Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she is target enemy number one, not just for the Democratic Party establishment, but for Republicans. And we see this with Ilhan Omar, other grassroots candidates, or people that came into office. So are you ready? Like, how do you think you'd be able to cope with that? Because I'm just thinking psychologically how difficult this must be to be the number one target when you're one of the only people in Congress representing the people. Like, can you just respond to the response that AOC got after she won and how you think you would be able to cope with that if, you know, it remained the same, which I'm assuming it would. How about you, Cory, because you're running again right now. Yeah, so I guess the last five years of my life has been nothing, but the first three years anyway was just a lot of scrutiny, a lot of people saying some really terrible things about me, not knowing who I am, you know, and then I became a black identity extremist and all of those things. So I think for every bullet that's been shot into my car, for everything that I've gone through, every time I was ran off of a road, I think that I pretty much, I think I'm ready to be able to, if I can handle that, if I can stand up in front of things, if I can be assaulted by the police, I can handle that. Like, I think I'm ready for that. And I know that, but when I see Alex, every time, and she can still say this, every time I see her, I say, how are you doing? How are you handling this? How are you sleeping at night?  But I think that that comes with it, that's part of it. So I think that in the same way, we grew to be to this point, because we're different people than we were when we first decided to run. You know, we've given our skin has thickened and so many other things. And so in the same way, I think that we'll all be ready. Yeah. Yeah. How about you, Amy? I agree. I think that we've all been brought, brought to this level by the amount of persecution that we face, even just with announcing. I have to say that, you know, Alex is a human being. I mean, she is dealing with an immense amount of pressure. And, you know, all of us, we offer words of encouragement when we see each other. But, you know, at the end of the day, I think all of us know that what we're up against is the fight of our lives for this country. And even the ones that didn't make it, we're still feeling repercussions from us standing up publicly, for us having a voice in our communities, in our abilities to have jobs, and our people, you know, the way that they treat us. Everyone of us across the board has had to pay prices. Many of us can't get jobs in our career fields anymore. Many of us, because of running for office and being that outspoken, but that's what it takes to go and have a movement. That's what it takes to stand up against a machine and against power. We have to be willing to sacrifice and say, come what may, bring it on. Yeah. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. How about you, Paula? Well, I was already facing a lot of scrutiny before I run for office. I mean, especially during the Massey era here, if you were begging for water and you were fighting against industry, you were labeled as a tree hugger and people threatened your life. And so, you know, I've been through a lot of that already. It was amplified probably 10 times after running for office. You know, there was a lot more scrutiny. I had my life threatened. I had people follow me. But the struggle here at home is no greater than any struggle that we can face.  You know, people think that they think it's extreme, but I've said it. You know, what they've asked me, why aren't you afraid for your life?   And that's real. That's real.  And I would whole lot rather fight than lay down and take it. And so, you know, when and if I run for office again, it's no bigger than the battle we have at home.


the fundamental nature of this pagan culture is freedom. Freedom for all kinds of ways and means of attaining the Supreme, of living the divine life, of living in truth. So every possible way is considered and accepted as a possible way. And when then these imported founder religions start to threaten that through conversion, through demographics, through a lot of what we've been seeing in the subcontinent for the last thousand plus years, then there comes a time when standing up and protecting the Dharma is the only way forward. There's no choice in the matter.


Moving on, the Health of Modern Earth Foundation says that 2022 World Environment Day should be dedicated to people at the grassroots whose lives and livelihoods have been impacted by new colonial and extractive forces that exploit and have nature. The report World Environmental Day is celebrated on the 5th of June every year to raise global awareness and take positive action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is a day that reminds everyone of the need to get involved in environment friendly activities. Speaking on the theme for this year, only one Earth, an environmentalist and director of Health of Modern Earth Foundation, Nemo Basi said it highlights the need to create changes in policies and choices for people to live in harmony with nature. When you subtract from nature and not add anything and not have a sense of stewardship, a sense of responsibility, you only look at how you can transform what you've extracted so as to make things you believe enhance your well-being, this kind of makes humans good norm. Political forces keep on arguing that unless you extract and bond fossils, humans cannot make progress. Now what is progress? What is progress? What is progress? If the soil that I have to grow crops is polluted to a depth of 5 meters, a depth of 10 meters, what is progress? If the water that I have to drink is laced with benzene 900 times above World Health Organization standard, Basi stated that human beings must wake up from the futile dream that the Earth can be recklessly exploited without that consequences. He regretted that at this time, when the need to check exploitation of natural ecosystems and wasteful consumption is critical, the world is rather investing in militarization, warfare and destruction. Having ecocide as an international crime has global implications because the destruction of the environment in one location does not restrict the impact of that action to that location. Also speaking on the Ugoni Cleanup, the director of Youth and Environmental Advocacy Center, find face Domnamene called on contractors of hydrocarbon pollution and remediation project, handling the Ugoni Cleanup and water projects to speed up the processes. The cleanup for which we think we'll be concluding in 25 years, if the current pace is being maintained, then in 50 years we may not have the Ugoni Cleanup completed. So I call on high prep as a matter of urgency to expedite action on the environmental cleanup of the Ugoni area. Environmental is called on people of the Niger Delta and the country at large, especially youths involved in artisanal refining activities to embrace renewable energy and channel their efforts towards things that contribute to local and global environmental sustainability.


