Garbage.  That's right. They both stink. If you dig hard enough, you just might find a treasure. But it's mostly stinky trash. Yeah. And while neither of these are actually $1 games, that is today's video. $1 games on the eShop. So the first thing I gotta do is load up the eShop and go to the filter settings and change it from 0.1 cents to $9.99 cents. When I do that, I would like to point out, the switch tells me there's 1,704 items that cost up to $10. That's a lot of cheap video games. And now, unfortunately, it's my job to go through all 2,000 of these games and find every single one that costs a dollar or less. Oh, this is gonna take a while. I've actually managed to find a few. Oh, God. This is not working the way I would like. Okay, so I've actually managed to find a few so far. We have Ding Dong, Henry the Hamster Handler, and Nicky the Home Alone Golf Ball. All of those sound fun. Yeah, I can't say I'm excited to play any of these. 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Anyway, I actually thought there would be a lot more, but believe me, I'm not complaining. Well, let's find out if any of these are any good or if they all belong with me here amongst the trash. The first game we're going to start with is Skypiece. It's a side-scrolling side-scroller, I guess.  You just scroll to the side really fast. You move at breakneck speeds while only being able to take up one of these nine directional squares. You control your little skysurfer by moving around the analog stick, or you can try using the YXA and B buttons.  This one really isn't too bad. Dare I say, it's actually even fun. Visually, it's quite pleasing with animated pixel art, bright colors, and a lot of lighting effects going on. It even has an in-game achievement tracker, but my biggest issue is the speed, man, too fast, too furious. I like to think I have a pretty solid reaction time. You know, for a young whippersnapper my age, just missed it. There isn't enough time to determine whether or not the next sprite bursting onto the screen is an enemy or a coin, and by the time you figure it out, it's already three screens behind you. This game was developed by Sonic Power, which I thought might have something to do with that blue hedgehog, but after some digging around, the only other game I could find they ever worked on was Air Traffic Controller for the DS. So I guess they just really had a thing for flying? Oh, Nikki the Home Alone Golf Ball. I mean, I see no way that this game could possibly be bad. Oh, you play as a golf ball that you can customize with outfits for a reason probably. You don't remember how to get there? That will be interesting. Oh, I know this game was a dollar, so they were probably trying to work within their budget, but the voiceover narration is like text to speech and it's just bad. All right, so you have two different ways to play. You can use the analog stick to aim and shoot, or you can use touch controls, which, um, yeah, don't. They are awful and unresponsive, but the worst offender is that you're supposed to drag your finger away from Nikki to power up a shot, but the game insists on keeping Nikki's character model at the bottom of the switch's physical screen, meaning you can't actually pull your finger far enough away to charge up the shot without your finger sliding off the switch and leaving the screen's physical space. There's just no way of doing it.  It's easily one of the most frustrating games I've actually ever tried to play, made even worse by the fact that it didn't save my progress the first time I played and I didn't have the balls to play through that terrible first level again. Next game, please. Minefield. This one's for you fellow 90 kids out there that grew up with an old-ass computer that had no video games other than one type of pinball table and minesweeper, because this game is literally just minesweeper, but for some reason the default background is a 9-11 tribute, and I'm honestly not making any kind of joke when I say that every time I got a game over screen by hitting a bomb and then seeing a 9-11 tribute screen made me feel incredibly uneasy. I almost stopped playing the game immediately until I realized you can change the background to something more pleasant, but I still find the choice to have this as the default background on a game of this nature very weird. Next, please. The puzzle games. You know, I actually honestly thought that most of these $1 games would be crappy, simple, easy to make puzzle games, but as it turns out there was only two.  It's groundbreaking stuff really. Unlock the king, however, is like if chess checkers and magnets had a baby. The individual pieces move by chess rules, but the king zips zooms its way straight to the end goal once you clear enough pieces out of its path. You know, I actually liked this one. The puzzles are really clever and they get pretty tricky, and there's like a hundred of them. That's like one cent a level, and I got this game half price. What a deal. Maddening Euphoria. It's an endless runner that has you sprinting and jumping along a trippy, ever-changing circle.  But I actually like that dinosaur game. Sometimes I play it even when my internet isn't out. This giant line not only acts as a kind of clever way to hide the level layout changing, but it's also a timer that if it hits you, kills you. Just like everything in this game seems to do, kills you dead. This game is far too busy, with a pulsating background and a constantly randomized color scheme that changes every time you die, making the objects and death traps impossible to spot as they're always becoming a new color, and sometimes they end up being the same color as the level. Oh, and what's worse still is that jumping in this game is like an episode of that TV show Lost. You never know what's gonna happen next. Every time you jump, the game tries to throw this weird perspective at you of the player getting bigger as they get further away from the world.  Euphoria is a state of feeling of intense excitement and happiness. But this game, however, is the state of feeling of intense disappointment and frustration. Maybe that's what they meant by maddening euphoria. So now I can't tell if the name of the game is extremely incorrect or perfectly self-aware. This is becoming very uncomfortable. I'm sat on like a bar and a bar. But the next game is Mecha Tales. Oh, okay, so Mecha Tales has you start the game by selecting how many players you want, one through four. You know, just in case you have three friends, you want to make software through a $1 budget Nintendo Switch game.  I ain't judging. What the heck? It's like they ran out of money and couldn't afford the game's original art is to come up with two new characters. So they just downloaded something off of Clipart and made the other one blue. Even the other characters and enemies in the game are on theme with the art style. I actually had high hopes for this one when I started playing it. It's a Mega Man clone kind of, but played like a twin stick shooter. The biggest issue though is you have one character moving and the other shooting, but they are completely independent of each other.  I found myself more concentrated on where the robot was than where I was. And since I'm the one with the hitbox taking damage, it's just a big mess, kind of like this room.  It's really not bad. But no matter how far I kept getting into this level, every time I inevitably died, it sent me all the way back to the start. And I mean all the way, even to the first screen that has nothing in it, because originally it was the tutorial screen for the game. I appreciate what this game was going for, and at least they were realistic with their $1 price tag, but it's crap. Ding dong, the witch is dead. Witch old witch. The wicked witch. Ding dong has a very basic premise. You ding to the top of the screen and you dong to the bottom. Switching between the two points, trying not to collide with any of the objects flying across the screen and grabbing the occasional power up.  