In related developments, the departments of Agriculture and Health are readying systems for the inspection of meats as the Christmas season approaches. During this time, there is an increase in the public consumption of meats and the heightened in need for the production of safe products. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development have collaborated to host a training session aimed at increasing senior capacity for surveillance and identification of zoonotic diseases. These diseases caused by germs spread naturally between animals and people. The partnership between the Veterinary Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environmental Health Unit of the Ministry of Health follows the one-health approach. Dr. Aria King-Snack, Director of Agriculture, speaking at the opening ceremony of the training exercise, explained the importance of this method to tackling national health threats. According to the World Organization for Animal Health, it is described as an integrated approach that recognizes the fundamental relationship and ensures that specialists in multi-sectors work together to tackle health threats to animals, humans, plants and the environment. The ongoing collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture is one that must be strengthened as this allows us to make the best use of our limited resources. By working together, we can make sustainable improvements in our health system. The training program, funded by the Pan-American Health Organization PAHO, equipped participants with the competencies required to carry out post-mortem inspections of food animals. Deputy Chief Environmental Officer Cheryl Central-Main highlighted the pertinence of this proficiency as the demand for meat inspection increases during peak periods such as the Christmas season. St. Lucia, despite its size and geographical location, is not exempted from threats to health from foodborne diseases. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Services for the Environmental Health Division recognizes that its role to ensure the wholesomeness of meats for human consumption plays a pivotal role in not only ensuring economic viability, but most importantly, the safety of the meat and well-being of our people. Country Program Specialist for PAHO, Renold Unit, endorsing the One Health approach applauded the collaboration between the two ministries. He encouraged participants to capitalize on the training opportunity provided during a time when majority of health resources are targeted towards mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. The sharing of skills and data can only make you more effective and efficient on the job. So the collaboration between these two sectors is essential to ensure that wholesome meat and meat products are provided for consumption. As meat inspectors, you must be able to identify satisfactory conditions for slaughtered animals, identify disease animals before slaughter, and of course determine the conditions on postmortem such as emphysema, tuberculosis, parasites, necrotic conditions, abscesses, and many more, which also include no indel infatic system for meat inspection. Veterinary officers and environmental health officers, as you participate in this two week of training, I implore you and challenge you to pay attention to the information that is shared with you and practice the skills demonstrated. The training program for the surveillance and identification of zoonotic diseases ran from September 27 to October 1, 2021. From the Government Information Service, Hermione Mark reporting.


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Good afternoon Foundation staff. This is Dr. Theron Sherman. Today's briefing doesn't contain any objectionable material, so let's begin. Item number SCP 649-2568 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP 649-2568 is to be kept in a standard animal containment unit. Under no circumstances is SCP 649-2568 to be allowed to discuss geological or geographic details. Interviews of SCP 649-2568 should be scheduled daily, with a focus on any future escape attempts. All other testing involving SCP 649-2568 requires approval from the project director. Description SCP 649-2568 is an entity which superficially resembles the species Unectis Nataeus. Despite this resemblance, SCP 649-2568 retains the personality and speech patterns of a human male. SCP 649-2568 has shown a capacity to reshape any geological features it sees or has her described. These reshaping events exclusively affect any features the entity deems as, quote, too flat. This has in the past included planes, marshes, and the ocean floor. During reshaping events, these locations will experience several seconds of tremors, followed by the growth of an extrusion, generally at the geographic center of the area seen or described. These extrusions will rise above the surrounding land and have uniformly possessed steep sides with flat tops. No known force has been capable of stopping this growth, though the internal structure of these formations have displayed no anomalous properties beyond their creation. Furthermore, when interviewed, SCP 649-2568 displays a compulsion to disclose the truthful answer to any inquiry. This compulsion has led to the discovery of several escape attempts, including one involving anomalous contact with an outside organization. Due to the linking of its reshaping ability to descriptions of locations, the method of this anomalous contact must be determined to affect continued containment. While interviews with SCP 649-2568 have proven effective in limiting this contact, care must be taken to avoid further restructuring events during those interviews. The following interview between Dr. Samarian and SCP 649-2568 took place very shortly after containment. Hello! In your own words, please describe yourself. Well, I like big buttes and I cannot lie. Following this admission, the interview was suspended until further questions could be approved by the project director. Alright staff, that ends our broadcast. Use your foundation encrypted YouTube account to like, comment, and subscribe, hit the bell, and support our broadcast at patreon.com slash site 42. Secure. Contain. Protect.


