May I request chief guest for the function Prasadate, head of mechanical engineering department. So welcome to this IST workshop on computational fluid dynamics. What is the number of participants this time finally? So about 1400 teacher, colleague teachers from various colleges are participating in this workshop. I will speak about these workshops, the present and the future later. But let me begin the proceedings by introducing Prasadate to all of you. It is very difficult to introduce Prasadate in few words, because other than the fact that he has been a colleague here, he has been a personal friend for almost four decades. His wife was my colleague in the computer science department for decades again. You would have known about Prasadate's books for which he is well known here and most of us admire him for the academic contributions that he has made there. But some of us admire him far more for the work that he has done in appropriate technology. He was one of the creators of the center for appropriate technology here called Sitara. He has personally spent years in a small village away from Mumbai in order to both understand the problems of the villagers and to innovate what kind of technology solutions could be brought in an affordable fashion for the benefit of those villages. The lamp which he lit then continues unabated. Sitara is now a full-fledged academic body of the institute offering PhD programs and master's programs in the development world. Another proud privilege is a colleague of mine from the computer science department now heads that. There is much more that we can talk about but I am very happy to have Prasadate here because he combines the unique qualities of academic acumen coupled with sensitivity and the desire to give to the society that part of the society which actually deserves the cutting edge technology to solve their problems in an affordable way. So all your Prasadate. Thank you Professor Patak for nice words and inviting me for this inauguration. Incidentally this is my first invitation for an inauguration and I am reminded of my school days when we used to play cricket and when somebody dropped a catch or misfielded we used to say invite him for inauguration of something or a price distribution of something. Let me take you to my college days now to school and when I was a student in my college you would not believe it I had not heard the word fluid mechanics. The only words known to us was hydraulics in the second year and in the final year we straight away jumped to hydraulic machines and the connection was through the Bernoulli's equation simple Bernoulli's equation. I heard the word fluid mechanics when I started doing postgraduate words such as boundary layer viscous flow, inviscid flow and so on and so forth irrotational flow, rotational flow and all that all these categories began to make sense only in my master's course. It so turned out of course that the Bernoulli's equation equation was a very special case of the Euler's equation and then little later it dawned that the Euler's equation was a special case of the Navier's equation. But the Navier's equation could not be solved and therefore Stokes's laws were required to make the equation set solvable and thus was born the Navier's Stokes equation CFD or the computational fluid dynamics is essentially about solving these equations which were postulated in 1822. Strangely much of the practical work or of results of practical importance having a bearing on Navier Stokes equations were facilitated by man called Osborne Reynolds. Osborne Reynolds as you know was the first professor of engineering anywhere in the world and he took his chair in 1868 at university of Manchester and his 1859 paper on dynamical dynamical theory of fluid motion is a classic paper and incidentally it is available on the website for anybody to download and I request all of you to once download it and see how much he had said which is now being implemented. I have fond memory of this paper and the celebrated experiment of Osborne Reynolds because in 1968 I was a student at Manchester and they had held a centenary celebration of appointment of Osborne Reynolds as a professor of engineering in university of Manchester and I had the privilege of standing behind the celebrated experiment because there was an open day following the conference on the first day where the school students came and had a look at this experiment and when a sizable number of students gathered around the experiment my job was to open the die the tap and let the die pass so that and professor Jackson would then explain what was meant by laminar flow how it turned to transitional and then to fully turbulent by observing the changes in the manner in which the die developed inside the tube. So, fluid mechanics began with huge amount of disagreement between what was observed practically and what simple solutions of Navier-Souff equations could give you and the manner in which people overcame this difficulty in those days was through what was called similarity analysis where you maintain between the experiment on a lab scale and the practical equipment geometric kinematic and dynamic similarities. Of course, you needed lot of conviction to believe what the similarity analysis was telling you where CFD came as a big boon to engineers is precisely in overcoming the uncertainties of similarity analysis because Navier-Souff equations are scale neutral you can apply them to flow of a river flow of the atmosphere ground water flow flow in a heat exchanger flow over a gas turbine blade you can apply it to flow inside a hot tree of your of your human body and so on and so forth. And now people say you can even analyze the heat and mass transfer processes and the fluid flow processes that takes place inside a single cell of a lung. So, because after all you see in the earlier days a laboratory experiment essentially meant that you had to you did an experiment on a on something which are of a smaller scale than the practical equipment. But when it comes to human body and what happens inside a cell well there is no such thing as a laboratory scale human cell you see you either see it in its nascent dimensions or you do not see it that is you cannot create a cell of 1 meter diameter I mean that is not possible. So, that is where scale neutrality of Navier-Souff equation is so very vital and increasingly we are dealing with fluids which you cannot touch and therefore, laboratory experiments are not possible and so on and so forth where CFD is very very vital finally. Let me say that Professor Fartuck is a is a computer science professor and one of the things that people in computer science claim was that we will soon have a paperless society. Well I think CFD people can very well claim that we will very soon have a computer science laboratory less colleges because everything that can be done on a laboratory scale or real scale can be done inside a computer and solve in a scale neutral manner. So, with these few thoughts I wish you well that you are initially I was just reminded this morning while talking to Professor Gayathunde that I am reading a book called 17 equations that change the world and it will please you to note that Navier-Stokes equations stand in line with Pythagoras equation and Schrodinger equation and so on and so forth. So, it is one of the 17 equations that change the world in the last 400 years. So, all the very best to you and do take great interest in this course just to I am supposed to say something about what makes a good teacher I do not know much about that all I would suggest is get hold of a good book and solve the problems at the back of each chapter before you begin to teach and if you cannot solve the problem do consult somebody who can solve the problem and he may well be your junior. So, keep that in mind and I am sure you will do well all the very best. Thank you very much Professor Date for those wise words particularly the wise words at the end because teaching is about learning to the best of your abilities and not hesitating in learning from anyone a fact which all faculty members in IIT have been practicing thanks to senior colleagues such as Professor Date showing the way. Insanely I forgot to mention, but he is also an accomplished teacher apart from being an accomplished researcher that is the reason by the way for which he was invited to join the Rahul Bajaj chair in the department and although he retired as all of us have to retire IIT would not let go of him. So, he is the emeritus fellow of the institute and continues to serve us in the academic community further. Thank you very much Professor Date for joining us may I request Professor Vedula to say a few words on this occasion. Just like Professor Date I have never been asked to say anything in front of a huge audience and unlike Professor Date I did not have advance notice also just now Professor Fateh just tells me go say something I really usually even if I were told to speak I usually am not able to speak very much I go for a class in the class I can talk for 50 minutes but outside usually no more than a few minutes is all I can do. All I can say is wish you all the best and you are going to learn a lot from this course take a lot of interest and try to do your tutorials which are going to be very serious because like Professor Date has said if you are going to try