Hello friends, welcome to tonight's stream of the who wants to be a Pokemon egg Just like who wants to be a millionaire, but a Pokemon version. Hope you're all well. Thank you to everyone in the chat already I hope you're looking forward to it Merry Christmas might be a bit premature But I am in the festive spirit got five contestants lined up tonight They're all gonna test their knowledge test their Pokemon knowledge and see if they can win a copy of it's gonna be a pre-order Copy of legends arceus is up for grabs tonight for each and every one of our contestants as well as some e-shop vouchers But they've got to answer the questions of course They're gonna have four lifelines that they can use throughout obviously it goes without saying that no chat open no Google No phones or anything through this we've got cams on for some people we have them for others But we're gonna have to trust those that aren't on their cams So we can't keep an eye on the friends. It is a special moment. We are going to introduce our first contestant It is Bebham. Welcome to the stream Bebham. How are you doing my friend? Hope you are well What are you guys doing? How excited are you mate? How excited are you tonight?  You've got all the decks out as well mate. You got your EV there and you got the skull buddy Right in the back. I love it. Yeah Doing the job tonight Yes Rocket jumper. So I'm here. I'm here to steal some prizes. So for everyone at home These are the levels. I've kind of Kated them around a kanto theme. We've got your starter pokemon We've got the boulder badge the cascade badge thunder badge Son and son the elite fall and then the champion So the first prize you're going to get up to is Lorelei and that is ten dollar e-shop voucher Then after that you've got lance on 20 dollars. He got blue On 30 dollars and then the top prize bebham is that legends rcs So tell me when you're ready mate and we will get started Let's go man. Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah Getting more getting more here we go. So the first question bebham tonight For you my friend is How many tails does a volpex evolution have is it a nine B six c three or d 18 I mean volpex evolution. So It's nine You sure Yeah, don't even use a lifeline at this stage. Oh already. I'm already. I'm already messing up. Oh god I'm messing with you. I'm messing with you. No, no Oh god, just imagine flopping on the first question already. It's not gonna happen. It's all right So you said a nine. Is that your final answer? Final answer You're correct. You move on to the next stage Congratulations bebham. Okay, this is for your boulder badge. Which generation introduced apricon balls Is it a generation 3 b generation 2 c generation 5 or d generation 4 B gen 2 final answer straight in B final answer Magic, there we go Straight like that, mate. Very confident that answer. Yeah, too easy Too easy. So this is for your cascade badge. Well done. So far so good, mate You've still got all your lifelines intact. So you're doing good Ready for your next question is how many evolutions does eb have this is a bit of an easy one for you I feel is it a six is it b eight c five or d seven b eight final answer Final answer. Are you sure? Of course, man. Locking in with eight Let's go with eight b final answer. Yes You almost you almost made me question myself here This is not the plan. Congratulations. You're moving on. So thank you We're now moving into the thunder badge So Question for your thunder badge. What item does hapini need to hold to evolve into chancy? Is it a the everstone b shiny stone c oval stone or d josh stone? Okay, nice. That's a nicely made up But it's c oval stone final answer Confidence you are very confident. I feel like these might be A bit too easy Yeah, I mean the first four questions, right? Congratulations, mate In 2006 which celebrity commentated at the us national video game championships Was it a hulk hogan b Nicholas cage good old nick cage c michael jordan or b. Kobe bryant No, it's uh hulk hogan a Final answer. Yeah Nice Congratulations, bebham.  Nice. Nice. I'm very impressed Let's see how it goes Soul badge up next bebham. Here we go How many new pokemon were introduced in black and white? Was it air 156 B 96 C 201 or d 151 I mean, I remember people like talking so much at the time black and white came out and they said like it's a Like a soft relaunch or reset for the pokemon franchise Uh, so it's a or d but If memory serves right, I think it's a 156 You've got four lifelines. I'll remind you here. If you're unsure, it might be worth using them But it's entirely up to you. Obviously if you're confident in your answer, just go I mean the first lifeline I would use is 50 50, but It would be so bad if I'm left with a and d That's always a possibility You know, it is completely random. So I can't obviously say which ones would be removed or which ones wouldn't But you would be left with one right and one wrong answer Uh, can we ask the audience? Can ask the audience. Yeah Yeah Yeah, let's go for it So the audience is coming back With a as the highest Votes let's go with a 156 Confidence in the audience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, final answer a yeah, yeah Final answer a 156 You all right, my friend. Here we go Here we go. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. I think it was a good use of your lifeline Yeah, and we're now moving on to the marsh badge. It's for you and marsh badge In gold silver and crystal Poker us was introduced But what odds? Does your pokemon have of contracting this virus? Is it a one in 2200 b one in 4568 c one in 10,000 or d one in 21178 What are you thinking about now? Man, this is a very very tough one I honestly I honestly never looked at it like I never looked it up But it has to be like a pretty high number. You've got three lifelines left. You've got your 50 50 I'm gonna use one now. I know a friend Or you can use Ask the host and anyone at home Wondering what the ask the host is that don't know it's ask me So it can be good and it can be really bad Depending if I know the answer or not. I'm probably gonna ask the host because this one is I know I know you you are into these kind of Numbers, so you probably know this So you want to ask the host? Yeah your next lifeline. We're gonna have to use this lifeline. Okay. No way. I'm gonna do this on my own Okay Well, it is very high Bebham It's all I'm gonna say and knowing shiny odds It's even larger than shiny odds So you would say that discounts a and b I'm gonna discount c and I would say The correct answer is one in 21 000. It's one of the the largest odds in the game of getting contracting it It's a very rare. I had a feeling that number, but so if that would be what I would say So if you take my advice, I would say d is the as a final answer But again, it's up to you. You still got two lifelines that you can use But I would say if you're asking me my answer would be d Let's go with it. I'm gonna go with d Now the pressure's on me. I'm like, oh my god, if it's wrong, what am I gonna do? Go with the locking in final answer. Yeah final answer If I lose I lose Chat, let's hope my advice was right Yes That's definitely a sigh of relief from my end at least mate. So nice nice Congratulations, sir. You've moved on and we're now going on to our I think it's the earth badge now No volcano. We got tear Blaine blaine up next. So yeah, right Here we go For your volcano badge In what games was the fairy type introduced?  This was like For me, it's like the first easiest question I don't know how you blasted through you blasted through pretty much everything up to that last question pretty easily X and y one of my favorite generations final answer Yes, yes Congratulations, no doubt in your mind and that will take us now on to the earth badge Bebham Doing well my friend. You still got two lifelines intact How many species of pokemon are capable of mega evolution? Is it a 48 b 46 c 52 or d 44 I know it's in the 40s. I have a feeling. Uh, first of all, there are like three Choices of 40s, so and I'm really suspicious of of a and b And of course, I don't have time to count them all now Uh, can we call a friend? Of course we can. I'm gonna have to use it. Hey, Johnny. I'm here. I'm here. He's here.  So as soon as I start the timer You can you can go. Okay, so go All right, Johnny, how many species of pokemon are capable to mega evolution? 48 46 52 or 44 Yeah, that's a problem because I didn't count them. So I'm sorry I I'm kind of thinking thinking of 48, I have a feeling it might be the right one, but what do you think? 48 Yeah, sounds uh Because we had More or less 10 per Like you have one starters, you have uh The pidgeot the 10 seconds friends Come on, man. We have to make it 48 More or less 20 per generation with megas. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Johnny and good luck tonight Thanks See you again Thank you, Johnny. Yeah, so bevum. Okay. Here we go Was that any help? uh, I mean, I love Johnny but Not much but I thought he would have like a definitive answer, but um, let's go with 48 It's my best guess at the moment. You've still got a 50 50 that you could use as well. Remember I mean, I just don't want to use up two lifelines on one question Yeah, but you've got to think I'm gonna walk away with that. Yeah. Yeah Okay, uh, god Let's do the 50 50 and uh, yeah 50 50.  I I have to stick with it. It's my gut feeling and uh so be it Final answer. I'm gonna miss playing on this show Final answer final answer. Yes. Okay, bro. Lock in good luck my friend. Thank you No Bebham, I'm so sorry my friend Too bad too. I'm so sorry, mate. I am so sorry You did so well You did so well, mate There were some brutal questions in there and it comes down to it, you know It's like it's so hard like if you just that one thing that you don't know I think the pokerous question was the one it was a bit. Yeah, that was very tough. Yeah Yeah friends, how disappointing was it Paul Bebham? I feel so bad for him But he was a great sport and he did so well some of those questions were brutal But our next contestant lined up. So I um, I'm I'm pretty excited for this next one Hopefully, let's see if they can go a little bit further than Bebham and get some prizes this time So without further ado friends I would like to introduce contestant number two on this evening's poke who wants to be a pokemon air And we've got Jay next. So how are you doing Jay? Uh, good as I can do I guess. Yeah a little bit nervous. All right Yes, don't worry. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. You will be fine tonight first question What is the pokemon vanillax design based on? Is it a a hot dog be an ice cream see a chocolate bar or d a milkshake I Kind of want to make a joke, but I'm just going to go with the answer be ice cream I kind of want you to make the joke now, but if you want to just lock in dog, don't we Pardon we all know it's a hot dog The hot dog pokemon there needs to be a hot dog pokemon But your answer is b. Yeah B ice cream final answer b Congratulations, it is the correct answer vanillax is not based unfortunately on a hot dog How many pokemon are in the red and blue canter pokedex? Is there a 149 b 152 c 150 or d 151 I'm gonna say 151 Because that's how many pokemon are in one Final answer Yeah Congratulations, you got it nailed it jay. So we are moving on that was a bit of a trick one. Yeah I do I do I would have been a bit nervy there. I think For sure. So now moving on to the cascade badge. Are you ready to to jump straight in? What ball will always guarantee the capture of any pokemon? Is it a the best ball?  Congratulations day moving on to the next stage and your thunder badge next question jay When the steel typing was first introduced in generation two What type resistance did it originally have which was later removed? Was it a Electric b dark c bug or d psychic My 50 50 lifeline. You want to use that 50 50 50 50 is taken away a and D so you're left with b and c dark and bug dark type 100% Okay, that's good enough reason for me b final answer dark type Well done use the lifeline, but well worth it to get to the next stage So yeah next question for the rainbow badge What fossil do you need to get a caracosta? a a plume fossil b an armor fossil c sail fossil or d cover fossil I should really know this because I use the I think it's sail fossil sail fossil Yeah, how sure are you? Vapely sure you've still got your lifelines as well. You've got your fauna friend You've got to ask the host and you've also got ask the audience as well So you do have if you're unsure if you want to use any of them obviously it is up to you You don't need to use them But it might be worth considering if you're not a hundred percent sure. Yeah Can we ask Ask the audience right So the audience have come back Voted that b armor fossil Is the most common answer um Kind of tied for third and fourth is c and d and it's definitely by the audience vote It's not a That's not helpful well under the sea You know it's tied the audience See You still want to go with your initial answer? Yes, the final on c Yes, the sail fossil. Yeah Yep Locking in with c the sail fossil is your final answer Oh Jay, I'm so sorry I think if we went for the I think it's a cover fossil. Yeah, it's the the cover fossil. Yeah Yeah, it's the cover fossil. Yeah Which is really sad. So Jay, I am extremely sorry that um that you didn't get any further and that was a tricky one Um, it was a really tricky question. But Jay, thank you so much for coming on tonight It's been an absolute pleasure to have you on Um, and I hope you've enjoyed it even though You didn't get as far as kind of what you would have liked to without further to do I would like to introduce our next contestant of the evening. Welcome Jason. How are you doing tonight? I'm doing fine. Thank you for having me today. Oh, you are more than welcome Thank you so much for coming on the show. Jason. It's great to have you here I'm hoping you have a great run tonight and um Just tell me when you are ready and we will get started I am ready. Okay. Good luck Jason right Question number one Jason What color is the pokemon jigglypuff? Is it a pink b blue c red or d yellow? Hard one for us to kick off with a pink Final answer a Why not correct Okay Okay, well done. That's the first one out of the way Jason still feeling all right A little bit better. Yeah Okay Boulder badge question next question What typing is snorlax? Is it a normal b ground c fighting or d flying?  So nice start Jason getting into this really well. So Moving on now to the cascade badge and we can go for our next question What level does cocoona evolve into b drill? Is it a level 7 b level 12 c level 10 or d level 14? I never used a cocoon over for a feature I know it's an early level and I know it's between 12 and 14 You have got your lifelines. So you can use your lifelines if you want to I'll ask the host You want to ask the host? Okay If I was to give you my answer, I would say level 10 Jason that would be that would be my answer level 10 Um, which I I praying that I'm right. Um being a player that's played since gen one So I should be really familiar with this cocoon, but I would say I would say level level 10 would be my my guess I'll trust you on that one You want to go with it? Yes, because I clearly haven't played much in gen one, okay This is where the pressure comes in because I'm now I'm like, okay. This if this isn't right. I look so bad, but I'll apologize First I need to knock that on we've asked the host. I've given you my answer which is level 10 We're gonna say final answer c Oh I would have gotten it wrong Well, it's all right That's what the lifelines are there for and like you said at the start you're gonna get those questions probably Out of 15 questions It's gonna be one that you get a little bit tripped up on and that's why the lifelines are there You've used them really well Jason. So You can take a a breathe a sigh of relief and move on What is Pikachu signature attack in the main series video game titles? Is it a bolt strike b thunderbolt c volt tackle or d wild charge C volt tackle Yeah, is that your final answer Final answer c volt tackle It is correct. It is correct. Well done. We are moving on Jason You're doing well my friend. You're doing well. You are doing very well The movie stand by me was first referenced in the pokemon red and blue titles What other pokemon main series title has this reference appeared? Is it a sun and moon b black and white c omega ruby alpha sapphire or d x and y This is a tough one I don't even know what this is asking me So there is a movie reference in the original red and blue titles Somewhere in the red and blue titles it is referenced again, but in which title was it referenced Can I use 50 50? You can use 50 50 You are left with sun and moon and black and white taken away omega ruby alpha sapphire next and why These two games. I told you I haven't played much These are yeah, these are the ones at the start That you said you took a break and didn't play sun and moon and black and white You still got ask the audience and you've got phone a friend audience Okay, that's the audience Undeniably coming back strong as a The audience think it is a sun and moon b is third to last I'm going to go with a then final answer a said a sun and moon and You are oh, what's happened? It's crashed We're gonna lock in And you are right I was trying to build a suspense of a little bit. I know I can't do that now So well done Jason. Who was the pokemon professor in pokemon xd gills of darkness Was it a professor crane? b professor stork c professor juniper or d professor orc. It's another tough one a or b Okay a or b you've still got phone a friend Yeah, but I think I'm gonna go because it's kind of like a 50 50 situation now I'm going for b professor stork I'm on final answer is professor stork the professor in pokemon xd gills of darkness locked in final answer b Jason I'm so sorry my friend. I just want to say thank you so much for coming on It's been a pleasure having you on your absolute fantastic And I would love to have you on if we do this again. Thank you for having me. Uh, Merry Christmas to all Happy holidays Happy holidays Jason. Thanks again. So chat sit tight. We are going to line up our next contestant. We'll be back in just a jiffy We are back and we have our next contestant already lined up Which I'm really excited about because he is a very good friend of the channel Being here since the very beginning pretty much and I'm excited to have him on I want to introduce a very good friend of mine and uh, obviously a big friend of the show Welcome our next contestant the video How are you doing, mate? Hello. Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. How are you feeling about how it's went so far tonight? Yeah, it's uh, it's kind of brutal I don't know if I'm ready at 100% but Okay, I I definitely try my best. Okay. Davide here we go Can you be a pokemon air? kicking off With our starter nice and easy What is the fire type starter in pokemon black and white? Is it a charm under b tepig c Litten or d chimchar I'm pretty sure pretty sure. I'm sure it's b tepig tepig final answer Black and white yet. Yes Final answer b tepig Off the mark Here we go, mate. Here we go Good start Moving on to the boulder badge Who is your rival in pokemon sword and shield? Is it a blue b hop c barry or d paul It's the best rival hope hop final answer Final answer Final answer b hop Awesome. There we go my friend Moving on nerves. All right No You're doing well. You've made a good start. So let's continue this on still got four lifelines intact. So we're all good. We're all good, mate Next question for your cascade badge Which pokemon character creates apricorn pokeballs? Is it a dawn b Bebe or bebe say curt or d steven okay, uh Here's is where maybe I am going to get in trouble because most of the names of the cities of the Gym leaders, I know them in italian So but I'm pretty sure it's curt final answer final answer Final answer c curt Congratulations my friend. I didn't think about the italian translations This is gonna make some of these questions maybe tricky Which is the only pokemon to not require a held item to mega evolve I feel like you might know this one before I even give you the options maybe Is it a latios be requiser c diancy or d mu 2 My boy requires One of your all-time favorites It is Final answer. Yeah Final answer be requiser Is correct. No doubt how many turns can a pokemon use the dynamax ability in battle? Too many too many That should have been an answer Although it would have been a little bit of a trick one. I'm guessing is it a 3 b 2 c 4 or d 5 as much as I like it to be 2 I have to go with a 3 Final answer final answer final answer a 3 is it right You are correct to be there. You are moving on flying mate. Which gym leader gives you the jet badge Is it air skylar b whitney c weona or d jasmine Another one of those question Okay, I'm sure whitney and jasmine as from the gen 2 Uh now I don't I don't know if it's sky Skylar or winona are One of the flying type gym leaders. I don't know First of all the jet badge is from which generation and And I'm sure one is from gen 4 Gen 5 And the other is from gen 3 You still got your lifelines. Yeah, it's either a or a c air c Now you could use a 50 50 here, but there is the chance that those two could be the ones that are left I'm sure that I'm gonna be the one You're gonna ask the audience ask the host or forna friend I'd say The jet badge is from Oh, maybe it's gen 5 I'm pretty sure it's gen 5, but I don't wanna Let's try to Ask the audience Let's ask the audience what do you say the audience to come back with a as the highest answer then b c and d so audience Don't have c up there Have a as your your top answer Does that make it any easier clearer? Yeah, I think I think it's It can be the right one Okay, I'll I'll ask the host. Yeah. Yeah, and it's it's a gen 5 gym badge And it is skylar as the gym leader. That would be my final answer the audience I think we're right. So that would be my advice to you right now a would be my final answer You want to lock it in final answer? Let's try Two lifelines used. I hope I'm not letting you down divide Final answer a It is correct my friend. It is correct and you are moving on that was a tough one, but you've got Two lifelines down, but you are progressing onto the marsh badge now I hate these questions Hopefully this next one's something a little bit easier. You ready? Yeah Okay Next question Which postgame character battle in pokemon red and blue was removed from its final version release? Was it a blue b bill c lance or d professor orc Is the legendary battle against professor rock is that your final answer final answer The knowledge is spilling through right now D final answer professor orc That is correct. It was coded into the game, but it was removed There is a glitch that you can use to actually have the battle law which is interesting So I would have liked to have done that next question The mobile app pokemon go was released in 2016 In 2020, how many downloads did this app have? Was it a 120 b 180 c 60 million or d 200 million Let's try the 5050 I'm gonna lock in Yeah, the 5050 Is gonna take away Two answers one of them was the answer that you thought 60 million has been removed. You are left with now a Which is 120 and d which is 200 million But if I remember correctly In 2020 they implemented the The system to allow you to catch the pokemon even at home If I remember correctly, I never played pokemon go So That's tough But if you were thinking it was more in the line because obviously what was happening? Yeah, I say Then 200 million is a lot like a lot a lot So what are you thinking right now? Which one are you leaning towards more?  I'm not pushing you But if you want to look at him with a final answer 120 million Then it's a hand.  Um I use the last lifeline. Okay. We've got crim on standby. So I think he is your your lifeline of choice Yeah, chat everyone. Welcome crim into the stream. He is johnny's phone a friend Sorry to be there. What I'm um, what I'm gonna do is What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start the timer You've got 60 seconds to tell crim the question and he's got 60 seconds to talk to you about it. So three two one Joe In 2020 how many downloads did pokemon go ahead? I mean only in 2020 not up to 2020 What are your options? Yeah, I did add 120 million or 200 millions It's it's 120 man for sure Yeah, I'm rather positive about this because um, I I remember reading something about it, but you know, um, you you never know It could just be the aliens toying with my head It's definitely a possibility But uh, you know, I I I'd say I'd say it's it's definitely 120 million. No question. You got this Just lock it in buddy Thanks Thank you so much, mate. Thank you so much Bye. Bye. See you later. Bye. Bye, mate. Bye Joe Hey the video What a great phone a friend Very confident. So yeah, I like the last one So 120 million is what krim is saying. It makes sense 200 million. It's a lot a lot of the whole roots Do you want to lock that in? I lock it a lot easy. Yeah. Yeah, fine. Final answer Yeah, final answer Final answer a 120 million total downloads in 2020 It is right krim has helped you get through Although we have used all of your lifelines. So you are on your own now, johnny Sorry, I keep calling your handle online handle. It's okay. Sorry. I'm sorry But you are now moving on to your earth badge. Which ev reducing berry laws of pokemon's speed evs Is it a the pomegranate berry? B the calpsie berry c the hondue berry or d the tomato berry Is that Irish when I say that? That's tough because Caps berry is attack pomegranate berry. It's hp hondue berry. It's a special attack Yeah, it's a hard question. I never played vgc.  Well done. You have locked in a ten dollar e shop voucher So you are officially the furthest along anyone has got tonight. So congratulations And now we Make a start with Lorelai and the elite fall what pokemon spin-off title give players the opportunity to get the mythical pokemon Jarachi Was it a pokemon polka park pikachu's adventure b pokemon dash c pokemon channel or d pokemon art academy Yeah, it's the one from for the um The game cube and pretty sure it's pokemon channel pokemon polka park pikachu's adventure should be the really old one with devikachu Yeah, I'm pretty sure the pocket beats pokemon channel. Is that your final answer? Yeah, I think so c is your final answer devide. I hope you're right my friend. Good luck Final answer c to move on It is right here we go devide you guessed it Well done my friend hype in the chat for devide who's moving on Congratulations mate. That was a really tough one. I honestly didn't know myself Um, I wasn't sure because I'm pretty sure even in pokemon channels. Uh, there was a pikachu running around. So I wasn't super sure Maybe 70% yeah Awesome though Now we're on to bruno big old bruno the bruiser And we're gonna continue. See you next question devide Oh What nature increases a pokemon special defense and laws defense stat Is it a impish b lax c gentle or d sassy? So gentle final answer gentle final answer Final answer gentle Without a doubt devide and now you're moving on The soljuu item originally gave latios and latias a 50% boost their special attack and defense stats In generation 7 these items were nerfed What have these items new effects been changed to? Is it a boost to special attack? b boost to speed C boosting psychic and dragging type attacks or is it d boost to special defense Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's c boosting psychic and dragon type attacks final answer final answer Final answer boosting psychic and dragon type attacks Yes You are correct and you are moving on Congratulations. Yes. It used to be a very broken item, but it was I'm ready Okay, here we go Who is the vocalist on the original pokemon theme track got to catch him all Is it john c sigler a is it b? Billy Crawford is it c john bon jovi or is it d jason page? Ah Bon Jovi we can probably discount one of them Yeah, I I have no idea Billy Crawford is It's it sounds vaguely familiar and I'm not even sure it's a singer C sigler so what you're discounting Billy Crawford Or are you No, no, no, I I'm discounting. Okay. So for you it's between a john sigler and d jason page Yeah, so really it's gonna be a 50 50 to be there. Yeah coin flip What all good vgc is love? I know who sings the italian version No, I actually don't I'm not sure. Okay Um It is a english version. Sorry. I should have been more specific No, yeah, yeah, yeah, no Jason page d Your final answer Yeah, my final answer Final answer to move on to the next part of this quiz D jason page final answer You're right. You're right Congratulations Good guess there. So very what David are you doing amazing? Congratulations You have locked yourself in a $30 e-shop voucher and you've got two questions to go To win this entire thing So are you ready? No No You're doing incredibly well. You're doing incredibly well Let's go Let's go Next question Tuffy In the pokemon anime, what is the name of ash ketchum's mum? Is it a sandy b bonnie c delia or d lazy big anime fan divide of the pokemon series? Nope All you watch the films Oh, well, well, I don't know there might have been a snippet in there with ash's mum Have you got any idea at all? Litsi and bonnie sounds Pretty wrong. Okay So we're going with the same method as you went for last time Discounting a couple and then taking a taking a call Basically I can't flip I can't flip with Four faces because I'm not sure The four-faced coin Every flips a win I'm throwing at the four Okay. Oh, I am I can throw the Dice I have a d4. Yeah. Yeah, might as well like okay. We've got a dice on the go, right Johnny is putting all his faith in dice. It's like, uh, what is it like? How what what how are you going to determine which one you go for? How many sided dice is that? Uh, it's a four. It's a before. Okay. Oh, you're not discounting anything. So whatever it lands on Yeah, I might as well like I don't I don't know. Okay Uh, I don't know if I I don't know if I can basically see delia Are