They have Cypress, they're fresh but they're also different and their niche quality. Hey what's up guys it's Josh here today I want to do a double review on this sandalwood and cypress and this green lavender by the art of shaving. Now the art of shaving has a store nearby at my mall they have like five or six maybe seven different kinds of clones got in there several times you know smelled a few out I ended up picking up one several years ago I did a review on I think it was this green lavender intense later on I ended up going to a discount store TJ max ended up finding this sandalwood and cypress of these fragrances every time I've smelled them I've really enjoyed them they're very very high quality both these are somewhat expensive compared to designers they go after these fresh clean style smells and to be honest the juice almost comes off as niche quality juice I absolutely love the quality of this juice sometimes I feel like it's unmatched by any other fragrance that I've smelled up to this point I wrote up kind of like a mini review on each one and I'll kind of give my two cents in at the end green lavender cologne intense now I want to say real quick it says cologne just by my smelling it just not smell like cologne just not smell like edt it smells closer to edp this stuff is very high quality almost niche quality the scents are kind of like designer scents but the quality seems niche in my opinion let's jump into green lavender green lavender's notes are lavender not a surprise mint cypress rosemary bergamot and moss not a hundred percent a barbershop style fragrance but it has a little bit of elements of a barbershop style vibe for sure it has a lot of herbs in here but did overall because of that mint and other things it comes off a little bit fresh with just enough strong spices in there so it is strong and it is spicy overall it's still fresh and clean which I really really appreciate so let's jump into the pros of this fragrance it's very unique and it has very high quality both these scents in my opinion kind of remind me of Abercrombie and Fitch style scents but they're done with such high quality that if you were somebody who didn't like Abercrombie and Fitch you actually might like these and if you like the old Abercrombie and Fitch style scents you actually might really fall in love with these because they seem like a higher quality version of some of those style scents the pros super unique very high quality like I was saying before it smells a little bit similar to other things that you smelled before but it's also got its unique vibe I think it's the cypress I really like cypress and a cypress was used by Abercrombie and Fitch back in the day and they're Abercrombie and Fitch yellow which what I really like the cypress in that fragrance both these fragrances feature cypress so maybe that's what's giving it the unique vibe but also the Abercrombie similarity to me this just smells like a fresh and clean style scent I would say almost with both of these you could be someone who doesn't really like cologne not really for you but you spray this up it just smells good you could wear it anybody could wear it this one smells more fresh and clean kind of a little bit more out of the shower versus the other one the cons is at the price I think it's about $50 for the one ounce which is a little bit expensive online maybe it's a little bit more the cities have always been a little bit more expensive but you can tell with the quality that it really kind of deserves the high price because you're not going to smell anything with this high quality at like Ulta or Sephora so let's jump into the cons pretty expensive it's not a super beast projector but it's also not bad I would say it's above average so it's hard for me to put that in a con but it isn't super beast mode besides that it's hard for me to find any other cons with this fragrance I would give it between an 8 to an 8.5 for the smell the same thing for likeability 8 8.5 and longevity and projection I'll give a 7 to a 7.5 it's definitely not bad it's definitely above average not beast mode but really not bad when fragrances kind of get bad I start putting about 6.5 and if they're really bad I'll give them like a 6 this one's very solid I would say you probably get 90 minutes maybe up to two hours projection and it'll probably last on skin probably up to 10 hours that seems about where this one maxes out good enough for me especially when it's a fresh clean scent so that one is green lavender let's jump into it number two this one's actually one of my favorites if it's not my absolute favorite by them all these really have this unique likeable vibe that almost anybody could wear it is the art of shaving so it's kind of got this fresh luxurious shower style vibe to all of them I've smelled a lot of fragrances and nothing really has this kind of smell with this kind of quality backed up with it so one of my favorites let's jump into the notes sandalwood and cypress not a surprise kayakwood cedar cardamom bergamont it's a little hard to describe I was looking up online people mentioned this buttery style vibe online and I almost have to like agree with that it's really hard to describe it's very smooth very fresh but also has a little bit of thickness in there and I feel like because it has a little bit of thickness and a little bit of freshness but the fall and the spring is absolutely perfect for this fragrance if it was too hot it might be too much for this fragrance and I wouldn't say it's the best for the cold because it's not super thick it's just a little