ThinkTek Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. Well, and welcome to Stand Energy Man here on ThinkTek Hawaii, where community matters. Stand Officer Meniere from the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies. And it's been a busy year, all right. It's been a busy week so far. I'd like to thank the folks from Hawaii Gas who dedicated or blessed their Honolulu'i wastewater methane recovery system that went into action earlier this week. They had a great ceremony on Wednesday, and they invited us to put our hydrogen generator, our 5,000 watt generator out there to provide all the power for the entertainment and the sound system and everything. And it was a great experience and really good food. Thanks for the invite, Hawaii Gas. But anyway, today we're talking about energy storage. And you know, the more and more I do reading on energy, the more the term energy storage keeps popping up. And it's because it's so critical as we start absorbing more and more renewable resources as generation of power, because when you can store it, you get back from power, good base load power. But the trick is to store it properly and store it efficiently. And a lot of times people think efficiency is just amount of energy in to amount of energy out. And that's all we look at. And they say, well, batteries are really efficient. We'll just use batteries because we're used to it. And they're really efficient with energy out for whatever you put in. But there's a lot more to consider. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So my guest today, a little bit out of sync. He's usually here on the third Friday of every month. But we've got him on the second Friday. Ryan Willbins from Burns and McDonald. That's good. Thanks for joining us, Ryan. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me. Yeah. So we're talking about energy. You know, we talk about energy all the time and energy storage. But it's really more of a system. You know, people think you could just plug a battery in. But even a regular car battery, a lead acid battery, you have deep cycle batteries. You have high cranking out batteries. You even have different kinds of batteries. So let's talk a little bit about batteries and how they fill in that energy storage piece for the grid and transportation. Yeah. As for the grid, batteries have their role right now. And we see that it being expanded almost daily. They've come a very long way in a very short amount of time, as far as the utility grid operates. Well, battery is a very generic term in the sense of explaining a chemical reaction that's happening somewhere else. Somewhere not exactly where we're used to operating on the grid. That chemistry can be made in a lot of different forms to supply very short term, high energy output. Or something more, I call it a little bit more of a power battery or maybe a more of an energy battery that we can change the chemistry that's going on in there so that you're getting much deeper, longer release, something I want to really charge up and then bring back out. Then you start talking about, well, how much do I really need to use these batteries? I'm going to charge it all the way up and bring it all the way back down. That's when we start talking about the deep cycle technology. So if you're going to be using something on a regular basis, you start talking more of a deep cycle. If you're going to be having something more for just an emergency, just in case, give me just enough time until the power comes back on then we start talking a little bit more in a short term type of chemistry. When you make those calculations or you look at that choice, you have other things that fall into place. So example, if you take a deep cycle battery and just quick hit it all the time and never deep cycle it, what happens to the life? Yeah, you're going to shorten the lifespan of that battery. They are engineered particularly for very specific jobs. We don't have the one magic bullet battery chemistry that's just going to give you everything. Lithium ions come out and it does a lot of things, great. But that doesn't mean it does everything the best that it can do. So you start to see other technologies getting paired with batteries or even batteries being paired with different types of batteries. Yeah, so again, it's back to a systems thing. And batteries aren't the only choice. We talk flywheels. We talk capacitors. We talk other things that fill the gap. So what are some of the things like a supercapacitor brings to the game of energy storage? Yeah, the capacitors are great at the very short term high energy discharge. Capacitors are used in a lot of different senses right now. I mean your phone's going to have a ton of capacitors just sitting on a very small scale. We can size these capacitors up to a very large scale, utility type sizes. Where they were traditionally used before is a matter of providing a VAR correction. It's a power quality issue on the grid. That's what capacitors were used for before. When we start saying supercapacity, that's when we start saying, hey, I want to use some of the power that's in that. It's a very short term high energy discharge. That short term, that term short, is getting extended. But it's still shorter than what we think of with a traditional battery. So what are the timing we look at for capacitors and supercapacitors? Seconds or milliseconds or microseconds? We can get into the seconds phase, absolutely, and in the multiple seconds. I think the way you stack them up, we could get even longer than that. If we want to start going more down the timeline we can start getting ourselves into more of the flywheel application where you want to start talking 10, 15, 30 seconds. We're probably not talking minutes with flywheels. That starts to get a little bit tough because you are moving a piece of mass constantly. That takes energy just to keep something moving. And when we want to get outside of that, then batteries start to get into the conversation. That's kind of where we like to play. Okay, so on a continuum, at least what I'm familiar with. You have capacitors and supercapacitors which give you a lot of power really quickly and for short duration. Then maybe you move to flywheels and some batteries where you get a little slower reaction but still get quite a bit of power and can handle the power surge input and output. Then you get to a little bit more sophisticated batteries and even the flywheel extending out to maybe minutes of energy going into your