to understand the subject properly you should be able to solve the problems and like he has said now you have two of the teachers or two of the coordinators who are doing this course who are going to be able to help you you do not have to go anywhere else they are there to help you out with your problems wish you all the best. Thank you so much Professor Vedula I am sorry for not giving you an advance notice but what you spoke the little as it might have been makes a sense for all the teachers across the country. I would also like to tell you that when this project was started to conduct workshop for teachers using information and communication technology there was a bit of a skepticism in the early days I remember when I made a presentation to the Ministry of Human Resources they said can this model be effective if you collect 800,000 teachers across the country. We took a tentative step by running a pilot it was usually successful because the technology available does permit not just people to listen to the expert lectures from IIT or any other place but also to interact with those experts. Our model which envisages 30 to 40 to 50 people to assemble at a remote center so that there is an equivalent of a classroom environment and a lab environment in each of these places and then address all the 1000 participants across multiple centers from one place has worked out very well. The person who use that model to non computer science courses for the first time is Professor Uday Gaitonde whom when we requested whether he would teach a course in thermodynamics that was the first course. Well the initial proposal was we requested him to conduct a course on introduction to mechanical engineering because that is the name of the course that is offered to first year second year students across the country. He flatly refused after looking at the multiple syllabi of the introduction to mechanical engineering and he claimed that thermodynamics is at heart of most of the things so if I am ok with a course on thermodynamics he is ok with it. What I wanted to tell you is that he liked the model he appreciated the interaction he felt that the participating teachers were benefited and he then became a crusader and convinced lot of his colleagues to come forward and participate in more and more such workshops. In fact it is my pleasure to admit that more than computer science or electrical or other faculty members it is the faculty members of the mechanical engineering department of IIT Bombay who have offered maximum number of workshops here and have benefited maximum number of teachers. Can we just have a visual of the colleagues who have assembled here please these are our colleagues from the mechanical engineering department and in coming years I would expect them to participate with greater vigor because the model has been just recently approved to be upscaled significantly. We have been asked whether this model can be scaled up to address 10000 teachers across the country rather than just 1000 teachers. So the first mega workshop on a subject of common interest which we have termed introduction to research methodologies is going to be conducted from 25th June to 4th of July almost all the remote centers at which we are currently attending this workshop would also be hosting that workshop we have added another 120 remote centers the registration is still on. So those of you are interested or you can talk to your colleagues who might be interested to register online. And we expect in this particular set of workshops which will come over the next few years thanks to the MHRD promising sufficient funding we expect our colleagues from mechanical engineering department to not only give new courses but also be willing to offer again some of the workshops which they have already conducted because for all 1000 teachers whom they have empowered there are 10000 teachers waiting to be empowered for it. With this let me conclude by introducing the two faculty members who will be coordinating this particular workshop I would like to invite them here briefly and welcome them with bookish Professor Balchandra Puranik and Professor Atul Sharma. Before we conclude the morning session I would like to request the coordinating faculty members to say a few words. Of course you will be listening to them for quite some time over the next two weeks but still yeah good morning everyone I am Balchandra Puranik one of the two coordinators for this workshop first of all I would like to thank Professor Fatak and his team for giving us the opportunity to do this class. And as you said we are going to be talking to you for the next two weeks the first almost one week I will be talking to you and the next one week Professor Sharma will be. So we will have plenty of interaction throughout these two weeks what I will suggest is that try to keep your interest up and we will try to do our best so that at the end of two weeks you can say that you have had a decent experience and are going out with sufficient material with which you can offer this course yourself. So with this I will pass on the mic to Professor Sharma so that he can say a few words thank you. I would welcome all of you to this course. I would like to thank Professor Fatak for giving us an opportunity to take this course I had always been interested in using technology and teaching and since I joined IIT Bombay in 2004 I had been earlier associated with Center for Distance Engineering Education Program and as I had been in computational fluid dynamics where I enjoy creating animations and CFD is also an acrobatium for colorful fluid dynamics which you will see a lot in my lecture slides. So I would like to thank Professor Fatak for this bigger opportunities and we will have lot of interactions. So I would end here and wish you all the best and enjoy your experience in this workshop. Thank you. There is a unusual request from one of the remote centers where from VNIT in Akpur our friends who have gathered there wanted to make an observation. So may I hand over a control to VNIT in Akpur. Over to you sir. Good morning Professor Fatak, Professor Gayatonde. This is Dr. Gokhale, Director of VNIT in Akpur. I have been observing and we are participating in these programs with great vigor. We have about 50 faculty members from our own institute as well as other institutes and we thank you very much for arranging these programs and workshops in the computational fluid dynamics area or mechanical engineering type of programs. I personally know quite a few of the faculty members from IIT, Mumbai. I have been working in CFD for a little over 35 years myself. So it is a great pleasure as well as a fortune for us that larger faculty members body of faculty members, they are participating in these workshops. They would be benefited immensely especially in the era where the computers or the computational resources are becoming cheaper by the day. This CFD holds a great promise as Professor Datte was mentioning that numerical experimentation is going to take over the laboratory experimentation and all of us are eager to listen to the experts for the next two weeks. Thank you very much sir. Thank you very much Professor Gokhale. Your observations provoke me to say a few more things here. The first and foremost people like Professor Gokhale the work for for example as he said about 35 years in CFD they exist at various places. Why is it then all of us are not able to listen to courses given by such eminent people just because they are not physically available at such a hub as IIT, Mumbai. You remember I spoke about 10,000 teachers workshops. One of the central themes about such workshops in future would be creation of nodal centers and these multiple nodal centers will eventually be able to offer such workshops across the country from using expert faculty both at the nodal centers themselves as well as other places. So, Professor Gokhale if you are still listening VNIT is one of the top contenders to become a nodal center you will soon hear from me requesting you to participate in the expanded venture. The second is your mention of computations replacing all laboratories. I recall a very funny incidents when I was dean of resources in IIT, Mumbai in 1995 and was in charge of sanctioning budgets for various departments. And department after department and I am talking about engineering departments and science departments instead of asking for funds for equipment they were all asking for funds for computers and servers. And I was quite surprised and I started asking each head as to why do you need so many computers says no we all do simulation we all do simulation. So, I was slightly perplexed and went to my director Professor Sukhatme then and asked him that I was under the impression that engineering departments are also supposed to do actual engineering. And he looked at those requests and he says Professor Fatag unless the request for simulation computers is accompanied by request for actual engineering equipment please do not approve anything. So, I would think that the real world requires a balance I would think that the engineers why they must be familiar with and comfortable in using the most recent computational techniques to solve problems. They must also simultaneously be willing to dirty their hands and construct and operationalize certain things for the benefit of ordinary