bit of thickness a little bit of freshness you can wear it really all the time so let's jump into the pros it's unique and near-niche quality same with the other one I would say this one is even more unique than green lavender green lavender is very unique because it has lavender it has a lot of stuff you smell before but it's surprisingly likable this one I would say is a little more unique a little further away from things that I've smelled before but that makes me like it even more to be honest with you guys anybody could wear this I would say that you might be able to wear this a little bit more often you could probably stand the heat a little bit better and it just smells like something you spray out of the shower at any time that you're coming out of the shower just to smell fresh so this one's kind of a little bit more all year round this one's a little more specific still I feel like anybody could wear this at almost any time so the corns is the price and it's not beast mode the same as before these are pretty expensive they don't go saying $50 for one ounce or around that maybe even more this one probably projects just the hair more than the other one here these aren't weak by any means and these aren't like the strongest thing I've ever smelled these are firmly above average and I appreciate that I don't really feel like I have to give you a warning for how little they will last I feel like almost everybody will be at least satisfied with how long they last not be put in a situation where you're not going to be smelling it for very long or you're just going to be having a problem with the projection I don't really have that very similar but they are kind of different at the same time have cypress they're fresh but they're also different and their niche quality I definitely recommend checking them out if I were to give sandalwood and cypress a rating I'd probably give it a firm 8.5 for the smell because this one actually do like a hair more than this and I gave this 828.5 I probably give this a firm 8.5 because I do like it more and then likeability I'd give this an 828.5 just because I think it's likable I think everyone could pull it off but it hasn't given me the compliments yet so I don't want to give it a firm 8.5 to a 9 just yet and then the longevity and projection I'm going to give it about a 7.5 I would say that the sandalwood and cypress protects just a hair longer than this one but then the performance isn't really a negative for me maybe it is for you but I just don't feel like it's really something that's going to be weighing down these fragrances very much so anyways guys let me know what you think of the art of shaving have you tried either one of these these ones are a little bit expensive and at the same time a little less known every time I've smelled these throughout the years I've been impressed every time that I forgot about it not wore it for like six months I always feel kind of dumb the scent style is a little bit designary but the quality is niche and like I said I haven't smelled anything that smells similar to these quality wise these probably will make lists if they qualify let me know what you think of the art of shaving let me know what review I should do next one the road of 25,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without name you guys help you guys are the best I'm having a great day out here hopefully having a great day at home see you on the next video


So each character class within Diablo 4 has their very own Uniques, and we know that there are certain enemy types that have increased chances of dropping these Uniques, today we check them out for the sorcerer, what Uniques they have, the enemies which have increased chances of dropping them, and in my opinion the best dungeon you should be farming for specific pieces. How's it going guys, my name is DPJ and if you do enjoy the video, a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. So when it comes to farming specific dungeons to try and get these Uniques to drop, any dungeon is theoretically fine, but if you can roll a nightmare dungeon with that magic find and modify it on, that's a way better option due to dropping more loot for you. Also if you're looking for Uniques for your certain class, and it ain't a sorcerer, all videos will be linked down below. Okay so we have to keep in mind as well that any Jewelry, so rings and amulets do not have any specific monster type which has increased drop chances. So the Asidora's Overflowing Cameo does not have currently any increased drop chances from any specific enemy type. Okay so let's get into it. The Esu's Alem, this has increased drop chances from that drowned enemy type, so the specific dungeons I recommend you farming for these, we have the Haunted Refuge, the Dead Man's Dredge, the Putrid Acrefire and the Vault of the Forsaken. These four dungeons will give you multiple options at this enemy type, so we'll get farming guys. Next up people we have the Flame Scar. This has increased drop chances from ghosts and vampires, okay so those ghost dungeons I'd look out for, Earth and Wounds, the Unix Hold, Sunken Ruins and the Last Archives. These are four great dungeons, probably Unix Hold is my favourite here, but either or guys do what you gotta do. Great dungeons, we have Xenith, we have Coral Dragon Barracks and we have the Heathen's Keep. Again, three great great dungeons, plenty of vampires within these, so do what you gotta do people. Okay so next up people we have the Gloves of the Illuminator. This has increased drop chances from spider enemies. Spider