system, consistently nice steady power. Then you get into flow batteries at that farther end of that where now you're talking maybe hours of putting power back in at a fairly good rate. And then outside of that, you start getting into your other means. What I look at is other means of storage, compressed gases, pumped hydro, hydrogen, maybe methane or ammonia, things like that that you can store a lot of hydrogen in and then put it back in a fuel cell and bring it back in terms of maybe hours to days to even weeks. And then also on the power scale or excuse me, the energy scale, more up in the megawatts, multi-megawatts and gigawatt scale. Yeah, you got a spot on. There's a point when batteries are starting to struggle to meet this multi-megawatt, multi-gigawatt, and let's go from hours and start talking days. It would take a lot of batteries. You can see it on something, a small device, where you start stacking in double A's and it lasts you so long. If you wanted that to last four times longer, you're likely to be adding four times as much batteries. It starts to take up a lot of space. These other fuels can pack a lot higher energy density, so the amount of space that they actually energy can be stored in sitting is much, much less. We can talk energy storage, everything from being renewable in the sense of hydrogen, but something that can also be relatable to think of is just the way diesel sits right now. That is an energy storage medium. It's a matter of getting the conversion of the process to get the electricity, the power out of it. A large tank right now that sits, the tank in your car is a form of energy storage. We just think of that as more of, well, how many miles can I get? Battery-operated cars, that's a conversion people can make. When we start on a massive scale, the way the grid operates, it's not as easily of a formula of how many miles I'm driving. It is a scale of the number of, let's start talking gigawatts, multi-megawatts, and hours and days. Then the equations start to really change. Any amount of fuel in the mediums we're using, they're vastly different than where we are on that shorter time scale. When you start to talk about scale, one of the big factors that kicks in is when you get to larger scale, does it work or does it work better? Some things work great at only its scale. For example, when I talked to Dr. Krock about ocean thermal, he says, you can't do ocean thermal for a one-megawatt system. You've got to do like 10 or 50 or 100 megawatts to really make it worthwhile. You're going to have to put a big system out there to get your economies of scale. You have that same issue, especially now we're talking from a cell phone to a car to now the grid and getting up to maybe a gigawatt worth of energy storage that you might need. Now you have batteries at large scale. Are they still efficient on large scale? What kind of things are happening with batteries when you have them at the gigawatt scale and you're only using it to take up loads at the top end or just cycling that little bit? Yeah, the technology gets to a point where you have a scale and issue, absolutely. Just the way batteries were produced is a great example that batteries still weren't that financially viable until recent history subsidies certainly helped to that, but building massive battery factories where they start getting the economies of scale and start shaving prices off of just the manufacturing process. That's how batteries have done really well with getting into the market now. Now let's talk about using them at scale. When you get to the gigawatt hour type of application, there's very few gigawatt hour renewable energy because a coal plant has multi gigawatt hours sitting right outside. So I'm going to convert to just saying more of a renewable, ready, readable fuel. Geothermal could be considered that type. Hydro and let's talk hydrogen and start looking at these massive scales. A battery can store renewable energy, absolutely. But if you want to talk gigawatt, there's not a gigawatt hour stored in the world right now. It is being produced. The largest factories in the world are producing hundreds of gigawatt hours of batteries a year, but they're also going into things like cars or your phones are just being used for different things. It would take up an incredible amount of space in the infrastructure to be able to use a battery in the multi gigawatt scale. It would have a great use, but that's one gigawatt. I want to start talking five, 10 gigawatt hours, even more than that when we start getting to a hydro scale. Not something we can pull off here in Hawaii unless we start flooding a valley, building a dam, which would be probably not any time soon. But we may have the need for that type of energy storage. We may have the need for that type of energy storage if we want to consider ourselves energy independent. We can always buy and import renewable energy. That is a possibility, and likely will happen in the next 25 years, is that we will be importing renewable energy until we can make that final leap. We want to be energy independent. Now we need to start talking massive scale energy storage of renewable assets. That's not a very common topic right now. You're exactly right. I just saw an article this week that said down in Australia they have a big wind farm that's putting in the largest battery that's ever been put in a grid system, and it's 100 megawatts. That's as big as they got, and they say that's the biggest one in the world right now. Like you mentioned, you can make batteries at scale. We already figured out how to do that pretty efficiently, but employing them on the user side at scale is a whole other story. We're going to take a quick break here and come back and talk more specific. Maybe even get into Oahu's summer requirements in a few minutes and talk about what it would take to really meet our goal of 2045 being 100% renewable here in Hawaii. Hello, my name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me because Security Matters, aloha. I'm Jay Fidel, Think Tech. Think Tech loves energy. I'm the host of Mina, Marco and me, which is Mina Morita, former chair of the PUC, former legislator, and Energy Dynamics, a consulting organization in energy. Marco Mangostorf is the CEO of Provision Solar in Hilo. Every two weeks, we talk about energy, everything about energy. Come around and watch us. We're on at noon on Mondays every two weeks on Think Tech, aloha. Hey, thanks for joining us here with Stan Energyman on another beautiful aloha Friday