Do you know that Steve Jobs inspired his employees to strive for perfect hardware products? Jack Welch mentored the senior leadership team of GE to NewHeight and that Jeff Bezos is known for articulating the Amazon Atheists clearly to employees in the world? Notice the verbs in these three facts, inspire, mentor and articulate. These three words do not in any way spell being an authoritarian. If you want to be successful in business and life in general, you must be able to communicate with others effectively. In this video, I will show you 12 ways to improve your communication skills instantly. If you are new here, consider subscribing to this channel for more awesome videos. 1. Listen actively, just as you like to be heard. So also, do people want to know that they are being listened to? Hence, rather than just focusing on formulating a counter-response to someone's statement, really listen to what the other person is saying. The person speaking to you should be the most important thing at that moment. Listening is an integral part of communication. And if you are looking to increase your communication skills, you should improve your listening skills as well. 2. Be attentive to body language. Your non-verbal and non-written cues often reveal more than you think. Research has shown that people are more inclined to take their body language more seriously. So, if what you are saying is not the same as the movement of your body, people would instead give thoughts on your body cues than your words. Also, it is essential to note that even when you are not saying a comment, you are continually sending messages with your body. Thus, to improve your communication, you must ensure that you have open body language when interacting with others, face your conversational partner, and pay close attention to your gestures as well as theirs. 3. Avoid using fillers. How often do you include fillers in your statement? Can you make a full sentence without adding any filler to it? Fillers such as um and ah do little to improve your speech and conversations. They not only make it seem like you are not sure of your statements, they may also make people assume that you are lying or making up stories. Thus, it would help if you cut them out to be more persuasive and to fill and appear more confident. One of the ways to limit your usage is to start keeping track of when you say words like um or like. You could also try relaxing and pausing before and as you speak. Those silences seem more awkward to you than they do to others. They are very much better than fillers. 4. Pay attention to your tone. While it is sometimes necessary to be assertive to make your point, you must be sure to not get to the point of aggressiveness. There is a fine line between the assertiveness and aggressiveness. Try not to cross it. Using a combative tone to communicate is not in any way productive because it will not command much respect to you. On the contrary, being aggressive will only make people listen to you less because sincerely nobody likes to be controlled. When you communicate, be confident and direct while maintaining a calm, cooperative tone. 5. Let your sentences be clear. Making clear sentences works hand in hand with accuracy. When you speak, it is wrong to give your listener half-baked information that leaves them hanging. Even if there are still details to follow, always be confident you deliver all of the available necessary information or if there is a need to withhold some pieces of information, do it appropriately. The use of clear and understandable words is vital to ensure no one misunderstands your message. It is futile to add lots of colors and flowers in your terms and get people confused in the process rather than running in circles. It is best to get straight to the point when communicating. Excessive words, descriptions, hyperballs and metaphors won't do much to help your listeners understand your whole message. Keep it simple and straightforward. 6. Use appropriate words. The use of the right words is a must in any mode of communication.  It has to do with knowing your audience, understanding the subject and situation, and using words that can be adequately understood by your listener. Ensure you have first outlined and mastered the points you want to share. Using the right words prevents misunderstanding and helps make sure you send the right message to your audience. 7. Be sure of who you are communicating with. The profile of your listener is necessary for you to determine the pattern of your communication. Knowing who you are communicating with will help you determine the tone, approach, and even examples to make to establish a better connection when speaking. For instance, talking to a group of medical professionals would sound different when you are in front of creative writing students. Also, your pattern of communication with your boss will be different from your younger sibling before communication starts. Take some time to evaluate your listener and their level of reasoning. This will help you get your speech right and create a strong momentum that will hold your listener's attention. 