dungeons, we have the Blind Barrels, the Goron Canals, the Whispering Pines and the Champions Demise. All great great dungeons, plenty of spiders within these, so I'll pick one, Nightmare Dungeon it, hopefully you get that magic fire modifier on it and I'll good luck to you in trying to get this one. Next up guys we have the Ice Heart Brace. This has increased drop chances from them drowned enemy types, so dungeons here you want to look for, the Haunted Refuge, the Dead Man's Dredge, the Putrid Aquafire and the Vault of the Forsaken. Plenty of drowned enemies within these dungeons people. Okay so next up guys we have the Rayman of the Infinite. This has increased drop chances from beasts and spiders. So beast dungeons, we have Blind Barrels, Alderwood, Maulwood, Alder's Cave and the Haunted Refuge, four great great dungeons there. Spider dungeons, we have the Blind Barrels, the Goron Canals, the Whispering Pines and the Champions Demise. So it makes sense guys that you'd farm the Blind Barrels because this has both beasts and spiders within, so if you can land this with that nightmare version, with that magic fire modifier on, this would be your best bet. Next up guys we have the Staff of the Endless Rage. This has increased drop chances from Fallen and Gauntman enemy types. So Fallen dungeons, we have Demons Wake, Conclave and the Ancients Lament. Gauntman dungeons, we have the Champions Demise, Merc's Reach, Shifter Ruins and the Wharfthrust Demise, again some great dungeons for you to farm there. Lastly guys we have the Staff of the Lamb Esen. This has an increased drop chance from dropping from Fallen and Gauntman enemies yet again. So Fallen dungeons, Demons Wake, Conclave and Ancients Lament and Gauntman dungeons, we have Champions Demise, Merc's Reach, Shifter Ruins and the Wharfthrust Demise. Those are what I'd recommend to you farming to try and get this item. For there we have it guys, those are the sorts of Uniques, the enemy types which will give you increased drop chances for specific pieces and said dungeons to farm to increase the likelihood that you'll get these items to drop for you. So best of luck in your farming within the ablot of 4. Guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I'll see you on that next one.


Welcome back to another video and welcome to the best publishing channel on YouTube Not according to us, right? It's not self-proclaimed. Luca thinks so. Luca says so. Okay. Don't shoot the messenger It says it's the best publishing channel on YouTube. No doubt about it But in today's video, we're gonna be talking about the three worst keywords that you probably think are good Then 99% of Kindle publishers are using and failing with big time. Okay So you're this is a must-watch video for anyone who intends to ever publish a book online. So let's sit over here and Discuss these three words here. All right.  What is it? It is being late to a trend. Yeah Now we're not saying don't chase trends chasing trends is literally one of the smartest things you could do in business Chasing trends is literally how you get rich quick. Now get rich quick. You should never try like The mindset should not be to get rich quick But if you hit a trend that is how you get rich quick. Yeah, okay So I say a quick video that I saw yeah I saw video from Tyler Lopez saying he got lucky and got rich quick because he was early on a trend That was Google ads Facebook ads and YouTube ads Yeah, I'm saying he says he got early on that just to say you can get rich quick on it Trends is how you get on it though. Okay. Trends is how you get rich quick So we're not saying don't chase trends. That's one of the best practices you can have as an entrepreneur What we're saying is you have to recognize and be aware when you are late to a trend And I'm gonna give a perfect example of this within Kindle publishing There's many examples I could give but the big one that comes to a lot of people's mind is Cryptocurrency cryptocurrency and blockchain. So crypto was yeah, that's not even get started on that But crypto was a huge keyword back in was the end of 2017 So like a little over a year ago if you published a book about crypto or blockchain, you're making 5k a month at least Yeah, I mean you were guaranteed to make four figures a month with this one book. I did it Rassus did it a Lot of our friends did it everyone's books about crypto and blockchain was blown up because crypto was huge at the end of 2017 Everyone was buying books about it buying courses about it Just spending money to learn about crypto But then the crash happened at the beginning of 2018 and suddenly instead of people getting rich with it Like people didn't want to miss out then suddenly everyone was losing money losing shillows of money Okay, and suddenly no one gave a fuck about crypto. So what happened to me? I lost a lot of me in crypto. Well, that's besides the point I had a book about crypto and blockchain two separate books. They both did incredible and I was like, okay Crypto makes money. I I had five more books written about cryptocurrency They took about two three months to be completely ready to publish. I published them They were all dead. They all did nothing.  