in Paradise, coming up on Christmas pretty soon to get all your shopping done. That's energy intensive right there, getting all your shopping done. Not only that, but mailing it, getting it out in the mail. We have to mail everything out of here except for our immediate family. Anyway, we're talking to Ryan Wubin today about energy storage and how important that's going to be on the grid, particularly as we start looking more and more towards renewable energy on the grid because a lot of the renewable energy that's available, like solar and wind, it's only available when the wind's blowing or when the sun's out. So we have to capture what we can, when we can, store it for when we have nighttime or low wind or times that those renewables aren't available. And we don't have in Hawaii a whole lot of hydroelectric. We do have some on the Big Island, probably some on Maui. Imagine you could do a tiny bit here on Oahu. But we have limited numbers of renewable energy resources that give you good firm base load power. Again, with the exception of maybe a little bit of hydro and geothermal, of course. But geothermal comes with some cultural implications here in Hawaii. We don't like to do things that disrespect Hawaii's culture and the beauty of the island. So even wind power here on Oahu, we can't be putting wind turbines up on every single mountain side that we have, or it would just be disrespectful. And you'd have a lot of people just saying, we're not doing that. It's just not going to work. So energy storage is critical. And energy storage at grid scale is something that we just don't do right now because the grid doesn't need it. The grid right now takes generation at one point and pushes it one direction towards the consumer. But now we're starting to get renewable energy out in the community in terms of solar and then wind farms and things that also push energy into the grid and, again, need the storage. So we're talking a little bit, Ryan, about the different kinds of storage and getting up to scale. What are some of the implications when you get to multi-megawatt scale? Like I said, in Australia, they're doing like 100 megawatts. And that's the biggest they say that's been done in the world. But what's that compared to what we might need here in Oahu in 10 or 15 years? Sure. So yeah, 100 megawatts is that's big. That's very large. When we talk gigawatt hours, which we're going to talk a little bit, that's 100 megawatts is only 0.1 of a gigawatt. So 10 times larger that is when I start talking the gigawatt storage. So if you look at the renewable watch on the utility website today, you can add up a little bit. And I think I did a couple rough numbers and just said, hey, you know, it might be a good idea to have about 25 gigawatt hours of storage. Now this is to become energy independent, right? This is not a need. I don't want to confuse the difference between 100% renewable and energy independence. So I do want to make sure I bring that up again when I say these numbers because energy independence means, hey, let's produce all the power that we need to use, let's say, within a day on the island. I don't want to be bringing it in from other countries or the mainlanders. Which is the whole goal. So if I look at the amount of load and add in a couple of figures for a little bit of growth, or maybe even a decrease in load, 25 gigawatt hours was enough to just about get us one day where we need to produce all the energy today so that tomorrow, if there's no sun or the wind comes down, that, hey, we need to ride this through. Maybe some of our other baseload assets, if it's geothermal or something else, maybe they're down for maintenance. But one day of 100% storage, which you have now in diesel fuels, 25 gigawatt hours. That's a very large number compared to the 100 megawatt hour battery that we were just talking about before. When you talk one gigawatt hour, just a small fraction of what we need, the amount of space needed to store a gigawatt hour is sizable. I mean, it takes a lot of footprint for an island nation to start to dedicate. That's one. Some of the figures I haven't tossed on that make that number even larger are the transportation grid. Right now, transportation is not renewable. It's mostly carbon-based combustion. So when we make that renewable, that is an energy consumer that needs to change to a renewable energy. So we need to become not an importer. We have to produce more for that energy being consumed. So the 25 number that I'm talking about is low. What also makes that number possibly low is the constant supply of fuel that's being imported right now. There's multiple ships already on their way. They're storage in the pipeline basically. They're essentially in the pipeline, so to speak. They're on their way, which is important. So when something like a hurricane starts coming by and we need to delay the next ship coming in, we can ride it out a little bit, but soon we're going to need that to dock and offload the fuel so that we can start powering back up. When those ships aren't there and we are an energy independent, we need to be ready for those ships. We need to be able to be ready to call to import energy. We've got to be ready to pick up the phone and say, you know what? We didn't have enough. Send some energy to us, which would generally be renewable based so that we can plug it into our machines, whatever we're using at the time. That is a time factor. So if it takes five, let's say a week, if it takes a week to pick up the phone and get that energy shipped to us, now on that, not just 25 gigawatt hours for the day, I'm at time seven. I'm at a very large scale. Now those numbers start to get scary a little bit. I'm talking 100 gigawatt hours. I don't think we're in that area. You've got to be really smart about how your generation mix is made so that one factor doesn't knock out all of your generation. You can start refueling our renewable assets. Being smart about where and how we're using our power is the next step to minimizing that risk of not having power. Is it also good then to think of the future grid in terms of multiple microgrids versus one single big grid? Is there an advantage to that when it comes to storing energy? There is a really big advantage to that. So today, when I say 25 gigawatt hours, that's the load on the island right now. If everybody had the technological and financial ability to just have a solar plus battery on their house, that is actually a really good application. The solar is a high return on