We're live, I think, I think we're live. Let me just see if I can pull up. Send y'all for here. What's up y'all, what's up JJ, Cindy, Roxy. Bam. Look, he's sneaking up on his brother. Whoa.  Boys, he's sweet. We didn't do this yet. So, I'm gonna go ahead and get this party started. This is a regular traditional canvas and it's a little bit loose as you can hear. I sprayed water on it. You already did? Yeah. Bowie. I'm gonna go ahead and do it again. No, children. So it is still a bit loose. So just a demo. This is how we tighten our canvases. I think he turned it all the way up. I'm just gonna shrink it like you would accidentally shrink a sweater in the dryer. Water plus high heat shrinks linen and cotton. So, super sorry that we were late today. I was putting in all of the new resin art colors that I just got in. Do you guys get notified when I post new colors? Cause it seems like as soon as I put them in, four of them are gone, always. I don't know if that's like a glitch in my system or what. You know what I'm saying. Hey y'all. Everybody's just like saying hi to each other. No notification. So I wonder what that is then. Why it, and it's not on all of the colors. So I have no idea. Anyways, I posted new colors from resin art. So, if you can hear, this sounds better, I hope. Sounds more like a drum. Okay, lift the uppies as a technical term. So also today, we did a demo up at Makerspace in Carleton, Texas, just north of Dallas. And we'll be doing a class up there. Probably it's a bad canvas. It's a crappy one. Bother to do an imprep or just go with it? There's a small one right there. I don't need a small one, I need a long one. Because I'm doing a blue bonnet. So requested today was to try and do a balloon. Well, okay, so it'll be fine. Talked about doing, how would you do blue bonnets on something with resin? I was like, you could do a balloon smash probably. I haven't done one yet. So, maybe today's the day that I test balloon smash and try to do a blue bonnet. So today's that day. I hope. We'll see. Maybe it'll work. I hope it works. Also, hope I don't pass out from blowing up this not stretched balloon. Hey Nene, yeah, he's here. Bye Chelsea. I guess it doesn't have to do that blown up. So I've only seen one person demo balloon smash and I was with acrylics. So we will see that you're gonna have static. So we'll see if it works. If it does, cool. If it doesn't, we'll try again another day. Everyone saying hi Jeff. How do you think resin would react to being spun on a potter's reel? I can't try it where I'm at because if resin gets slung all over that room, I don't have to pay for anything. I think that it would just fling out of the basin. Kujo, calm down. Christ. He's trying to get attention. He was just on the bar. And if he wants to stay away from Bowie's little hyper self, he needs to stay up there. Here's never a turn now, Margaret. Karen, a blue bonnet is the state flower of Texas. And it's, I guess it's kind of a weed. It's not a weed, it's a wildflower. And they grow all over Texas. At one point, I heard it was illegal to pick them, but I don't know that that's actually a thing. The Texas wildflowers are wild. Oh, but blue bonnet is a wildflower. Yeah, Joe, how did your show go? Selling things is selling things, Joe. A lot of times that it's kind of shows people only buy small things. So whenever we do an arts festival or crafts fair, something like that, we take just a few large pieces and the majority is small. Enough. Yeah, be sweet. Look over here. Look, read the comments. Yeah, I hope it was fun. Oh, that's a plus, Joe. Our state flower is an orange cone. Yeah, don't bite me. Leave your brother alone. Leave him alone. What's up, Linda? How are you doing? That's also true, Joe. My heat gun's almost as decorated as yours. I don't know, I have very many that are basically a sculpture like this. Everyone was a sippy, sippy, but me. This one was going to go as well, give me a bird. Oh, you're giving me a wine? That's also on ThinkSpeed. How do you laugh or not normally do it? I didn't. I said, are you? And thanks, Steve. Thanks. Could you please get me one? Thanks. See me. Hi, Mother Nature. I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. Hey, Daphne. Oh my goodness, porkster. My phone case, I don't even wanna talk about it. Julie, I'm doing a balloon on it. I should have posted a picture of one, but I don't have a split screen. There should be some in that black box in the fridge. What's in the box? A cab. Right? Hi, Rebecca. Thank you, Clara. Linda's in the wrong with ice water. Oh, wow, Holly. Yeah, I talked to Nina about the price of the mold and I'm trying to come up with a price with her that's feasible for me to carry here so that you guys don't have to worry about $80 shipping. Keep in mind that is Australian dollars, not U.S., so I guess that would be like high 60s U.S.? I'm sure that's mixed. You've been doing that for a good five minutes. That's awesome, Linda. A little more. Well, I have to go till it looks fully mixed. Gujo, lead it. Look, look how he sneaks up on him. It's like he thinks he can't be seen. You guys witnessed the stocking. Bowie the hunter. You and I did a balloon smash in resin, it turns out better than when the resin on balloon was on the smash. Oh, okay. Tink, tink. Cheers to the fam and my bee. Cheers. And my boys. Be sweet, Billy. All right, Bee, I'm going to let you read all the things and I'm going to mix. So I don't have a picture of blue bonus to show you guys. I know I just said that I'm not gonna talk right now, but that's what it is. They're basically purple and blue and white and puffy. So I'm going to use candy blue from just resin. There's Nina right there. We were just talking about your molds and seeing if we can come up with a price so that it's feasible for us to carry them in this store. So while blue bonnets are called blue bonnets, the majority of them is more purple. So I'm also gonna use iris purple from just resin. Claire is coming down on Monday. I forgot about that. Hello. You see. Kudra, I don't know why you came off your perch anyways. This next color is Ultramarine Violet. Oh, awesome. Hold on, I'm gonna put you guys directly over this. This color is Periwinkle by Rizanart. Y'all know I love my colors, but don't feel like you guys have to, just because I do. This color is Sky Blue Color Obsession. That is all of the colors, colors I'm gonna mix. Ocean, what's up, ocean? Hey, ocean. All right. So Ultramarine Violet by Just Resin. It's slightly transparent purple. This is Iris by Just Resin. It is a non-shimmer opaque paste. This is Candy Blue Luster from Just Resin. It is a paste. This is Sky Blue from Color Obsession. It is a non-shimmer, non-metallic paste. I can't remember if it's translucent or not. Just slightly. This is Periwinkle from Resinart. It's a hypermetallic, dry paste. So it's kind of like a powder, but it doesn't really act like a powder. And Stone Coat this white. Don't forget when you use this white that it needs to go under the other colors to give you cells and not to add too much heat. And it has to be just barely opaque. I forgot. It's some pistachio for the stem. Just a little bit of pistachio. I haven't used this color yet. But it's separated a little bit. Always, always stir your paste before you use them. So I've never done a smash before, so y'all don't judge me if this doesn't turn out amazing. It's a great color. Judy's in the house. Judy! Good breakfast. It is a canvas. And it's probably gonna dip a little bit in the middle. So I just have to do this piece with that in mind. Hold on guys. I'm gonna, I'm trying to make it to where you guys can see a little bit better. See the whole canvas here. Y'all always check to see how even your canvas is before you purchase. Also my boys are losing a little bit. My boys are losing it. I mean, Bowie. He gets so frustrated when Kujo doesn't wanna play. Bowie, what are you thinking? What you thinking? Puffball? I was thinking he's gonna bite Kujo in his sleep, I'm pretty sure. This canvas is at 12, 24. Yeah, 12 by 24. Oh, it's funny, Julie. Right, Joe? Always lay your canvases on the floor to check and make sure that they're not wonky like this. It's what it is. Hello from Wisconsin. Wisconsin? People eat, it's a, they put it all in caps so it looks like they're yelling.  I also- I was gonna say, make sure if you have to subscribe to our channel to do that, please. We're trying to get up in them. Uh, we're almost to 30,000 now? Mm-hmm. Make red 28 something.  