8. Don't talk too much. People with polished communication skill tend to speak less and listen more. However, if they speak, they always pass their message more clearly than the less refined communicator that trails on and on endlessly. How do you do that? Before you say the reason why you are responding to someone or what you are trying to communicate and what you intend to gain with your responses, understand what you intend to achieve from the conversation, as this will help you focus on the main points without talking too much. 9. Make your conversations memorable. A recent study revealed that people generally retain more information when presented with fiction, as opposed to routine situations. To help audience members or listeners to retain information, consider implanting some novel event into the conversation. This might be something funny or something that catches people by surprise. It could either be fantasy or a real story. However, make it as memorable as you can. If it warrants you using pictures, songs, demonstrations, etc., then apply them. 10. Smile and be optimistic. When you often smile and exude a positive attitude, people will want to listen to you as well as respond positively to you, even when you are talking on the phone. Your outlook and attitude has a way of rubbing off on the other person at the other side of the line. When you smile, it will shine through the phone and the other person will know it. The more you pay attention to how you express yourself to others, the better you will get at communicating effectively. A smile and positive attitude in your day-to-day interactions will improve your communication skills instantly. 11. Don't talk over people.  Well, it isn't very pleasant. When you talk over someone, what you are basically saying is, I don't care what you are saying, what I have to say is more important. And this demonstrates a real lack of respect. On the same note, refrain from finishing people's sentences for them, even though you know what they want to say. Keep shot. By completing someone's statement, you are disempowering the person because you are taking control of the conversation. So if you want to improve your communication, bite your tongue each time you feel the urge to take over someone or complete their statement. 12. Put your devices away. Somehow, most people, especially in this era, don't get this one.  It makes it seem like what the person is saying is not essential, and you'd instead do other better things with your phone. When you are having a conversation with someone, put down your device and look at the person who is speaking to you. Don't answer calls. Check text or notifications. For the minutes of communication, give your full attention. Stay focused on what the other person is telling you. Your body language, words and emotional tone will let them know that you are taking in what they are saying. Communication is one of the essential skills to learn. It can take you to feats that your skills alone cannot get you to.


The results of this study suggest that most hospitals in Brazil have implemented the core components of infection prevention and control programs. However, there is still room for improvement, particularly in terms of funding and training for healthcare workers. This article was authored by Beatriz Arns, Crepe-Nazis Hosea-Lua Fumiagani, Gilhomo Prates-Sesson, and others.


Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante of wikibond.org and it's my pleasure to be here at theCube, Silicon Angle.com's continuous coverage of Oracle OpenWorld live in San Francisco, California. We're in the Moscone Center, we're on the floor, we're in the QLogic booth. We've been here three days. This is our third year at Oracle OpenWorld. Talking about the transformation of Oracle from a pure software player to a full line systems company. And one of the areas that they've been focused on is performance. We've talked all week about how Larry Ellison loves speeds and feeds. He's kind of a geek in that regard. But really he's been putting forth how his company, Oracle, has been focusing on improving the performance. He loves to use adjectives like lightning fast and so forth. And one of the areas that he's been talking about in great detail is flash. Now earlier this week we had Ryan Klein on from QLogic talking about their QLogic's Mount Rainier initiative. And so it's my pleasure to welcome back Ryan and we're going to talk a little bit more about that. We're going to show you a demo. So Oracle DBA is out there. You're concerned about performance. So here is a new innovation that QLogic has developed that essentially bring the best of the flash DAS performance together with the convenience of managing sand. So we're going to talk about that, Ryan. Welcome back to theCube. Thank you. Appreciate being here. So why don't we set it up here? We've been talking all week about flash. Its importance to the Oracle DBA. Set up Mount Rainier, what that is and why it's important to Oracle customers. Sure. So back in September of this year we announced a technology called Mount Rainier. And Mount Rainier technology is essentially a series of three different capabilities that allow us to have a single server and multi server shared caching. And we also have the ability to share those data lines externally. So fundamentally we're bringing SSD flash drives into the server themselves and getting all the benefits of sand. Okay. So you've got a demo of Mount Rainier. You've had that in your booth all week.  