investment. The battery has a great return on investment. The battery is good right now for that application. I want to store power today, use it at night. If I have a cloudy day tomorrow, maybe I need to import just a little bit of energy. The calculations I'm talking about is no distributed energy, 25 gigawatt hours. Everybody here bought their own 10 kilowatt hour battery. That's a big difference. You can take them, it's not really just a million, you take every household times 10kwh. That's a big bite out of that gigawatt. But that battery is good for that scale today. Will hydrogen be able to replace that? I think so when the technology is developed more and we have the two kind of mirroring each other and pushing each other's technologies more, then it may be a hydrogen-based microgrid on your house. Then expand it out to the community. Now the community is invested in their own generation and storage assets. That takes a bite out of the multi-gigawatt hour requirement. We can keep everybody putting in their own assets as you go out. You're distributed generation, you have distributed storage. It makes the larger need much more palatable. It's a lot easier. But a place like the downtown, where you have high rise, very high density. They're the ones that aren't going to really just do their own. That facility, that community, will always be an energy importer. It's up to the other communities or the overall utility to providing that energy importer. But it doesn't need to be the massive number that I'm talking about. Well, okay, when we do look at batteries, so for scale at large scale, now there's a big price factor that comes in. Right now, people when they look at hydrogen for energy storage, they go, well, hydrogen is too expensive. It's too expensive to make and store at scale. That's because we don't have anything that scale to even produce a hydrogen scale. But when you start projecting forward and saying, okay, if we could, if we had geothermal to make hydrogen for the state and ship it within our own state rather than importing it, and we have that opportunity, and you could compare apples to apples with batteries for energy storage and hydrogen for energy storage, which ones in the long term, like over a 20-year period, where you capitalize stuff and pay it off, what seems to be making more sense? I know you've kind of done quite some numbers on that. Sure. When we start to scale it, it's absolutely in favor of hydrogen. I mean, by 10 plus fold. At that point, it's not even close at these larger, larger scales. When you get smaller, the equations really start to hinge on the price of the fuel a little bit, as much as the price of the producing, I mean, you're taking it off of the grid and on the grid. So it's a little bit different when you talk about the price of the fuel, but the price of the storage, the hydrogen storage is pretty easy to deal with, where there's no chemical process in a tank. This is put in a tank. So it's simpler, but then there's an infrastructure on how much input output am I planning on. So there is a place for each of the technologies, but as hydrogen as a fuel starts to scale, its economy of scale will change the economy of that equation. It absolutely will. I mean, keeping an eye on Japan would be my recommendation. Watching what they're doing is going to change the economy of hydrogen globally, just as that one nation. I think we share a lot of similarities with them. So what their decisions they make will change our renewable economy just because of their scale, the amount that they're consuming and producing will have an effect on us. They may be able to find a way to purchase and consume so much hydrogen that the price drops. Maybe it goes up because of the demand, but I would generally foresee more production of hydrogen would also allow more distribution of hydrogen, better storage, and that would change it here as well. Well, it just so happened to have seen a report this morning. I was just looking for some other files that I could bring to the show, and it was a study, not very old. It was 2016, where they looked at geothermal on Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island. The Big Island's a no-brainer. Maui and Oahu kind of surprised me that we have geothermal potential on these islands. So I think maybe one of these shows, we need to sit down and look at geothermal potential for Oahu, where they are, how big we'd have to make it, safety issues and things like that and start looking at it, because I know that we can store hydrogen in tanks. I mean, I have a friend in Phoenix that has hydrogen tanks from 1917, and they're still passing their hydrotesting, and they're still using them. If your storage vessel can last 100-something years, that's a pretty good clue as to what's going to be cheaper for hydrogen or batteries. So maybe we can couple some geothermal on this island in Maui to take care of the loads on our islands, with good base load power and the potential to build extra storage in hydrogen and keep a backup reserve for those five-day, seven-day, 10-day outages we may have for weather storms or things like that. That might be the thing to do. Yeah, that's a great topic. I think I got a couple seconds here. The way that current nations are becoming renewable, 100% renewable, is they have a massive hydro plant. They don't have a massive hydro plant. They have a massive geothermal capabilities. These two big, constant, we're talking multi-gagawatt hours in production of energy available to them. It's tougher for us. That's why it's a really technologically difficult to be able to pull off here, but it is possible. Tapping a source such as geothermal is very valuable. Well, let's look at that for next show. Let's see if we can talk about some local geothermal for the next show. That's going to wrap it up for Stanley Energy Man this week, and we thank you for joining us. Next month, we'll look forward to having Ryan here. We'll talk about some geothermal options here in the state of Hawaii and maybe the implications of what that could be for other communities. I mean, they call the Ring of Fire around the Pacific for a good reason. We have lots of geothermal all around the Pacific, and I think Ryan's suggestion of watching Japan will give us a good clue as to how it all pencils out economically in the future. So, thanks for joining us, and we'll see you next week on Stanley Energy Man. Thanks to Robert and Cindy here in the studio for making all the magic happen, and we'll see you later. Aloha.