The thumbs. Put the thumbs up. If you put a thumbs down, at least let us know. Let us know how we can improve to make you put a thumbs up to us. So I have my red soaked in alcohol handy because after a few balloon smushes, I'm gonna need to wipe off my balloon. Sippy tippy. I've never done this before. She's literally gonna be drawing with that. I just need some green in the background for when I smush that just sound a little bit comes out. Ta-da! Dizz art. You have a hundred and one chew toys.  Ooh, Doris and Claire, that's a good tip. I will definitely do that. I'm swirling some white in there because there's a lot of white in. No, move, go lay down. There's a lot of white that comes out in these flowers. Hello from Vermont. Hello, Kathy, welcome. Welcome. I'm really scared and excited about this. All at the same time. Try to hide behind her. He picks up every thing that he's not supposed to chew. Here, here, here, that. You aren't safe in there, it's cute. And we have all this, look, all of these. I'll see about putting colors on the balloon too. I don't know if that'll, have I used this color yet? No. Ebony, we're working on that a little bit. So I'm gonna put some clear down. Thanks to Doris and Claire for the suggestion. I'm scared. I guess just go for it, right? I don't know how to hold on to it. It's too full and bulbous. My problem is that little swishy-swish that looks fun. We need to add more white. I would add dots. Let's try this again. Somebody said, oh, Ebony doesn't like the long videos, question mark. Some people don't, some people prefer the short ones and I get it. I'm gonna blow up a smaller balloon. So that's when he has a water balloon the other day. I don't know that that would make much of a difference. What's in it? I mean, if it's full, it's full. Whether it's full air, full water. All right, don't try to tie a balloon with resume fingers, it's not a fun time. I don't even know which one's my finger, which isn't a balloon anymore. Hey guys, maybe if I put some white on my this. I think I like it picking up some of the color. This is Ebony's husband. Don't worry about what she has to say, you guys. You guys are doing fine, keep up the great work. Ebony is completely entitled to her. Yeah, we understand that people don't like the long videos. Cause there is a lot of talking, a lot of chatting, a lot of answers, answers, a lot of questions being asked and answered. And that's kind of why we do what we do live so that people can ask a question and get a response. Cause we don't get all the conversations on all the photos or the videos or. So it's, you know, sometimes this is looking fun. Facing all that resin on that rat. You're gonna get it. I just as shitty as canvas. I'm just gonna. We got the Ann Marie Ritterhoff view right here. She said just be hard. Or Ann have big red hair. It looks like, almost like fireworks. I'm trying to get rid of that like leaf look. Deep in the heart of Tejas. Here we go from here. Proceed for a bork. It looks like a big bush. Move on a bush. Move on a bush. It's a boucheg. I shouldn't have added so much pigment because these little chum chum chums look actually pretty good. Do you know what I mean? I'll get a tube toy. He just looks around for stuff in this vicinity too. Thanks y'all. So I really like these little chum chum chum chums.  All right, so this is how I would do a loop on it. I know it. I'm not sure what he's looking at. I think so Doris. There's something back there. A lid or something? No. I'm gonna end up just making it a big, it almost looks like butterflies. Like these little chum chum chum chum chum chum chum chum. All right, I think I'm just gonna cast your R on a roll. What's that V from Phoenix? You're supposed to roll the balloon. No, I'm not supposed to roll it. All right, let's roll it. Like all the way up. All the way up. That does fun stuff. That's almost tie-dye-y. Pshum, pshum, pshum, pshum, pshum, pshum, pshum. Unchum. That actually, you know what it looks like. It's like a feathery pine tree-y. He is the best at shums. I'm the best at shum. Maybe it is the size of my balloon. Is it the size that matters? Thanks Julie. Roxy, this is just a level one canvas from... Where's that place? Michaels? Which I'm pretty sure are on sale right now. Is that an idea? Did you have an idea? That was an idea, one.  Thank you for being part of the fam. Thank you, my girl, my girl. I think I'm gonna have to something different. No more shums. No more shum shums. What do we got? What can we do? I think I have a meaning to experiment with. Nay-nay, people send these to us. All of the fams. You've ever wondered what happens when you put clear over your colors? There you go. What happens? I think I am Linda. All right, Sippy and then Swipey. Cause that's how I roll. Ocean sent that to us, Sippy. No, I have the coasters here and I will de-mold them in a minute. Bowie on the move. Okay. Bowie, be sweet. Bowie. Hey, be sweet. Bowie goes for the lowest part of the body. Hey. That's cause he's the lowest one. Let's see, check it out. Hey, do you want me to pull my gun on you? Bowie. Bowie. I might do that as well, Doris. Is he confused by that? Yes, he is. Rude. If he were to just fall over after that gun sound, it would be hilarious. He's trying to fight them. Are they in Costa Rica?  Oh, he is having a fantastic time with all those noises. I bet if you sat that down over there, he would just step on it and step on it. Sure he would. Jules Madison. Hello from Turks and Caicos. Well, hello there. Welcome. I want to go to Turk. It just sounds like a party. Oh yeah. Puddle, pour, then smash. Just do a tiny puddle and see how the smash, smash works. Ready? No. What am I ready for? I'm going to do the drum roll for when you do the smash. Oh, drum roll, smash. That's a lot. Okay. Heat them up. Smash them down. Okay. You ready for some smashy, smashy? That's fun. Let's do the big balloon. That'd be good for coasters.  Boom, tie-dye. That looks better than a string pull. Look at that. That's the stuff. String pull drains are made of smush. I can't see that. I'm just trying to cover in this corner. I'm coming back out to the mainland. All right. Let's get serious people. This is art. We have to be for real, right? No. This?  Since I don't know how to balloon smash. Hi, from Denmark. What's up, Michelle? Hey. All the way from Denmark. This will end up being one of my greatest pieces. Watch and see. Oh, it's like that. I see. Okay. I need a bright color. That's why I'm not digging it right now. I'll get some of it out of it. Y'all ever do this with Nutella when you're at like the very end of your Nutella jar? Just put some milk in there. Pro tip for you. You're welcome. Such a genius. Cheers from Minnesota. Cheers. Minnesota. Tink. Tink, tink. Y'all have promises in my first glass of wine today. I'm just loving life. Very bold choice. It'll be amazing. Just hear me out. Maybe I'm going to go old school and do like, remember how we used to like put big puddles out and like just tilt it? Mm-hmm. I feel like that's what I'm about to do. It's going to be beautiful. Y'all just hear me out. Why do you have to find stuff you're not supposed to chew on, Bowie? I see it's just a baby. He sure does. Got some ups. Oh, it's gross. He's just jumping. Not supposed to do too much on that leg, B. That's the one we like. Whoa, now he's jumping way too much. Boy's got some ups. When we first started pouring, this was our application technique. Put it all out there. Hope for the best. And hope for the best. That's what we're going to do. Nay-nay, he went a little hard in the paint in Alabama. There was like six dogs in the house and he ran like a madman. And we think he might have strained his leg a little bit. Just, he just goes hard in the paint all day.  Got you. Yeah, he had a hurt leg for about a second. He's on some anti-inflammatory meds. Hey. Feeling better. He's not limping so much today. He's gonna get the zoomies. Yep. I'm not even doing it. You have a puddle pour, like. We used to live in puddle pours that if you have a clear base and you use powders like I've used a few that your colors are gonna start to mix together or dilute with the clear. Bowie, look at that flat purple. And I was just like, blah. I'm gonna just blow me in. Whoa. We moved my computer back. Just trying to get to over there, but it's very important. All the movement in the world. Every bit of it. You should have tilted that way first. Thank you, Mary Jane. Yeah, this may be my greatest fail. Give me a minute. I'll fix it. I heard you sell color art products. Is that true? I sell resin art products and color obsession products. No, we sell resin art. Well, color art is the parent company resin art. This looks so like our, like... Nene, this is for you. Intro pieces. Eww. Is that also art-a-soup? I have art-a-soup. We do sell art-a-soup as well. Basically all of them except for L'orese, but L'orese is an amazing brand as well. I'm gonna treat this like a coaster that I will just end up throwing glitter at. I'm glad I didn't do this piece at Makers today. I would have been... Nobody would show up for our class. Have a good night, LDRs, Linda. I'll throw the seat down at you.  