So take us through what you can with the demo. Sure. So essentially what we wanted to be able to do is be able to take a technology that allows us to bring flash SSD drives inside of the server, share them on the sand, but more importantly have them apply to a real world application. So essentially what we're doing is we're now having the ability to support clustered applications. And Oracle Rack is clearly one of the most popular clustered applications out there. So what the demo and what we'll show you here on the slide is we have the ability to introduce SSD caching called this Mount Rainier technology inside of an Oracle Rack deployment. So let's go ahead and bring up these slides. And what this will share with everybody is the topology that we're looking at. So essentially what you see is a two node Oracle Rack configuration. Each of those servers has a Mount Rainier adapter inside of it. And there is a cluster of cache shared amongst those two Mount Rainier servers. Now the important thing here is this cache is shared but it's also transparent to the server. What that means it allows us to speed up read activity to the database which is then hosted on the pillar axiom array. Now why this becomes a very compelling situation is it allows us to speed up read activity quite a bit and we'll show that here in a second. But it also allows us to be able to leverage a pretty powerful infrastructure. So these pillar boxes, these are 15K drives, really fast drives. We have 198 gigs of memory in these servers. So fundamentally we have a really powerful environment that we're actually leveraging with this Mount Rainier technology. The choice of pillar architecture is interesting. Of course, pillar data, a company funded by Larry Ellison, acquired by Oracle recently. Well, we're here at Oracle World and we want to build a configuration that's relevant to most of the attendees. Went in Rome. Yep. All right. Good. So you've got a couple of other slides to show before we go into the demo. Yeah, so let's go over to look at the demo itself. So what we're going to show you here is us streaming live from the Broomfield Labs. What we've done is we're working very closely with the Oracle teams out in Broomfield and essentially we've brought up a rack environment in their environment. And what this has allowed us to do is partner with Oracle to get their expertise on rack configuration as well as the Q-logic expertise on shared caching. And in the demo, what we do is we focus on response time as well as the latencies associated with IO and fundamentally the transaction time. And what customers are seeing is that when you integrate a cash pool into an Oracle rack environment, you're reducing the response time. So that allows us to drive more transactions in the environment at the same time. And really what this fundamentally comes down to is the ability, when you drive more transactions, to conduct more business. Yeah, so talk a little bit more about the impact to the user or you say conduct more business. But what have customers been telling you? How are they going to use this? And what is going to be the bottom line impact of their business? So everybody's trying to squeak out more performance in their environments. And when you have situations like this, DBAs like to tune their environments to drive as many transactions as they possibly can. At that point, what we do is we introduce this Mount Rainier technology and it allows us to get more transactions in the environment. Okay, good. So I think we got the demo ready. So let's bring that up if we could. So demos are never supposed to work right this time. These desk build gates. Right. So the screen that you're seeing now is actually a tool called Swing Bench. This is actually an Oracle tool that they use. And what we're simulating is a thousand person environment. And you see a number of graphs moving here. And what we're simulating is a very read intensive application. Processing orders, browsing orders, looking at warehouse queries. And the two things that we look at here, as I mentioned before, is disk I.O. and then overall response time. And disk I.O. when you see a comparison of before and after has dramatically reduced. Essentially what that allows us to do is more with that storage. So we can now apply more server connectivity to that storage, do more with that storage allowing the data that's being read to be put into that cache pool. And when you move that data into the cache pool, what you're doing is you're reducing response time to the end the customer or the person driving the transaction. So you see more transactions occurring at a faster response time. And if we switch back over to the last slide that we wanted to share, it's important to do a comparison. You know, what did I have before and what do I get after Mount Rainier? And what you'll see in the slide here is that we ran a baseline configuration where we ran with a standard fiber channel infrastructure. We didn't have Mount Rainier running. And what you'll see in the same thousand concurrent user configuration on the slide is that the response time is increased by 82%. So we're basically getting a 5x performance benefit for peak transactions. Now if we look at average transactions, we're seeing a 57% increase using this cache pool. Now the really important thing here is that the difference in configuration before and after is physically just changing out an adapter. Yeah, so I wanted to ask you. I mean, a lot of customers are going to be concerned about the changes that they have to make to their infrastructure. You're saying that you can just drop this into your existing infrastructure. No changes, no fundamental architectural changes. That's the key behind this technology and