Hello, and welcome to Power Up Hawaii, where Hawaii comes together to walk towards a clean, renewable, and just energy future. I'm your host, Raya Salter. I'm an energy attorney, clean energy advocate, and community outreach specialist. I'm also the principal attorney of Imagine Power LLC. Today we're going to take a look at important energy and utility news from Hawaii, around the country, and the world, as reported in the last week. First, let's take a look at some recent developments in clean energy and clean energy policy in the islands. We've got a lot of interesting news this week, some important news on energy storage, and also, I think, taking a look at some really important politics that Hawaii and other states are deeply ensnared in, really, with the federal government. So let's go ahead and move forward. So first, a bill that would have provided a tax credit for energy storage projects has been shelved. Senate Bill 365 failed to cross over the Hawaii House after being deferred by the Senate Committee on Transportation and Energy. This is as reported by Pacific Business News. Senator Lorraine Inouye, Democrat from Hilo Kona, Chairwoman of this committee, also was one of the introducers of the bill. The bill received lots of support from the state's renewable energy industry, including the Distributed Energy Resources Council, which noted that the investment in energy storage is seen as a crucial next step towards the development of a resilient and reliable electric grid that can accommodate more renewable energy and help Hawaii achieve its clean energy goals. The Ulupono Initiative, however, a Honolulu investment firm founded by eBay founder Pierre Ominiar, opposed the bill because in its thinking it is too costly for the state. The firm said that in an attempt to make it more fiscally neutral for the state, there are several changes to the bill that it recommends, including that it should have a sunset date and tax credit caps per system. Eric Kovam, who heads the Renewable Energy Action Coalition of Hawaii, said that House Bill 1593 is the next best energy storage incentive being considered by the legislature. This bill, which would create a cash rebate program for energy storage in Hawaii, is being heard by the Senate Energy Committee and the Consumer Protection Committee at a public hearing on Wednesday at the state capitol. In the previous legislative session, lawmakers shall Senate Bill 2738, which would have established an energy storage system rebate program. This is very interesting. I think this has been a very fast-moving development at the legislature. There's been a push to take funds by some thinking. Some of the funds may have come from the $150 million slated for the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority's projects to go ahead and create a tax incentive for energy storage projects. We know that we need more storage in order to reach our renewable energy goals. Apparently, however, there are questions in the minds of some about the cost effectiveness or the value of what those tax credits might be versus what the costs would be to the state. It certainly would have been a good thing for installers in industry. Now it's on hold, and we will see what's happening going forward. This will also tie into some broader stories that we're going to talk about later. Now, I'm going to dig into a few things that may not be as directly related to energy, but are very related to the current political environment and what that will mean for energy and funding for energy research and development from the federal government and the state. This is talking about how members of Hawaii's congressional delegation are reacting to the Trump administration agenda. So as reported by Hawaii News Now, members of Hawaii's congressional delegation have pledged to fight the president's proposed federal budget, which seeks deep cuts to a number of programs in order to bolster military spending and other administration priorities. How would the president's budget be felt in Hawaii? The full extent of the proposed cuts aren't yet clear, but Hawaii's representatives in Congress said Hawaii could lose significant programs and warned that cuts could lead to big layoffs. President Trump's budget is a statement of his values, said U.S. Representative Colleen Hanabusa, Democrat from Hawaii, in a statement. While he clearly supports a strong Department of Defense, as do I, his budget prioritization cannot come at the expense of other programs essential to Hawaii and the well-being of Hawaii's people. He vows to fight for a budget that puts Hawaii first. U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, meanwhile, said he's willing to fight to make sure we protect federal funding for Hawaii. The president's budget proposal, he says, is simply that, a proposal. It's not going to happen, said Schatz. If enacted, President Trump's proposed budget cuts would have a terrible impact on Hawaii, but Congress holds the purse strings, not the president, the senator continued. Trump's budget increases defense spending by $54 billion and sets aside nearly $3 billion to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, but it makes huge cuts to other government agencies. The president wants to reduce the environmental protections agency's budget by 31%, cut funding to the Department of Agriculture by 21%, and slash the Department of State's budget by 28%. The Hawaii losers under Trump's budget proposal range from the East-West Center to Hawaii's Sea Grant program to a popular after-school program at Jarrett Middle School in Palo Alto and other campuses around the state. Students get free food, tutoring, and enrichment