To swipe or to don't swipe? Man, that looks fun. I'd leave it. That looks fun. Leave it, leave it, leave it. I know it's just gonna puddle in the middle. So this is what I get for playing with green. What are you chewing on? Bye, Becca. Oh, y'all are just sweet. Nae nae, it's like you know me. Claire, that's not a bad idea. The green is a really good green, but I think my application is the issue. Don't eat that, please don't eat that. Anytime I do more than four colors, it gets crazy. This part looks like those cloud triggering pores. I'm just gonna let it live and see how I like it, Minyana. One last look. Vicious dog fighting in the corner. Two inter, calling on LDRs. Yeah. Woo, he's fast. Judy, thank you very much. You're the fastest in the furries. All right. That was fun. He's here.  Huh? You just stop. Bowie.  Yeah, Bowie's too fast. Bowie's fastest one on earth. He's like the Hussain Bolt of puppies. It's not deterring him out. Let's do a little something on this. That came off as the last one. We'll just mix some resin and gold together. I'm gonna show you guys how I do it. They are like kids.  Resin ribbons. You've never seen us do ribbons. I'm gonna spritz some discs on it. Alcohol spritz? We normally set our heat gun at high. It has to be level. It's nice. It's hot. Yeah, you probably didn't shake it before you started doing that. In case you guys wanna know what alcohol spritzes do. If you guys do try to do the spritzes, make sure that it's really high concentration of alcohol, like 90% alcohol. Are you hot? The lower the percentage, the better odds that you'll get pitting like these. But you can just go over them and just fix that surface tension a little bit and they'll fill right in. If you ever wanna make Mars craters, does that happen? I wish you'd have done that first. Are you just trying to make it feel better for my ginormous fails? Yeah, I said ginormous. Look how ice cold that is. That's how you serve fireball. But look at my Mars moon texture. Lovely, lovely, lovely. It does look neat. It does. Now that looks like bluebonnets. It probably does more than my other piece did. Do y'all ever put resin, nope, alcohol inks on your resin pieces? Like not in a Petri dish, but on your pieces? I saw, I'm gonna butcher her name, Cordo, Cordova? Mm-mm. I don't know all of that is wrong. She does the most amazing ocean pieces and I'm super inspired by all of them, but particularly when she did recently. And it looks like she put white alcohol ink drips. Aw, thanks, y'all. I literally had to get pliers to open this bottle. It was frozen shut. So I'm talking about alcohol ink, like actual ink. This looks so alien. Pairing like 51.  Oh, all right, alien shot glass. And awesome skull. Like what would happen if I put alcohol in? Here, you get the little one. What happened with the little one? Joke. Where do we get this? We got this from Area 51. Where's Area 51 at? New Mexico. But we didn't go to New Mexico. Stop licking the cap before you close it. Nevada. When is your next class? Next month? Here's ATD After Dark. Here's to all you people that come and show up and support us. You're the true fan. We appreciate it 100%. You're the reason why we're here. You're the reason why we keep going. Cheers to the ATD fan. Cheers, tink. Tink. I'm never ready. 0% of the time, ready. So a lot of times when I do a piece and it doesn't really turn out like I would want it to, that's when I do my experimenting for future pieces. So if you stick around, that's what you're going to see here right now. Also, let me make a mess. Also, happy birthday to Scarlett and Carrie Sun-Medics. Today is his birthday. We missed the face. I should have showed the face. I still have half a shot to take, so y'all don't get upset. That's what makes me, ugh. There it is, and you were like zoomed in. I'm going to put some white on here. Holly Green Giant says, you can't breathe in between the shot and the chaser. I know. It was a horrible idea. I just exacerbated the pain. That was a good one. Do something, but that actually looks pretty nice and that's something I'm going to incorporate into a future piece. Now for the whites. Drop it in the middle of one of the gold spots and see what it does. Sinks. Splits. Mm, split them. Split them wide. What? The Jackson Pollock. No, you only do a lot of dots in my stuff and so I'm trying to incorporate that. Do anything. It stretches and then it goes back. Looks like it's just going to. Looks like a jellyfish. Debbie Lawn, I used to do some kick butt jellyfish. But I haven't seen her do them in a while. I'm going to figure out a way to make incorporating alcoholings work. Y'all just wait. Okay, so you know what song I have stuck in my head right now be? Is that Baby Mama's song? Like all the like. Just show baby, baby daddy. Drop it low, drop it down, down low. One month, two months, three months, but no. But wait, what are you doing? Just me then. He was over there in his stuff. Is that going to go? Can I see what you're eating? Well, that just picked up the whole. It just sinks the whole like. Like I've tried to pick up like there was a gold dot. Like, okay, watch. See these, this gold dot just disappears it. Balloon eraser. Ball eraser? That's awesome, Joe. Yeah, I don't know. Is that it? That's what she said, Tracy. Maybe you spritz alcohol on top of the gold dot. You can do that. My handy-dandy, this applicator of gold. It has separated. That's fun. Don't ever think that just because you put the lid kind of on. Bowie, he has your, your keying top.  I just don't know. Drop it, drop it. Yeah, Bowie is for real like having a toddler. Drop it, thank you, yours. I'm gonna incorporate adding alcohol and gold into my upcoming pieces. Cause I think that's a fun look. As long as it doesn't create a divot. Doris wants to know if that has the music from Mighty Mouse on it. Well, full-on zoomies. Just lapse. Me, Bowie. Great, now. All right. There it goes. Nope, un-go. No, not yours. All right, I'm gonna spritz over these. It doesn't really affect the alcohol ink gold. There's so much in this painting right now. You don't really know how like, did you give him ice cream before the show? I did not, but pup cream is a thing. He doesn't know the joys of ice cream yet. Right after Jeff and I started dating, there was a puppy eating greet. Remember that thing at the park? And they had pup cream at Clyde Warren. It was fun. What am I missing? What are people saying? I love the texture. It looks like underwater rocks. Babe, I think the wine is kicking in. I don't think so, because I feel fine. I'm just, what I wanted to see, I really like how the alcohol like, does this thing to the gold. I can't see that. I like how it does, like it interrupts that. I'm gonna have a little bit of heat and call it a day. It does look very aquatic. Clara said, I think you're missing the kitchen sink. I knew there was something. That was my actual laugh that they reported, just over and over. When I figure out the best way to do an underwater scene, based on kitchen sinkness, it won't be laughing no more. Dora says, e-science experiments, I love them. Aw, fam, true fam. I think if I do like sections of like a large canvas like this, it'll look really textured and interesting without actually having a texture, you know? Just like texture, but not. It's exactly the same, but completely opposite. Exactly, corkster. Yeah, it's like texture, but not, because there's no texture. It just has the appearance of texture. Right, so that's the show for today. Sorry, my balloon experiment didn't work. Maybe making it a water balloon does make a difference. Is what it is. When losers draw, y'all know we always show you what we do. I'm gonna start saying goodbye and the boys are gonna lose it, so y'all be prepared. Thank you so so much for tuning in and seeing what we're up to today. No, not yet. Please check all the information in our description box. It shows what we, there you go. It shows what we use, what we have on our website, what we don't have on our website you can find on our Amazon link, such as the heat gun, that's about it, from this video. We will be back tomorrow, what's today? Tomorrow's Sunday. We'll probably go early tomorrow. We got a lot to do. I have a million and seven orders to get out and have to put in another color obsession order, so that's gonna take a little bit of time. So, thank you so so much for tuning in. We love you guys, and from here, wanna say bye. Bowie, let's go. Almost missed you, ready? Okay. No, stop biting your brother. 