And I uh, I really like it. More than I probably should. The neon retro visuals remind me of that game Geometry Wars, which is a great game by the way. There's so many little details like motion lines and particles flying around the screen. It has a fantastic techno soundtrack, and the music is synced up perfectly with the gameplay. This game, it's just a joy to play. The simple smooth transition between dinging and donging is so responsive that each and every game over is solely your fault and you can feel that. There's a certain rush I feel every time I grab a speed power up that allows me to smash through blocks or a slow down time power up that makes me feel like Neo in The Matrix. Oh and if you manage to just clip the very end frame of a block as it passes you can destroy it for an extra point which adds another layer to the dinging and donging of the game where you're no longer just trying to avoid the blocks, but you can also go on the hunt if you're feeling frisky. Oh I regret that. You can even use the points you earn to unlock a large inventory of weird character pieces like a dog face or a guy with a beard. And I chose a donut because I'm fat. Man it's just a simple joy of a game that proves you only need one simple concept to make a fun and polished experience. I can only compare the fun simplicity of ding dong to games like Pong which ironically, rhyme. Next there's Polsterio, Polsterio, I don't know. This one plays kinda like Flappy Birds, but worse. You press A to start and then you have to keep holding A to give your spaceship momentum. If you let go it just plummets straight down. You collect these very exciting white squares that make a horribly distracting noise when you touch them. And that's the game. You might be sensing a theme here, but it controls terribly and it's in no way fun. The ship moves way too fast so turning or changing direction in these small areas is damn possible. I only found any real success in just kamikaze towards the squares and then respawning and going for the next one. I ended up missing half the time and just hitting the wall. Oh no, okay. I've been dreading this next one the whole time I've been making this video. Henry the Hamster Handler. It wasn't even a dollar. It was the only game on the eShop that actually cost even less than a dollar. It was 60 cents. I had a feeling this would be the worst one of the bunch. Let's see if I was right. Well, I wasn't wrong. What is this? I don't know what I expected, but if this was a physical game I would throw it away. It's just a series of timed button presses that not only highlight themselves well before you're supposed to press them, but also have a really annoying voice say the answer out loud. There's literally no way of getting this wrong. You can't lose here. As the levels progress, the amount of buttons you need to use expands and with so many hamsters on the screen at once, yeah, I can kind of get what they were going for here. You gotta keep looking around making sure you're hitting all the buttons for them at the right time making sure you know none of them die because they can. These little cute hamsters can fall into spikes and explode into well green, but green blood. Who was this game for? Because if it's children, oh no. Again, I do get what they were trying to do here, but once one or two hamsters have gone through the whole maze, you pretty much have the sequence down, but you still have to wait for like 10 more of these hamsters to slowly drop out of the tunnel. So you just kind of sat there mindlessly pressing buttons, listening to a squeaky voice over and over, which honestly sounds less like it saying the word up and sounds more like the peanut butter baby. I feel like throwing my controller away playing this one. How many levels could there possibly be of this guy? 300? 300 of these levels. Somebody designed 300 of this. And I would just like to point out that this is the first game that I've ever played that names the person playing the game something than their own name. Because the game is called Henry, the hamster handler and you're the one handling the hamsters. So I guess that makes you and me Henry. My name isn't Henry.  Oh well apparently I should have just kept this thing in the trash anyway. Because to play this next game I can only use a joycon. Actually never mind that to play this game I have to use two joycons because this game can only be played in two player mode. And since I have no friends, I guess I'm just gonna have to do all myself. Well that's just fine. Or about we go ahead and start the game.  The aim of the game is to sink the pinball into the other player's side but the table is so void of life and obstacles it's honestly pathetic. Also the visuals are muddy and the ball stutters around the board almost like I've gone back in time 10 years and I'm trying to play this game online on the Wii. All right well I can put these back on now because the next game is somewhat normal and will allow me to play with my pro controller again and that game is called Cosmonauts. Cosmonauta? I don't care. This one is a platformer again like Mega Man. If Mega Man was controlled like a wet fish and didn't have a weapon which to be fair most wet fishes don't have weapons so they were pretty accurate with that one. It's a pretty standard game of this style nothing too offensive and for a dollar it was almost decent but sadly the controls are so slimy it's almost impossible to change direction midair even though most of the time it feels like you are supposed to be doing that and I clipped through more platforms than I actually landed on. I ended up getting to this one level that was just a huge step up in difficulty but I'm pretty sure that's just because of the terrible game design and it wasn't intended to be this hard but I could not freaking jump up this part because these rock things they blast out at like the same time and then different times and then I go slipping off the platforms and I'm clipping through the- needless to say that's as far as I got in my playthrough.


Crisis in the therapist's life. It's not important that the crisis only comes into the life of the client, but there come the situation when the crisis can be faced by the therapist themselves. Therapist can experience climates with little time to make modification for their clients and other professional commitments. The therapist who, for example, falls acutely ill must deal with revised session scheduling, how much disclose to clients and how the therapist should refer clients if they become necessary to interrupt services. You know, this is very important that in a given situation, if a therapist falls sick, how do we schedule our sessions in advance? How do we shift important clients to other persons and their need to see if it's easy to shift them in advance? Or do we need to refer them to someone else? How do we deal with the setting of the clinic and the hospital in our absence? How do we disclose to clients what crisis or professional problems the therapist is going through? For example, the client felt increasingly irritated as her counselor became unresponsive and distracted during the session. Now, there is a situation in which a client is very irritated and the therapist is not able to properly attend the session. The client complained about it and the therapist apologised and said that she had a three-year-old granddaughter and she was a victim of an accident and she had been in the family pool for a few days. So, I am traumatised and I am not able to concentrate on myself. So, in such a situation, when the client finds out that the therapist is also through a personal problem he sympathises a lot and expresses his sympathy and closes the session. Now, in this case, the counselor did not handle her understandable personal grief as it affects her clients as well. In such a situation, being a human being had such a high level of grief but she was not able to overcome it professionally and she shared it with her client so what would be the adverse reaction of the client? The client felt ignored and then was forced to deal with mixed feelings. She was already worried and I also told her that she was already faced with a psychological problem and she had a feeling of guilt a feeling of shame a feeling of a strange trivial condition that she would create within the client. The reason behind this is that the therapist shared her personal grief but she was not able to control her emotions in the therapy session. Therapists needed more time before commencing their practice. Whenever an individual therapist becomes after a training she still needs a lot of training a lot of time a lot of patience to formally commence her therapy. She might have considered cancelling appointments or referring urgent cases to backup therapists explaining to her patients that she needs time to deal with the pressing family matters. Now there could be different situations that if you are in a situation of grief or in a personal trauma then how do you deal with the client? Do you have to cancel their appointments? Do you have to refer to them? Do you have to explain to them? Or how do you deal with them? Do you have to give them a lot of time? Do you have to deal with the family crisis or do you have to tell them the whole story? So this is something which is very important and you have to handle your crisis. That is also a part of learning. Then in the situation described therapist might consider sending the client a note for apologizing that not recognizing her own need for more personal time and for any discomfort because of that the situation is caused. Now I have given you an example in this case it is necessary that a professional therapist write a note of apology to his client and tell him to handle a personal crisis which he did not take because of which the situation is created so that the client who is the first victim of a psychological illness will not feel any shame or guilt or mixed feelings because of that the problem is created. So we are made to keep the things very you know neat and order and clean that because of one person the other person will not have to face such emotional trauma. So first of all it is very important for a therapist to understand their emotions and feelings handle their crisis after that then they should handle their clients in their practice.