people in the world. I think both of these things go hand in hand I do not think one is a replacement for the other. But anyway so much for the digression I think we still have time I would now like to request Professor Gaitonde to share some of his experiences and some of the tips that he would like to leave behind for participants as to how to maximize the advantage of such a model of the workshop and what exactly they should keep in mind and what exactly they should do when participating in a workshop in the remote mode in this fashion. Since he is a stalwart of being associated with this program almost from the second workshop onwards and we have conducted 9 such workshops benefiting I think now the number will stand at about 11500. So, Professor Gaitonde for few remarks please. Professor Patak I somehow got into this business with a meeting with Professor Patak may be year and a half ago. So, I am nowhere near a stalwart I am just a person who got involved in this, but somebody who has participated sincerely and has started enjoying it. As Professor Patak said that he goaded me to start something in introduction to mechanical engineering and my survey of the so called syllabus and course curriculum told me that the introduction mechanical engineering course was a hash up mix and match which does not really mean anything and not only that along with it it hashed up another of my favorite courses that is thermodynamics. It was partly in introduction to mechanical engineering partly in some other course. So, not only during that time, but during my teaching of thermodynamics to graduate students who come with a background in other engineering colleges I realized that although they have been told taught thermodynamics they have not been taught thermodynamics properly in one single go. So, the basic principles of thermodynamics and hence their primary applications are not well appreciated and well understood and this was at the back of my mind since the year 2001 when a small organization in Pune asked many of our faculty members to come over for a one day seminar and I was given a 20 minute talk and I selected the topic as teaching thermodynamics to teachers or something like that and it so turned out that although I gave a 20 minute talk the question answer session spilled over the tea time which followed and tried to spill over in the next lecture where I had to somehow stop it. But that was at the back of my mind and when professor Fatak proposed this I said if it is thermodynamics I will definitely do it and I am very pleased to say that that was really a successful program because for the first time at something like 31 or 32 centers around 850 thermodynamics teachers of various backgrounds all from mechanical engineering or mostly from mechanical engineering came together and we had very good time discussing the various aspects of thermodynamics particularly from the point of view of teacher-student interaction in an undergraduate mechanical engineering course during those 10 days of actual workshop and the 5 day of co-ordinators workshop there was a lot of interaction. I am sure the participants learned a lot but I too learned a lot about the ground situation of teaching of thermodynamics and the type of problems the teachers and hence their students face. On the moodle which you will start using soon the thermodynamic question answer thing has been active for quite some time the activity has gone down a bit now but it is one of those live interactions that still continue. One of the things which has happened after that interaction is whenever I visit an engineering college for some reason or the other there are always about half a dozen or one dozen people who have either attended that course or indirectly participated in that course because the recordings are all available on the net now. So people many people who did not attend or could not attend for some reason have indirectly started absorbing what happened in that workshop through those their colleagues and the recorded lectures and I have to provide an impromptu tutorial session or a difficulty session or a discussion session wherever I go. So interactions have increased and I am sure and I am told that interactions have increased between thermodynamic faculty members of various colleges and I hope that has already started happening in other courses particularly those from mechanical engineering. We have professor Prabhu here who was part of the and of course professor Arun Kumar Shridharan who are the coordinators for the second course in mechanical engineering that is heat transfer and now we have the third course in fluid dynamics and computational fluid dynamics. So my recommendation to you is participate in the course but let this course not be the end of your interaction with your colleagues and your quote and quote teachers from IIT Bombay. ICT is used not only for this course but will continue to be used through Moodle and other devices for continuing interaction. So keep on interacting and I am sure this will improve your understanding of the various aspects of mechanical engineering and hence it would improve the teaching and hence would improve the future mechanical engineers which come out of our colleges. Thank you. Thank you very much professor Gayatunde. There is one more request from Shivaji University. So thank you professor Pater for giving us this opportunity to have this kind of workshop here. We are a recently started new department just four years we have gone through this experience and I appreciate all the efforts that you have been taking and giving us this opportunity because young staff they need the kind of orientation that you are giving and I hope that they will take this practices actually into the classroom. So I am extremely thankful and hope to have the similar kind of cooperation in the years to come by. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Thank you for those nice and encouraging words. In fact it is the remote centers such as yours which form the fulcrum around which we are able to construct this useful workshop model. It is the workshop coordinators at the remote centers who take the responsibility of not only handling all the organizational aspects providing the necessary equipment and infrastructure in the classroom and in the lab which is done by what we call remote center coordinator. But additionally there are workshop coordinators at each remote center who are themselves specialists in the subject chosen in this particular case we have computational fluid dynamics expert at each of the remote centers. For the benefit of the participating teachers from various colleges I think you would all appreciate that these workshop coordinators have spent as much as a week here in IIT Bombay where our workshop coordinators from IIT Bombay have interacted with them have understood the kind of teaching that is done in the colleges have understood the kind of questions that are asked in the examination system and this has helped them to formulate the syllabus for this. Additionally all the workshop coordinators have participated in rigorous lab sessions here and they are themselves therefore completely able to supervise the lab and the tutorial sessions that will be conducted there. One request for the workshop coordinators is that they should perhaps be a bit more proactive in trying to directly answer questions which are raised by the participants there rather than simply transmitting them forward to IIT Bombay. However when they do so all good questions and good answers that emerge out of such local discussion may kindly be documented and posted on the moodle for the benefit of all other participants. Indeed creation of collaborative communities across the country in different subjects of people not only teachers but later on even students working in that area is one of the ambitions of this project. As Professor Gayathonday said we propose to release the audio visual recording of the course as well as the entire material including the tutorials, the problem set and the answers on a website. They are currently available but the website currently is not scalable and is not easily reachable by people who will be launching a formal website built around an open source framework called JUMLA which will provide the equivalent of the content management of moodle as well as a facility for interactive forums where forums in multiple subjects can spring up across the country. I would also like to take few minutes to tell you about some of the future plans some remote centers will recall that we had used a device locally designed at IIT called clicker in order to conduct online quizzes in some of the earlier workshops. IIT Bombay has now been charged with the responsibility of trying to make the Akash tablet educationally useful to our engineering colleges. The project came to IIT Bombay just three minutes ago but in last three months hundreds of faculty, research students and even summer interns have worked hard to already develop some useful applications on the Akash tablet device. We will be, we have placed an order for a large number of these devices and our ambition is now to deploy these devices starting with the remote centers. At each of the remote centers we propose to deploy these devices about 60 or 70 for experimentation with the classroom how exactly these devices can be