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So I am here today to detangle my hair on camp now We ain't gonna do all of it because it's gonna take a couple of hours, but I'm gonna be using One item that I haven't used before to detangle my hair and that is the African Pride leave-in cream Now I have review on this leave that was zoom in some y'all Now I have a separate review on using this product and it was just okay One of you ladies and you know who you are girl had commented that you actually use this product to detangle your hair And I'm thinking hmm We shall see so one other thing that I will be using Spraying on my hair prior to detangling is our Vera juice now you guys I I'm going back and let me know if y'all are doing this, too I'm steadily going back to the products that work from my hair when I first went natural now I've been natural for ten years now and We all know what it is when these companies come out with new lines or new companies in general come out You're like, oh, let me try that. Why are you doing that girl? This is what causes a product junkie and so I am guilty of that However, the past two years I've been slowly going back to the products that were tried and true My hair was so healthy when I first went natural because I was doing the right things Then as I got sucked in to getting all of these new products I was almost at a standstill my hair growth plateaued. Seriously. I've been at the same length Oh, I was at the same length for a good two or three years. It seemed like so anyway Oliveira juice is what I used to use And I actually used to make the kin may tubes leave in the recipe which was bae honestly was bae If you're not familiar with that, I will be linking it in the cards. Okay kin mays tube leave in condition I'm pretty sure most of y'all familiar with it anyway girl get to the point Oliveira juice is great for detailing your hair. So what I've done is I've messed up some oliveira juice And I've put it in this spray bottle here So y'all this is the result of A twist out Clearly it's been a couple of days old um I used design extinctions, which was actually pretty well. I just wanted to see What a moose twist out would look like So anyway I'm going to turn around to the back so y'all can see all the glory Shell and y'all have to excuse my voice. I'm trying to keep neck. I'm trying to keep it quiet because it's really early in the morning here. Okay um So I'm trying to be gentle and I will more than likely have to spritz my hair. Look at that y'all The four seed just really shrills up and the shrinkage is crazy. So I'm going to start Like we missed my hair to help section it off So now let me go in with the african prides. Leave it now. This is a very creamy Um, I'm just gonna take a little bit. Okay Hmm. Oh girl, maybe you're on something Felicia leatherwood Let me go with the wooden comb y'all and then go back in with the brush Well, all right Three hours later girl So this is going to take me a minute y'all and I am Detangling my hair in smaller sections and I normally would Um, only because I want to ensure that my hair is really detangled especially with the cooler weather weather With the cooler weather, um hair tends to dry out a lot more easier. I should say yes You guys thank you so much for watching. I think it was always to all of my new subscribers. Thank you


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Tuesday the 2nd of September, 2nd of September, where's the year gone? And the weekly market update. Now this week I'm going to revisit something a chart that I looked at last week, namely the Germany or DAX 30. We respected that resistance level very well. Key question now is whether or not we will continue to respect it. Got a big data week this week. We've got a whole host of economic data from the Euro area out from Germany factory orders from services PMIs to the European Central Bank rate meeting and press conference. And I think really the core focus of this week is really going to be about the ECB, whether or not they cut rates further and what Mr Draghi does if anything at his monthly press conference. Also going to look at the improving economic picture in the US. It's also a big data week for the US. We've got non-farm payrolls. We've got ADP payrolls. We've got ISM manufacturing, a whole host of economic indicators to hopefully reinforce the perception that the US economy continues to recover at a fairly good rate of growth. And obviously feeding into that dynamic, the perception that quantitative easing will be finishing as soon as next month. And really then what does that mean for interest rate expectations going forward. So we'll have a look at Dolly N, we'll have a look at Gold which is broken out quite nicely today. And we'll also have a brief look at the pound against the dollar in the context of some of the economic data that we've got coming out later this week as well as the Bank of England rate meeting. So let's start with the Germany 30. Now last week I showed you a chart, a daily candlestick chart of the Germany 30 and a key resistance level on the daily chart. And it's the 61.8 Fibonacci retracement level of the entire down move from the June highs just above 10,000 to the August lows just above 8,900. Now I talked about a potential death cross on the 50 and the 200 day moving average and I also talked about that 61.8 Fibonacci retracement. What we need to see for continued downside pressure to be maintained is for the DAX to remain below 9,620. As long as we stay below that key level then I think the potential further downside certainly remains intact on that particular chart. Obviously the situation in Ukraine is having an effect at the margins. I think what has really surprised me more than anything else is the lack of any impact it is having at the moment on risk assets, particularly stock markets in general, given the fact that it's unlikely to end anytime soon or have a benign outcome. That's certainly being reflected in the gold price. Despite the fact that we've got rising geopolitical risk, gold prices continued to track lower. Now we've broken out of a key trend line support earlier this morning and we can see that on this daily candlestick chart. If we link the lows from the lows this year, we've broken below that trend line from the 2014 lows and we are tracking lower in a downward channel. Now that downward channel, the bottom of that channel is around about $1,240. Now that we've broken below the August lows then there's certainly potential for further losses towards $1,240 and probably below that to around about $1,185 in that smaller downward channel that I've highlighted in red. Now the stronger dollar is also feeding through into a stronger dollar yen and we're once again approaching that key 105, 50, 60 level. Why is that important? It's important because it's 61.8 Fibonacci retracement level from the highs in 2007 at $124.15 to the lows that we saw in 2011 at $75.58. So keep an eye on that 105, 50 level. It's also the highs of this year. It's very, very important in the context of where we go next. If we're able to close the week above $105.60 then we could well see a very sharp move towards $110. So let's quickly wind this up with the pound against the dollar. Now that continues to decline despite the fact that we posted the first positive week in the last eight at the end of last week. Direction of travel still remains lower. We can see that on this chart. We can link the highs from the peaks in July. That currently comes in around about $166.20, $30.00 and we look set to close in on the March lows around about $164.60 and then on obviously the lows this year which currently come in around about $160.40. All eyes really much on the Bank of England rate meeting. I'm not expecting any surprises from that meeting. Once again I think what's going to be driving the pound against the dollar in particular is the strength of the dollar and maybe some concerns on the margin about the narrowing Scottish independence vote. So on that note that concludes this week's weekly market update. Just a quick reminder of this Friday's non-farm payrolls webinar. You can sign up for that down here. I will be once again hosting that along with my colleague from Toronto Colin Szynski and we'll talk you through the various numbers. Look at the key levels on the charts and try and pick a direction for the moves.