It's fine and all that They think it's a great idea and they tell me like you got to make a book about this Yeah, I remember one time I was actually getting a haircut talking about what we do because they always ask right like oh I have a great idea for your book. You should make you should make a barbecue wings recipe book I was like no, I shouldn't know I should but if I didn't know any better I probably would have listened because of just how enthusiastic they were about it, right? But so many times we get recommended book ideas to make from friends and family and just because they want books about That does not mean that people on Amazon want to buy those books I also remember our neighbor or our neighbor's mom had also said she's really into gardening So she wanted us to make a book about gardening tomatoes because she was having problems about her tomatoes were turning green too quickly Yeah, so you said make a book about that. I would love that So that's just an example of other people they think oh everyone's gonna love this because I love it No, do not make books that your friends and family think are gonna sell well because there's no numbers that back it up And this also applies to yourself if you're saying that and you're like, oh a book about Cryptocurrency would be great because who doesn't want to learn about crypto whatever the point is if you think a book will sell great Just based off of oh this cool idea what you think will sell well But there's no numbers behind it to back it up It won't sell well because no one else gives a shit about it But you in the end always do the research first Yeah And with that you can watch one of our previous videos about a keyword research method that we developed ourselves called the sleek method Watch that video there. It's super easy to find out or see if a keyword is profitable using that method gives you everything You need to know about how to research the numbers to figure out if people are buying books on certain topics We're making this so easy for everyone. Yeah, they'll publish good books Yeah, and the third and final massive keyword mistake that 99% of Kindle publishers are making it is making books about Topics that no one else is making books about what I mean by that is their argument is there's no competition There's no competition for this book. Let's make a book about it because I'm gonna dominate the niche But there's a reason why there's no competition There's a reason why no one else has made books about this keyword. You didn't just discover pizza Okay, someone else would have made pizza before you if it was as good as pizza. Did that make sense? Yeah Yeah, but let's just roll with it Okay, you get what I'm saying there would be books about it if it was worth making books about now We always say the less competition the better which is the case Oh, absolutely, right, but there has to be demand as well Yeah, zero competition zero demand you can't publish in that instead of making these three mistakes when choosing your keywords What you should do is go for the highest of the high demand keywords and niches now We made a video previously not that long ago We'll link it somewhere around here where we share and talk all about our three favorite niches because they are three Because they are the most high demand and they are the most high demand because they solve the greatest problems for people Never mind all that but those are the keywords and niches that you should be publishing not these three ones three mistakes So we talked about in this video Yeah, you want to publish books about topics that people are dying to give you money to learn all about People are like tons of people you want to publish books about keywords that have a massive market Okay, now I apologize for the birds chirping in the background and the people you can hear screaming give me one second We're trying to talk about candle publishing I think it works anyway, sorry about that crazy lady back to the video people's biggest arguments against what we just said About publishing in the big three niches the three niches with the most demand that is with high demand comes high competition There's so much competition. There's already one thousand other books on this topic So you can't compete and then what they say you have to be innovative You have to make books about topics that no one else is making books about that is one of the dumbest things ever But you'd be surprised these people that claim to be gurus are what they're saying What they're teaching people but the truth is that you can't compete in these high competition niches with maybe thousands of other books When you know what you're doing when you know how to get traffic and be seen Even though there's a thousand similar books around you when you know how to do that You can compete and you can make a shitload of sales because there's so much demand for your book Correct. So really all you need to do it's honestly the simple. I'm gonna break it down into a three-step process This is how you compete in a high-demand high competition niche. Okay, you have a compelling title You have a good cover and then you run a shitload of Amazon ads Stress a shitload a shitload of Amazon ads as much as you can now when you run Amazon ads You are paying for traffic and paying for visibility Even if it's amongst the sea of a thousand other books on the same topic, okay? So you're paying a few cents to be seen and it solves the problem You can suddenly compete with books and be found by readers now Like I literally just told you how anyone who says they can't be done You just got debunked the days of making all of your money on Kindle from just organic ranking and without ads are over Everyone is running a a ads now not ams a ads Amazon advertising ads all the most successful ones are Probably also ones with the highest ad costs and that's what's become now because it is pretty competitive So you need to make a ads a priority now We