you locking in? Yeah, are you sure? No Final answer Yeah final answer Locking in final answer the dice roll decides all see Delia How you feeling Not well Is see the correct answer It is the right answer the dice I've thought you well David congratulations You are at the final stage Of this This is now To win yourself a copy of legends arceus You've already locked in 30 dollar e-shop voucher. So you've done incredibly well. This is the final question of the night How are you feeling? I don't know. I have no idea On how I'm feeling arceus is Go wrong Yeah, yeah, it's a legend arceus I mean If it's a cue Is that is that like the pure from many many arceus? That's how you there is only one arceus, right? I can't get out of this it's a spelling mistake. I'm sorry chat. Yeah, it's okay There's probably been many throughout the night. So David you've done incredibly well. I wish you all the best. Are you wanting to dive in? Yeah For your final question to become a pokemon air Your question your final question of the evening is At the 2013 pokemon world championships in vancouver What pokemon was distributed to players as a download gift? Was it a smear goal be high dragon? C got the tell or d We've all I feel like I should know this but I don't 2013 pokemon world championships in vancouver. It was uh black two white two. Yeah, that's uh That's pretty tough because it it can't be the pokemon that won the The 2013 world championships because it was a gift for that year. So That is correct And that yeah, I believe a fellow italian won. Yeah, I rush all right show marty. Good friend Um, yeah So Yeah, that's why I say I should know this Oh come on. I mean Let's go Yeah, got it. Final answer David You've been a great contestant tonight. Whatever happens. You've been brilliant. I think your logic here of narrowing this down has been fantastic so Final answer c got the tell was it the downloadable gift at the 2013 pokemon world championships and vancouver C is your final answer Was it got the tell it was in fact smegel Smegel was the right answer my friends. Yeah And i'm so sorry my I am so sorry that you were so close to getting it and You have won yourself a 30 dollar e-shop voucher and you've done yourself extremely proud mate You've done amazing. It's been a pleasure having you on. You've done incredibly well Everyone in chat was rooting for you. You did amazing. Thank you again for coming on and we've got one more contestant left Chat so we are going to head over now and get the contestant ready and end this show davide. Thank you so much again mate and congratulations And chat will be right back Hello chat. We are back finally back and we've got one more contestant tonight But without further ado friends, I'm gonna hop over and I'm gonna now introduce our fifth and final contestant of the night So welcome to the who wants to be a pokemon air Jordan, how are you doing mate? Yes, I'm good. Thank you very good very good. Lee very good Let me know when you're ready mate and we can start this gig Jordan all the best good luck. I'm kicking off with Which electronic device is used to record and provide information about different species of pokemon? Is it a the poker radar b pokemon encyclopedia c poker ball or d pokedex? Gotta be the pokedex ground for d final answer Nice and easy you want to lock us in with the pokedex d final answer There we go. What type of pokemon is jarizard? Is it air a fire dragon b a dragon c a fire type or d a fire and flying type Well, it's gotta be it's gotta be d. I mean I feel like it should have been a from the beginning Like it should it should actually just be a fire dragon, but sadly it's not but you got the mega evolution So you know it's cool. But yeah, it's d fire flying final answer d fire and flying Locking in And it is correct next question In pokemon sword and shield. What is the name of the water starter? Is it a totodile b mudkip c sobble or d squirtle Final answer Final answer c sobble locking in It is sobble Congratulations. We are moving on been a gen one. Are you should should get this? Who is the boss of team rocket? Is it a Giovanni b james c meowth or d jesse? a Giovanni Final answer Final answer a Giovanni boss of team rocket locking it in You are correct. We are moving on It's going well jordan. It's going really well. How many types of pokemon are there? a 18 b 21 c 15 or d 16 That's the host. I need you bro. I need you. You want to ask the host? If you're asking me I would say It's a 18. I'm I'm it's up to you. I'm saying a 18 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow. Wow. That was so hard. That was a hard question. That was hard, man Which of these pokemon does not have a hidden ability? Is it a ulterior b garchomp c salamence or d flygon? I feel like it's flygon because I feel like he's just got levity. I can't remember seeing him with another ability like that Can I go 50 50 on this please? 50 50? What are you hoping it takes away? God jumping salamence Okay, going with a 50 50 It's leaving you with the options of salamence and flygon Oh my gosh So which of these pokemon does not have a hidden ability? What are you thinking right now? I truly believe it's flygon flygon I feel like salamence I don't know why I'm thinking salamence has mochi. I know it's not like I think it's aerial 8 or something when it mega evolves Definitely has intimacy I'm gonna go flygon Final answer flygon is flygon The only pokemon from this selection without a hidden ability locking in d flygon jordan It is right flygon is the correct answer and you are right salamence does have The hidden ability moxi as well. So congratulations shiny pokemon were introduced in witch games A rubian sapphire B golden silver C red and blue or D black and white I think it's golden silver because red red garados and I also like I think Like the noctowl like ashes noctowl that is an anime but I don't know. I don't know But then red garados That's definitely that's definitely shiny pokemon That was in Yeah It's like rubian sapphire is where like I feel like it kind of became like a proper thing In a way but golden silver Final answer Final answer golden silver B You are correct jordan Congratulations still keeping those two lifelines intact in 2014 which pikachu like pokemon won the vgc world championships Was it air togo tomorrow b plusl c patry su or d more pico I think patry su patry su final answer final answer c patry su Was it one of the pokemon to win The vgc 2014 world championships it was It's probably the most famous of all pokemon to win with cesium park that year Um in washington dc. So congratulations my friend in what year was the mobile game pokemon gore released? Was it a 2014 b 2016 c 2017 or d 2015 I want to say 2016 because I remember when I was working in a bar one time and That's what you're feeling. Yeah, I remember like loads of people outside just like Going mad with their phones.  He's got the ask the audience and you still got fun a friend 2014 it's quite difficult because all the dates are quite close to each other. So It is tough one Like I say, you still got your lifelines there If you need a little bit of help Most of the time they've been pretty good tonight so far They've been right every time they've been asked so far tonight, but I can't obviously I can't guarantee it I don't know who's in the audience right now It might not be but it might be it might help Might help you but it may not as well But if you're unsure they're there to help. So it's entirely up to you. It's your call, mate Audience here we go in what year was the mobile game pokemon gore released Oh It's not even close They are coming in strong with that b It's a bit of a landslide there. So you initially thought 2016 audience are kind of Backed you up there. So Yeah, I'm gonna go B. I'm gonna have to go B, you know Final answer Final answer pokemon gore's release. Yeah 2016 Are the audience right? Or have they let you down royally? Totally trolled, but no 2016 is right Congratulations, Jordan.  She's amazing. You've done super well and you've still got a lifeline intact. You've got Phone a friend. So you can use that at any time. But now Questions might get a little harder. This is the elite four portion of the The quiz so here we go. Are you ready to dive in? Okay, good luck, Jordan. Good luck Who won the vgc 2019 masters division world championships? Was it air neato? mizubushi was it b cesion park? c wolf click or d pol ruiz 2019 masters division world championships air neato b cesion c wolf or d paul It wasn't wolf because I feel like he won it. He won like a player's court recently. I don't think he won I don't think he won anything. I think he won an exhibition I don't think it was wolf though Okay, so you discount wolf from this one. Yeah, okay Who are you kind of leaning towards at this point? Or do you not really? I need a dice or something I Honestly Kind of him. I don't I don't think sage on Believe he won I think it's between Paul reason Do you know what the phone a friend? I don't have anyone on this. Yeah. Who's your who's your phone a friend? My gaming page with me. Can we bring him into the chat or is he on the actual phone? He's on my phone. I don't mind showing my phone to the camera. That's fine Go for it mate. We'll phone a friend We'll trust we'll trust your friend not to have the air to have google It's all right, mate. It's all right All right, well here we go chat We've got jordan phone a friend for this So as soon as he answers just say and then you've got I'll just give me the nod When you start want to start the question and I'll start the timer, mate Okay, yeah, he's here. Yeah, I can hear you, bro. I can hear you Right. All right. Right. We're ready. We're ready. Okay. I'm gonna start the timer now Okay, 60 seconds Who won the vgc 2019 masters division world champion? Naruto misabuchi sage on park wolf click or paul ruiz Naruto misabuchi sage on park wolf click or paul ruiz paul ruiz Got 20 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. All right.  