So, we know that in-kind giving is important to many pre-organizations, but where can you find donations? Diz Patit, founder and CEO of Liquid Donate, created a platform that saves large retailers billions of dollars every year by seamlessly donating their unsellable goods to nonprofits and schools around the country. So hi everyone, my name is Diz Patit and I am the founder and CEO of Liquid Donate As a lifelong activist and a weekly volunteer with nonprofits, as well as being on the board of multiple nonprofits, I'm really excited to share to the TechSoup non-profit community today to share how you can get free donated items in your area from local retailers and businesses. So I'd first like to start by introducing my team, a lot of folks who are actually on the call today, so thanks to my team for supporting. CHI is my co-founder and CEO, previous to this, we worked at Postmates where I was employee 15, and together, CHI and I successfully built and launched two food security products, one which won the Time Magazine Invention of the Year award, Pablo led the sales team at Postmates, they're my eight years there winning large and key accounts for us, and then we also have Dan, a passionate ex-urban planner to help us reimagine how items move around communities and out of land sales, and I also just want to shout out to Renee, who's our director of non-profit outreach who's in the chat today as well. I'll try, and I successfully built and scaled national food security products at Postmates, the whole time we wondered if there's this much waste and inefficiency with food that can be solved with technology, what other industries can we impact, and so we uncovered the dark side of retail, which is returns. So if you take a moment and think about what happened to the last item you returned, you may be surprised to learn that 16% of all of the items purchased in the US get returned, and 80% of those go straight to the landfill, 80%, contributing to our current climate catastrophe. The other 20% end up in an inefficient liquidation process, and COVID-19 has only exacerbated that problem with inefficient supply chains, difficulty in predicting consumer behavior, and more. This problem that retailers have no sustainable way to handle excess inventory costs retailers $704 billion every year in merchandise returns. Nonprofits like you, places that focus on making our lives better, need items for free to help you meet your missions faster, and every year, 6 billion pounds of waste is generated because of returns. With Liquid Donate, we're a climate tech solution, where our platform consists of three main components, a donation as a service API, a proprietary matching algorithm, and our team's expertise on third-party fulfillment logistics. Our input on the supply side is our network of retailers, and our demand is generated by the millions of nonprofits nationwide in need of quality goods that would otherwise end up in the landfill. Our team is working on building the largest internal database of nonprofits in schools around the country, and we would love for you to join us today by registering at liquiddonate.com slash register-a-nonprofit. Not only are we not only are we seamlessly keeping these usable items out of the landfill, we're reducing operational costs for retailers while increasing their ESG scores. We've put together this case study for Walmart, where we can prove that this is something that will be long-term and sustainable for nonprofits and a profitable business model for us, which means that we'll be able to continue to contribute good, usable items to nonprofits long-term. So if you see this case study based on Walmart's public 10K, we estimate they currently spend about $58 billion per year on returns and reverse logistics. With liquiddonate, we would reduce their cost by $56 billion. In addition to the savings of packaging, labor, transport, and emissions offsets, we provide tax receipts for each and every donation as part of our data package, and we seamlessly provide the ability for you as nonprofits to provide those tax receipts in an easy way. And this isn't just a dream. Our attraction-to-date shows that in less than one year, with our MVP and moving into V1 of our tech, we've already donated almost 9,000 items, diverted over 20,000 pounds of material from landfills, given nonprofits over $100,000 in product donations, and saved retailers over 12,000. To show you a little bit about what our product looks like, we wanted to share that this is what our nonprofit match currently looks like on the internal side. And if you sign up to the register a nonprofit link, you'll be able to be part of this list as well. For the product, you'll see that we have a few different components. You can put in the address where you need something for your office or your client. You'll be able to review the products in the area, and you'll be able to check out on the screen with no payment attached. Right now, we're offering free pickup for all of our orders, so the nonprofit will be able to get the item for free from the retailer or from the business, and do pick up for free as well. We're integrating delivery and shipping so that in the future, you can also have the item delivered for a small fee. That is something that we don't make any money on, but something that you'll be able to use if you'd like. And so with that, I would love to tell you that you can use Liquid Donate. We've built this solution completely for you. We're super excited about it, and thank you so much for all the work that you do in nonprofits. I know it's hard. I know sometimes it's thankless, and y'all are amazing.


Okay, well, it's Wednesday afternoon over the hump time. Aloha and welcome to Hawaii, the state of clean energy. I'm really pleased. We're gonna have a high tech show for you today. And it's so high tech. We decided to do it in two parts. So this will be part one. I'm very pleased to welcome Jeff Pickles, my friend Jeff Pickles. And he's the executive vice president and co-founder of GreenGrid Inc. And they're doing amazing things with software, and particularly with hydrogen, the name of our show or topic for our show today is Renewable Hydrogen Energy Services, one of my favorite topics. So without further ado, because we have a lot of ground to cover, I'm going to introduce Jeff Jeff. Aloha. Aloha Mitch. Thanks for having me. I hear you just bought that bridge. Yeah, I got a really good deal on it. It was on sale. Okay. So tell us a little bit about yourself and about GreenGrid Inc. Yeah, thanks. So in 2008-2009 timeframe, after almost a career of working on renewable energy and hydrogen, my friend Chen Boyan and I, we decided we're going to start our own company to really help drive these technologies to real commercial applications. And we've been very pleased with what we've been able to do so far. And what we wanted to talk about today was kind of an introduction to renewable hydrogen, because while we've been working on this in detail for many years, it could be new to some people. And so we thought it'd be good to do, as you suggest, a multi part series to talk about renewable hydrogen and kind of break it down a little bit so we can look at some of the fundamental pieces of it and then pull it all together for the big picture on how utilities, transit and transportation can use hydrogen to solve their targets. Well, we have a great need for this kind of thing in Hawaii, as you know. So we're all listening. So you have some slides. So as you walk through it, just you can signal to bring your slides up. So first your great logo. So why don't we have that up? It's just our introduction page. We can go to the next one. Okay. And so just this is going to be our part one, where we're just going to go over kind of this introduction to renewable hydrogen energy. So we can go to the next slide. So this is just a quick summary of our company, Climate Focus Company. We've been providing professional services to energy and transportation in the utility sectors. We founded in 2011 and grown organically located in San Ramon, California, since the Golden Gate Bridge is for our background today. Lots of experience, decades of experience in residential, commercial and utility scale solar and wind, hydrogen, battery, biomass, power to gas, and really helping people understand codes and standards, how to get their technology selected to go through permitting and get into operations. So we're a small team, highly nimble team of experienced engineers and scientists, project managers, and we'll be kind of going over a little bit more of an introduction today on renewable hydrogen. Go to the next slide, please. So part of our general capabilities that we have that we have found that are really helpful to a lot of companies that are getting involved with this type of technology rollout is really kind of from the beginning to the end. In some cases, there are new programs that really need to be outlined so we can help in that area a lot where now we have a lot of utilities and transit that have greenhouse gas reduction plans, but now we really need to flush those out of how we're going to accomplish that and what type of technologies to choose. And one of the main questions that we get asked is what's the cost? And so we spent a lot of time working on a technical and economic modeling that we do where we can calculate the levelized cost of energy and all of the technical performance for various case studies. So that's one of the areas that we specialize in. And of course, a lot of our history comes from remote sensing, using GIS and LiDAR tools. So a lot of the analysis we can do is not just project technology specific, but also geolocational analysis that we can do that involves a lot of the energy resources, solar and wind, as well as the transmission distribution infrastructure, as well as loads. So there's a lot of different modeling that we can do to help folks meet their targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. And of course, we get involved with operations and maintenance quite a