let nobody turn us around because the people uniting will stand our ground because the people stand strong we're gonna stand strong stand strong we're gonna stand strong we can't keep us down so get on your feet the people are marching marching so get on your feet the people are ready so follow we're gonna let nobody turn us around we'll stand on our ground welcome to the poor people welcome to the poor people's campaign a national call for moral revival 50 years ago the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and many other leaders launched a poor people's campaign to tackle systemic racism poverty and militarism by many measures these interrelated problems are worse today than they were back in 1968 and if you add in climate change and ecological devastation the urgency is even greater it is time to break the silence about America's war on the poor 140 million people live in poverty today and it's not because people are lazy or unwilling to work hard but it's because politicians have blocked living wages and healthcare and undermine union rights and wage increases you can see the war on the poor all around us the richest one percent in our country own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined winners across the country including ours block raising the minimum wage while insisting on budgets that cut crucial safety net programs 38 percent of people in vermont are poor or low income that is a total of 237 thousand residents 46 percent are children in vermont from 1979 to 2012 the income for the top one percent grew by 163 percent during the same amount of time our income only increased by 21 percent last monday we showed our unity across the nation there are 37 actions like this held in 35 state capitals that was just the start and today we are going to do it again our theme for this week is linked systemic racism and poverty voting rights and immigration so let me begin by addressing immigration in the years following the attacks of 9 11 and among fears of economic insecurity we have been led to believe that immigrants make our communities less safe threaten our culture and democracy and compete for our jobs and resources however undocumented immigrants contributed five trillion dollars to the united states economy over the last 10 years they paid 13 billion dollars in social security in 2010 but only received one billion dollars in benefits they also pay eight percent of their income in state and local taxes while the wealthiest one percent pay just 5.4 percent these millions of hardworking americans who strengthen our economy and communities must be treated with dignity and respect due to all human beings they should not be used as cover for attacks on democracy and on that note now i want to introduce felma gomez from migra justice all right i'm part of justicia migrante y muchas gracias a todos por estar aquí all right i'm a gomez i'm part of migra justice and thank you very much i'm very excited to be here es tan importante hacer todo esto quiero contar un poco más de mi historia y soy una chica que emigró a los estados unidos teniendo 16 años i want to tell you about my story i want to talk a little bit about what is that i'm doing here i came as a girl 16 year old i so i came to improve the life of my family and myself i came with dreams i came to work because the system even in our countries thanks to this country it doesn't allow us to succeed it excludes for so many things so it forces to migrate y on migrando y aún llegando a un país lleno de muchas oportunidades es somos buscados y creados como criminales no puede ser que el que un ser humano sea buscado por simplemente querer mejorar o por buscar la vida de mejor de su familia y when we come here we learn about the reality that we are searched we are criminalized as immigrants it's not okay to leave us as criminals because we come to improve our lives that's not fair es el sistema nos a veces nos crea enemistades contra comunidades hace que nos dividamos y eso no tiene que ser tenemos que estar unidos para combatir mucho de eso nadie es criminal nosotros no damos el país por por tratarnos así odiamos el sistema que nos excluye de todo this system divide us it brings problem between us it doesn't want us get together but together we're gonna rise together we're gonna fight because nobody is a criminal when we want to improve we're not gonna let people call us criminals we're gonna come together to improve together just as a whole that's right siempre es importante más teneros en unión unidos siempre luchando para mí es muy importante estar aquí y dar mucho de lo que mi comunidad hace porque a pesar de los problemas y a pesar de que somos criminalizados seguimos luchando para que estos para que esto deje de existir so we're not angry with the country we're not angry to be here we're angry with the system that criminalizes and we're gonna steal here we're gonna steal fighting we're gonna steal in the struggle we're gonna keep together because together we can do more that's right muchas gracias those who make policies are returning to the state house this week they are returning to our house nothing would be more tragic than for us to turn back now that's right right we need them to know that right now we are standing together with our brothers and sisters from 35 other states as part of a nationwide protest demanding new programs to fight systemic racism and poverty immediate attention to the fact that we are destroying our environment and a call to curb militarism and the war economy that's right the poor people's campaign has six core demands for this week and they are the immediate restoration of the voting rights act to racist gerrymandering the reversal of state laws that prevent municipalities from raising wages a just immigration system a timely citizenship process that guarantees the right to vote yes and end the and end the mistreatment of indigenous communities so with that said our next speaker is reverend arnold thomas pasture and good shepherd lutheran church in jericho vermont in a small town in eastern alabama in 1904 he grew up in poverty but he managed to work his way up and out of alabama and into cleveland ohio as one of the first five black inspectors for what was then the pennsylvania railroad now despite this advancement he was still subject to a racist system that favored white inspectors over black inspectors and would often find himself laid off from work and during that time which were doing those times which were very frequent he would fall back on a vocation that taught him that when hard times come you go fishing see that was uh wasn't a living example of a chinese proverb that said if you teach a person if you give a person a fish then that person will be fed for a day but if you teach a person how to fish then that person will have the means of living for lifetime that's right yeah so dad went fishing and he had a favorite spot in on lake geary where he would catch a species of fish called sheep head sheep head now nowadays it is difficult to find a place in in our country especially where people of color and poor people live where the water is of the quality where you can be assured that the fish you catch catch are not tainted with some form of corruption we need brothers and sisters to go fishing you may have heard of a small town in eastern alabama actually it's not so small anymore it's called aniston alabama have you heard of that place where mon sandal built a pcb flat that has been that was working for 40 years 40 years they dumped pcb into the water where people bathed and quenched their thirst where people baptized their children and swam unknowing unknowing the poison that existed around them yet they did it yet mon sandal did it for 40 years knowing the the harmful effects it would have on the human body brothers and sisters that is but one of the many examples in which the message is brought home that if you're poor and a person of color living in the united states you are the target and victim of fat cats who will inflict all manner of environmental atrocities upon you knowing that you have the least resources and the least ability to exist to resist their corruption and it is only it is only by our united force rising up coalescing our energies that we can overcome these obstacles that we can move mountains it is time to go fishing but unlike my dad who fished for a sheep for for a fish called sheep heads it is time we fished for corporate heads need to fish and clean and gut out the corruption that is inflicting our society by their selfish greed and it is only by doing that that we can truly free ourselves from enslaving policies and conditions that tie us and chain us to an agenda of poverty wages and agenda of substandard living condition and agenda of of of inhuman living quality and life so it is now it is now time for us to coalesce our energies and to move toward developing a moral economy by which all people can be housed and closed and and and educated and live in an environment that is toxic free that is filled with all manner of hope and potential by which all of us can grow in the dignity of life that we deserve as I think of clean water and a clean environment I am reminded of the prophet Amos whose instruction we must all heed to let justice flow down like a cleansing water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream let's go fishing brothers and sisters and our bait is compassion our bait is forgiveness and our bait is love thank you thank you Reverend Arnold Thomas before we hear our next speaker I want to point out something it's obvious that I am a person of color but I want you to know that I am also a person with autism because of that one issue that hits home for me is knowing that a report from the Vermont legal aid in 2015 found that blacks and native american students were two to three times more likely than white students to be suspended from school other important statistics that clearly show racism in vermont are that 17 percent of black people own houses in comparison to 71 percent of whites who own houses 69 percent of black people in vermont earn less than 15 dollars an hour one in 14 african-american males are incarcerated in this state 11 percent of the prison population is black whereas we