classes like art and sports as part of the After School All-Stars program. Trump is also proposing to eliminate federal funding to the East-West Center. The institution, with a staff of 125 people, got a 17 million appropriation in the current fiscal year, and that accounted for about half of its revenues. The center's mission centers on education, professional and leadership exchanges, and policy-making research. In 2016, the center had some 469 student fellows from 53 countries and territories. Meanwhile, Hawaii's Sea Grant program could also lose its federal appropriation. The program gets about four million in federal funds for educational outreach, research, and training. Only three departments would get a boost under Trump's budget—the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs. The president's budget only covers discretionary spending, which includes funds that Congress can adjust every year. The president would completely eliminate programs that support Hawaii's affordable housing efforts, clean energy investment, and opportunity for educational advancement and community service, said U.S. Senator Maisie Hirono. It would end the essential air service program that serves as a lifeline to Kalapapa, Molokai, eliminates the Tiger Grant program, which funded improvements to Saddle Road on Hawaii Island and Pier 29 on Oahu, and would threaten the Impact Aid program that ensures that every student in Hawaii's public schools receives equality education, according to that politician. So that was not 100 percent about energy, but I think that as many of Hawaii's efforts in renewable energy development, in particular research in development, in addition to state efforts, you know, work with the federal government in tandem with the federal government, and clearly Hawaii, for many reasons, which in part could be from agitation from our Attorney General, which I'm going to talk about next, in part could be agitation by this being President Obama's home state, and perhaps there being animosity there, or perhaps could be because it's a democratic state. I mean, there are many reasons why Hawaii could be such a loser in the Trump budget, but that seems to clearly be the case. I primarily work in energy, but I'm also someone who's worked with children and in after-school programs, and I will, you know, I'm editorializing a bit, but I am strongly against and feel that it's a tragedy to cut funding for after-school programming in food for young people in Hawaii and anywhere. So let's see what happens. And I think it would, in general, getting a good deal from Washington is why we send our representatives to Washington. So let's wish them good luck as they fight, as they state, to bring home funding to continue good work here on the islands. So next, we're going to talk a bit about what happened with the Hawaii Attorney General. As many of us know, it was Hawaii, in addition to Maryland, that challenged the Trump's round two travel ban and ultimately led to forwarding those efforts. So we're going to talk a little bit about Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chim and also what this means now for the role of Attorney General throughout the country who may wish to oppose the current administration and how that's changed as could be expected with the flip-flop of political party in the White House. So until this year, Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chim had never sued the federal government. Now, as the Trump administration embarks on a string of policies that Hawaii's Democratic leadership opposes, it is likely to become a far more common occurrence. Now, Chim has sued the federal government three times since January, including twice to block President Donald Trump's executive orders, restricting travel from a group of majority Muslim countries. In a third action, Chim joined 15 states and the District of Columbia in entering a lawsuit in defense of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the government agency created by the Obama administration to mend banking practices that led to the mortgage meltdown and recession of 2008. Other topics likely to emerge in the next four years as flash points for conflict between Washington and Hawaii are consumer protection, environmental regulation, social services, health care and other aspects of immigration policy. So as reported by Civil Beat, Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chim is finding himself at the center of an increasing number of disputes with the Trump administration. Chim was appointed to his position as Attorney General by Democratic Governor David E. Gay in January 2015 after serving as a criminal prosecutor, a city official in Honolulu, and managing partner of Carl Smith Ball, one of the oldest law firms in the state. He was sitting in a foggy bottom coffee shop taking a break while attending the conference of the National Association of Attorneys General in the nation's capital. Typically, it's the opposite, he says, it's the federal government filing a lawsuit against the state because they are challenging how we are running our prison system or whether we are following environmental protection agency guidelines. But things have changed since Trump was inaugurated and Chim is starting to see himself as in an expanded role as the protector of the people. He says, with a Republican president and a Republican Congress, the only check in balance is the democratic states, pushing back when necessary to make sure our laws and our constitution are respected, he said. Chim, the son of Chinese immigrants who went to Stanford University and later the University of Hawaii Law School, is confident he