Has he done you a solid able come through for me, brother, please It is neato, it is neato. He won it in 2019 uh, seijun was 2014 wolf was to any 16 and paul was 2018 so yeah, well done jordan and you move on to our next stage the big old bruno here No lifelines. Unfortunately It's all you now But you are one two three four five questions away from winning the entire thing So can we done ready for the next one? Okay, here we go How heavy is the pokemon snorlax? Oh my gosh Is it air 460 kilograms b 150 kilograms c 100 oh one 1100 kilograms, sorry or d 300 kilograms He's a big big. He's a big big pokemon But do you have any idea of how heavy he is? It's not 150. I know that 1100, I don't know because he is super heavy We think like he'd be like two big shows Maybe uh, I think I want to go for 460. Oh, it's between the two highest so 460. Do you think 1100 is a little high? Yeah Final answer a Final answer Okay, jordan pokemon snorlax, how heavy are you? Are you a 460 kilograms tension tension tension You're right. You're right. You got it, mate. You got it. That is correct. He is snorlax is In fact 460 kilograms. Yeah, so no congratulations, mate. Congratulations. You have Moved on to agatha So here we go. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going Next question How many pokemon were not included in the pokemon sword and shield games? Was it a 234 b 320 c 180 or d 116 Yeah, all the raging all the raging The national dexers The movement It's a special it was a special time and the pokemon community it was We got an uh, do you have an inkling do you have an idea of where where it could maybe be? Are we talking like from the beginning of sword and shield so like not what we've got left? Yeah, so what what pokemon are excluded from the pokedex? Yeah, what have not we're not included what pokemon have Are not allowed into the games, but pretty much have been Taking out and they can never be brought into the games Okay, not even from pokemon home. Yeah So what has been excluded from the national dex? The sword and shield national dex so Is a really tough question What is it It's all a new mate no lifelines left, but you've got so far We've got a one and four chance if you just take a guess But you can probably kind of discount some I guess I'm guessing you can do you feel like there's anything you can discount at this point Like 116 definitely 180 It's just the fact that it's such a good mixture of pokemon as well such a mixture of pokemon It's like one minute. I think there's not loads from one region I'm gonna go for three three twenties is quite a round number I'm gonna have to go for b league. I'm gonna have to go for b 320 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go for b final answer Locking in b 320 is the final answer With how many pokemon were excluded from Were not included in the pokemon sword and shield games Jordan, I'm so sorry mate. I'm so sorry It is in fact 234 Is the answer Yeah Jordan, you did amazingly well mate. You did amazing. I'm just so sorry. You couldn't get any further But like I say, you're not going to wear empty-handed.   They've been incredible Um, I just it's been a great evening. I've really enjoyed it I hope I just hope everyone else that's tuned in has had a good time. It's been amazing Thank you so much as always for coming out to the stream tonight It's uh, it's been an experience the first time I've ever done one of these um Kind of streams before um And I've just realized I don't have an end screen. I've got I've got an end screen we can go to It's not the quiz show end screen. No, I forgot to do that, but it's been fun I hope you've enjoyed it. I really appreciate each and every one of you Have a great rest of your evening more importantly as well. This is going to be our last stream before Christmas I go away tomorrow for a few days. So I won't be back until next week So we'll be streaming next week probably Tuesday. Um Monday or Tuesday we'll be streaming, but I won't be streaming over the weekend, unfortunately I won't be at home. So I just want to wish you all a really Merry Christmas If you are celebrating if not have a happy holiday time Um, and I really hope you all take care of yourselves. Have a great time with Friends family whatever you're doing over the weekend. And I just want to say I appreciate each and every one of you Thank you so much for coming out. Have a great rest of your day evening Everything else in between. Yeah, and I'm going to go and get some food Thank you so much friends. Take care of yourselves and I'll see you all for another stream Here on the channel very soon. Hopefully take care. Merry Christmas friends. Bye. Bye. Bye


We here, thank the Lord. Now, next thing, I'll see you at the house. Oh, I don't know about you guys, but don't you just love jumping into a brand new rental car on a brand new holiday? No, you got all these, all the space for activities and cool things to do.  Yeah! No, but seriously. Alright, we here, and I'm going to talk to you. I'm just going to do a little bit of real talk before I do get to the house. And the real talk is the fact that I am in trouble.  Because of the fact that she doesn't support me anymore in my journey to be a football player. Because of the fact that we're not together anymore, which is fair enough. So for me to leave Alice Springs and leave her and more importantly leave my daughter for six days without having told her before I actually left is pretty bad. The reality is that I wanted to leave in a good mood. I wanted to leave in a good headspace and I knew that if I had have told her days beforehand, it just would have been arguments after arguments. Her trying to stop me from going, we're here in Melbourne. What can I do? What can I do, man?   It's not for me. It's to design and build a life that I can then not have to work so hard so then I can provide more so for my family and for my daughter in the future. That's what this is for, man. This is not for me. This is about setting up a future. It's about living a life that's interesting and in doing so I'm going to be better off for it. My headspace, my mental space. This year was all about saying yes. This year was about not living with any regrets. Nothing. No regrets. And fuck, I've achieved a lot this year just because I had that attitude. So, you know, I just hope that it all be worth it in the end and I have faith that it will be. So that's why we're down here, if you didn't know. But I think you did know. So anyways, people are looking at me funny. I'm sitting in the car park looking at a camera by myself. This YouTube thing is weird to most people. Vlogging, you know. Even listening to your own voice is hard to some people. And that's the first thing that you've got to get over when you want to start a YouTube channel. Anyways guys, I've just wasted another five minutes. I need to charge my phone, get the GPS going and head off to my accommodation. And let's hope I don't have too many angry, nasty messages from the ex. Because I don't want that, man. I don't want it, I don't need it, but I probably deserve it. Anyways, I'll see you in a minute. Alright guys, currently lost and haven't even left the airport. It's not good. 37 minutes, 29 kilometers. For you guys in the US, that's probably about 18 miles. Be there at 5.30, what is it now? 4.51. Leggo! Alright guys, I honestly think I fit the jackpot with this one. There we are, 38 Cunningham Street, right in the centre of Melbourne. And it's somewhat of a high rise, so I'm hoping we've got one up there. I'm not quite sure. Anyways, first of all, first of all guys, I need to find the key. And I've been given some instructions, and they're in the form of a cryptic code. Well not really. Actually they've given me photos here, that's good.  Hi, we have a lock box, blah blah blah blah blah. You will find the keys to access the property in the lock box placed near the building. Please read instructions to find the lock box. Okay, come with me. Facing the main entrance, okay. Turn left and walk about 20 meters, okay. You will find a bench. The lock box is attached to the bench's legs. Boom. Enter the code, open the black lid, take the key. Please close the lock box and change the code. To enter the building, you need to swipe the fob over the scanner. Alright, let's get the code out. Bingo. To enter the building, you need to swipe the fob over the scanner. On the right hand side, walk towards the lifts and press one. Once you're on level one, turn left towards apartment 105. Alright, and we have to work out parking later, because apparently I've got to park. Thank you. Oh yeah. I'm liking this. I think these must be service departments right in the city. This apartment would literally, well, let me see it first. But I think it'd probably be worth close to a million. Let's see. Inception 105. Let's check it out. This way. 108. Don't you just love, oh my God, look at this place. Fuck, yes. Wow. Look, we've got a big glass screen here between the bed and the lounge. What's this? Storage. Come right out here. To the studio apartment. Here we go. What do we got? Dear guest, please drop off this envelope with the keys inside the mailbox when you're checking out. Okay. This is why I love Airbnbs. I've got this whole place to myself in the middle of Melbourne for $110 a night. Six nights. $660. Plus cleaning fees. $700 for six nights. It's my own place.  This is sick. Yes. Let's go outside. I've got a balcony. It's not high-rise, but... You know, you do what you can. And it seems as if they know the way to my heart. I definitely need one of those in my house. All right, guys. Anyways, apparently we've got some parking. So I'm going to try and sort that out. Parking instructions. To get to the gate, face the building, turn right, and at the corner, turn left. To open the gate, you need the remote. Drive down the ramps until the last one where you'll face a wall. Turn left. The parking space is the last one to the left, number 105. All right. Let's see how good they are. Parking, especially in the middle of the city, is super hard to come by. I've got to say, one of the filters that I always put on my Airbnbs when I try and book, especially in a place like Melbourne, is a parking space. Free Wi-Fi, parking space.  