only make up one percent of the population and a use of force study conducted in 2017 in burlington revealed that 18 percent of all use of force was against african-americans where they represented less than four percent of the population so on that disturbing note I would like to turn it over to our next speaker and it is Katrina battle from black lives matter of greater burlington days ago i stood outside of our nation's capital along with poor people of varied gender identities sexual orientations religious affiliations racial and ethnic backgrounds and abilities doing what everyone told us could not be done yes we stood together united in solidarity with one another crying someone's hurting our people and we won't be silent anymore joined by people in over 30 states across the country including this one right here on state street we were a part of thousands across this nation participating in coordinated nonviolent direct action as we released our national call for a moral revival yes we gathered on stage before taking our united stands to the streets i was proud to stand there telling the world that my name was katrina and i am vermont too right as a child growing up in northern vermont i faced the all too normal burden of learning to properly handle being called the end word and accepting that my my peers accepting my intelligence as not just notable but surprising during my time here i learned to survive by any means necessary whether it was willingly speaking on behalf of all black people in the classroom during our unit on racism or not challenging friends that believed i carried an unfair advantage in poetry recitation competitions because i was a black woman reading langston hughes's mother to son upon graduating i did as many black vermonters do and left without looking back i would always say vermont is a wonderful place to visit but i could never live there let alone raise my children there i wouldn't wish that on any child that looked anything like me upon my return two and a half years ago i was only mild mildly surprised to find that little to nothing had actually changed with one exception many had apparently not received my warning and there were far more of us here than had been 10 years ago i have been living in this black body for enough years to become well acquainted with the cost associated with being in it and how to survive in it but what i cannot allow to settle in my spirit is the acceptance that our 10 year olds must continue to do exactly the same this is not a uniquely vermont problem nor is it even an individual problem but it is something that each verman ter has an individual responsibility to take on and do something to fix work to restore the humanity that has been systemically stripped away from those of us with black and brown bodies since the very first colonizers landed here and massacre those who were indigenous to these mountains since the first bodies were ripped from the shores of africa to fuel the economy of a nation of people seeking its own freedom from a european oppressive force we must commit without relent to self-education action and each other i've often been told that the rate at which reels turn is determined by how large they are i stand here today to shift that narrative because the rate at which a wheel turns is determined not only by its size but by how hard and how consistently it is pushed forward which is why today and over the next five years and beyond we must can maintain our you racial justice advocates got this our work can wait no it cannot that's right can i be real for a moment i'm tired i'm tired of people telling me it's all in my head as high schoolers continue to be suspended and disciplined at disparate rates i'm tired of being told everyone is being treated equally when black romaners are incarcerated at almost 11 times the rate of our white counterparts i'm tired of people telling me to calm down as elementary schools get notes stuffed in their bags calling them monkey and that they should hang themselves because they're monkeys i'm tired of people telling me there's nothing they can do when kkk recruitment films of a black and brown women in this state i'm tired of being told it's not an immediate problem when according to 2001 to 2015 data published this monday by jama pediatrics suicide rates for black children are twice that of their white counterparts i'm tired of people telling me it's no big deal when people chanting blood and soil appear outside of city halls i'm tired of the rhetoric that says those people should just go back to where they came from i'm tired of the twisted measuring sticks used to determine whose voice matters in this green mountain state i'm tired of fighting to remove slavery from the constitution that all elected officials of vermont swear to uphold even more i'm tired of folks admonishing me on how great the work is that i'm doing while doing nothing themselves i'm around talking about how important this work is who find themselves absent when it's time to do the work on days like today these issues with one interest group at a time of talking and talking and talking until my throat is raw while nothing gets done it's so busy i'm tired of choking on the lie that hate does not grow in the rocky soil of vermont hate ignorance and bigotry grow just fine and our soil is unnoticed by the white majority while those affected by its spores are screaming out that they cannot breathe yes i am tired but i won't be silent anymore logical devastation on the poor the war on the poor is immoral systemic racism is immoral environmental justice is what we need thanks for everything this banner could kind of get out of there open a little bit so this we were just we've been hearing this week and last week and we'll be hearing this whole 40 days about about the mean things that are happening in this land about the injustices that this can't go on any longer uh so this is a song that's also on the the word sheet that i passed out um just join in once you once you once you hear there are mean things happening in this land there are there's injustice there's injustice happening in this land they're growing strong there's injustice there is racism happening in this land they're growing strong there's a racism happening in this land they'll be good things they'll be good things happening in this land they'll they'll be justice they'll be justice happening in this land. They'll be justice. They'll be justice happening in this land. They'll be freedom. They'll be freedom. They'll be free is Madeline Sherrow showing up from racial justice central Vermont. Start with a quote from Ann Brayden. A new massive thrust toward racial justice will not alone solve all the problems that face us, but I am convinced that unless such a thrust develops, one that is global in its outlook, the other problems will not be solved. Because they're at the bottom of this society, when people of color move, the foundation shifts. In a sense, the battle is and always has been a battle for the hearts and minds of white people in this country. The fight against racism is not something we're called on to help people of color with. We need to become involved as if our very lives depended on it because in truth they do. Ann Brayden was a lifelong white anti-racist organizer in the South during the civil rights era until her death in 2006. Her legacy sets an important precedent for those of us who are white. And there are a lot of white people in Vermont. Imagine if every single white person in the state was deeply engaged in the struggle for racial justice. Imagine if every single one of us was talking to our families, our friends, our coworkers about racism and showing up to fight for racial justice. This is the kind of movement we need to build. Remember what Mark said last week about Vermont locking up more black men proportionately than any other state? We've got to change that ethnic studies bill. Justice and dignity for all immigrants. We demand and said this is not about charity. It's about solidarity because we know that all liberation and survival is deeply tied to each other's. I grew up in central Vermont and I love my home.  So plug into the poor people's campaign. Support migrant justice. Organize with justice for all. And get connected to showing up. So this is the poor people's campaign, a call for a moral revival. A true moral agenda seeks to fulfill the democratic promise in the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence reminding the nation of the truth we hold to be self-evident and the values we hold dear. In 2016 presidential election there were 25 debates. Not one of these debates focused on voter suppression, poverty, environmental devastation or the war economy. All of which are central issues that impact most of us living in the United States. For too long the accepted moral narrative in America has blamed poor people for their poverty, pitted people against each other, separated systemic racism from poverty and the war economy and spread the lie of scarcity, the idea that there is not enough to go around. We demand a new moral discourse in this nation. One that says being poor is not a sin but poverty is. Every choice is a moral choice especially when it deals with poor people, children and healthcare and so we need a moral revival in this country. When there is an emergency an ambulance doesn't need to stop for a red light. Dr. King once said the country needs ambulance drivers who will ignore the red lights of the system. I am ready to break the silence and speak out for the change we need. That's why I'm joining tens of thousands of people for 40 days of nonviolent direct action as part of a new poor people's campaign. We are taking our demand for a moral revival to politicians at the capitol here in Montpelier and in 40 states across the country. So the next speaker is Reverend Abigail Stockman, developmental minister, First Church, a very youth-thrin and universalist. So I first want to say amen for all your quint, but I think back to a time when I was just a small child and I heard the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King say the words free at last, free at last. Thank God. I was a small white child of privilege so I didn't think he was talking about