bit and even staff training. So we kind of go from the beginning to end to try to help companies and utilities implement these new types of technologies. So with that, let's jump into some Hawaii specific information about what we have found in our first review. So we're on slide five. Perfect. So Mitch, you're familiar with these two figures from the Hawaii State Energy Office and Hawaii greenhouse gas emissions report from 2016. So just in a snapshot, this top figure, what that's really showing us is we have a big dependence on petroleum. That's the biggest piece of the pie for the energy sources is the top figure. And then the lower figure are the greenhouse gas emissions are really pretty evenly split between the stationary combustion, which is a lot of that's electrical generation and the transportation. So for Hawaii, both of these areas are equally important. Replacing fossil fuels is a key. Replacing that petroleum is a key area that we gotta address. So it's a big problem. So it's probably a lot harder for transportation than it is for stationary combustion, mainly because you have so many players in transportation and a lot of them like their cars, you know, the way they are. Of course. Yeah, car culture is a really important part of life. Everyone around the world, but especially in the United States. Whereas stationary, you got a much smaller subset of people that are operating stationary like IE, utility companies. So yeah. And they're really they're different. They're different problems to solve really. And so you kind of need to think about a little bit differently. And so what this is telling us, the way I interpret this, and this is a great discussion to have is, you know, I see this as there's a need for base load and transportation both. So we need to replace these large base load petroleum generation sources as well as transportation. And I feel that hydrogen is a good tool to do that. And so when you start scaling up hydrogen, you can have long duration storage and you can use it for transportation fuel. So the hydrogen toolkit works for both these areas really well. Let's try the next slide. This one can be a little bit hard to read, but this is from the United States. EIA. This is the group that pulls all the different data together of how we use energy in the United States. So it's not just for Hawaii. This is total US. The red circle there on the bottom right, that's transportation. All the inputs are on the left, all the supplies on the left, all the demand is on the right, all the loads. That transportation key there, that's a that's a big number in there. And so when you start trying to say we're going to put that back into, you know, other energy sources, it's a big number. And so that's just a way to kind of visualize how big it is. And, you know, storing renewable energy is the key to being able to do that. And we have to store a lot of it. And then we have to make it available at the right time and the right place to be used for transportation. That's that we can move on to slide seven. So this is the famous duck curve. Everybody's got one. That's the joke. Everybody's got a hundred. Some are worse than others. Right. So there's really two problems that we're trying to solve, in my opinion. There's the middle of the duck curve. And this is brought on by having a lot of solar generation on a particular network, because the solar comes on the middle of the day and there's this big production. And there isn't necessarily the demand at that time. And then later in the day, the demand peaks up as the sun is going down. So there's this offset. That's about a four hour offset. But there's the other issue, which we already identified tonight, was that we need to replace baseload, which is maybe 24 hours or longer of storage that we would need to start replacing baseload sites. Green grid ink proposes that hydrogen is a flexible tool to be able to do both. And the other thing that makes me interested in having a lot of storage is like what we're experiencing today with pandemics, or in California with a wildfire and global warming for everybody can all have really big impacts on the energy demand time and location. And so having more storage gives us more tools to be able to adjust to the changing world. Yeah, I think with this pandemic, we're going through the the belly of that duck is probably exasperated, because the load has gone down, especially during the day when everybody's at home. So there's less and less of that renewable energy being used. But they still have to have spinning reserve, they still have to have some baseload. And of course, they have to wind it down. So it's not operating at its most efficient way. So A is more expensive, it's hard on the equipment. And you probably give off more emissions, because you're not operating at your most efficient level. Yeah, maybe the head isn't quite as high now, because everybody's home. So not all coming home at once and turning everything on. So it'd be interesting to see what the duck curve looks like one with what we're going through right now. But nevertheless, I think you've elucidated or highlighted the two main points. So Okay, that's good. Yeah, hopefully we'll be back to normal and we won't have years of data that shows what it will be like to do this, showing new trends that the world may be changing in ways faster than we predicted the change would come. Let's look at the next slide. So this is a overall figure that tries to give us the big picture of water, energy and hydrogen, and how people can conceptualize how this can work. So there are a lot of ways to do any technical problem. But what I want to address today is what I feel is a really important thing for consideration for people is the liquid hydrogen pathway. And so this image goes top left to bottom right effectively, where we have water, rain and snow, wind and sun, those are our sources. The electrical energy can go right across the top right to the grid as we normally do with renewable energy, but some of it needs to be stored. And that's the two arrows that go through the electrolyzer that produce gaseous hydrogen GH2. And then we put it into a liquefier, which uses more renewable energy and produces liquid hydrogen, which is stored in a cryogenic vessel. Then that hydrogen that is stored can be used with hydrogen fuel cell to put energy back on the grid at a later time. Or it can be transported by truck or ship to be used for transportation fuel. When the energy is consumed, again, either through the fuel cell or in the transportation, then the water is the water cycle is completed. And there is no lost water in the cycle. Okay, so I noticed you've introduced liquid hydrogen, which I know we don't have any here in Hawaii. But what's the benefit of liquid hydrogen? It's a good question. The primary benefit is the density. So as the gas gets cold, it becomes more dense, and you can store more of it in a smaller space. As we know, hydrogen is the lightest element. And unless it's pressurized, then the storage of a large amount of it can be quite costly and require a lot of equipment. So liquid hydrogen has been used commercially for a long time for storing and transporting hydrogen. And the main method that's used for hydrogen sales today, even before fuel cell cars or any of this topic has come up for hydrogen sales, people produce liquid at a big plant, truck the liquid all across the country, and then fill gaseous tube trailers and sell it to their customers or put the liquid trailer right on the customer site and deliver liquid to them, which is the model that a lot of hydrogen fueling stations are using today. So this is just kind of expanding on what we already know how to do. So let's talk about you. I know you're going to talk about the tanks and later slide, but I just want to jump a little bit. It's like, if you're going to start as gaseous, it has to be very high pressure. And that's much more expensive, I think, than a liquid hydrogen tank. And the tanks don't last as long.  Now, that's an important topic. And I think there's room for improvement there. People that do have high pressure type two, three or four hydrogen cylinders that reach the end of life, those should be sent out for analysis, non-destructive and destructive analysis. And there's groups of people available that we can connect them with to do that. Some of the national labs are interested to do that type of work. And then more data can be obtained to try to understand those pressure vessel life cycle better. But today, the largest way and the lowest cost way to store hydrogen is with the liquid hydrogen. And it's interesting, there are safety benefits to using liquid hydrogen. Because the flammability aspect is same, but actually pressure is a safety issue as well. So liquid hydrogen is low pressure. So it's actually has a lot of safety benefits with liquid hydrogen. Right. And we can ship it from the big island if we want to the other islands, particularly Oahu, as a liquid, of course. Yeah, you can even export it to different countries and have energy exports if you had enough. Right. Okay. Let's try the next slide. So, you know, one of the things this was one of the founding principles of Green Grid Inc. was we wanted this is before any of these, you know, new programs that have come out to reach 100% carbon free energy. But that was always our vision and how to do that. Well, our vision always was one of the easiest things to do that we should do. And we will need to do to reach these goals is every building should have solar. It just makes sense. But how do we plan for that? How do utilities have organized programs to reach that goal without creating any disturbances or reliability problems? And particularly, how would we store the energy? We should be planned. And so we created some software tools, where we can automatically design rooftop solar panel layouts with the exact solar panel dimension, portrait or landscape for entire cities. Wow, we do automatically with a computer. So what this image shows is how we can pick at the point on