is doing what's right. He said he expects he will be filing more lawsuits against the federal government in the next few years. Now Chim isn't the only Democratic Attorney General to decide there's a need to go to court to block actions by the federal government that may be wrong or unconstitutional in their thinking. The state's top lawyers find themselves at the center of these kinds of conflicts because they serve as senior legal advisors to their state governments, including the legislators and state regulatory agencies. Now most AGs have law enforcement responsibilities too, as Chim does in Hawaii, which means that in many ways they operate in parallel or in conflict with the federal government. So we'll end that there and we're going to take a break and when we come back we'll be, we'll talk more with Power Up Hawaii. Aloha. My name is Richard Emory and I host Kondo Insider. We talk about issues facing the Kondo Association throughout Hawaii and talk about solutions. When you think about it, about one-third of our population lives in some form of common interest real estate. We broadcast every Thursday at 3 p.m. Please tune in. Tune in. Thank you. Aloha. Looking to energize your Friday afternoon? Tune in to stand the energy man at 12 noon. Aloha Friday here on Big Tech Hoy. Hi. My name is Seymour Kazimurski. I have a show called Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. Our show is about opening minds and facilitating conversations. To tell you the truth I have no idea what we're going to be talking about. I have no idea who our guests are going to be, but I guarantee you we're going to have lots and lots of fun. Aloha from Seymour's World. Hello and welcome back to Power Up Hawaii where Hawaii comes together to walk towards a clean, renewable and just energy future. I am your host, Raya Salter. We talked from the first half of the show about some of the political developments in Hawaii from battery storage and what's happening with Attorney General Chin and the Trump administration and where Hawaii stands to win and or lose and it's mostly lose in the proposed Trump budget. Now we're going to go ahead and move on and talk about some clean energy developments in policy and happenings throughout the nation and the world. So as reported by Technica, Google has announced that its revolutionary project sunroof tool is now able to provide a reliable estimate of how much sunlight a given rooftop might receive in all 50 United States up from 42 states nearly a year ago. The last we heard from Project Sunroof, it was revealed that it had been expanded to provide data to 42 states across the U.S. up from 10 states only a few months earlier. Project Sunroof started as one of Google's 20% projects. Now this is projects Google employees can work on in 20% of their time at Google which sometimes then get branded as a Google product with the company's full backing. Got to be kind of fun to work at Google. Project Sunroof uses an imagery from Google Maps and Google Earth, 3D modeling and machine learning to estimate how much sunlight a given rooftop receives helping to answer how much energy a given rooftop could produce if it had solar panels. Now visualization of solar potential at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California they announced that the keyword blog this week that Project Sunroof is now providing data, sorry they announced on their blog that Project Sunroof is now providing data for all 50 U.S. states and according to their project manager has expanded its data that now shed some light on some interesting insights about the potential in the U.S. solar industry. So 79% of all rooftops analyzed are technically viable for solar meaning those rooftops have enough unshaded area for solar panels and that includes over 90% of homes in Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, 90% in those states are technically viable while states like Pennsylvania, Maine and Minnesota reach just about 60% viability. Now according to Google, Houston, Texas has the most solar potential of any U.S. city in the Project Sunroof data with an estimated 18,941 gigawatt hours of rooftop solar generation potential per year. Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Antonio and New York follow Houston for the top five solar potential cities. You can actually go to Google and see the actual chart below. So this is very interesting in that actually you know what I think we're going to go ahead and continue. We'll talk about what is a very interesting op-ed by Stephen Taylor at the Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford. Aloha. My name is Reg Baker and I'm the host of Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday at two o'clock. We highlight businesses and individuals that are successful in Hawaii and we learn their secrets to their success. I hope you can join us and listen in because we always have a pack of information on successful stories in Hawaii. Aloha. I'm Kawe Lucas, host of Hawaii is My Mainland here on Think Tech Hawaii every Friday at 3 p.m. We address issues and importance for those of us who live here on the most isolated land mass on the planet. Please come join me Fridays at 3 p.m. Mahalo. Aloha. My name is Joe Kent and I'm the Vice President of Research at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. The Grassroot Institute is a public policy think tank and we try to build a better economy in Hawaii and you can see us on the TV show Ehana Kako on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcasting Network every Monday at 2 o'clock. We'll see you there and let's build a better Hawaii together. Aloha. Hello. I'm Crystal from QuackTalk. I've