me. I thought he was talking about all the people who look different from me. And it took me many decades to begin to understand that I am not free if I think there's a separation and a difference because our skin isn't the same color, because our cultures are different, because our religions are different, because one of us has some funds in the bank and one of us doesn't, because I get health care and you don't. Those are not things that make anyone more or less human than anyone else. I am deeply ashamed to know that I thought that way once, that I was taught to think like that without even knowing that like a fish I was living in that water. It's time to pull that fish out of the water. It's time to go fishing to understand our own whiteness if you are white so that you can know what it is that comes to you because of your whiteness that makes you think or respond or act in some way as though there were a difference in the way our hearts beat, in the way we know love, in the way we suffer, in the violence that we experience. So last night as I went to this training I learned this wonderful song which said, I know why I was made and understanding my own internal and place in the systemic racism helped me to remember why I was made for the love that we need to go fishing for as we work to end all the injustices as we work for the morality that says health care for everyone. System of immigration that is humane and fair and rapid that we end the kinds of incarceration that just keeps slavery and racism going in new ways. It is more wrong. Let's not continue participating in that. We know why we were made. I am not a fabrication because I just wanted to remind everyone that we are in a season right now and this is a season of nonviolent moral fusion, direct action and this is a 40-day period and what we're doing is we are rolling week after week in these activities. This is the second week. What generally happens is at the top of the week on Sunday there is a meeting called the gathering that meets in DC that is live streamed that you can go to poor people's campaign, poor people's campaign.org and you can tune into that video and where else you can come down to the Episcopal church to show you the good shepherd or you can set up your own meetings but that's happening every Sunday every Tuesday is truthful Tuesday where there's a recap on the activities for the week. You know what's going on on Monday because we're already here. On Thursdays what's happening is Justice Jam and what we're doing is we're hosting here at the Unitarian Church but again it's live streamed so you can also do it in your own homes or you can set up your own venues. The Justice Jam is our pack of just justice music, testimony, lots of talking, lots of singing and just having a good time so I want to encourage everybody to get out. This is the second week so this is the second week of a six-week period culminating where we're all going to convert to Washington DC and we're going to march on DC and we're going to let them know what it is that Vermont has to bring to the table. How many believe that? The other thing is next week we're not going to meet here on Monday it's going to be on Tuesday. Monday's Memorial Day. So next week we're going to meet here on Tuesday and I think that final day down in DC is of is it June 23rd? June 23rd. So my sisters and brothers in just a few minutes we're going to march. We're going to march into the state house and Michelle's going to tell us about state house. Who is house? Our witnesses. Those moral witnesses that we have come up here and line up. What we're going to do is led by some of the clergy and our moral witnesses. We're going to go around this west door over to the accessible door coming into the accessible door down the corridor right into the main hallway on the first floor. Get on my moral witnesses up here. Victoria all the moral witnesses stand up here. These people are going to sit there. These people are going to tell their stories that poverty is immoral systemic racism is immoral ecological devastation is immoral the war economy and poor people's campaign a national call since they're going to lead us. So give it up for these moral witnesses. As you enter the state capital if you have a sign with a stick please put it down by the door just take in the fabric signs and the cardboard signs and come join us inside our house.


In a free market, drug companies would be profit maximizers. They would have contracts and they would try to sell the drug to the highest bidder. And the highest bidder would be those who thought they could generate the most benefit from the drug. It would mean that people engaged in economic activity valuable, wealth-creating economic activity would get the drug frozen. Now not only would this be just and right because they're paying for it and it's the drug companies to allocate any way they want, of course, but also it would actually be most economically efficient and it would make sense most culturally. Young people don't have the option of locking themselves at home and not seeing anybody. Old people do because they don't have to work for a living most of them because they've saved up, they're retired. They don't need to be out there engaging and if they choose to do it, if they choose to do it, then they're taking on a risk for themselves. Young people don't have that luxury. They don't have that option of locking themselves away. They have to work for a living. They've got to live, they've got to save, they've got to take care of their kids, they've got to take care of their business that might be going under, they've got to be flying around, they've got to be taking meetings, they've got to be doing the things that they need to do in order to survive and grow and thrive and therefore they would be willing to pay more for the vaccine. They should get it first and the consequence of that would be the economy will return to normal because again remember, young people don't die from this mostly. Now if somebody had a pre-existing condition and was working and needed to go to work, they would have a even higher incentive than somebody who didn't have a pre-existing condition and therefore wasn't worried about getting the virus. So the people with pre-existing condition would pay more to get the vaccine sooner so that they could protect themselves and their families and go back to economic activity and go back to taking care of themselves and their families. Again, if you just use the principle of freedom, the principle of egoism, of people taking care of themselves, of people motivated by their own self-interest, but you can even think about it this way, I found this one fascinating, there's a paper here. Now this paper assumes the government buys all the vaccines but then how should it be allocated? It says, the best way is that everybody bids on it but you can bid for somebody else to get it. So like you can bid, you can decide I'm 20 years old, I'm young, I'm not worried about it, I'll bid for my grandmother to get it and she can bid for herself to get it. And the people who have the most bids in their name and that can come from anybody anyway, will get the vaccine first and you'd rank order them that way. Now again, I don't think this is what would happen in a free market exactly like this, but it indicates a direction of how a free market would work. So for example, he writes, a firm at the helm of a company town may subsidize the vaccination of its employees in order to accelerate herd immunity in the town and thereby a virtual lockdown costly to the firm. So companies around a city, around a town would have an incentive to vaccinate at least their employees, maybe even more than that, so that life can go back to normal. Or another one, a susceptible individual for whom the vaccine is medically contradicted, that is he can't take the vaccine because the side effects would cause him harm, may subsidize the vaccination of his doorman and housekeeper so that they can service his help him survive his isolation because he can't take the vaccine. A health insurance company may subsidize the vaccination of the most vulnerable among the insured, elderly or B suffering from chronic condition in order to avoid paying their hospitalization bills. An airline, this is where I get the airline idea, an airline or a coffee shop chain like Starbucks, knows its loyal customers. Its potential super spreaders and may subsidize their vaccination in order to neutralize the threat they pose to other customers and with them to the business. I mean, once you let the market figure this out, once you let market forces work, once you let insurance companies, drug companies, corporations, broadly employers, employees, wealthy people, wealthy individuals, just people, work out their own incentives, work out their own risk parameters, work out how much money they will need to spend on a vaccine. Amazing things happen. And you don't need this central planners in charge deciding who's vulnerable, who's essential worker, who's the 90 year old to first get the vaccine. Because what you're getting right now, if you wanted, for example, to limit the spread of coronavirus. Let's say what you really were afraid of is overloading the hospitals, right? The hospitals overloaded and you want to flatten a curve, haven't we heard that one before, right? Wanted to flatten a curve, then what would you do? Would you then vaccinate 90 year olds? First? Again, we're talking about first, right? No. Where would you do the vaccinations? If you wanted to flatten a hospital curve, if you wanted even to make sure the 90 year olds didn't get it ultimately, who would you vaccinate first? You would vaccinate super spreaders. Which means you would set up vaccination stations in bars, restaurants, airports, I don't know, wherever science is telling us that people, you know, you would vaccinate people who don't wear masks first. And in terms of risk, yeah, you might vaccinate 15, 60 year olds first, not 90 year olds, 15, 60 year olds first. But you probably wouldn't because again, yeah, 15, 60 year olds are still working, they're still engaged, so they would be the highest value vaccinations. Because they're likely to land up in a hospital if they get it, or there's a higher