you bring it into the fucking house and god
forbid
that pipe bursts or you have some fucking moron who disconnects it when he's
putting the new roof on
and forgets to hook it back up and then tries to blame it on yeah he blamed it
on oh you know
they're fucking old blah blah blah and i'm just sitting there going all right
this is at least a year
in court you know what why don't you just get the fuck out of here i'll just
put in a goddamn claim
you cunt that's what i did because i didn't want to go to court so um anyways i'm
hoping you're
better than those guys i mean how couldn't you be all right here's my favorite
one of this week
uh solar roadways debunked um i got a note from my guy here andrew says a ton
of people forwarded
the same link as uh the one in the email below i watched this so you don't have
to it's 30 minutes
long basically he bitches about cost maintenance and the efficiency efficiency
of the perks
advertised in the original video like heating or repairing the road
yeah i actually watched the first 10 minutes of it um i'll save my opinion
until i read this uh yo
billy the sunburned kid i know you were pretty pumped up about solar roads to
be honest so was i
but someone smart sat down and crunched some numbers and brought up points as
why as to why
solar roads are economically and tech technically not feasible it's about 30
minutes long so if you got
some time to kill in any airport check it out well you know what sir i watched
the first 10 minutes of
it uh he didn't debunk them he just brought up a bunch of questions he's just
like a road has to
be durable and i would have some questions about i mean they showed a tractor
run over the tiles but
it was a small tractor and they only did it once um i i would like to see how
these you know these things
hold up when it's wet out and you need water to run off and
he just brought up a bunch of fucking questions
you know he didn't debunk them he did basically basically what he did
it's like 50 percent what you have to do you can't have somebody just coming in
hey these are brand new roads can i make them oh okay
you you think they're good you think they're gonna work okay i mean obviously
you can't do that
but it's 50 that which is smart you got to ask the right questions and then the
other side
is anytime you try to do something new there's always people saying it's not
going to work
you know and this guy in his half hour i'm sure he brought up a number of
things that would be a
problem it doesn't mean they can't work okay so i don't i wouldn't say they
were debunked i would
just say somebody asked a bunch of fucking questions and rather than just when
what he does is he just
throws it out there it's like why don't you contact the people at the solar
road
who trying to make the solar roads and actually get some answers and get some
fucking uh or maybe
order some tiles and try to do some experiments yourself rather than wasting
people's time with
a half hour of questions and speculation that's basically what it was so i
wouldn't say that it
was debunked um but you know you throw up three pointers for a half an hour
some of them are
gonna go in even if you suck so i'm sure a couple of his concerns were true but
uh you know i mean look
at electric cars since way back in the day people they suck they're fucking up
like people actually
question the power of electric electricity it powers the entire fucking city
can light up a whole fucking
city and i get a prius and my own mother my own mother is going can it go up a
hill
no mom i just gotta get out and start walking
it's great for my weight
and look at that they say oh they're underpowered and they're this and they're
that
first of all the prius is not an electric car
it's not even a fucking 50 percent electric car it's like an eight percent
electric car
that's what it is from like zero i've told you this guys for years from zero to
seven miles an hour
that car runs on electric power and then switches over to gas for the rest of
the time and if you drive
with a lead foot you're going to get maybe 25 miles a gallon but if you listen
if you listen to the
engine okay and you don't stomp on the gas and drive like a fucking maniac and
slam on the brakes
you can get you know i don't i wouldn't say 40 miles a gallon yeah you can get
like 35 but it's great
perfect car if you're living in the city i absolutely love the fucking thing so
anyway so you had that
i bought that thing in october of 2007 and now look at these these tesla cars i
actually rode in one of
those uh the end of last year before i rode in casey's fucking truck jesus
christ which probably
gets two feet to the gallon especially the way he was driving it um those tesla
cars are are
fucking amazing and you can drive from last i checked from san diego all the
way up to vancouver
um you know they have recharge stations from san diego all the way up to vancouver
and i think
recently someone just drove one across the country so i sound like that guy in
the speculation video
um i gotta look that one up or you should look it up or whatever but um i'm
actually uh i'm leaning
towards that fucking thing things badass you walk up to when you turn it on
like the door handles are
flush against the car and you walk up and things pop out i'm sure other cars do
that but i never
seen it you know it's cool to me