got a new show here. You've got to tune in, check out my topics on sensitive provocative female issues. So Tuesday mornings, 10 o'clock, don't miss it is going to be fun and dangerous. Hello and welcome back to PowerUp Hawaii. Bear with us. Sorry for the interruption but we're back with you and happy to be so. So what I wanted to do is talk a little bit about an interesting op-ed that appeared in the New York Times today. And actually I encourage everybody to hop on the internet and take a look at it. And it really I think reflects a lot of the stories that we talked about earlier. So this was an op-ed by Jeffrey Ball who's a scholar in residence and Dan Richter, the executive director of the Steyr Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford. So this is really a piece that's about China renewable energy vis-a-vis the U.S. in our current perspectives and where maybe we could be moving. So according to this op-ed, today China utterly dominates global solar panel manufacturing. Last year, according to the consulting firm IHS Market, China accounted for 70% of global capacity for manufacturing solar panels, the most common type of solar panels. The United States share was 1%. And we have at times in the United States responded by placing tariffs on these goods. Now these tariffs are prompting Chinese solar manufacturers to set up factories not in the United States but in low-cost countries that aren't subject to the levies. And the Chinese government has responded with its own tariffs against American-made solar goods. Now those tariffs have eroded the United States share and one part of solar manufacturing where we used to have a significant role and advantage. But now China's solar industry is changing in little-noticed ways that create both an imperative and an opportunity for the United States to up its game. The Chinese industry is innovating technologically. Indeed, it's starting to score world-record solar cell efficiencies. Contrary to a long-held myth that all China can do is manufacture other inventions cheaply. Now I don't know if that's 100% true but I think that it is in the ethos that America innovates and China copies. And I think that is, if it was ever true, it is no longer true. As China is expanding its manufacturing footprint across the globe. But it's scrambling to import more efficient ways of financing solar power that have been pioneered in the West. Now according to this op-ed, the United States needs to take these shifts into account in defining an American solar strategy that minimizes the cost of solar power to the world while maximizing the long-term benefit to the American economy. So in the thoughts of these authors, a more enlightened United States policy approach to solar would seek, above all, to continue slashing solar power's costs. Not to prop up types of American solar manufacturing that can't compete globally. A more enlightened policy would aim to leverage, not bury, China's manufacturing superiority with closer cooperation on solar research and development and it would focus American solar subsidies more on research and development and deployment than on manufacturing. Now according to the authors, as solar manufacturing continues to automate, reducing China's cheap labor advantage, it is likely to make more sense in the United States, at least for certain types of solar projects. Now the United States needs to play to its comparative advantages in the solar sector. That requires a sober assessment of what China does well and I think the authors are saying there are tensions between China and the United States, including the tariff fight, doubts about the protections of intellectual property in China and national security concerns, but it's time to look at these concerns in perspective, says the authors, as investors, corporations and governments try to do every day. The shifts that these authors propose in American solar policy will upset or has the potential to upset partisans across the political spectrum. They could potentially offend liberals who have promised that solar manufacturing subsidies would bring the United States huge numbers of green factory jobs. They may wrinkle conservatives who see China as the enemy. How will the Trump administration view them? It's unclear. So and talking again about this op-ed, I think it's extremely interesting because I think when you look at the big picture of what these folks are saying is that the United States would do well to take a look at how it fosters clean and renewable energy development, which as they noted, has been sometimes to support some big manufacturing projects and oftentimes to support the solar energy through various types of tax credits. And I think what this article is saying is that what we need to be doing is thinking of a broader-based plan that thinks about what is the way to get mass production, mass adoption of clean and renewable energy in a way that can actually, A, make the United States a leader, B, leverage renewable energy for environmental benefit and also the benefit of folks' pocketbooks. And I think these authors posit that the current strategy of sort of having trade wars with China and pointing tax credits to industry may not be a comprehensive enough view. And I think that in light of what Hawaii is looking at in storage subsidies is sort of a real piece of this decision-making puzzle in terms of where we should be putting our resources in order to promote clean and renewable energy. So that brings us to the end of another edition of Power Up Hawaii. Please join us next week, where we will talk more about important clean and renewable energy news and policy, aloha and mahalo.