probability. They're likely to get it because they're still engaged in life, they're still out there, right? They're not, they can't be easily isolated. They still need to work because they haven't, they haven't retired yet. I mean, that's the ideal age group. It's not 90 year olds. So it's truly stunning that we take for granted that the government is buying the vaccine. We take the granted that the most vulnerable get it first. And that there's silence other than, I guess, John Cochran. In terms of, no, there's a free market solution to this. That's like 100 times better, except by every, by every standard, except by the standard of sacrifice and altruism. And if we left it a private incentives, if we left it a private enterprise, then it would happen faster. It would happen the most efficiently. And it would happen in priority of value. So free market vaccination, spread the word because that's what is really needed. Not 90 year olds getting vaccinated, but those who have the most to lose, those who have the, are willing to pay the most. Let's see. Yeah, I mean, whoever generates the most economic benefit from the vaccine would pay the most for the vaccine. Just like whoever benefits from, in a shortage of gasoline, whoever benefits the most from gas would pay the most. Yeah. And think about if vaccine makers makes oodles and oodles and oodles of money off of this auction, then they would have huge incentives to develop vaccines. If we did away with all these status laws, the restrictability of vaccine makers to make oodles and oodles and oodles of the money, then we would get a lot more companies going into the vaccine business. If we did away with all the different laws, the restrictability to price the vaccines the way they think it should be priced, we'd get a lot more companies incentivized to go into the vaccine business. I mean, we'll see in a minute that there should never, none of this should have ever happened. Lockdowns, destruction of business, destruction of economic activity, destruction of wealth is just absurd. One of the ways to fix the system, even though the government is distributing, is instead of for the government to actually distribute the vaccine, imagine if the government distributed options like a claim on a vaccine, so a piece of paper that says you can get a vaccine. And imagine if individuals then could sell that claim, but it's illegal today. If they could sell that claim, just like people hawking tickets is illegal, which is absurd, you would create a market for this and you would again mimic, at least to some extent, what would happen in a free market, but privatized actions and vaccines are banned. Literally right now, we live in a world in which vaccine producers can only sell to government. Jacob asks a good question. Should high value, high demand individuals have different prison terms, or more house arrest due to this logic or is law outside these considerations? Law is outside these considerations because law is not a voluntary, in this case, if you've committed a crime, that is if you have violated somebody else's rights by committing fraud, stealing, you know, committing physical violence against somebody, motoring somebody, then it's not, there is no market consideration here. There's no economics to explain it. The only consideration is justice. The only consideration here is a penalty is you suffering the consequence of your action and taking you out of society if you can't do it again, and more importantly, making you pay for what you actually did. My argument here about the vaccine, yes, there is an element of it's more efficient and it produces better results, but the fundamental is here, why can't a vaccine maker who made the vaccine, who owns the vaccine, why can't they decide how to distribute the vaccine? Why can't they decide how to charge prices? This is, vaccines are purely economic phenomena. Purely property rights phenomena. But once you violate somebody's rights, you are not in the realm of the voluntary. You are now in the realm of government retaliatory force. You are now in the realm of justice, which is a different realm, I mean legal justice, a different realm from the justice of the marketplace. Those are two different ideas. I mean, they're based on the same principles. But one is voluntary, essentially voluntary. And the other one is not, because you violated somebody else's rights. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads. 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Hey, welcome to Stan Energyman. I'm Stan Osterman from the Hawaii Center for advanced transportation technologies, state of Hawaii, under the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. And we're glad to have you here today where we've got a special guest coming to us all the way from the mainland because as we all know, people in Hawaii don't know anything about hydrogen, so we bring in experts from around the world. So this guy's not only from California, he's actually from further around the world and works for a company in the UK called ITM Power, and they do some pretty innovative things with hydrogen, which as we all know is my favorite subject. So we've got Mr. Steve Jones from ITM, Skyping in from over there in Irvine, California, is that where you're at Steve? Anaheim. Anaheim. I was close. All California. But thanks for being here. The only time I ever see is when we meet at a conference or something, so good to see you up on the screen there. Tell us a little bit about, you know, what got you interested in the line of work you're in and what got you working with ITM and the kind of things that you do over there in Anaheim? Sure, yeah. So a bit of background on myself. I'm a material scientist by trade and way back years ago when I was still studying at university in Birmingham in the UK, Birmingham University have a hydrogen program and part of my post-degree work was done in the field of actually hydrogen separation membranes, so membranes that filter out all of the impurities in a hydrogen stream and provide pure hydrogen for semiconductors or fuel cells or whatever. So that was kind of how I got involved in the hydrogen industry. And then almost by chance, by good timing, ITM power was floating on the London stock exchange a few years after I graduated. And I saw the advert and here we are almost 12 years later and I've transitioned through from being on the development team, doing some of the hands-on work in the labs and developing prototypes and things like that up through into the managerial and business development roles. And then going back about three years, I did a bunch of business development here in California from the UK, so I was doing a lot of flight times hopping across the pond and then we got to a stage where we had enough traction that it made sense for me to be here permanently. So for the last two years, I've been here with my family in Anaheim doing the work for ITM Power Inc, which is the subsidiary of ITM Power PLC that's based out here. And really what we're trying to do is develop hydrogen technology in two kind of tracks which often overlap. As you know, you have clean fuel, so we're making renewable hydrogen fueling stations for fuel cell vehicles. We're doing that in the UK and France and here in the US based around our innovative PAN electrolyzer technology. And we're also doing energy storage work, which again is using the same core PAN electrolyzer technology but using it to store excess renewable energy at times when there's more energy than demand. Storing that as hydrogen and then using that hydrogen for various things it could be used for re-electrification later on, could be used for vehicle fuel, could be used as a chemical feedstock and can even be used as a straight replacement for fossil fuel natural gas like we're doing in Germany where we're actually injecting hydrogen directly into the pipeline system in Germany and we're substituting natural gas for hydrogen. Wow, sounds like you're pretty busy and it's really kind of exciting for us because we actually have a small natural gas grid here in Honolulu with Hawaii Gas Company and they're a publicly regulated utility. So we'd really like to see them kind of mirror some of the things you're doing especially the things that you're doing to support the transportation industry. So I know in California that's a big a big push that ITMs on in California is building the stations. How many stations do you guys plan to participate in over there and are they primarily production on site or are they you know taking gas from a grid like the gas grid or between one of the big gas manufacturers you know off of one of their pipelines or what's the concept over there in California? Sure yeah so when the state California has a big incentive on hydrogen infrastructure and the state is EMR $200 million over a 10-year period to finance building hydrogen fueling stations so that the vehicle companies have confidence to roll out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles amongst the general public safe in the knowledge that the public can go and get fuel and it's reliable and and they're not going to get stranded. So they do this via an annual competition solicitation process and ITM has participated in the previous two years competitions and we received awards in each of those years for one station the first year one stage in the second year and then the third year's competition is actually just closed and people have just submitted their bids and the California Energy Commission are busy figuring out the winners and losers from that competition we should find out in the next month or so. And ITM have stepped it up a little this year and that we've put five applications in this year as opposed to the one in the previous two years. So we're looking to keep our toe in the water in California on the station front all of our stations are centered around onsite renewable hydrogen generation so all the hydrogen is made onsite so that we're not relying on hydrogen being delivered to the sites but I think longer term my vision of ITM longer term in California is as we get more and more stations and the demand for hydrogen grows and the demand for renewable hydrogen grows that ITM will become more of a fuel provider