will be making many videos soon about it because I'm trying to acquire as much knowledge and become an expert in The field at the moment before we share right I'm not going to share and teach it to you guys until I feel super confident and I know that like What we have to say is expert level shit exactly now to recap the three mistakes You should not be making one is coming late to a trend number two Is publishing books about topics that you've heard about from friends and family or that you think would make for good books And then number three is publishing books with no competition instead of what you want to do to make a shitload of money I'm sorry Wait and instead of make those three mistakes what you do want to do is publish books that people want to read about and run A shitload of ads to an amazing video over magic emoji of the day X the red X Comment like subscribe seriously comment if you have any questions I think we talked about and all videos that you'd like to see in the future like the video Subscribe see the next video free training down below You


If you watched my live stream I was talking about the truck, it sounded like a timing chain slap, but I had to check it out first thoroughly. This is why you should always check something out first thoroughly, okay? I'll show you why. Now you got to listen real close, but you're going to hear this right there, that noise. Okay, it goes away, goes away there, but here it's coming back. Let me show you something here. Okay, now we're going to make it make that sound again. This is loose. That's rattling.  Now she's got her headphones in, jamming. The timing chain and gears was, uh, one place was, uh, uh, it was O'Reilly's was 100 or $189 just for the two gears and the chain. Uh, I think you got the tensioners too, the side pieces. This door overhead cam, but it runs on one chain. There's two side pieces. Keep the slap, the slop out of the chain. Uh, I called auto boners. They wanted $212. And that was without the tensioners, just the, the chain and two gears. Uh, I went online and for $51, I could have got the timing chain, both gears, both the, the tensioners, the gaskets, a water pump and a water pump gasket for $51 bucks. Or without the water pump, water pump gasket was going to be like $41. So look around guys, if you can wait. Um, but we got lucky, you know, that's just something that came loose over, um, I think it's got 493,000 on it. The right key in here, I'll show you what it's got for most a half a million miles, 493,267 miles on this truck. So this is just kind of, kind of an update for those of you that watched the live stream last night. Um, just always and always, always check everything. Um, I was hoping it was, but it sure sounded like a timing chain slap because it only did it on acceleration. So, and sometimes only do them on deceleration when you let off the gas, you'll hear them. But I've also heard alternator brackets make that noise, like sometimes they'll crack over vibrations and they'll get that noise. So I was hoping it was something like that. And it kind of was, I don't know if that bracket's broke, but I'm just going to go ahead and tighten it up. I know what it takes, these things, I believe they're like 10 millimeters, a couple bolts, it could have one missing, it feels pretty loose. So I'm going to have to dig around, see if I can find a bolt, but that's, this is not really how-to video, but it's a video on always check, you know, everything thoroughly. And it would have been so easy for her to take this to a mechanic. And there's not many mechanics that wouldn't agree and said, yeah, sure, sounds like a timing chain. Well, they would have just went ahead and ripped into it, put a new timing chain on it, still had the same noise and then found out, well, we just needed to put a bolt in it. They would have put a bolt in it and still charged her. It's sad, but that's the way a lot of them work. Sometimes they would find the issue and go good. We don't have to do the timing chain, but we're going to charge her for it. So anyway, guys, there you go. But I've been running 40 weight in the winter and 50 weight in the summer oil and this thing. So, you know, to keep the parts lubed good and everything. So we got lucky. So I'm going to get off here. I just want to say thanks for watching. That's why there are no intro or anything. Just a quick upload to tell you. You hear noise like I always check and make sure if you don't know much about it, call friend or family member, love anyone and say, listen, can you give me a hand? You know, I've got this funny noise to see if we can find it and go from there. This one was easy. I kind of knew where to look. I also had my stethoscope out here. I don't know if you've got seen this or not. This helps out. This comes in handy. It's a stethoscope. Just kind of like a doctor's stethoscope, but it's got this end on it and you put this on the engine. Just like, you know, just touch it on the engine somewhere there and you'll hear, you'll hear a noise very clearly. So I didn't have to use that because I heard it immediately when I wrapped it up. I heard it was coming from the middle of the engine and not the front of the engine. So that was pretty good. So anyway, guys, thanks for watching. Stay tuned for, I've got an upcoming video on a giveaway I'm going to be doing. I may do that on a live stream, but I'm going to talk to you guys about that here soon. So anyway, again, thanks for watching. Shea Berry, the myth man legend. I'm gone for now. The monkey's still jamming. We'll see you guys soon. Bye-bye.