Hello friends and welcome back to another max raid event update video My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's video We are going to be looking at the new mid-month event that has just been announced for the max raid events for September So earlier in the month we covered the September updates I'll link a little I in the corner if you want to go check that out with G max Toxicity G max falapal a bunch of other Pokemon that we've got access to for the month of September But as they have been doing for the past few months that we have got a mid-month event Which runs for a very short period of time has some unique Pokemon that you're going to be able to catch But for a limited time only so that further ado Let's hop straight over into it as you can see on your screen right now This is a September event that we've got running as I say you've got the the heli list You've got the Glossifer the elder goss the G max toxicity and Appleton That is running until just as a reminder till the 30th of September this month And so you've got a little bit of time to take advantage of that but for this weekend only We have a special event running and it is all based around the Sun and Moon Evolution event that's what they're coin in it or what? Cerebit or coining it anyway, so all based around Pokemon around the Sun and Moon Evolution stones And as you can see the event is running from September the 18th Which is today until September the 20th, which is this coming Sunday? So you only have that limited period like I say to take advantage of this event now going through the Pokemon I think they're gonna be the same for Pokemon sword and Pokemon shield But we'll cover that as we go through them first star raids We've got clavable wiggly tough gloom Mushurana Whimsicott and a lilegant nose Particular special items that we're gonna be getting here from the one star raids at least and then we'll move down Again, it's gonna change for the two star raids. These are four more of you That are in early stages if you play through haven't got those gym badges to get the five star or three star raids yet But you can still take advantage of this event even if you aren't complete or through the the entire game yet Two star raids are gonna be clavable wiggly tough blossom Mushurana the whimsicott and lilegant again No items are sticking out to me in particular that are gonna be that special for this event and the three star raids with the clavable wiggly tough blossom Mushurana whimsicott and lilegant again and item wise I'm not really seeing to anything stand out. What's this is anything jumping out a bottle cap Okay, so we're gonna be able to get access to bottle caps through this one, which is nice. I guess is a little bonus Four star raids moving on again It's gonna be that clavable wiggly tough the blossom the Mushurana whimsicott and lilegant And then this is where it gets interesting or as always with the five star raids And you're gonna have clavable wiggly tough blossom Mushurana Clavable again and a little again now they Duplicate the clavable again because there is a very small chance a 2% chance that you are gonna be able to get a Square shiny clavable this weekend and for you singles players and some of you VGC players and just General Pokemon fans that want to get grab one of these shinies for your collection It's an incredibly good chance for you to get this shiny Pokemon clavable Being a shiny obviously you can tell by the green little tips on its ears that it is a shiny But the square shiny makes it even more rare So a very good opportunity for you to take advantage of this coming weekend Like I say there is only a 2% chance that it will spawn and it has to be from a five star raid According to this data again the item choices the items that you're gonna be getting from this event aren't gonna be Anything special so they're kind of just generic things that you would normally get with a max raid event But what makes this event special is the shiny clavable that you're gonna be getting there We'll just take a quick look at Pokemon shield. You can see it's pretty much gonna be the same Pokemon right the way through So it's gonna be the same for both copies. It doesn't matter if you've got sword or shield You're gonna have the same Pokemon appearing in these max raid event So as I say this event runs from today, which is the 18th of September until the 20th So if you want to try and get some of these Pokemon and get that square shiny clavable Make sure you do take advantage of this event over the coming weekend. So and what we're gonna do now is just hop into game and I'll show you how to do it. So right now you can see I've got a G max toxicity den active here in the Isle of Alma and do this in the wild area as well to update your den What you need to do is just come down to mystery gift get wild area news I know most of you will know about this as well You can also just connect to the internet that will update the dens, but it won't update them permanently for the weekend So doing it this way will update them permanently and as you can see what will happen is If I click into the den, there's the five star raid. So we've got that I'm actually just gonna save this in case it is a shiny on the off chance that it's a shiny Be amazing if it was because I will host this over the weekend if it is and and we will just jump into it. So What you can do as well it once you've got the beam is just do the datescape glitch to go through the five star raid Clefable until you come across the shiny and unfortunately this one isn't but we will keep hunting this weekend I'm sure there's going to be a bunch of people over on our discord community hosting the shiny clefable over the weekend So do join the discord community. It's an amazing community there We have a lot of raids going on all the time that you can get involved with and Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun But I think that about wraps it up for this little mini update for the event dens this weekend Hopefully you have a lot of success getting this square shiny clefable. I'll definitely be trying to get it It's definitely one of my favorite Pokemon and at the minute in the current VGC scene It is definitely something that I feel is a very good supporting Pokemon But we'll leave it there So if you've enjoyed today's episode, please remember to drop a like on the channel If you're new to the channel as well do hit that subscribe button for more updates on these max raid event dens I cover all of them and we do a lot of other Pokemon content on the channel Have a great day. Thanks for tuning in and I'll catch you all for the next one. So until then take care and bye