used in a course that is being taught by a teacher. Additionally we propose to make available about 20 to 30 devices for development of new applications and new contents to final year students of engineering not necessarily computer science students alone but perhaps some kind of interdisciplinary projects which spring up in each of these colleges. We hope to get our engineering college fraternity the academic fraternity comprising of teachers and students to work over the next year to develop meaningful applications and contents not only for engineering education but even for school education and college education so that the tablets could be made an effective tool in coming years when we expect the proliferation of these tablets in the society will increase very rapidly just as cell phones have increased. Why I mentioned the aakash tablet is that in future workshop starting from December the aakash tablets will be used to conduct online quizzes in a distributed fashion for this 10,000 teachers workshop. So, all the remote centers will be equipped with adequate aakash tablets to be used actually in the workshops. In fact we could not get the delivery started soon enough otherwise my ambition was to use these tablets in this very course for a reason other than just conducting quizzes. Some of our people working in the free and open source software led by Professor Kannan, Professor Prabhu Ramchandran, Professor Madhu Bellur have actually implemented a programming environment on top of the android operating system of these aakash tablets and have successfully implemented C C plus plus python language compiler systems. More exciting for participants of this workshop this Sylab has been ported on to aakash tablet. So, you can actually run Sylab code on to the tablet instead of having to go to a desktop or connect to a server. We believe that in coming years these tablets which are normally considered to be excess devices and of course they are excess devices through which you can excess NPTEL lectures or video lectures of this workshop using Wi-Fi connectivity wherever you are or using an SD card where these lectures are recorded. But we often forget that it is not just a low cost excess device it is also a full fresh computer. Although it cost less than 2500 rupees the computational power that this tablet aakash has far exceeds the power of a high end PCAT of the earlier years. In fact the processor is more capable than the Pentium processor of Intel. Given that it is important that it also be exploited as a computational tool and towards that our efforts are going on currently. I have decided to dovetail the aakash project which IIT Bombay has to execute over the next 2 years with the national mission workshop that we conduct. So, that each one benefits from the other. Let us come back to the main theme of this workshop which is on computational fluid dynamics. So, let me bring your attention back to the activities that need to be conducted under this workshop. Please appreciate that the co-ordinators here have worked very hard to create sufficient number of experiments or computational code which all of you will be working on during the lab sessions. Please pay special attention to the way you solve these problems. As professor Datte rightly said the equations were there, but solving those equations in different circumstances for different parameters was not an easy task and that is why people are still working continuously on those solutions. This is your opportunity to get the best out of the experts not only here at IIT Bombay, but at your local centers and amongst yourselves. So, I would like to wish you all the best. Please do participate in all Moodle related activities. I believe some quizzes etcetera would be conducted and you will have to answer those quizzes. Please also appreciate the fact that at the conclusion of this workshop all of you are likely to be given an assignment a team assignment which you will have to complete within two weeks and no IIT certificate will be issued unless this assignment is submitted and is weighted by the local workshop coordinator of your remote center as being adequate. It is the purpose is not merely to hold back your certificate, but the purpose really is to get meaningful additional contents developed whether it is in the form of tutorials, it is the form of question bank is in the form of anything that you can your coordinators will decide. All of that material with due recognition and credit to the team which develops that will be also included in our open source release the course contents. In short then enjoy the workshop learn as much as you can, but also contribute as much as you can for the benefit of other 10, 15,000 teachers who have not been able to attend this course though you have been able to. Let us all work together to reach the benefit of whatever we do over the next two weeks and whatever you do additionally for two more weeks to all those 10,000, 15,000 teachers and lakhs of students across the country in coming years. So, after concluding I must formally recognize a huge amount of work that has been done by teams which neither that participating teachers nor the coordinators see that I have although we have more than 60 people working tirelessly for making the workshop successful. Let me mention just a few names and we have the camera on those people. Our coordinator is Dr. Mukta Atre Mukta is in that corner. Yes, you can see her many of the workshop coordinators have been interacting with her. She is a stern lady, but let me assure you that she solves problems very, very efficiently and effectively. We also have our finance manager I call her finance minister of the project Ms. Jaya. She would be in charge of ensuring that all of you get paid for the expenses incurred subject of cost to the approved processes. She is very keen on the approved processes. Do we have Sajjan here? Yes, Mr. Sajjan Kumar Dixit is the manager who is in charge of the audio visual team. In fact, you can gloss over the entire audio visual team to see how, hello. So, these are the people who actually make the AV thing work.  He is always busy in solving problems. We also have a large number of programmers and project assistants, programmers who actually look after the workshop model who look after the workshop web pages, who handle the registration issues. You will appreciate that 1,400 people have to be registered and have to be allocated remote centers and have to be checked for their documents that are uploaded, etcetera, etcetera. You do require a large team. Usually, such team works in the background, is not visible and therefore rarely acknowledged. I would like to take this opportunity to formally thank all of them, because without them, this would not have been possible. Of course, when I expand this workshop model to 10,000 teachers, I would not have liberty to have 10 times more employees. So, my colleagues, I would also like them to appreciate that they have perhaps not 10 times, but 5 times more work to do in coming here. Thank you so much. With this note, we will break for today.


with you final in game one or three from the TROP and nine nothing blowout and a Tampa Bay win. Nellie, you feel like the Anks are feeling the heat because they're not creating any heat with their offense right now. They're not. I mean, it's never good when a position player finishes up the game on the mound and that's what Gonzalez did for the Yankees. 0 for seven with runners in scoring position and the 10 left on the other opportunities throughout the game. Herman was really, really terrific on the mound, only giving up the two earned runs. So he kept them in the game the whole time and the opportunities that the Yankees missed offensively. They were there, you know, they had their opportunities and they missed them. And also you look at a lot of guest hitters, right? You know, the Springs was good. He had a really good changeup and a nice fastball. He pitched in with that four seamer upstairs, but it just seemed to me, you looked at, you looked at Donaldson's AB's, you had Hicks also standing a lot of guessing up there in situations where there's balls and fastballs right down the middle of the plate that they were letting go by or swinging to miss it. Yeah, usually they're grinding. You're right. It feels like a lot of guys are guessing, right? Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to watch because you look at a West Coast trip where you go to Oakland and Anaheim and you're thinking, okay, five and two going into a good series against the Rays and maybe that leads to still maybe seven eight games. Instead now it's five because your West Coast trip was terrible. You were three and four. You wind up splitting against one of the worst teams in baseball in Oakland. And then you go against a hot team in the Rays that were 18 and nine in August and then you play a terrible game. And it was sloppy as well. Defensively, the Yankees, especially Donaldson at third, he could have made three errors. That indecision will go over it in the fourth, but also with a wild throw from Weiser, he probably should have ate that ball because that led to a couple runs as well. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because when the Rays are going well, they play really clean baseball. And if you give them extra opportunities, they will cash in.