why it's going to be successful. And fundamentally what we've done is we've used the Q-Logic driver architecture that has qualified for 10 plus years, a management infrastructure that's well known by most IT administrators, and have the same look and feel and architecture that they architect the standard HPA. So literally the configuration that you saw running here allowed us to install a standard fiber channel adapter, get a baseline performance run, physically remove that adapter, bring in a Mount Rainier, and re-run the technology without having to recable, rewire, change architectures, and get this 5x performance increase. So 5x performance increase, no disruption to my existing environment. Now cost obviously is the one drawback, you've got to pay up because it's going to be flashed, it's going to be more expensive. But to simulate this type of performance without flash, to get 5x performance, you'd need so many spindles it would just be absurd. Absolutely. So we're dealing with the cost of SSD, but the beautiful thing from an IT environment is the same tool set that customers use today to manage the adapters will manage the Mount Rainier products. So it doesn't mean you put Mount Rainier in every server, but you put it in the ones that are application intensive, and still need to be able to be in an enterprise environment. Because what this allows us to do is multi-path, create failover scenarios, and fundamentally support clustered applications, which is something others can't do with caching today on the server. Okay, so this is unique in the marketplace. This is unique to Q-Logic. And you're going to be shipping when? So we're starting to start shipping this product early next year, and we're moving into beta right now with customers. So folks that are interested in getting their hands on this technology, SolutionsLab at Q-Logic.com gets them access to this technology is in a beta phase. Excellent. All right, Ryan, thanks very much for coming back in the Cube, sharing with us this great demo. Check it out, and we'll be right back with more from Oracle OpenWorld Live. This is the Cube.


First of all, thank you. I have to say that I'm very happy and honored to be invited to such a fantastic and great event today. So to introduce myself and my work, I'm living in Switzerland. I am working mainly with video, video films, video installation, photographs as well, text and music. So the way I work is I work, when I start a project, it's like a body of work. So I will spend like between six months and two years with actors working on the project. And the project can take various forms like a film first and then an installation photographs. So I used to mix non-actors, people, like my family. The main topic I would say in my work is the relationship between an individual and his or her social environment. Like the family surrounding or the rebuilt family surrounding, teenager groups. So I really focus on the codes and rituals within these communities. So now I wanted to talk a bit more about the work I'm showing here in this museum, in this exhibition. It's called Night for Day. It's, as I said, it's a body of work including the Fantastic Beam, which is a photo series. And the video you have here in the show and as well as a video installation. So the Fantastic Beam is like three photographs. Basically this work is between fiction and documentary. It's a work I made with my own mother. Together with my mother we built up a story. So I said it's between documentary and fiction because it's my relationship with my mother. But it's totally transferring to a fiction story. So everything is written and it's actually not our usual relationship I'm describing. So this is the photo series titled The Fantastic Beam. Sorry for the quality of the slides. It's really crappy. So this is, I wanted to focus on a few scenes in the video that is shown now.  So the first thing in the film is they close all windows and doors and decided to live together alone in this apartment and to feed each other with each other's dream. So it's all kind of rituals and passing from being awake to sleep and feeding each other with each other's dream. So this is a specific scene I wanted to show which is very important in the film. It's the mother putting the daughter asleep and then she's taking off her shoes and starting to bite the feet and how you say this part of the body. And for me, yeah, this idea was really to transfer something really common which is a mother with a young baby. When you have a young baby you just want to kiss the feet and you want to, I don't know, there is this very touchy thing. And then to transfer this very common and very simple gesture to a grown-up situation. And it was very funny because towards this scene I had two different reactions from people. I have people really shocked saying, yeah, it's like incest or it's like cannibalism and other people were really touched by it and told me it's amazing because you don't have any kids. How can you, I would love to do this still to my daughter. How could you have this idea as you are not a mother yet? So this is something quite important in my work, this idea of a very simple gesture being twisted, a very simple idea being moved in a different context.  