every solar panel. And for every five minutes of the year, we do a shading model. So we start with the 3d data of the whole city. And for every five minutes of the year, we can determine if it's shaded due to vegetation or other structures or the terrain. And then we automatically lay out the panels, anything that's below the threshold where you wouldn't want to put a panel, we don't put one. And then as you see on our website, we have an example where we did most of San Luis Obispo County in Central California. And then we calculated the kilowatts for every array with every panel. As you zoom in, you'll see the kilowatt numbers start popping up there. And the color of the panel indicates the category of the quality of the solar resource that's hitting that panel. And some can be shaded due to HDAC equipment on roof or, as I said, vegetation or other structures. So this is a good tool that we can use to look at. And because it's GIS data, we overlay the transmission and distribution data substations, and we can do power flow modeling, which is another image that we see on this slide, that we can look at the different circuits and look for the bottlenecks in the distribution and transmission system. And so that is a good planning tool that we can say, okay, what if we put solar on every roof? How much storage do we need? And where should we put it? And how big should it be? And could we do it in a logical fashion that makes sense? So this is the kind of the tools that we've been developing for many years that we would like to be able to bring to the market more and have people use them so that we can, you know, get a jump on it. Because we're in 2020 now, 2030 is around the corner. 2045 is going to be here before we know it. And these things take a lot of time once you leave and decide what to do. And even executing can take a long time too. So what kind of computing horsepower do you need to kind of run to your program? Do you need a supercomputer or? Well, we developed this over a long period of time bootstrapping as a startup. So we started running it on a little laptop we quickly found that there is trouble brewing when you do that. So we ended up over the years, we have built up a very nice computer lab in our office in San Ramon. And then this was before the pandemic, we developed it to be all able to be operated remotely. And it can be run while the technicians are anywhere in the world. And so we have a very powerful system there that can process this data unattended and operate for, you know, say for something like all of Honolulu, we could probably run it in three, four days running over Wow. So the client doesn't have to go out and build his own computer system. He just gives you a geographic area and says, Hey, let's do an analysis of this. See how it interfaces with everything and hit a few buttons, draw a circle around an area and your computer software program takes over. Yeah. And of course, we always like to bring in as much data for as we can, you know, parcel data, any other GIS data that electric utilities usually have a lot of those different layers are all good to bring in. And of course, if we know some particular parcels of land that are interesting, it doesn't have to just be rooftops. We can do parcels of land as well and look at the shading and have terrain thresholds. If the hill is too steep, we don't want to try to drive trucks up there for the installation or you know, various problems like that. Right. Excellent. It's a good tool in the toolbox. Let's try the next slide. This one's a good same thing for the wind. We do a lot of wind analysis. So we have a lot of different tools for wind analysis and wind resource modeling. This case was a case study we did for Northern California in your Sacramento. So Sacramento is kind of inside the red polygon there. And the wind resource is the lower left of the area right or red area is a better wind resource down by the Sacramento River where the wind really grips in on the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge because of running up the Sacramento River there. And those green dots are some existing wind plants down there. So I'm going to ask about those. Yeah. So the question is now how do you get that energy back to Sacramento? Right. And how do you do it? So, you know, right now it's working to use the electric transmission lines. But as you look at, you know, wanting to reach the similar type of goals for Sacramento to be 100% renewable and is a carbon free and to really scale up and have a lot more wind. And we want to use it for transportation. So then it's the same type of analysis. How do we store all that energy and divide it use part of it for the grid at a later time and use part of it for transportation at a later place in time. Right. So that's a good tool. So let's go to the next slide. We've been talking a lot about hydrogen. And I feel like a lot of people have never seen a hydrogen tank. And so I thought it would be helpful to put three, four pictures up here of a hydrogen tank. And we can talk about these a little bit. So some of these are really famous. You've probably seen the picture of the one on the left, even if they have not paid close attention to what it was. But that's the big liquid hydrogen tank in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center, who was built in 1962, I believe. So it's like pushing 70 years old. No, no. I think the insulation had to be replaced at one point in time. But now we use different types of insulation that work even better. So this is a robust technology. This tank holds about 800,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen. So into perspective. If we were to use a hydrogen fuel cell to extract that energy, it's about 3.5 gigawatt hours of electrical energy that we could take out of that. Right. And that that number of the 3.5 gigawatt hours is based on the conversion efficiency of the fuel cell of taking the hydrogen and making electricity out of it's about 50%, maybe slightly more now. There are fuel cells, US hybrid has a fuel cell, they can produce or else they're 67% efficiency. Fuel cell efficiency is an interesting topic just to take a quick segue. Everyone wanted fuel cells to be really small to fit in cars, but high power density. And then you take a hit on efficiency. But if your driver is efficiency, and you have a big footprint, then you can make them bigger. And around that lower current densities, when there's less waste heat, the efficiency goes up. Same trade off for electricizers too. When you make all those electrochemical stacks really small, the efficiency can go down because there's more heat generation. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. So talk about some of these other tanks. I didn't want to distract you. The medium tank is one of my babies. I love the liquid hydrogen tank at AC Transit in Oakland, California. It's a beautiful site if anybody ever has a chance to visit. It's great to take a tour there. It's all designed and marked well with signage for tours. But and they have now I believe they're going on 23 hydrogen buses there. Right. And it's supplied by delivered liquid hydrogen. And they have recently upgraded their fueling infrastructure to have two simultaneous fueling hook points. And this tank holds 9000 gallons. And it's not used for electrical generation today. But if it were, and we connected a fuel cell to it, this would be about 40 megawatt hours of electrical energy that we can take out of that tank. And how many buses with that support? Yeah, well, this right now they're going to be doing 30 or so buses getting to that point. And you know, each of their buses is used, some of the buses are getting larger. They started with 20 kilogram tanks. Now some of the buses are getting close to having 30 or 40 kilogram tanks. So it just kind of depends on the routes. But these buses run up and down the hills of Oakland and Berkeley all day every day. No problem. Been breaking records with the number of hours on these fuel cell stacks. Yeah, they're over 30,000 hours now. And those are that's older technology. I mean, it takes a lot of years to generate 30,000 hours of use. Yeah, they're probably gonna go for 50 or more. Who knows how long, maybe 80 or 100. Let's keep it going. And then near and dear to my heart, the tank on the right is the West Sacramento Liquid Hydrogen Fueling Station. So that was one of the first, if not the first open retail hydrogen fueling station in the state of California. I personally played a hand in getting that thing put together and opening it. And that tank is one of the smallest liquid hydrogen tanks in the market that you can get. It's really easy to order one of those and have it set down on almost any site you want. And it holds 3000 gallons. So what's the ballpark cost, rough order of magnitude cost of that smaller tank? Just rough? Very rough, because oftentimes they're leased from the hydrogen supply company. It's just rolled into your dollar per kilogram. Most people don't want to buy it because when you buy it, you're responsible for painting it or doing maintenance or changing a valve or understanding it. But oftentimes it's leased. I think a really, really rough number because I don't get involved with these a lot. Something like 100k or something like that. Very rough number. And again, these things last a long time. So if you're asking to buy one from an existing company, it might be already 20 years old and they can give you a really good deal on it. So it's like ordering a brand new one is probably that number that I gave you buying an old used one is probably much less. And then part of our vision, the little propane tank on the bottom, that's not actually a hydrogen tank just to be clear with everyone. That's our envisioned future in our hydrogen economy, as we will also be able to use delivered liquid hydrogen for other applications too, including residential, commercial and industrial backup power and even primary power. And that would be in the 10 to 300 gallon range, which will be 12 to 350 kilowatt hours. So there's a lot of potential applications there. And those are a three great example, liquid hydrogen tanks. And all three of them are available to be viewed by the public and visited. So you can come see them whenever you'd like. I'd be happy to meet anybody there and take a tour. So one final question, because we're almost out of time. Yeah, told you it would go fast. It does. People talk a lot about boil off from hydrogen, liquid hydrogen tanks. I think we have technology now that real limits that can you just comment on boil off and how we address that? No, NASA has been working on that for a long time. So if you know, it's not a large amount of heat that you need to or energy, I should say that you need to remove from the tank, to compensate for the energy that's going in from the sun and the atmosphere gradually warming the tank, right, you can actively cool the tank with a small amount of energy to prevent boil off. But the and that's being implemented down the new tanks for NASA. What is the best way to prevent boil off is just use the fuel. Yeah, we always run a small fuel cell and charge a battery if it's electricity, right? Yeah, or put it on a net metering interconnection and run some auxiliary power at your side. Or just fill up cars. You know, we always used to say at West Sacramento, if we have even as few as one car a day, it won't boil off.  