Moving to women's tennis action from yesterday, BSU hosting Saint Benedict, number one doubles BSU's Morgan Ott playing the net, takes the lob shot and delivers the cross court winner. She and Zoe Lindgren would fall, however, 8-4. Two doubles action, BSU's Ariadna Lopez sends the forehand winner right down the line for the point. She and Brienne Walsh would win 8-5. Then in three doubles, Brooke Mamak takes advantage of the low shot delivering the point with authority. She and Sabrina Oakson would fall 8-5 though, but BSU gets the victory coming back and winning 5-4. And then earlier in the afternoon, they took on Concordia College. They won 8-1 in that one. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hey, bitches, my name is Frida collar today. I want to be honest right now I have a little bit of a list because I have teeth finding strips in and I have a face mask on because I need to record two videos this week before I go to Hawaii basically I've had four days to record two videos and get them ready for you guys and I managed to do it for those of you who don't know I went to Disney World for my senior trip And we went to a lot of different parks We were there for six days and I recorded everything but it's gonna be split into two parts part one is the first three days And if you like it then you can watch part two which will come out the ones that come back from Hawaii And it's mainly all voice over and it's like a rapid fire because a lot of stuff happens in three days So here we go day one drove to my high school met some of my friends got in our plane Which was yellow plane got delayed by six hours. It's okay.  I swear to God. There's I can't deal with it Day two made it to Magic Kingdom. That is Aliyah right there who just said hi. That is Maya that one is Abby vlog Help me. I'm in Disney for the first time. It's awesome people dancing And I thought they would die because of the heat Aliyah thought that horse was fake She also cried seeing the castle for the first time because she's never been there so this is her reaction This is day one we get it gets better. Don't worry. Don't you make fun of her?  I actually grew a beer while waiting in line because this took I think 30 minutes Saw the cheese danish and knew it had to be mine Finally they spelled my name right for the first time in four years that I have been going to Starbucks And then they spell it wrong. Mm-hmm. Okay.   Guys it's really hot in Florida first meal of the day It was loaded mac and cheese and it was amazing getting ready to go on the seven Dwarves mine churn I think it's called and we saw a fan and that was a blessing in disguise. Oh my god.  Oh my god. Finally got on the ride.   I did not record that now You know why I didn't record that look at us We're messes got dough up and vanilla ice cream Hello, walter thunder mountain was for some reason very scary. I don't know why but for some reason I scream right here like a chicken I really don't know why it was so scary guys. I am still laughing right now There they are There's two rides going on at once. Maybe you guys could have seen the white blonde there Wait Hello Hello Hey, buddy. Hello. Hey girls. Hello. Oh, he sees me got a performance and then everyone crowded around us So it got ruined saw the little mermaid right there had dinner at a really fancy hotel Isn't this gorgeous? Yeah And that is the end of day two Day three we went to mya's favorite park, which is clearly universal Universal first stop is the hulk. Oh, is that that whole thing's the hulk? Yeah, Jesus couldn't bring my camera. So I'm taking the fence Well, how was it? It's okay, abby. We'll go another ride Abby didn't want to go on a guy she has vertigo If you don't know she gets dizzy really easily and can pass out and she's passed out twice already I forgot to say this at first, but did you know that abby ate a bug thinking it was a sun chip? Yeah, so we reached Jurassic park now We really wanted to go on this ride because I wanted to vlog it But then turns out you have to be under a certain height to do it so only kids can do it More food more food I'm supposed to find entrance Oh my god, it's everything It's so weird My favorite part of universal which is harry potter world My god It's so pretty We were trying to go on that right but turns out we went into a simulator that made abby pass out two times and cry So that wasn't as fun Oh No filming allowed apparently I got my fucking hufflepuff merch went to the candy store because the candy store is so beautiful Emily and Cordelia wanted to say hi for the vlog Went on the train that would take us back to the other side of harry potter world and my about butter beer, which is amazing I I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I just I have to put this in here Apologies for the ear rape anyways. We got a really nice movie scene on our way to dyagan alley. My uh, I found the side That was a really good violinist, but this is the night bus guys the night bus Went behind the secret passage and then made our way to dyagan alley Which is one of the most beautiful parts of disney I will say or actually universal Sorry abby thought they also recorded the movies here then had to explain to her that these were made after the movies Saw a couple taking pictures of something that had bubble tea in it and I had to get a you know me Turns out it's called fishy green ale and I could not explain the flavor to you But all I know is that I was obsessed Is it actually making it no, it's not no I heard walking towards you and I was like Goodbye Those are a group of fans. I couldn't get all their names, but I just want to give a quick shout out to macy and alice You guys were so cute and adorable. Oh my god. I love you all went to the mummy ride and could not fit All of my stuff into this freaking locker guys. I had too much stuff I had a camera.  Was it fun? Went on another ride, which was soaking wet and then went home to the peaceful night during the freaking Thunder storm because florida weather. Okay. I like this is gonna be the first four days because it's been kind of short So we went to disney springs, which is the mall and then this happened I have alice Those are freaking pretty mall except I had no one because we were there at 9 a.m. In the morning and then we saw this lego thing That's so cute I'm still questioning like what if a gust of wind was just very aggressive today Gay I swear I got everything's made of legos and Once again gust of wind. It's kaput.  Also. It has a yellow Roofing floor got to make the lego version of myself Gay bought my favorite character as a pin, which is lumiere Finally found a yellow makey hat and it was so cute and then I decked out myself with pins abby likes dinosaur So we went inside this gift shop I am so sorry. I did not mean to make that joke. Why do you watch me?  Oh my god. It's so beautiful. I wanted to swim in it guys I was I was really tempted that time had the best pizza ever Visited the coca-cola factories to do some taste tests guys. I want that as my chandelier Can someone help me find it was very close to buying that mellow yellow hat bought this for one dollar. Yeah. Oh my god. This is so pretty Did some taste tests from around the world of different types of coke and also we stan paper straws But then we all fell sick afterwards Went on a boat ride to go to the other side of the mall abby thought that sushi was chinese Come back. Yeah Okay Nothing nothing. You don't know how many pins. I wanted guys. I was tempted. No, you're blocking the view I am the view. No, you're next So pretty We stand imagining fashion icon. Maria was amazing at cleaning our rooms. I mean look how pretty it is. Look it up pretty It's just the ball It's just They look like a five-year-old Yes, that's a biggest ball stop not Wait, I see a sunflower I see a sunflower. I see a sunflower.   All right now. You're just pushing it Also, this is very pretty. So i'm jealous. Oh, we're going. We're going. We're going. We're going.  This is ana.  Oh my god No Really fancy dessert that I didn't want to touch Whoa, they're really close guys Once again gustav wind a fire can start went on some stars path thing. I know this was it's cute.  So yeah Crippled my way back home because I wore flip-flops all day and that was the end of day four So yeah guys, that was the end of part one of my full disney trip Let me know what you guys thought of it. If you have some recommendations Please let me know I'm more than willing to take them because I'll be gone for two weeks until the next one gets uploaded If you enjoy this feel like leave a comment down below subscribe for more videos every saturday sunday or wednesday thursday If not procrastinating I better see you smash that notification bell once again Thank you to everyone who saw me there macy alish the asian squad, which I didn't get your names I'm sorry, but like meeting you guys in person was such an amazing experience I mean it I couldn't ask for more So just know that I love you guys and everything is lesson three and I will see you for part two