This is Witchspace news for Friday the 12th of March 2021, I'm CMDR Buur In this weeks news, more Odyssey details are released on Tuesday's live stream, community manager Stephen Benedetti leaves Elite, cryptic Morse code messages from Frontier allude to Mor from the Adam Aster, Elite's player numbers might surprise you and an SRV reaches a fleet carrier. If you enjoy this video hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications as that stuff really helps the channel and if you'd like to further support our work you'll also find us on Patreon, links to everything you need are in the description below. In what is fast becoming a very positive habit Frontier released some more details about Odyssey on this week's Super Cruise news live stream on Tuesday afternoon Until fairly recently Super Cruise news had always been enjoyable but somewhat lightweight jolt around Elite's community news with a little bit of let's play thrown in but the last couple of weeks have seen Frontier speaking more openly about Odyssey and offering more finer granularity to the details that they've already released. There's a fantastic point by point breakdown on Reddit by CMDR Zerito which I've linked in the video description below but to wet your appetite here's a few of the more salient points that caught our eye. The community team reiterated again that the AI shown in the heist gameplay trailer last week was of a lower rank in order to facilitate the filming that they needed to get done and in actual fact they did die a fair few times whilst filming but have employed some artistic license in what was shown in order to get the point across. In fact at one point during their filming the top level military ranked AI probably the equivalent of the Spec Ops ships you get in combat zones in the current game did turn up and well they died. Planetary rings won't cast shadows on the planet's surface when you're landed this is a question left over from the interview with Dr K Ross a couple of weeks back Arthur didn't help with strafing runs from his ship before the team was extracting as quite simply the base's defences are of such a level now that he would have been killed in fairly short order. This is something that they've touched on before as well he did in fact fire off a few volleys from his crusader when approaching for the extraction once the installation power was offline. This is something we pointed out in our analysis video which you'll find linked on screen now. Importantly there is nothing in Odyssey that you can't do in single player but it will for obvious reasons require a slightly different approach when you have less firepower or dare I say it meat shielding at your disposal. They're keen to show off exploration and salvaging etc so it's likely we can expect more gameplay videos covering those aspects going forward. Arthur thinks the current plan is for the alpha to be 6 weeks long but is looking for some clarity on that. The frontline solution system which is something Frontier have yet to offer any more specific details on will allow players to join what they described as large battles and one really interesting final nugget at one point in their testing they accidentally spawned a player into orbit instead of onto a planet surface. When clarifying that this isn't something you'll be able to do in Odyssey Arthur did say and I'm quoting directly here that is not saying there is not zero G stuff in Odyssey. We're not going to speculate on what that could mean but oh my isn't that an interesting line. As I mentioned the full text breakdown is on reddit there's loads more juicy details in there so do take a look it's linked in the description below. Community manager Stephen Benedetti made a surprise appearance at the end of the Thursday livestream from Frontier this week to announce his departure from the elite dangerous galaxy. While Stephen is leaving elite he's not leaving Frontier and will be moving on to work on another product in the company that the team didn't elaborate on. Good luck Stephen and thanks for everything from everyone here at the pit. Frontier kicked off the week with a fairly innocuous looking post on social media showing a close up of a Thargoid vessel with the words what's your favourite mystery in elite dangerous. Upon closer inspection of the image however it became apparent that the image contained what appeared to be a string of morse code characters in the bottom left. The elite community being what it is the Morse code was quickly decoded and it spelt out the word Hesperus. Even a cursory google search will turn up a number of references to the word Hesperus with the favourites being a 19th century poem, an ancient world word for the planet Venus and the community had also named a point of interest on EDSM as Hesperus. Speculation ran rife but no more solid answers were forthcoming until the super cruise news live stream the next day the show opened with a burst of audio morse code this time spelling out the word azimuth. This is where it starts to get interesting azimuth biochemicals were the company behind the doomed Adamastor expedition that uncovered the existence of the Thargoids in an expedition to the Colsack Nebula a few hundred years ago. The ill-fated vessel returning devoid of life to the bubble in October last year during the Halloween special