Video Friday with Art Resin. So one of the questions we get asked a ton here at Art Resin, is there a minimum amount that you need to mix together of the resin and hardener? And no, there isn't. As long as you stick to the one to one ratio, you can mix like super small amounts, especially if you're making something like jewelry, you just need a really tiny amount. How can you possibly mix that tiny amount? Well, let me tell you. One of the things that we love using here at Art Resin are these little clear shot glasses. You can pick up from the dollar store. This is what they look like. And you know what? We just pour and we eyeball. And if you want, another good tip is to grab the cap off your kid's medicine bottles. And look, it's even marked out here for you. You can measure as little as two and a half milliliters if you really, really want to measure a small amount for jewelry or something like that. Remember, stick to the one to one ratio, one to one equal amounts, resin, hardener, mix thoroughly, and you are good to go. That's Video Friday. Till next time, video Friday with Art Resin. Oh, thank God that's over.


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Let's get that up here All right So Brett so I got blue jays down to Dodgers right after six blue jays down to Dodgers after six right Brett with the blue Birds Nick Stober with the cubbies Matt with the Rangers Courtney with the rocks Frank You got the cards Roy with the tribe Billy with the bravos and the Higantus Brandon with the athletic Nick With the O's of Matt with the buckos John with the straws Brian with the brew crew Matt with the halos Jason with the friars Brett with the Twinkies Derek with the bow socks Scott with the snakes Brandon with the Metropolitan's Derek with the t-grays Roy with the shy socks Jason with the fish Brian with the rays John with the knacks Matt with the red Legs Scott with the Royals Jennifer with the Bronx bombers Courtney with the M's Frank with the Phillies and Jen You have my Dodgers There you go. Go Dodgers. I'll see them in action a little bit later tonight. Let's sort by column B By team and while you're considering trades Let's open up this fresh case of 2019 tops chrome baseball. Let's see which two boxes we're new. We'll just roll the die multiple times to see where we end up My knife maybe my back pocket here the next two box break is already in the store folks Let's just keep rolling the die numerous times Let's select let's go with That one right there one two three four five six one two three four five six Then there's sets of two right here. We'll go one two three four five six on the dice roll and it's five So one two three four five six so the bottom two boxes right there Joe P. What's going on? How are you? Yes? Thank you happy Saturday to you happy Friday to me So mark those with X's for next time these are the two we're gonna do right now And team Bishop has the Rockies and Mariners two for one for the Nationals Frank has the cards and Phillies up for trade So we're gonna pause the video when we come back we're gonna see if there's any trades and then the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back folks. Look at this there was a trade between Billy and Courtney all right, so Courtney is out of the Mariners spot is now in the Giants spot and Billy is out of the Giants spot and into the Mariners spot So let's see how that trade works out. So the trade window is closed Now we can just print and rip will put tea next to there So we know so I know who draws first blood in that trade You're falling along at home Remember those are the two boxes that we Got there See what we got Not a baseball action happening today first weekend of baseball very excited about that There's the final print out right there And the next two boxes are already in the store. So go and check that out if you want to run that back All right, Reds beat the Cardinals nine six today Astros beat the A's nine one or a yeah Astros beat the A's nine one Phillies shut out the Braves Four zero Zach Wheeler and his bullpen and the Philly bullpen throwing a one-hitter Zach Wheeler went seven innings I think one hit Ten strikeouts or something like that Cubs be the Pirates five one Jake Arietta back with the Cubs with his first win of the year Royals Came back to beat the Rangers. I think they put up seven in the bottom of the Sixth or so six or seven runs in the bottom of the six or seven someone around there and they beat the Rangers 11-4 Tigers beat the Indians five two Zach please act taking the loss Julio Tehran taking the win Orioles beat the Red Sox four two Bronx bombers Yankees beat the Bluebirds five to three Then I think we've got a game in a couple games in progress right now We've got the Marlins leading the Rays four two in the top of the fifth We've got and the twins Brewers just started They're at the bottom of the second scoreless hitless errorless My Dodgers play a little bit late tonight Dodgers at Rockies Snakes are in San Diego shy socks are in Anaheim and Oh, look at that the Giants Mariners were traded in here and the Giants Mariners are playing tonight Giants at Seattle that's it That's the latest Lance Lynn White Sox Lance Lynn on my fantasy team, so I think he does well tonight. I think Rex was saying earlier that Cabrion Hayes left the game early for the Pirates with a hand injury is anyone have any more updates on that? Yeah, hand injury, which is not ideal. That's not good for the hobby Hopefully it was just precautionary. Hopefully it's nothing Other headlines that we have here the Angels tie buttery but tree at 28 saying he's leaving baseball They're retiring I guess I'm not sure why What's what's her name? Richard saying Joe, please tell my daughter quit jumping on me while I watch you rip some wax I've just lost off control just a wacky Saturday already in the household Reds cart card scuffle leads to Nick Casano's ejection When Josh Hampton has a hamstring issue 10-day IL for him Yeah, rookie Cabrion Hayes evaluated some wrist issue Shy Sox is Mercedes 5 for 5 and