Question is from Dressfit. What do you guys think about daily undulation? They're referring to probably what, nutrition? No, no, no, no, they're talking about exercise programming. Oh, so changing, so undulation essentially is changing your exercise programming, but on a daily basis in terms of the fundamental aspects of your workout. And because when you see studies, the studies will show that this, so they did a really good study where they did this, whether you did it daily or you did it in phases or periodized it, periodized it, did I say that right? No, I can't say it. Periodized, periodized it. No, pure, fuck, now I can't say it. Periodized, periodized. There we go. Doug, are we saying it wrong? I don't even know now. Periodization, periodized, yes. Right, that would be the short? Yeah. Okay, so you got me all over from that intro, I'm all over the map right now. So they did that and then they did some, on a group that didn't change at all. And they found that daily and then like every three weeks was almost the same and a little bit better in daily. Now this was a shorter study that was only, I think a few months long, but at the end of the day, we know that it's important that you change your exercise up. Now, I used to do it every single day for a long time. Now why I like the way we do it now, how most all the maps programs are, where we phase it in blocks. Yeah, in blocks of two to four weeks. What I think is better about that, and even though the studies have shown that they're pretty much equal, what I think is better about that, it's easier for me to gauge and see things and see progress. So if I'm constantly changing exercises and changing rep ranges and changing all those things up on like a daily basis, it's really hard to see like if I'm doing something and I'm consistently doing it, if it's making progress or I'm getting better at it or which movement or exercise, I'm getting the biggest bang for my buck because there's an individual variance in all that with each of us. So maybe a movement for Sal is just okay, but for me like, wow, I've noticed huge strength gains when I did that or it feels great when I do it or whatever. And when you are constantly changing it every day, it's kind of hard to measure those types of things versus following a program or sticking to something for a good solid three to four weeks and then starting to change everything up. I found that was something later on that when we, and this is something that we did together. I know Sal, the first maps in a bulk was created this way, but all of the maps programs are based off of this foundation and to me, I think that's superior. Yeah, so it's really a difference between doing, training in the let's say four to six rep range for three weeks versus training four to six reps on Monday and then Tuesday is 12 to 18 and then Friday is 15 to 15 reps and then it's one to three reps. So daily and daily we're just changing it all the time versus staying within a particular rep range or a particular style for a week or two or three or even four. Now here's the thing, our opinion is based off of our experience training a lot of people. And I would surmise that if you took a large enough sample size, if you did enough of these studies and took a large enough sample size, you would find that the blocking or phasing of people's workouts rather than daily undulation will be more successful because for one of the reasons, which is what Adam said, people can learn about their bodies more. They learn what it feels like and how their body responds when they train just in low reps for a little while or just in moderate or high reps or when they train in a particular style for a little while. And that is priceless by the way. Here's the thing, if you want consistent long-term success, the most important factor is knowing your body. Learning your body is what's gonna contribute to long-term success more than anything else. And for general population, learning your body means you should stick in something for long enough to learn it, understand how it feels and how you respond to it. The other thing is this, and this again, you're not gonna find this in a couple small sample studies. You'll find this in large sample studies or lots of them, is that when you're training in a particular phase for three weeks, there's a mindset that accompanies it. So what I mean by that is when I go to the gym and I approach a workout where I'm training in the four rep range and doing longer rest periods, it's a very different mindset than going to the gym and training with supersets for 12 reps. And that mindset actually develops and solidifies over the course of one, two, or three weeks versus flipping all the time back and forth. Well, it's like sharpening up on your skills versus just reacting to the day. So I don't know, I look at it differently in terms of I wanna get better and I wanna be able to see progress. So I have to have benchmarks to sort of guide the way. And there's certain exercises that are gonna be higher in the priority list and a rep range that I wanna see how my body can improve upon. And the only way to do that is to repeat it enough times to really have a proper assessment of that. So I mean, in the argument of just changing it up all the time, maybe you could make that for just, if I'm constantly, I'm in an environment where I have to react to things constantly. And I have the ability where now I'm creating this new skill of being hyper responsive towards all these different forces at once. But in terms of me being able to really assess that I'm getting strong in this direction because of this, I have to extract that out. I mean, I see value in it if you're somebody that has been training for a really long time and you've already gotten good at all the skills. You know your body. Yeah, you know your body really, really well. This isn't the learning process. This isn't your first five years of training. You've been training for decades and you know, and so you like to switch these things up on a very regular basis. I don't see any problem with that. I just to Sal's point that our advice comes from training the general population. And when I think of that, I think I've spent most of my career trying to teach the skill of lifting weights to my clients for a long time. And if you were, if we looked at this like a skill just like an athlete is learning their sport, whether it be basketball or soccer or baseball, you, what you wouldn't do is constantly be throwing different skills at them every single day or multiple things in a day. You would, you would focus on one thing and you would stick to that until they got really, really good at that. And then you would move on to the next thing and stick to that until they got really, really good at it because there is the learning curve of the skill of the movement, which I think later on plays a, that's why those studies I think are a bit flawed because if you take, you know, if you take the three of us who've been lifting for a really long time and we do something that's daily, you do something that's every three to four weeks and then you don't change it at all, I think it would confirm what those studies showed. But if you took somebody who, you took thousands of people to your point, Sal, that have, that are really still learning how to squat properly into deadlift and do some of these movements and would it be better for them to stick to that squad or stick to that deadlift for four weeks consistently versus squatting one day, then doing Bulgarian squats another day, then doing lunges another day. Oh, that for sure, yeah. Right. They're barely figuring, each one of those movements are extremely difficult in themselves and to be flipping them all the time, I don't think you're giving yourself the opportunity to get really good at the skill of it.