That's a very ballpark number, but that gets you the idea of it. Perfect. Well, we're rocketing up to the last slide. Well, I really appreciate your time today and getting to hang out. I always enjoy talking with the image. I always look forward to it. You know, there's our contact information for chin line myself. I'm Jeff Pickles, ring greetings, our company. This is what we do been doing it a long time and look forward to being involved to continue to do it in the future. And any programs that Hawaii has that we can help, we will do anything we can do to help you guys. Well, we have another chance to talk about this because we have part two coming up, which we could do in a couple weeks time. Yeah, whenever you like. And what I'd like to do in part two is do the cost analysis. So we do a lot of financial modeling. We've had a good introduction. Let's get into the cost analysis and look at some of the results of our case study where we've been looking at a 50 megawatt renewable hydrogen plant. And so it's really interesting results there we can get into next time. I have somebody for next week, which is very unusual for me because it's always last minute Charlie here. But maybe the week after we can have you back because we don't want to have too big a gap because I'm pure debt. And you know, you've raised a lot of interest, I'm sure once this gets out. And people that's the next question they always have. Well, how much does this all cost? Yeah, that's always the question. It's getting better and better. It's getting better and better. Okay. Well, Jeff, I'd like to thank you very much. And oh, one old plug. Jeff's son has been a has been accepted at UH. Oh, yeah. He's he's coming up from the mainland and he's going to our business school here at the University of Hawaii. So Oh, well, that's exciting. You mentioned that he's really excited to go. He's planning it all out. And I can't wait to get there. And I'm sure he'll be really interested to be involved with any of these kind of things are going on and watch and learn as he's going to school how these new energy solutions can really start taking shape. Okay, I'm going to, we're all going to sign off. Jeff, once again, thank you very much in Aloha. And to our audience out there, be back and see us next week where we have a show on solar energy. Thanks a lot.


This is stock number 8J114A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep headquarters. Today we are checking out this like new 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit with the Platinum Edition. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this Grand Cherokee is like new all the way around. And we'll go over a little bit of the features that the Platinum package gives you. No dense dings or scuffs on the front bumper. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. No scuffs or scrapes on the Platinum painted alloy rims. It has Pirelli 26550R20 tires on there and they have just about all the tread left on them. So that Platinum package gives you those specially painted rims right there. You can see it has the LED running lights. The Platinum painted seven-slotted grill there. It has the front sonar and then it has your adaptive cruise radar. It has the LED fog lights and the HID headlights. As you go down this side of the vehicle just as clean as a passenger side no scuffs or scrapes on that rim. But yeah as we go down this side you can see just how clean that body is how reflective and glass like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close behind you can just can't make the trip down you can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. This vehicle was purchased brand new from our store and just recently traded in. Very very clean down this side no dents no dings no scuffs no scrapes. This back rim is in absolutely perfect condition as well and the back tires obviously have just as much tread as the front tires. LED taillights rear bumpers in really nice shape does have the towing package which includes a receiver hitch and wiring. It has a power lift gate that rear gate is in excellent condition as well no dents or dings on that. So this one has the Harman Kardon sound system in it which gives you the factory subwoofer. Here is your cover for that rear bumper and you can see that that back mat is in excellent condition. It does have a full-size spare tire in here as well and it has the power gate. You also get the sunshade which is really nice keep your valuables out of sight or you can keep your groceries nice and cool if it's sunny out and you got your power gate button right there you press that it will beep at you three times and then it will come on down. It has the dual rear exhaust as we go around this side of the vehicle just as clean as that passenger side no dents no dings for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well no scuffs or scrapes and very very clean down this side of the Jeep. As we go inside the Summit package gives you the brown leather interior it's kind of like a chocolate brown really good deep color here and it's in excellent shape no rips or tears in the seat factory floor mats throughout both these seats are heated and cooled you have your memory driver seat power windows power locks your power folding mirrors you can see those mirrors have the blind spot indicator on them they power full back out and then it has the Harman Kardon sound system right there we have automatic headlamps and as we can see that this Jeep has 1,850 miles you get these seven inch TFT display which is completely configurable around the corners you got a compass and outside temperature display up there now but you could put the time miles to empty all that good stuff. Wood grain trimmed heated steering wheel this is your adaptive cruise control and your cruise controls right there and then you have your Bluetooth and information center controls on that side so it's a leather wrapped and wood grain trimmed you have the 8.4 C radio it's the 4C so it has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capabilities you also have the factory navigation system right there you also have your backup camera dual climate control this is your lane departure warning and it has parallel and perpendicular park assist right there as well you have your start-stop feature stability control and down here is your quadra track 2 system with the quadra lift system so it has air ride suspension and you can put it in neutral for flat zone in your downhill assist control but you have snow sand auto mud and rock features there as well passenger seat is very clean as well no rips or tears on that this vehicle has never been smoked in locally owned Android passengers side format is very clean as well up here you have the SOS system and you have your home link and your controls for the Vista Roof so that back panel is fixed the front one is a power Sunroof and it does have a sunshade that goes up in case you didn't want to open we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here has latch child safety system once again very clean in this vehicle never smoked in no pets carpeting is nice and clean these back seats are heated you have two USB hubs and then a hundred fifteen volt 150 watt plug-in got the wood grain trim on the side here very very nicely appointed this is white ivory metallic so I believe it was like a $500 add-on to get this color on the vehicle over the original summit price 3.6 liter pentastar v6 motor it's been on Ward's top 10 engine list three to four different times now we're just reliability horsepower and overall efficiency engine base very clean runs very smooth this vehicle has been fully safety Dan inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this jeeps 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this grand Cherokee or one of our other 400 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons you name it we got to go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot videos of every single used vehicle that we have all at summit auto.com thank you so much for checking out the video if you want to make this Jeep beers give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER> ask for one of our sales associates to make this Jeep beers today once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER> thanks again for checking out the video if you want to check out more go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos you see there in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more used inventory of the videos like this one on your right and if you haven't been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean like new 2018 Jeep grand Cherokee Summit Platinum Edition thanks again