historic first start Winnie Winnie Hi, Winnie. I'm Joe Dad's trying to watch a little Some watch some some guy open up baseball cards want to hang tight just for a second You don't want to break the laptop Stand by just for a minute. It's not gonna take very long. Then you can go back to jumping on your dad again Thanks, Winnie. I appreciate it. Who's this Mercedes kid going five for five? Euroman Mercedes became the first player in the modern era to go five for five in his career start leading the White Sox So a 12-8 victory over the Angels last night. Wow, I didn't even realize that No worries, good luck in this one Mercedes a 28 year old catcher playing in a second career game also drove in four runs Is in an extraordinary performance at Chicago's DH. Awesome. All right. Here we go Let's see we got Nick Casano's got ejected Let's look for some rookies here But Brandon Lau, he's pretty good Brandon Lau rookie And our autograph is Sean Reed Foley Rookie autograph for the bluebirds. That's going to be for Brett There you go. Brandon Lau is going to go to Brian Heyman rookie card we've got Patrick Wisdom green wave to 99 For the Rangers that'll be for Matt There's a ricelle Iglesias Ramon Laureano the reward Kobe Allard Nice Pita Lanzo rookie card And Mike Tower was trying to do some research on Mercedes And he's getting more German Mercedes results Then uh than Euroman Mercedes. No, he spells it the same M. E. R. C. E. D. E. S Pita Lanzo rookie card going to Brandon And the Metropolitan's that could could grade out nicely It's Kyle Wright Ash James Orban Burns Ryan O'Hern Louise Urius refractor And we got a Second autograph that's cnl Perez two autos per hobby box. I believe astros john danine with that one Yes, why E. R. M. I. N. Euroman instead of Hermann or german There's jake bowers It's jake of mix Louise Urius Trevor's story Ryan Baruchy Juan Soto Ohtani So obviously comments like this aren't going to ship if they're refractors like this they will ship We'll ship Mike trout too, of course Miguel Andujar right there Trout of course will go to the halos. That's going to be For Matt Lieber All right second box That's Kyle Tucker Hyper Does tops also caught hot call it hyper? I don't know labor day And there's Vlad Guerrero junior rookie card nice one for Brett and the bluebirds Sorry, Kyle Tucker that goes to the astros Derek Riley with the straws I'm gonna say he had a pretty good game yesterday. I don't know how he did today though Blake trying in Heathville Meyer And a Colby Allard rookie auto billy with the braves nice one There's cody bellinger jake bowers Tookie Toussaint and chris sale To 25 nice low number orange chris sale for the red socks. That's going to go to Derek Riley Uh, no, he does not to tease jr Nice that's our first to tease jr Yes, you have red socks and tigers Derek Did I say did I say something else? Padres Jason seabro And a jersey auto Andrew McCutcheon That's awesome pirates addition Matt Lieber 13 out of 50 Andrew McCutcheon Oh, no, John DeNene has he did I would did I say something? I don't know They don't thankfully the shipping team doesn't go by what I say they go by the list and the list is correct All right, there's another Kyle Tucker for John and the astros black and white Evan Longoria and a Adam Simber that's a big that's how you autograph folks Not a big autograph making making great use of the canvas Nice Cleveland that'll be for Roy Cleveland. This is for you And there you go, and that's it ladies. Now. Here's the black and white Longoria for Courtney and the Giants And there's another Kyle Tucker rookie card going to John DeNene and the astros And there you go boys and girl that was a two box random team break of 2019 tops Chrome baseball another you just popped open a fresh case So there's more in the store check it out, and we can do some more tonight. I'm joe. I'll see you next time for the next break


Prior to travel restrictions caused by the current pandemic, I was returning home from an international assignment which, due to scheduling issues, created a Sunday layover. I had time between flights to attend a local sacrament meeting where I was also able to share a brief message. Following the meeting, an enthusiastic deacon approached me and asked if I knew President Nelson and if I had ever had a chance to shake his hand. I answered that I did know him, that I had shaken his hand, and that as a member of the Presiding Bishopric, I had the opportunity to meet with President Nelson and his counselors a couple of times each week. While the young deacon then sat down on a chair, threw his hands in the air, and shouted, This is the greatest day of my life! Well, brothers and sisters, I may not throw my hands in the air and shout, but I am eternally grateful for a living prophet. And for the direction we receive from prophets, seers, and revelators, especially during these times of challenge. From the beginning of time, the Lord has provided direction to help His people prepare spiritually and temporally against the calamities and trials that He knows will come as part of this mortal experience. These calamities may be personal or general in nature, but the Lord's guidance will provide protection and support to the extent that we heed and act upon His counsel. A wonderful example is provided in an account from the book of Genesis where we learn of Joseph in Egypt and his inspired interpretation of Pharaoh's dream. We read, And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, and there shall arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh listened to Joseph, responded to what God had showed him in a dream, and immediately said about preparing for what was to come. The scriptures then record, And in the seven plenteous years, the earth brought forth by handfuls, and he gathered up all the food of the seven years, and Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea until he left numbering, for it was without number. Once the seven years of plenty had passed, we are told that seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said, and