That's not the right one. Maybe. I think it's actually just this button. Let's have a try. That's what you want to see. This just gets better and better. It looks like we're... Actually, it looks like we're Thunderbird 2. Thunderbirds are go. You know Thunderbird 2, coming from out underneath that island with that big opening door, just like that. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Okay, we've got one park, one park only. Where is it? 105. I've got to say, man, I am so stoked with that unit. I knew it would be nice, but, I mean, $110 a night. Like, seriously, man? Seriously. You literally cannot beat that. And here we are. What do we got? Oh, what does it say? 105. Boom. The last one on the left. We got it, folks. We made it. I don't actually think you'd want to be down here at night. It's kind of spooky. What? Man, I haven't heard an echo like that in a while. Yes, just in case you're wondering, I did set that shot up. I did have to walk back out, set the camera up, walk back in, just to the shot. And I'll tell you what, it wasn't worth it. Nah. All right, you guys. Final clip. I'm pretty damn tired. I've got to be honest. It's 11 o'clock at night. I've just got Uber Eats, which we don't have up now in the spring. So that's one good thing. Honestly, I'm exhausted. I really am. I can't wait to go to bed and wake up tomorrow. It's a brand new day. It's Wednesday. We've got awesome things planned. And hopefully by the end of tomorrow, I will have experienced my first proper football training. And it's being held from 7 o'clock p.m. till 9.30 p.m. tomorrow evening. And I have purposely not brought my rugby boots because I want to buy some new ones. So that's going to be one video tomorrow. It's going to be my brand new pair of football cleats or rugby boots, whichever you want to call it. And a second video is going to be... It's going to be titled Time for a Change. And you know, the more I look at this thing, the more I think, you know what, it's time. It's definitely time. The side of my head needs to be done. I'm going to take the line of the man bun, probably up a centimetre on each side to have it more of a mohawk sort of strip sort of thing. I'm going to get this done, or gone basically. And I'm going to be looking fresh for this training with fresh boots. So I can't wait. If you have followed along guys, if you want to support me, if you want to support the channel, please hit the like button. If you want to subscribe, please do. And I'll be seeing you pretty soon. Probably tomorrow morning to get some boots. I can't wait. I don't know what colour. I don't know whether to get this. I don't even know what kind of boots are out at the moment. I haven't been to a sports store in fricking years. There's nothing in Alice Springs. Nothing as far as, you know, proper sports stores where you'd want to go and buy some rugby boots. So we're going to do that. Get a haircut and have a good day. I'm still dealing with those personal issues I talked about before with the other half or the ex-other half. But, you know, this is the year of no regrets and I would regret it if I didn't have this happen. So that's why I'm here.


Okay, so thank you for that introduction. It's a real pleasure to be here and be able to give you an update on our GCEP project on South Oxide flow batteries for grid energy storage a couple years back We gave a talk as well on the cell material advancements. We've been working on Today's talk we're going to focus more on the system concepts That will hopefully enable the technology to move it forward Before moving into that I just want to acknowledge our team members PhD student Chris Wendell and Professor Bob Key at the School of Minds Professor Scott Barnett and doctors Gareth Hughes and Zan Gao at Northwestern are really working at advancing the cell technology So in today's talk, I'm going to briefly give you an overview of what exactly is this technology And followed by with I guess I would say our view of some of the motivation and the technology requirements That are needed for energy storage to move forward I'll then move into some descriptions of reversible South Oxide Cells as flow batteries here We'll look at a little bit at theory of operation and performance considerations as well as some performance estimates of really these large scale Mega watt size gigawatt hours capacity systems that we would envision for bulk storage Brief I'll give a brief update of some of the Exciting developments in the cell Development area where we were really trying to push towards a 600 c operation cell using LSGM technology We have some very interesting and encouraging results related to cycling to show of these cells And that's very important when we're going to operate forward and backward modes with this technology We don't want degradation there Lastly, we'll touch on some of the economic projections for these kind of large-scale bulk energy storage systems I'll then briefly touch a little bit on what we've learned in future directions So in principle a solid oxide flow battery really leverages Similarities to fuel cells where we're going to operate reversibly here Reversibly is not in the thermodynamic sense. It's in the sense of reversing the current For these systems to operate in a power producing mode and in electrolysis or charging mode And we're going to tank the reactants and capture Those in gaseous storage and that's particularly useful for us because it gives us really the flow battery advantage We get the decouple power capacity From storage and so the power will scale at the size of the cell stack and The energies will scale with the size of the storage tanks. We also get the high efficiency advantage of solid oxide cell technology Which enables us to have really high round-trip efficiencies as we move between modes We don't experience high polarization and electrolysis mode and The novel relatively novel HCO chemistry that is experienced directly within the cell allows us to produce high energy dense fuels So shown here is a real simple schematic of a solid oxide cell and oxygen conducting one With some fuel storage here. We're showing methane and syngas and We're going to feed it with air and we're going to take the oxygen from air reduce it get those anions moving and electrochemically oxidized those gaseous reactants into H2O and CO2 We will capture that tail gas in a tank and Essentially produce our power now in reverse mode. We can then accept Apply voltage drive occurrence essentially put our power in to the device and then move into the opposite mode where we'll remove those previous products of reaction out of storage back to our cell will strip out the oxygen Liberate some of that oxygen and in the meantime directly within the cell. We will produce methane and syngas In general that'll give us favorable scaling this device, but also Something additionally unique is it gives us really low-cost working fluids compared to advanced and other types of flow batteries In terms of motivation certainly the variability of renewable energy resources is well known and motivates Developing grid energy solutions. I like to at least see some picture of what that means here Some minute-by-minute data shown from Hawaiian electric power on a wind farm We can see really a 10x change within 30 minutes of the power requirements And it's not just wind variability if we look at developing Activities and concentrating solar power and of course PV penetration. You've got power fall-off In the evening hours as well that will need to be addressed to get high capacity factors So currently there is no battery technology that really serves most of our energy storage Worldwide is predominantly palm Tidro and that's but this problem still exists and Those who are facing this primarily off and island nations for example are Already trying to develop solutions and I will call them poor solutions Taking high-grade electrical energy and storing it in low-grade hot water for example a so-called thermal battery That's being done by Hawaiian electric power to manage these this variability It's also be done electricity arbitrage models in Minnesota for example I would call them the dubious honor of having the largest thermal battery perhaps in the country at one gigawatt hour High-grade electrical energy low-grade hot water. It's essentially thermodynamics sin But on the other hand, you know good economics doesn't necessarily always mean good thermodynamics In general though to in order to enable that technology. We've got to reach some certain targets We've been keeping our eye on these as we look at this technology Certainly capital costs and round-trip efficiency But perhaps most importantly some levelized cost of electricity storage around a dime For kilowatt hour cycle we need cycle capability and depending on the application. You'll need various modes various duration of storage If we now turn to looking at the technology itself Just operationally we can take a look at a voltage current plot which is a representation of the cells performance characteristic and shown here we can see That in power producing mode or fuel cell mode the voltage will decrease as you increase the current density or produce More power in response to over potentials and irreversibilities within the cell the slope of this curve represents the overall resistance in fuel cell mode the higher the voltage the higher the efficiency electrolysis mode we can see a relatively smooth transition shown here in this cartoon But that's actually what we see experimentally as well There isn't a large over potential that gives us good electrolysis Efficiencies low applied voltage needed there, but here you want low voltage equals high efficiency in electrolysis mode So if we look at the round-trip stack efficiency Which is not shown here. Okay Is basically the voltage of the fuel cell divided by the voltage of the electrolysis device? That's the ratio so you want high fuel