event. Frontier have stated on a couple of occasions that were not done with the Adamastor storyline there is still more to come there in fact most recently Arthur mentioned it in an interview on the excellent flight assist podcast when speaking to the twitch streamers scikit and Mal for the win. During the live stream Morse burst there was a galnet story on Wednesday that revealed that the ill-fated ship Adamastor had a sister vessel and that vessel was called the Hesperus as of this recording nothing else has happened inside or outside the game but you can bet that something is coming and will likely be following leads to find out what happened to the Hesperus sooner rather than later. Elite Dangerous Reddit luminary Stuart GT posted some fascinating tidbits from a stockbroker report that point to the long speculated player numbers for Elite Dangerous that Frontier have never publicly released and the numbers may well surprise you. Off the back of Stuart's post we gained access to the full analyst report here at the pit and it makes for fascinating reading. The report is produced by Liberum who are Frontier's official stockbroker and it pays particular and very specific attention to Elite Dangerous and provides forecasts for the company's expectations with the launch of Odyssey. Stuart has provided an excellent breakdown of the salient points and I'd urge you to take a look but in summary the report states that Elite Dangerous has a current player base that is estimated to be in the order of 500,000 players who regularly engage with the game at least once a month. Don't forget this is a 7 year old game at this point that is actually quite hard to play. It's important to note as well that that figure doesn't include people who acquired the game from the free week on the epic store recently. The report makes specific mention that player mobility is being addressed in the expansion via space taxis, this is the apex interstellar transport system Frontier have briefly made mention of previously and also that the new social hubs are being designed to facilitate the more community driven aspects of Elite Dangerous gameplay making it quote easier to form alliances or source supplies, weapons or expert support unquote. Further the report makes mention of the flight controls in Odyssey being easier that could be a reference to the auto planetary landing feature that was shown off in the recent gameplay trailer and then spoken about on the subsequent live stream but whatever it is directly referencing coupled with the apex transport system it's clear that Frontier is keen to make Elite Dangerous a degree more accessible to those commanders who are less inclined to own or fly a spaceship and thereby assist in opening up the game to more people. We've heard numerous times in the last few years from various voices in the community who are decrying the state of the game and to be honest with recent content droughts and lack of any officially released figures from Frontier those opinions are completely understandable and frankly very easy to agree with however these solid figures from an extremely reliable and indeed an officially sanctioned source tell a very very different story indeed. In actuality despite its age and some undeniable issues over the last few years the game remains in a very healthy position and the outlook for new players coming in, old players returning and an increase in the game's accessibility to new and old players alike lends significant weight to the argument that far from a dying game Elite Dangerous and its community is very much alive and isn't done with you yet not by a long shot. And finally this week wait for it this is awesome an SRV has been launched into orbit and reached a fleet carrier yes really in a colossal 6 hour effort a team of commanders out on the infernal expedition launched an SRV from a low G world and gently nudged and guided it to a waiting fleet carrier there's a breakdown on the official forums detailing how this extraordinary feat was achieved do take a look it makes for fascinating reading in particular the section on instancing gives an interesting insight into how the game handles instancing around carriers suffice to say there's a video of the happening linked in the video description and I do want to give a quick shout out to the team involved that's commander Bruno behind the wheel of the SRV with his ascent being aided by commander ghosty commander steam vision and commander infernal moose and also my personal thanks to Ed at the fleet carrier owners club for the heads up about the whole event well done guys that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then o7 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time


The carbon cycle is very simple, it's about the cycling of carbon through natural systems, through plants, through soils, through the ocean and back out into the atmosphere. In the natural carbon cycle there's a lot of fluxes of carbon dioxide, so carbon goes in and out of the ocean, in and out of the terrestrial biosphere every year. The carbon is constantly flowing between these different systems and large amounts of carbon moves all the time. I mean in the terrestrial biosphere and the trees and the forests it's very easy to see.  