rather than a station owner and operator and we'll have larger centralized hydrogen production facilities that are you know up into the megawatt sizes producing hundreds thousands of kilograms of hydrogen a day that are then distributed to the network of stations in California. Doesn't California have a mandate of like 30% clean hydrogen versus steam-reformed hydrogen? That's right so the state law is that a 33% of hydrogen that is delivered to fuel cell vehicles needs to be renewable so that means that it either comes from steam reformation of biogas or electrolysis using renewable electricity so those are the two options really that are used and that 33% is the law at the moment and California are very keen on pushing that boundary higher than 33% all the way up to 100% and you know we're looking at using electrolysis to manage the excess renewable electricity which takes place in the middle of the day when the big solar you know the big industrial arrays you know the big yeah there's a lot of solar in California and we get this huge peak in the middle of the day and sometimes outward is the demand for energy and so I did use that excess make hydrogen and use hydrogen in the transportation industry because the state as you know has a mandate to reduce the CO2 output from its transportation sector in the future. Right so you know a lot of times they get asked about the round-trip efficiency of hydrogen when you're doing electrolysis and they say it doesn't really pencil out all that well I mean if you're getting free or really cheap curtailed power you might be able to make it work it what's on the horizon to kind of bring that business case a little bit tighter I know a big company like ITM's got to be looking at that for the long term what are some of the implications there for getting the round-trip efficiency and the cost you know to where it's feasible to use more electrolysis. Sure yeah it's a good question so the round-trip efficiency really is a question of the efficiency of the actual electrolyzer itself so turning electrons into hydrogen and that's already a relatively efficient process about 75 percent efficiency and we're constantly through our R&D center in the UK constantly pushing that boundary higher and higher we have our highest plant today out in the field which is utilizing some of the waste heat that the electrolyzer produces is operating around 86 percent efficient and that's with RWE in Germany but I think that one of the other questions is you're using or ideally you're using curtailed energy so this is energy that would otherwise be wasted or spilt and so any efficiency is better than zero which would what the efficiency would be if you were curtailing that energy and what you see around the world in places like Germany and Scandinavia and the UK is that once you get to 20 plus percent of capacities for planted up renewables you start to see this curtailment event happen more and more frequently and that's just essentially wasted energy there's nothing you can do you can't get the energy back it's gone and so what you can do is you can store that energy you can store it in a battery you can pump water up a hill flywheels all these different types of energy storage and they all have their niche markets where they play a good role and I think where a hydrogen can fit well into that mix is long term large volumes of energy storage and energy to fuel to fuel vehicles you know it's a real sweet spot where hydrogen wins out over a lot of the other potential technologies that you can use and I think the reality is that in the future you'll see a mix of these technologies being used to get the overall efficiency of the of the whole power sector as high as possible yeah one of the things I hear discussed a lot and I think it's kind of a false analysis is that you know once these big grids get to kind of saturation of renewables that suddenly we won't have any curtailed power because we're we're going to be at that point where now we've we've kind of balanced it really well but in my estimation we're always going to be looking for a larger and larger demand on energy and we'll always kind of be outstepping the the requirements and always have curtailed power from renewable sources intermittent renewable sources so is that the kind of long-term take for a mitm too that that all the curtailed power may may lessen a little bit down the road it'll always be a factor and do you have enough confidence in the overall technology that that the the electrolyzer will actually become an efficient way to make clean hydrogen uh even if the electricity's you know not always curtailed but a little bit more expensive yeah sure I really do and I think that if you look at um you know these analogies of things like to make the whole amount of energy from the world you only need a small amount of solar power but you need to store it it comes at the wrong time and I think if you look at areas of the world that have a lot of renewables certainly more than than California or even Hawaii you get to see the kind of grid imbalance effects that happen and because public awareness and um public behavior is a very difficult thing to change you will always get these huge peaks of demand in energy when everybody's going home gets home from work plugs everything in starts to do things uh it kind of it always overlaps as to when the sun's going and so you get this huge mismatch of demand and supply and you're you're not going to change that even if you have vast vast amounts of renewable energy that's planted up you're just going to get more amount more volume of energy that is curtailed um even if the percentages of curtailed energy um reduce the physical volume the terawatt hours of energy are only going to go up and so that represents a huge opportunity for companies like ITM and other energy storage companies to try and grab that energy uh store it and then use it for sensible things later down the line um to to boost the overall efficiency of the energy system and I think that thinking about energy as just electricity or just gas or just petroleum you know it is a very archaic view of of energy and I think going forward if we to meet all of these goals that you know Hawaii California other areas of the world have set themselves very aggressive renewable energy goals we're going to need to think a little bit broader if we're going to meet that I agree and uh I think we're going to get take a quick break here when we come back though I'd like to talk to you a little bit more about like the the loss or that the the energy used for compression on the transportation side and some things like that that maybe we can attack to help drive I know you mentioned that using the the reject heat from your electrolyzers and and capturing that energy source makes your systems more efficient so maybe we can chat a little bit more about that after our break here happy to you thanks I invite you to join us on our keys to success show which is live on the think tech live streaming network series weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. My name is Danilia D A N E L I A and I'm the other half of the duo John Newman our goal for keys to success is to provide a platform for professional and personal development tools and profound insights on how to achieve success in life career and or business we have incredible guests from all walks of life including politicians successful business owners leaders entrepreneurs and authors as this is a live show there are live mess ups as well which are fun to watch aloha and we'll see you on Thursday that can be welcome back to standard man thanks for spending your lunch hour with me I've got Steve Jones from ITM out of Anaheim California talking to us today on Skype and I'm really excited just a little background I met Steve probably three years ago in Los Angeles at a fuel cell conference and just talking to him a little bit about what ITM is doing in Europe when it first started out kind of got me excited and I shared some of the information that his company puts out publicly with some of the PUC members here and some of the folks in our state energy office and and I think it finally got some traction after a fairly short time so we're gonna we're gonna kind of move our conversation towards more efficient electrolysis first and then a little bit into the model that Europe's using to to not only produce hydrogen for the transportation sector but to also move it around the continental the mass of Europe to to make it available for the transportation public and I point out to people that one of the really important things here is that you know with gasoline right now you throw that in a tanker truck and drive it around and that costs money too and a pipeline is a much more efficient way to move energy around long distances than than in a pipe than in tube trailers or tractor driven trailers or even trains for that matter and that's what Europe's taking advantage of now so so Steve let's first talk about a little bit about maybe what where you see electrolyzers going and some of the things we can do to improve the roundtrip efficiency on producing hydrogen cleanly with an electrolyzer and then move into the european model sure yeah so um the electrolyzers as i said at the moment about 75 efficiency um and that's power into hydrogen out and some of the things that we're doing as a company moving forward is is incremental efficiencies to the individual chemistries that happen inside the electrolyzer and that's done through our r&d center in the uk and they're constantly reformulating things and making incremental steps in efficiency um i think one of the other things is looking at um ways to utilize some of the waste products from an electrolyzer namely heat and how that can boost the overall efficiency of the system as i mentioned we have a plant running in germany which is an 86 percent efficiency because it uses the heat obviously that that's quite site specific um but i think you'll see a gradual increase in efficiency from a let from electrolysis products from 75 up to you know the 85 range within the next few years so what kind of pressure comes off of your stack right off the stack um so our stacks are relatively high high pressure for the industry so