cell voltage low electrolysis voltage that will give you a high round-trip efficiency At the system level We not only need to be mindful of the stack But we're moving these reactants back and forth between the tank and the stack And so there's an auxiliary power component that enters into this ratio So in the end how we can improve system efficiency. We can improve the cell by reducing over potential and at the system level we got to be mindful of the balance of plant and thermal management and When we look at thermal management one of the unique attributes here is by doing Methanation locally within the cell in a lot in an electrolysis mode We're able to attain low electrolysis voltages get towards a thermal neutral operation as well So when we look at a fuel cell it requires heat rejection where air cooled We're operating at relatively high temperatures, but an electrolysis. This is of course an endothermic process It requires a heat source as and we can see that when we reduce H2O. That's that's certainly the case We're going to leverage HCO chemistry here and because of the nickel in in the fuel electrode We can also do heterogeneous chemical reactions and reduce CO2 as well through H2 and Provide us with some CO which can then be combined with hydrogen to methanate which is highly exothermic And that's very nice for us because we have a exothermic local source where we have an endothermic process We've got good matching of sources and sinks there and ultimately low temperature is what we would want in relatively high pressure to achieve that methanation One of the considerations we're faced with as well is if we're going to design one of these systems What do we charge the tanks with what is the composition we want and what are the considerations therein? So in these systems, we have to be concerned about carbon deposition This is a deleterious effect on on solid oxide cells And it degrades their performance rapidly should that happen So shown here is in the right is essentially a compositional space using a so-called Gibbs diagram or ternary diagram where the shaded area above the red indicates the thermodynamically favorable region for carbon deposition to occur and the the open what the white zone really is Is unfavorable for that and that's where we want to operate? So in doing so you can see the red dot up here is where we might start on a hydrogen carbon ratio Oxygen ratio for fuel saw mode as we oxidized the fuel will move towards this fully oxidized region shown in the light blue And we don't really want to be fully oxidized in this system We want to be not fully oxidized and not fully reduced This is our operating window if you will to move back and forth If we look at the bottom graph we can see basically on the left hand side an equilibrium gas Constitution on a molar basis It's a wet basis shown here versus oxygen content and we can basically move back and forth between shown here exists between four and forty percent Oxygen conversion which will allow us to Have fairly high storage capacity We can produce methane in 60-40 ratio with hydrogen here on a dry basis and at this end of the cell Basically as you produce in fuel cell mode You'll see us reducing the ch4 producing h2o these of course will be tanked for electrolysis mode so one of the proposed Applications we've been looking at it's really bulk storage To in order to get there we need very large tanks and very large tanks can be realized with pressurized underground gaseous storage of our reactants using salt caverns for example natural gas reservoirs saline aquifers And so we're this concept is actually being very seriously considered particularly in Europe in Germany and We're looking in collaboration with the Danish technical University at Designing the so-called surface system which will convert and store our reactants Using survey data on natural gas reservoirs in Denmark for example We can estimate 500 gigawatt hours of storage would be available for one plant that has a 250 megawatt capacity And the punchline here is we'll get to this later But in the end that these storage costs can reach three to four cents per kilowatt hour with storage durations of months Which is particularly important Germany and particularly very interested in month-long duration storage because of the low PV Insulation and during the winter in particular Because we produce methane we find it really interesting that technology is also suitable to support the so-called power-to-gas platforms that are very of increasing interest Particularly by Europe and getting off of Russian natural gas and using renewable Green electricity if you will to make SNG this technology is perfectly applicable to that in the end though, we need this top surface system and That involves systems integration and thermal management strategies in moving essentially Between the caverns and the stack and so just very briefly We we have to pressurize and preheat the reactants to get over to the stack We can recover some of that energy from fuel cell exothermic operation to reduce our balance of plant parasitics From the cavern will take our CH4 preheated and expand it because it's operating at say 160 bar in the stack is at 20 bar We'll recuperate some power and we'll introduce steam and use the tail gas if you will of that process to meet the process Heating needs before dumping it into the co2 cavern We'll get DC power out and when we go to electrolysis mode. We basically reverse and store in the co2 cavern Store in the CH4 caverns Importantly in order to make this viable. We want to use the same equipment Okay, so that means they have to be sized and operated in design such that that can be done We also have to carefully manage water and these systems We're going to knock it out and generate it because we can't really easily store it in these caverns and extract it When we look at performance trades Clearly a key issue is what pressure and temperature should this stack be operated out One of the things we like about this project is we got cell material development We got systems aspects going on and the two get to talk to each other We can say from a systems view. I don't really need very low temperature Or I need a different pressure for you guys to focus on perhaps depending on the application So here we show a plot of round-trip efficiency for the stack and the system We'll just focus on that versus stack pressure and we see an optima is Here and that optima basically is the interplay between The auxiliary power Depending on what the stack pressure is so if the stack pressure is relatively low We can get net power out of our system in fuel cell mode and that can offset our electrolysis pumping requirements in the end that interplay gives us an optima of around 20 bar Which we like because that matches a lot of the high-pressure turbine spools that are available That might be integrated with the system similar trades are our presence when we look at temperature and reactant utilization and and those optima are shown here If we just quickly move into Now looking at some of the cell technology advancements that have been ongoing with this project We're really focused on these next generation material sets leveraging Really LSGM technology to push towards 600 C and with high cycle durability Briefly here's an SEM image of the microstructure of one of the cells and you can see the thick LSGM electrolyte layer the dense layer that's that's right here Overall the some of these layers is quite thin But you can see here. There is on the air electrode. We have our gas diffusion support. It's LSF We have a nickel infiltrated LSGM fuel electrode that allows us to get high current densities for high triple phase boundary Area if you will this is on an SLT support What gives it strength and one of the the unique pieces of this is is the nanoparticle nickel infiltration in the fuel electrode If we look at the performance characteristics, we can get high performance high performance here demonstrates at a power density of 1.6 watts per square centimeter at 650 C as far as we know that's that's one of the records It works in both modes very well at the area specific resistance is point one eight. We've been targeting point two Ohms square centimeter for the system and we've demonstrated that at this at really button cell level We have to do better on the 600 C Polarization curve if you will that's getting slightly higher and we still need better performance there But most interestingly I think one of the tests that we've been running is on cycle durability We need to cycle these things forward and backward and no one has really tested this kind of technology in this mode So we've looked here at really one in 12 hour cycles You can see a 30 minute operation on one mode 30 minute operation on the other Switching back and forth between these modes For different cycle times. So here is one hour show, but we've also done 12 hour cycles And is well so six hours in one mode six hours in the other mode at different operating current densities And what you'll notice here is on this light blue curve if you're just operating electrolysis mode You get fairly rapid degradation But as we change into cyclic mode We get reduced degradation as exhibited by the change in total resistance over time And we've tested this for a thousand hours And as you can see is once you get below a certain threshold operating current density the degradation Mechanisms are turned off essentially or interrupted and we find that that actually happens around point eight amps per square centimeter Which is at least twice as high or about twice as high as we think is economically needed To develop the technology. So we're really encouraged by these results in particular in the remaining minutes I'd like to give you a little snapshot of the economics when we first presented a couple years back There are a lot of questions on that. We had no data. I can report some data on this at this time and That's unfortunate this okay. I'm in IBM PC and these equations aren't showing up But what I would