Thanks very much, John, and today what I'm wanting to do is skate across a whole range of dimensions of Australia's energy policy. The reason for that is, twofold, one, I think we're in a rather precarious stage with our energy policy and energy markets policy, and two, that not long ago I finished a report on this very issue for the Consumer Action Law Centre who were keen to look ahead five to ten years to see what emerging issues there were that that the consumer movement should be starting to engage with now and to play a role in that. And that policy, that policy paper anyway, is one that I hope will be something that that does start to influence particularly consumer groups who have to date been focusing on some very important issues, hardship policy and a number of other things, but not focusing a whole lot on some of the big structural issues and the competency of the economic regulators and others who are really going to be making decisions that add up to huge amounts of consumer dollars, but in my view, and perhaps this reflects ten years in Europe where there is a much greater acceptance of the imperatives of climate change, a policy that's going to work for sustainability. And so this particular seminar, one of the themes that I'd like to raise is what I've described as a policy trilemma. And I don't think Australia has come to grips with it. We're still at the stage, especially in the energy area of considering the final stages of liberalisation of the market. And so the economic regulators are still pretty much locked into how can we make the market more and more contestable. How can our economic regulation be about, you know, RPI minus X formulas for efficiency and getting more out of assets and not the important balance between, as I would see it, affordability, which is a really vital thing. Prices in Australia for most energy sources have doubled over the last three years. And I think I can predict fairly confidently that they'll double again in the next two to three years and that energy prices are going to remain not only a key political issue, but are going to become increasingly the source of social distress. More and more of the Australian population, the folk living on the fringes of society, are going to be propelled into an estate known widely in Britain as energy poverty. And that is going to be a serious issue. So that's the first part of the Trilemma is affordability of energy. The second dimension is about security of energy. And that cuts a number of different ways. Energy security is about ensuring that networks are able to deliver what people want and where and when. But the way in which that's been approached in Australia so far is predicated upon the continuing almost permanent dominance of coal fired generation, 70% of our current generation, and where renewables are still seen as rather outsiders. And although policy mandates like 20% renewables by 2020 are leading to investment, the policies simply don't recognize the validity of that. And there are all sorts of implications for system security as the proportion of renewables going into the grid gets above 10%. We don't seem to have those planned into our system at all. And indeed, with a very aging network of transmission lines and a lot of the generating sets, energy security itself becomes an important point. The third part of the policy Trilemma is about sustainability. And as I suggested earlier, I don't think that policymakers in Australia genuinely recognize the imperatives of climate change. And so we have even even the much thought over carbon tax is actually quite a trivial issue in terms of changing investment decisions to a more decarbonized future. And I contrast that again with the UK, where instead of talking about 20% by 2020, the UK has long since passed 50% renewables by 2050, and they're talking about 100% renewables over the next 60 years or so. Now, that's partly about removing carbon from the economy. It's also partly about energy security. Britain has gone through a number of severe shocks brought about by an increasing dependence on North Sea gas and oil from fields that are no longer owned by British companies. Indeed, most of the energy companies in the UK are now owned abroad. And so those three dimensions of affordability, security and sustainability are three legs of a policy that I think are absolutely necessary if we're to have some real progress in these areas. And just 30 seconds then about Femag. This is a Regnet seminar, but Femag, the Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance, which is hosted by Regnet, is a group of people. Many of them are also involved with Regnet. But our whole purpose is looking at areas in which markets are failing the interests of consumers. And we've always defined the interests of consumers in that classical sustainability model of looking at the social, the environmental, as well as the economic. And to see markets where those things get out of whack mean that consumer welfare suffers in the long term and often in the short term as well. And so that's why the policy Trilemma report was written in the first place. Australia is now 15 years into liberalised energy markets. And that started off with the classical way of vertical and horizontal disaggregation of generators, splitting them up in the idea of having competing producers, of course, monopoly regulation of networks, and then to have contestability in supply with competing retailers. And Australia, like the UK and many other countries, went down that route. It's my contention that we're still rather stuck in that model now that many others who also went down that route see that there are some profound limitations in that market model. And that most recently, this was reaffirmed in the publication late last year of the Energy White Paper. Now, the Energy White Paper, in my view, represents another interesting dilemma for Australian policy. Up until last year, energy policy at the Council of Australian Governments level was managed by a ministerial council on energy. But last year, that was subsumed into a much wider group that also looks at production. And Australia is after all the ninth largest energy producer in the world, where the second largest LNG exporter, the largest coal exporter. And in my view, what's happened is that over the last year or so, the interests of Australia's trade policy has come to dominate our domestic energy policy as well, which is now somewhat subservient to that industry policy. Australia is very intent, and I can understand why, in continuing to win international markets, firstly for coal, but increasingly for gas. And that Australia is very much marching down the path of joining the global LNG market. And there are implications for that that I'll come on to in a second. But what it means is that the national agenda, which in the past had been about the gradual liberalisation of markets, the privatisation of state assets for generation and supply, and then issues about affordability, issues about consumer protection, and making markets work. These are now moving more and more to a national framework. Indeed, from July last year, Australia was due to implement uniform national consumer protection laws for energy consumers as well. But just weeks, really, before that date for everybody to cut over to new forms of regulation, four of the states actually withdrew from that arrangement. And we still now have quite inconsistent state-based regulation for much of consumer protection in energy. And that's a real problem. So the question that I was seeking to answer in the report, and one that I'd like to explore right now is, is whether the market structure, the regulatory framework, the conduct of enterprises in the market are really delivering for consumers. And my answer is no, they're not. And in most respects, some of the key ones are ones that are going to cause problems with price, quality, and performance of all of those suppliers, and that consumers are going to be the big losers. And I'd like to contrast that, not that the UK has policies that are working, but after 20 years or so of liberalised markets, the regulator in the UK and the government, remember, it's a Conservative government, so this is quite an extraordinary conclusion, ministers, the parliament, and the regulators have concluded that the liberalised market is essentially failing British consumers, and that there are some quite draconian interventions that are being made that re-regulate it to the point where you would no longer say that it meets classical definitions of a liberalised market at all. And that would include, for example, a requirement that energy retailers provide only four products instead of the multiplicity, hundreds. In fact, when I was working in the UK, at one time, there were 3,200 possible tariffs across the suppliers in any particular part of the UK. So an individual trying to use by a power to optimise their own welfare faced what commentators described as the confusopoly, much the same as Australian telecommunications markets, financial services markets and energy markets. It's an area in which there's a real paradigm problem, I would say, and that to date, I believe Australian economic regulators and certainly in the policy departments are still straightjacketed by the view that mere contestability, the mere availability of competing range of services is somehow the equivalent of delivered welfare outcomes to consumers. And that I point to some seminal research by Professor Catherine Waddams in the United Kingdom, where she was able to track a whole cohort of consumers who'd switched their energy contracts and that more than a third of them switched to products which were actually more expensive than the ones they switched from. And that is something that's inconceivable to people of a particular market persuasion, but to those involved in consumer protection, it's eminently understandable. And the explanation is quite simply that people almost never initiate the change of their energy supply contract. It's pretty well always initiated by somebody else. And in the UK, the overwhelming proportion of those were by people knocking on their doors and persuading them through deception, confusion and all sorts of other means, sometimes threats even, that they should change their contract. When I was working in the UK, there was a particular outsourced organisation in Scotland who contracted with a group of marketers. And if you failed to respond to their offer to you at the front door, a fair chance that your car door would be scratched or that you'd be insulted or assaulted. And there were practices of that sort. Even Virgin Energy set up stands out the front of the Virgin Megastores, inviting young adults and teenagers to sign a form in return for a free CD. That form happened to switch their family's energy accounts from Virgin supply. Another agent set up in a local library near where I was living and just got stacks and stacks of electoral rolls and wrote out hundreds and thousands of contracts, just changing people from one account to the other. And that this sort of ruthlessness in retail markets almost led in 2000 to the end of the liberalised market in the UK. And it was with the significant government intervention, the establishment of the body that I worked for energy watch, which more or less turned some of those things around. But I fear that in Australia, while there are some good regulatory interventions, they're somewhat patchy, and they are still against this backdrop, where the assumption