we have systems that operate at 20 bar 50 bar and up to 80 bar pressure and that's straight from the electrolyzer and it enables you to save some um downstream compression energy um later on if you're if you're ultimately compressing it up to high pressure for vehicles for example and we have a project we're getting ready to take on with some folks from arizona where we're looking at getting in excess of 700 bar pressure off of a it's not actually a stack but it is an electrolyzer and um we're excited about the potential for that because that could be a huge game changer um if companies like yours could could capture that efficiency as well yeah exactly i mean you know you're looking at generally speaking if the larger the compressor the less efficiency penalty it has on the overall system but it's still definitely a slice of of the pie when you're looking at overall energy efficiency of the system um and if you can if you can eliminate that um it's always more efficient to uh compress the hydrogen internal to the electrolyzer than it is via an external mechanical device outstanding well let's transition now to what you your company's doing over in europe um that actually like like you say uh the the idea of energy is no longer just electricity or gasoline and diesel it's kind of a now one big uh market where uh all the renewables and all the electrical power and what we're using to drive uh our vehicles is starting to all merge into one huge system and we all agree that um electrification of the transportation sector is not a matter of if but when um and what kind of storage you're going to have on the vehicle for energy whether it's just batteries maybe graphing batteries will be a breakthrough in a few years but hydrogen certainly will play a role and is destined to play a role in most people's minds right now so what are the kind of things that itm is doing in europe to make hydrogen possible for the transportation sector yeah so um i think two two main areas um in uh in germany and in the uk and in scandinavia we're looking at the constant step to power to gas so using the gas grid network to move hydrogen around for various energy hungry um processes now whether that be you know heating your home or firing a boiler or using as a transportation fuel you know kind of all of the above um is the real answer once you've injected it into the pipeline but looking at more direct um projects that we're involved in in the uk for example um we have uh 17 oh 16 sorry hydrogen refueling stations um that will be going into the uk all of which utilize electrolysis technology to use the electricity grid network renewable power network to provide a transportation fuel for the growing number of fuel cell vehicles in the uk um and the uk energy market is looking at how can we best use these electrolyzers as effectively dump loads to mop up renewable electricity when there is an excess on the grid and so they're looking at ways and means to devise um specialized tariff structures to uh financially incentivize people like itm with electrolysis technology that is able to receive um large amounts of energy you know at the flick of a switch um so does itm actually have their own proprietary control systems that work in a grid that help you do that mop up as you say of you know when you have three voltage running around here and there you can pull it all in and use it yeah so our electrolyzers um are are very rapid response you know you can turn them on and off sub second and so that helps um when you're managing the grid when you're doing things like frequency response demand side management where you have to be able to react very quickly in order to balance the grid and now the the the grid operators are becoming more knowledgeable about knowledgeable about hydrogen and and the the opportunities that electrical electrolysis allows them and so we're working with those guys to um develop the control systems required so that when the grid need to spill energy you know they can do it instantly they can tell us to turn on we turn on we we absorb the load um for as long as they want us to absorb the load and they can turn us off just as quickly okay and how about on the on the continent over in uh germany and um maybe germany france netherlands you know how are your systems or other systems from companies like yours working out over there and that power to gas concept how's that working out on the continent there yeah it's going well i think germany has the most um deployments of projects um you know there are there are over a dozen projects now in germany where electrolysis are being used um for power to gas energy storage for various sizes of systems and there's been um uh a few reports done by the european union that look at how best to use power to gas within the energy mix you know with batteries and flywheels and pumped hydro and all of the rest of it um and most of those if not all of those studies that have looked at it have all concluded that for what they call deep decarbonization of of the um of the energy sector hydrogen is going to play a role and it's going to play a role at the large large amounts of energy storage and long durations of energy storage is really where hydrogen plays out um and when you're looking at an alternative energy source for a sector that's as large as the transportation sector then really you need to be absorbing terawatt hours of energy long term to be able to meet those energy demands so hydrogen has a real um benefit for the transportation sector uh and i think it's it's it's echoed by all of the different car companies that are bringing hydrogen vehicles to market you know you sit uh as you and i sit quite often in conferences and things like that where the executives of these companies are getting up and talking about the future of mobility all of them see a electrification as the way forward but b hydrogen as the long term propulsion technology that's going to drive us forward and meet the goals that everybody's setting these days well that's that's great i agree 100 percent and it's nice to hear from outside of our territorial boundaries here in the island state of Hawaii that other places are coming to that realization that um it's a great a great tool to help you control your grid and store energy from your grid especially when you have excess power off renewables intermittent renewables in particular and the benefit to the transportation sector because here in Hawaii you know we're we've got great strides um you know going towards uh getting our grid off of fossil fuels which we're almost totally dependent on between coal and oil to make our electricity we have a quite a bit of a penetration of solar uh and more in the queue waiting to be given interconnect agreements a lot of the folks are really excited about getting connected but um they've got rate structure changes happening which is something we haven't had uh here previously there's some dockets in the public utility commission that will do the things like you mentioned in europe where you structure the rates the rates for uh renewables and electricity so that it incentivizes use of it uh use of the curtail power or the time of day use to be much more functional and gets you other benefits so we're hoping that the transportation sector in Hawaii which is about 60 percent of our fossil fuel use is going to see a benefit uh from the kind of things that we're seeing in europe and the technologies we're seeing by your company that are being employed in europe to get hydrogen more out in the transportation sector and help us with our electrification of the transportation grid yeah i i think that's that's um that's really important and i think that hawaii is as a territory and i've you know i've been out there quite a few times and i've met with the with the puc there and the and the local gas company um and there's a lot of similarities that can be drawn between island communities like hawaii and areas of northern europe you know the uk is an island um in europe gas prices are a lot higher than they are in on the mainland in the us for example uh like they are in hawaii um so when you're faced with an energy system where you can't rely on essentially an infinite pipeline of really cheap natural gas you need to do something a little different and um you know the uk and hawaii um have got quite a few similarities in that regard because although the uk is interconnected with mainland europe um it's by no means connected enough to be able to solve all of our problems and a lot of our energy is still imported just like it is in hawaii so i think there are a lot of similarities that can benefit both both territories that's a great that's a really great point steve and you know believe it or not we're we're up against our uh stop time here and i'd like to thank you for your participation on think tech hawaii and stan energy man show um i definitely am going to have you back on in the not too distant future so we can dig a little bit deeper in but can you can you help us with one piece of information over in europe what does it cost for a leader of gasoline or a gallon of gasoline just so we have some sense of comparison here in hawaii yeah yeah so a leader of um unleaded fuel in the uk for example is a little over one pound sterling so that's about uh say one dollar fifty um and if you think there are four liters in a gallon so that's four that's five dollars uh per gallon and it's gone much higher than that you know it's relatively low at the moment i can remember it being one pound fifty per liter um so you know it's it's really uh it's you know it's less than a third of the cost in the u.s. all right great incentive for us to to really think about this stuff seriously because we've seen our gas prices go pretty high so steve thanks again for being on the show with us and uh we appreciate you calling in from california hope your surfing's going well and uh and you get back to wearing a dry suit in in uk if you get back to uk to do some surfing there and uh we'll get you back on the show here to talk some more about hydrogen thanks again thanks dan enjoyed it all right hello and thanks to everyone for joining me on my lunch hour stand the engine man signing off till next week and we'll see you then