say is briefly there's a simple calculation that basically takes the It takes the investment costs and divides by the energy storage and around trip efficiency in the number of cycles And you get essentially a simple storage cost metric In cents per kilowatt hour the challenge with this method is it assumes a hundred percent capacity factor in doing so In order to they'll perform this we need to cost out the plant So we've done some bottom-up plant costing using some of these Parameter values here briefly highlighted here 250 megawatt rating we've shown we can get higher round trip efficiency, but we just put in 70 percent here Mature life projections for solid oxide cell technology again We're using costs from solid oxide fuel cells. They're very applicable here, but perhaps not exactly applicable depending on on the cell material sets The storage there's a fair amount of good data here We've been leveraging existing natural gas reservoir data from Lillatora facility in Denmark 120 million cubic meter natural gas reservoir facility We make use of 70 million cubic meters of that we need a 50 million cubic meter cushion gas To support the activity and we've priced out that cost Based on the existing costs that we know for that that and we've extrapolated for co2 caverns there That's relatively unproven storage co2. We've essentially taken the ch4 costs and more or less double them for the risk In the end we get a capital cost at this scale of around less than 1,100 hours per kilowatt If you look at the total expense breakdown up here, it's not Just capital costs. We got operating maintenance costs here and and staff and so forth to operate But in the end we're about 30 percent on on the stack in less than 15 percent in the storage If this simple costing method then allows us to get us around three cents per kilowatt hour on storage costs with this method Which if you look compares favorably against compressed air Hydrogen and and pumped hydro in these other bulk storage categories We think that's perhaps a little too simple and more we could leverage instead The resources of this storage facility using electricity spot market prices and essentially using supply and demand characteristics of the grid market and Do essentially market arbitrage to buy and sell power essentially buy power cheap charge your system and sell it When the price of electricity is high so the cautionary note here is In making these calculations, of course, we knew what the prices were its historic prices and We could optimize the sell-by strategy, which then means This is really a maximum annual income estimate, okay? So if we look at 2008 electricity spot market prices our colleagues in DTU really perform this study They use the Danish market because that's what they were interested at the time with our system and We don't get a capacity factor of hundred percent in this scenario. We get 61 percent When you look at the life cycle cost that raises it from almost three cents to almost eight cents But you do get revenue from this and you can drop that by four percent to a net overall storage cost of just under four cents at 3.7 cents per kilowatt hour There is lots of considerations that in the future increasing renewable energy penetration will mean higher electricity price volatility And you could essentially do more arbitrage under those scenarios with those scenarios then there has been because Denmark in particular is interested in a hundred percent renewables integration by 2035 They are very seriously looking at then the price impact on their markets and they have done scenario forecasting We've used those forecasts with the 2008 buy-sell our Strategy and we show that under that and shown here in the red curve is the buy-sell strategy And the price spot market prices that might be expected in the future with high penetration You could actually make money with electricity Electricity storage again, this is maximum and of course there's lots of uncertainties here But it does suggest that if you won't even if you weren't perfect you might end up as zero cost on storage Okay, so to wrap up here The we see that there are a lot of markets That we could enter within this technology not only this so-called power gas platform We can do bulk storage and more recently within the project confines. We're turning now our attention to distributed scale storage that will compete with advanced flow batteries and sodium sulfur batteries In in the kilowatt hour to low megawatt hour ranges There's a lot of work that certainly needs to be done yet We need really need to push the envelope on the operating temperature further with the LSGM technology of results shown here for small-scale cells Okay, cell scale up is always a challenge and that needs to be done Long-term stability and durability testing we have to operate in slick look modes with the actual reacting gases We envision and of course if you're going to run this thing up and down you need to know something about the dynamics of the capability of the system So with that I'd say we've learned a fair amount. We believe we can get fairly high round-trip efficiencies We can even get above 80 percent if you can integrate thermally with nuclear CSP for example And Regardless of how we we estimate the economics we think they're much they're very attractive and can meter exceed the DOE targets With that I'd like to thank some of my collaborators and open it up for questions Yeah, I have a question about if you guys have any problems with select, sorry here With selectivity when you're running an electrolysis mode Converting the CO2 to methane. Do you have any issues with making C2s or you know products that you don't want? No, actually the the electrodes are catalytically active enough that they reach equilibrium rapidly with Without even pulling out oxygen or you pull out oxygen obviously will drive the equilibrium forward but We make methane and CO and H2 is exactly as you might predict thermodynamically Can you hear me yeah nice work. Can you care about the Comment about the the coaking problem and whether you see it More in the in the electrolysis mode than in the fuel cell mode That's a good question because as you move from electrolysis mode you're moving towards the coaking boundary Certainly one of the questions we have is you know the thermodynamics analysis You know is nice and it provides you know insight and guidance on how to select conditions But you really are dealing with local phenomena when you're flowing these Reacting gases through the passages of the cell and if you don't have a good distribution you have you could have locally rich zones so to speak which could could Produce carbon deposition which would degrade performance So what's not so well known is what we would call the safety margin? That would be required to to push you away from that thermodynamic boundary So what hydrogen and carbon ratio and what operating conditions would give you sufficient safety margin to not coke up? So that that will be revealed more in the cell testing As a part of this project. We built a pressurized rig at Northwestern And they're going to be operating under Syn gas conditions at pressure and temperature and that'll give us some better insight Nevertheless, they're still fairly well-mixed conditions under lab lab environment So how important it is to lower the operating temperature of these Devices and what do you think is the main barrier in that direction of research or how do how you think you can achieve that goal? Okay, so Lowering the the operating temperature really makes More sense so at the large bulk scale. We don't think we need that lower temperature at this point But when we look at when we start turning towards distributed scale systems, you know Tens of kilowatts to hundreds of kilowatts or a megawatt We think we'll have we basically in order to keep the cost low We want to strip out a lot of that BOP equipment that we can so we think we can get relatively simple and elegant designs, however We'd like to avoid pressurization in those situations as well And so shown here for example is a round-trip efficiency versus stack temperature We do have an expander included, but you can see that as we lower the stack temperature We can get close to seventy eight percent round-trip efficiency at six hundred C for one of these small-scale systems And we really think we need you know depending on whether or not you have the expander You're going to be closer to seventy percent efficiency if you don't but you really need the six hundred C The barriers are really of polarization resistances that are incurred the Resistances go up as you reduce temperature because the ionic connectivity of the cell goes down One of the strategies could be to reduce The air electrode polarization resistance We think there might be able to do that by doing more Nanoparticle infiltration on that electrode just like has been been doing on the fuel electrode with nickel except it might be done with Samaria for example Good question. You mentioned in your cost analyzers said your stack probably should last for at least five years So could you explore a little bit and say why you believe it will be as long as five years? Yeah, we don't know how long it will be right now What we see is after a thousand hours and these small-scale cell tests virtually no degradation The challenge is of course we have to operate on the carbonaceous fuel feedstocks We envision and that hasn't been done over hours the cycling doesn't seem at this point Okay, it seems like it does have promise other solid oxide cell technology has been demonstrated Well past 20,000 hours all the developers of that traditional Focus in technology development Are focused on increasing endurance? It's going to take certainly several years. I'm sure to achieve that But that's economically what the target has been Some cells like see old Siemens tubular cells they lasted 70,000 hours But we think 40,000 is where you're gonna have to start to enter the marketplace. That's real consistent with fuel cell technology