Good afternoon. We are with Kurt and Kathy Stiefvater from Salem, South Dakota. Kurt, why don't you tell us a little bit about your operation? Well, I've been farming about 35 years and taking over from my parents' farm and do corn, soybeans, alfalfa, oats, and now in the last six years I've done started using cover crops. I have a cow calf livestock operationals to about 140 heads. We would have to harvest extra corn and chop it up for silage and create a storage place for that and then distribute it throughout the winter, feed it through the winter for our livestock, and now I pretty much, I don't chop any silage anymore. I will feed some hay, but otherwise it's pretty much a winter grazing type system. Well, I'm kind of fascinated about the system approach that you have here with, you've got multiple things going on. Why not just simplify everything and become more efficient and just do corn and maybe soybeans? I mean, why you've got cow calves, you've got cool seasons, you've got cover crops and you're adding that and multi-species cover crops. Why are you doing all this? What's the purpose to that? Long-term goal is to improve the soil or make it better than what we received it and entrusted to take care of, and that's what I really liked, and going to a three-way rotation with corn, soybeans, and oats and then started implementing cover crops as the for a winter feed source, mostly for my cattle. So it's corn, soybeans, oats, and are you grazing your oats or? I raise the oats for grain and then sell that. Then you're grazing your multi-species cover crops? Grazing the rest, yes. How's the economics of that work out on grazing the cover crops? Works great because I've saved about 40% of my hay usage, so I cut down my harvested acres of that I need to put up for alfalfa or grass for my winter feed for my cattle. Kathy, you're smiling. Are you the one who pays the bills and you don't have to pay those bills? Is that what I'm getting from you? No, but it's less bails to haul. So the idea is that cows have four legs and they can go get it themselves, is that right? Yes. Then there's also, they're not penned up during the winter. They get exercise while they're bred and raising the calf and the manure, I don't have to haul the manure out. It's spread across the land as a part of the cycling process. What extreme events do you see here and how do you in your operation account for that? As I keep going with my no-till and the cover crops, it's more even throughout the years at waters taken into the soil. I like that a little bit better.


So our research question is actually how the structure of electricity supply in different countries is related to the well-being of the citizens or more specifically whether there is such a relationship and then if there is how it does look like in more detail. The background to this kind of research is the fact that many countries in Europe and also worldwide are currently undertaken restructuring of their electricity supply or partly also energy supply more generally partly driven by the phenomenon of climate change. Much of the greenhouse gases is related to energy use and what we observe is that different countries pursue quite different strategies in this regard for example in Germany and also in Switzerland there is the strategy of the so-called energy vendor which entails that renewable energies are going to be phased into the system in an accelerated fashion whereas nuclear power is going to be phased out and coal of course as well. If we look at France and the United Kingdom in comparison to that they also try to minimize greenhouse gases but their strategy is to stick to nuclear power and even to build new nuclear power stations. Now the aspect which we study is of course not is there a direct relationship between those structures and the well-being of the citizens but rather an indirect one because the different supply technologies have their different characteristics their advantages and drawbacks which relate to the costs and the environmental aspects and also to safety and nuclear safety issues. For example coal which is a big driver of greenhouse gases is a relatively inexpensive way of producing energy but it's a dirty one it's associated not only with greenhouse gases but also with air pollution which may be detrimental to health. On the other hand the renewable energies they avoid those difficulties but they are relatively expensive or at least they were relatively expensive in the past and with respect to nuclear power there is the unresolved issue of nuclear waste disposal and also there is the fear or the perception that this is a risky technology this latter perception was spurred of course by the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima in Japan in 2011 and therefore the question arises as to how those technologies are to be evaluated in a comparative fashion and our specific approach to addressing this question is to ask whether there are relationships between those technologies and their characteristics on the one hand and the well-being of the citizens on the other. So having described our research question of course the question arises how can we really measure citizen well-being or if you want to put it that way how can we measure welfare it's well known that over much of the 20th century economists have quite have been quite skeptical about the possibility to measure utility or welfare in any meaningful way and much of economic research was in fact was in fact able to be conducted without having to really do that but on the other hand there remain several questions for which it is quite useful to have an empirical measure for well-being and what has come to be established over the last two decades or so and has been accepted even in economics was that it is possible to use subjective data from social surveys which typically ask for people's life satisfaction as an empirical proxy to measure welfare there has been complementary research for example by psychologists which led to the conclusion that those data are really something reliable and sound and increasingly this was being introduced in economics as well for example there