is that switching is an excellent measure of gains in consumer welfare. And I just don't think there is any evidence to support that. So at that policy level, and then it even higher one for economic regulation. And that about four years ago, three, three and a half four years ago, there were some rule changes to the way in which the economic regulator was able to determine the satisfactory arrangements for the asset base of regulated enterprises, the transmission companies, and they were still in the main state owned. There are some places where that's not so, but they're pretty well all state owned. And so state governments have actually got quite an unhealthy interest in high charges for for for their assets because they've come to rely for revenue on taxation of their government business enterprises. And it's at that level that some of the rules were changed that made it very hard for the Australian energy regulator to assess the adequacy and the need for some of the network investments. I'm sure everyone has heard claims of gold plating in the in the networks, which ironically was one of the very important points about the first deregulation in 15 years ago, which was about ensuring that assets worked hard and weren't over specified. Now there's been a lot of policy debate about that and I'm pleased to say that some rule changes that will give the regulator a greater degree of independence and capacity to deal with those things does look as though it's again achievable. But still that's been a big contributor to many of the retail price rises that we've seen and many that are still to come. And I'll touch on some other drivers of those prices in a second as well. So I said that I'd touch again on the issue of Australia being part of the global market for LNG. At the moment, I guess most analysts would say there are three markets. There's the export market that we're involved in which has got long term supply contracts to Taiwan, Japan, China, increasingly to India and South Asia. There's a European market and then a North American market. These are all now coalescing and that the problem with that is that in North America, especially where there are severe winters, the demand for LNG can just spike very suddenly and very steeply and with a price responsiveness that draws supplies from pretty well everywhere that supply that market as Australia becomes more integrated into that market. So too, the supply and price issues for our LNG, which and natural gas, which up until now have been rather distinct from international trade are going to be caught up in that market. And we will face the sort of price spikes that the UK has seen where wholesale prices of gas can double and treble in the space of a week. And as Australia switches over more and more of its power generation from coal to natural gas, this cycle is going to become more and more significant. And so one of the things that I've recommended is that Australia pay a much greater role in looking at the international antitrust dimensions of that. Throughout Europe and the US, there is a linkage between gas prices and oil prices. It's a historical one because initially they all came from the same production process. In fact, gas was seen as a pesky contaminant to oil. And in many places in Russia even now, most of that gas that's co-produced with oil is burned. And so there's more gas just flared in Russia than the whole annual consumption in the UK. And as those markets tend to converge, oil prices of course can spike even when there is no shortage of natural gas. And that Australia is going to be somewhat subject to this sort of phenomenon in years to come. Now there are some imponderables there. If coal seam gas continues to develop at the rate that it is in Australia and in the US, it might well be that that global market power is somewhat broken down. But that comes also at some other costs of environmental issues that need to be dealt with. And I fear that these things which seem to me to be part of the international debate and have been for five years just sailed right past the authors of the Energy White Paper. And so that's why I say there's a trinema, but Australia hasn't properly engaged with that. With economic regulation as well. I think that our regulators are often set still on what is essentially a policy. And it's been a policy that's delivered huge welfare gains. So I'm not overly critical of it, of ensuring greater degree of efficiency in production and distribution and the development of market mechanisms for retail. But since the climate change issues require forms of intervention that typically Australia has been reluctant to engage in. And that we have a largely hands-off approach. Which means that when changes are necessary. And in my view within a decade global trade rules and lots of other international instruments won't just encourage or enable, but will require major trading partners to start imposing taxes to pick up the externalities of Australia's laxity in policy. In other words our exports of these products are going to find themselves under taxation pressure. And that Australia will be forced one way or another to recognise this at a time where a lot of the intellectual property in mitigation measures and things is going to be developed, owned and rolled out by countries who are economically our competitors. And that we face an economic future where there are going to be limitations on our ability to recover those things. And so there is a scope for Australia to play a much more active role in this area with the international energy agency and international agencies as well. I won't say anything more about that. The white paper and lots of critiques of it are readily available for people to look at. There is again around lots of the world an evolution in the sorts of people who provide energy and that instead of a retailer simply providing you with the gas or electricity that you want and metering it they're morphing into what are called energy service providers. So that the theory is that you don't actually want to buy a certain amount of gas or you don't want to buy a certain amount of electricity. What you want is delivered heating or comfort or the ability to cook and things like that. And that by contracting with people to provide a wider range of services perhaps using smart networks and demand control and metering and different market mechanisms that we can get much closer to meeting some of the needs of the changing grid. And smart meters are a big issue now in Australia some states have now regulated to prevent their rollout while some others are mandating their rollout which shows a lot of confusion about the role of smart metering in our system. And that's partly because a self-evident problem that the designers of the policy failed in the first place to adequately consider the consumer dimension. Whether people would really be able to to understand what was happening giving people choice and the price effects that that was going to have. And I predict that the smart meter issue will roll on for the next five to seven years as a major issue of contention. And more generally though the role of consumers in energy markets in Australia has been largely underplayed. And while there are a number of very useful devices there's a body that does provide some funding for consumer research. Indeed it was such a body that funded that report. At the institutional level there are no real national, there's no real national voice for the demand side of the marketplace. Consumer groups often have disparate interests partly because of the different regulatory settings in the states from which they come or the sectors from which they come. People from a welfare background have an understandable focus on issues of price support and things like that whereas some from more economic backgrounds are looking at market structures. But when it comes to this issue there is now a proposal that was adopted by the Council of Australian Governments at the end of last year to develop a national advocacy body for energy consumers. And that's a noble ambition and it sort of mirrors what's happened in the telecommunications sector in that the Commonwealth established the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network which has given voice to groups from consumers with disability to rural groups to small business groups and others to be involved in national discussions on issues like the national broadband policy and roll out and pricing and regulation and they've just recently spent a mammoth two years in a struggle to redo a lot of the self-regulatory codes co-regulatory codes in that sector. In energy such a voice isn't available but the proposal that's been made I think is rather flawed in that it currently proposes that the consumer body will be a voice for all consumers from the smallest to the largest and the idea of big business consumer purchases being part of a lobby with individual or micro business consumers is just not a very sensible one there their interests are quite different and the capacity of big business consumers to make their views known is already more than adequately dealt with and so I have a bit of a concern that that body is is not going to be as successful as it could be added to that its mandate doesn't seem to me to extend at all to issues of sustainability which I've suggested is a very very powerful feature now even though it's not recognised and that policies do need to take that into account for the future and that's an issue that's open now and there are debates going on and I rather hope that that circumstance can be improved somewhat the the issue of network structure is a highly technical one but the use the development of the national broadband network even with the modifications proposed by Mr Turnbull today still enable us to be able to use a national communication system to bring an order of magnitude improvement to efficiency and effectiveness of management of energy and itself could make a huge difference to the peak demand for power in Australia you see we are one of the countries with the highest summer peaks in the world partly because of the the load of air conditioning and things like that and that means that some huge proportion and I think it's somewhere around 25% of the entire investment in transmission and distribution systems which adds up to many billions of dollars a year is about meeting the peak demands for just four or five days a year whereas a much greater concentration on efficiency there and use of things like load management, smart metering and a better roll out it's starting to work quite well of solar voltaic systems can slash that peak demand and lead with nothing more to quite massive savings in the needed investment and the price flow through to consumers there are things again which I thought should have been front and centre in the white paper but really don't seem to have got the amount of treatment that it should have got I could speak also about renewables and a number of other things but I do want to provide opportunities for people to raise some issues that I could respond to in that way so I think perhaps I should finish there and just see whether there are aspects of that that people would like to take up from I'll speak on behalf of of FEMAG there that we remain ready, willing and able to work with anyone who wants to get better consumer outcomes in energy markets but we're ready, willing and able to work against anybody who doesn't


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