This is all good carbon dioxide that goes in the leaves and in the fall, in the autumn when the leaves fall down then the carbon is emitted back in the atmosphere. So you have a huge signal there of CO2 going in and out of the atmosphere. So the ocean will take up CO2, it dissolves in the surface of the ocean and also the ocean will release CO2 to the atmosphere and that depends on the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the concentration of CO2 in the ocean and they form a balance with each other. So there's a continuous massive exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the land and the atmosphere in the ocean that is roughly in balance until we introduce human change. So the experiment that we're inadvertently perhaps conducting with the climate system is to move huge volumes of carbon from these stores undergrounds in the form of fossil fuels and bringing it to the surface and burning them and adding this carbon to the atmosphere. What we're doing now is putting everything out of balance so we're adding carbon to the atmosphere. It's new carbon, it's not part of the natural cycle, it's one that we've dug out of the fossil reservoir where they were stored and we've put them back in the atmosphere. This is new carbon and it puts the system out of balance. Although the human emissions are much smaller than the natural fluxes, the natural fluxes approximately are in balance and so they're not causing a net increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The human emissions, however, are very rapid and the natural systems don't have time to respond to them and so you get a net imbalance of raised carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. It's unequivocal that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing and is increasing faster and is increasing faster than ever. The rate of change now is incredibly rapid and what's more it's pushed us outside of the bounds of what we've seen in terms of atmospheric concentration throughout the ice ages. We have not had levels of CO2 at 400 parts per million by volume in 800,000 years of history. In the Earth's past throughout, in and out of the ice ages, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged between about 180 parts per million, 280 parts per million and it took thousands of years for it to change between those states. This is now, it's gone up to 350 and even top in 400 parts per million on a single day basis and that's happened over a period of a couple of hundred years. Every single generation is emitting more than the previous generation because I mean the emission of CO2 increasing exponentially and we emitted so far if you start from the beginning which is like the industrial revolution in 1750 or something when we started slowly I mean to burn fossil fuel and from that time up to today we emitted something like 2000 gigaton of CO2. More than half of this has been emitted over the last 50 years. And we know where that CO2 is coming from because we do the isotopes of the carbon we know it's coming from fossil fuels. So carbon is increasing in the atmosphere but it doesn't entirely stay there so about half of the emission maybe even a bit more than half of the emission that we put in the atmosphere end up in the natural environment it ends up ends up in the ocean and in the forest. So the carbon cycle today absorbed about half of the emissions we put in the atmosphere so we emit as I said 40 gigaton of CO2 per year about half of it 20 gigaton of CO2 are taken back from the atmosphere by the Land and Value Ocean. There's a multitude of different processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere so for example the CO2 from the atmosphere dissolves in the surface of ocean and then that's turned over and taken into the deep ocean and really for amount of CO2 to be completely removed from the atmosphere it has to be completely dissolved and go down into the deep ocean and then we're talking about geological time scales so hundreds thousands of years. So what happens when we put carbon emissions into the atmosphere new carbon from burning fossil fuel or from deforestation what happens is it take a long time for this carbon to readjust in the land and ocean. Eventually if we're prepared to wait long enough so that's thousands of years a lot of this carbon maybe 70% will end up in the ocean and the reason this takes time is that you have you have different adjustment time so the CO2 goes in the surface ocean it takes about one year to dissolve but how it is transported from the ocean surface to the intermediate and to the deep ocean depends on the ocean circulation and the ocean circulation takes hundreds to a thousand years to mix the entire ocean so that's the time scale that is really relevant here is take a molecule of CO2 we've put it in the atmosphere how long is it going to come take before it ends in the deep ocean. So about 65 to 80% of the carbon dioxide pulse that's put into the atmosphere will be removed within about two to 200 years the rest of it the remaining sort of 35% will take between two and twenty millennia to be completely removed from the atmosphere so roughly you have to think whatever we're doing today whatever CO2 is being emitted roughly a third of it is going to stick around essentially you know forever really when you consider it in our lifetime. We can't change the atmosphere the chemistry with one of the main constituents carbon dioxide by 25% and expect nothing to happen you change your diet by 25% you decide you're gonna start consuming 25% more calories you don't change your exercise or anything else you can't realistically expect nothing to happen and that's what you have to understand that if we change fundamentally our atmosphere chemistry we can't expect climate to stay the same.


Have you noticed there are a lot of people that mock Christianity? You don't see people wanting to mock Islam. You don't see people wanting to mock Hinduism or Buddhism. You don't see people wanting to mock other religions, and you certainly don't see the media promoting those that mock them. We don't see people in songs mocking Islam or other religions. We see people in songs and television mocking Jesus and Christianity. Why is that? Well, Jesus says that one will be hated for his namesake, and so he says that it's not that they hate us, but they hate him. But he also makes a statement where he says, Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Our job is to do what he calls us to do and to be a light to this world. Again, people are going to mock, but the good thing is that they only mock what has power. The enemy wants to mock, wants to distort him, not anything else. That should tell you how powerful and how afraid of our ministry the devil is.