have been studies of the relationship between well-being in this subjective sense and some macro economic indicators and what we do is to conduct a similar analysis with respect to the electricity supply structure so we ask whether we can establish a statistical relationship between the life satisfaction of the citizens and those aspects of electricity supply specifically we use data for about 140,000 individuals in 25 European countries starting from 2002 those data were taken from a survey which is conducted regularly the European social survey and using these data and combining them with information on the electricity supply structure in the different countries permitted us to conduct and to establish whether there are such statistical relationships always keeping in mind that of course correlations are to be taken with care so it is very important to control for potentially confounding factors for example it could be that renewable energies are more widespread in rich countries and this tells us that such characteristics and potentially confounding factors are to be included in our analysis but in the end what we do is to run so-called life satisfaction regressions where we have the life satisfaction as the dependent variable we have the shares of the different electricity supply technologies as our main dependent variable and of course we have a whole battery of control variables which give us that methodological safety that I just described in our research there are quite a couple of findings some of which I would describe as the big points and then of course there are also some more differentiated types of analysis so the main finding is that is a finding which is not so straightforward namely that there is in fact a systematic and statistically significant relationship between the supply structure and well-being and then of course the interesting question is how does this relationship look like and looking at it from this point of view what we did find is that certain types of renewable energies are in fact associated with more well-being the supplies in particular to solar energy and wind energy and also it applies to for example natural gas whereas electricity generation from coal and from nuclear power plants is more disliked in terms of citizen well-being and if we look at all of those general results from a still somewhat more specific point of view then we can for example find that not all of the nuclear energies are alike whereas solar and wind power are positively related to well-being this does not apply for example to biomass because for example biomass plants are associated with odor nuisance for example and even if we look at wind energy we find that when you have a wind park in your in your neighborhood or in your in your region then this typically goes with lower subjective well-being but when we now try to align the two levels of analysis the macro level so to speak and the micro level with one another then we find there are some negative aspects of wind energy but when we compare this type of technology with nuclear energy or coal-based electricity generation then overall on balance those negative aspects of wind power are not as important to undermine the general positive effect that we found for the new kinds of renewable energies like wind and solar energy and especially what one can also add is the fact that the negative effects from wind parks are transient mainly they disappear after some three or four years after the construction of the wind parks and this is something which also contributes to the overall result that there's a relatively favorable effect of the those types of technologies at least in the intermediate to long run as far as the relevance of our research is concerned maybe one can note that using such subjective data is not only a trend in research as I explained it previously but it is also something which has spilled over to the political sphere for example using such measures of well-being has been advocated by some publications of the OECD the UK Office of Statistics has also embraced using or at least specifying and showing such data and also in France there has been a commission established by the then-president Sakuzi which was whose aim it was to think about alternative measures or complementary measures for the traditional national accounts and in those exercises the use of subjective data was also something which was recommended and looking at it from this perspective our research which applies this to a question of energy supply I think fits in quite well not just with with the research climate but also with its perception in the political sphere and in fact what we did find namely that there is a clear relationship a significant and systematic relationship between questions of energy policy and citizen well-being or if you want to call it welfare then I think this is something which is indeed something that is relevant in particular against the background mentioned in the beginning that there are those restructurings of the energy supply structure going on in many countries if we look at the future I think there are quite some aspects of our research area that could be considered in a more detailed way for example up to this point we assume that people in all countries that we studied have the same relationship towards the electricity supply but of course that might be different in different countries and this is something that one could look at another point that may be worthwhile is that the important aspects of the energy transition is not just only the supply the generation of electricity but it's also the transmission and we know that there are many many public debates about high voltage power lines for example so therefore it would be quite interesting to look at this as well other aspects are how did changes in the costs for example of photovoltaic energy which dropped considerably in the last couple of years how did this change the relationship between well-being and the different supply structures and therefore I think there is quite some potential for future research along those lines which we started to study in a first step so to speak