the dearth was in all lands. But in all the lands of Egypt, there was bread. Today we are blessed to be led by prophets who understand the need for us to prepare against the calamities which should come, and who also recognize the limitations or restrictions that we may encounter in striving to follow their counsel. There is a clear understanding that the effects of COVID-19, as well as devastating natural disasters, are no respecter of persons, and cross ethnic, social, and religious boundaries on every continent. Jobs have been lost, and incomes reduced, as the opportunity to work has been affected by layoffs, and the ability to work has been impacted by health and legal challenges. To all who have been affected, we express understanding and concern for your situation, as well as a firm conviction that better days are ahead. You have been blessed with bishops and branch presidents who seek out members of their congregations who have temporal needs, and these leaders have access to tools and resources that can help you re-establish your lives and place you on the path of self-reliance as you apply principles of preparedness. In today's environment with a pandemic that has devastated whole economies, as well as individual lives, it would be inconsistent with a compassionate savior to ignore the reality that many are struggling and ask them to begin building a reserve of food and money for the future. However, that does not mean that we should permanently ignore principles of preparation. Only that these principles should be applied in wisdom and order, so that in the future we might say, as did Joseph in Egypt, there was bread. The Lord does not expect us to do more than we can do, but He does expect us to do what we can do, when we can do it. As President Nelson reminded us in our last General Conference, the Lord loves effort. Church leaders have often encouraged Latter-day Saints to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money and savings. At the same time, we are encouraged to be wise and not to go to extremes in our efforts to establish a home storage supply and a financial reserve. A resource entitled Personal Finances for Self-reliance, published in 2017 and currently available on the Church website in 36 languages, begins with a message from the First Presidency, which states, The Lord has declared, It is my purpose to provide for my Saints. This revelation is a promise from the Lord that He will provide temporal blessings and open the door of self-reliance. Accepting and living these principles will better enable you to receive the temporal blessings promised by the Lord. We invite you to diligently study and apply these principles and teach them to your family members.  He loves you and will never forsake you. He knows you and is ready to extend to you the spiritual and temporal blessings of self-reliance. This resource includes chapters devoted to creating and living within a budget, protecting your family against hardship, managing a financial crisis, investing for the future and many more, and is available for everyone on the Church website or through your local leaders. When considering the principle of preparedness, we can look back to Joseph in Egypt for inspiration. Knowing what would happen would not have been sufficient to carry them through the lean years without a degree of sacrifice during the years of abundance. Rather than consume all that Pharaoh's subjects could produce, limits were established and followed, providing sufficient for their immediate as well as their future needs. It was not enough to know that challenging times would come. They had to act. And because of their effort, there was bread. So this leads to an important question. Therefore what? Well, a good place to begin is to understand that all things are spiritual to the Lord and not at any time has He given us a law which was temporal. Everything then points to Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which we must build even our temporal preparedness. Being temporally prepared and self-reliant means believing that through the grace or enabling power of Jesus Christ and our own effort, we are able to obtain all the spiritual and temporal necessities of life we require for ourselves and our families. Spiritual aspects of a spiritual foundation for temporal preparedness includes acting in wisdom and order, which implies a gradual buildup of food storage and savings over time, as well as embracing small and simple means, which is a demonstration of faith that the Lord will magnify our small but consistent efforts. With the spiritual foundation in place, we can then successfully apply two important elements of temporal preparedness, managing finances and home storage. Key principles to manage your finances includes the payment of tithes and offerings, eliminating and avoiding debt, preparing and living within a budget, and saving for the future. Key home storage principles includes the storage of food, the storage of water, as well as other necessities based on individual and family needs, all because the best storehouse is the home, which becomes the most accessible reserve in times of need. As we embrace the spiritual principles and seek inspiration from the Lord, we will be guided to know the Lord's will for us individually and as families, and how best to apply the important principles of temporal preparedness. The most important step of all is to begin. Elder Bednar taught this principle when he said, Taking action is the exercise of faith. True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action. Brothers and sisters, in an ever-changing world, we must prepare for uncertainties. Even with better days ahead, we know that the temporal peaks and valleys of mortality will continue. As we seek to become temporarily prepared, we can face the trials of life with increased confidence, peace in our hearts, and, like Joseph in Egypt, we will be able to say, even in stressful circumstances, there was bread. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.