And for me it was really symbolic. It's as if I could feel the face I will have in 30 years and my mother could feel the face she had 30 years before. So this was also something really simple but that was for me strong to do. And this is the last ritual I wanted to express on this video. It's the mother putting the daughter asleep again and making a kind of nest like with a pillow and stuff. Then putting the red dress on the daughter and then taking her shoes and dancing like a swan in the living room. And this last scene when she's dancing is inspired from a movie from Casavetas. It's the woman under the influence where Gina Rollins is so amazing. She's dancing in the living room. So for me the work is really the idea to focus on the place and the point of view of the woman and her own fantasy and there is barely no words in my work. They speak really less because I don't want the words to be a justification to the gesture. I mean it's their own fantasy. They don't have to justify if it's moral or not if I really want each character to be really specific and to live in his own world and fantasy. So this is the video installation based on the film called As Deep As All Sleep As Fast As Your Heart. And when I work on video installation I really like to create a mental and a fictionous place. It's really a place when the viewer can really be part of the fiction surrounded by the video screens. And in this case we cannot see but it's really surrounded by very low sofas. And this was really this idea between dream and reality. You never know when it's dream and when it's reality in this installation. Also the viewer can have really be really like on the sofa like also it was like to create a kind of opium chamber. Like a place where really they can really relax and there were a lot of pillows all around. And this installation really focus on the different rituals between the mother and the daughter. This is a project I did before with my whole family. Actually it's the first work I did with my family and everybody is playing in it. It's really a kind of alien it's really weird because it's really a total fiction. But at the same time because we are so intimate together it really has it's like a documentary. So everybody is playing his own part but it's all written. So it's a family reunion and like a Sunday everybody goes to together to have dinner. And it really focus on the women of the family. And this is one of I'm very sorry it's really horrible quality but it's really a moment. It's my mother and her sister and they got together in the room. And it's a very strong scene where they start to kind of massage each other on the clothes. And it was very strong because they were like playing as if they were two eight years old girls. Like they are really so close together. And then they go to the bathroom and then they wash their hands together. And again it's a very simple gesture. I mean everybody is washing hands every day or but to do it together like it's a game or it's like we are I don't know can be I don't want to give any interpretation to it. But this was also this idea to ever like a rethought or rethinking about something really simple and to like that can become a ritual. This is a new video I just finished last year which is called A Place We Call Home. And for this I work with two it's they are non-professional actors. It's two women it's in a city and the idea of this video is to create a territory physical as well as mental for the beloved one. So it's really how can I create such a territory. So it's shot in a suburban housing estate. And it's just the wandering of two girls. At first in the video one is slamming the iron bar of the parking and it's like a signal. And at the same time the other one is arriving. Sorry she has a metal bar and she's also making this noise. It's like a signal to for each other to get to get together. And this was incredible building I don't know I mean yeah it's horrible image but it's really the all the plants are eating the building like growing and eating the parking lot and it's like a green wall or so. And it's this kind of no man's land or this kind of territory I imagined for the beloved one. So again in the video there is this moment between where you never know if it's between dream and reality and you are really in the mind of those two women. And so it's another moment of the video where they go behind this green wall and under the parking lot and I like this scene very much. They are together under this parking lot and one is trying to sing and the other is grabbing the one who is singing the neck to feel the vibration of the voice. And this was really this idea that the singing of this woman is spread in a suburban area in the city and try to be like a metaphorical image for this kind of territory for the beloved one. And finally this is the last work I wanted to tell about. It's a work I just finished.  It's like seven years after the one I'm showing here. And it's very simple video. It's like a family reunion. It's my mother, my father and I together in the living room and it's in this video I wanted to present to my mother my own hair. So in this video she's cutting my hair with a cutter and my father is taking the hair and then he's taking, I don't know the name in English, and putting them back to my mother and then they do a kind of dance together. So I wanted to end this talk with that because it's, yeah, I don't know. In between I did a lot of different work with actors and also mixing my mom in big production with professional or non-professional actors. And I just finished this very simple work with her and that is really again very close to this one I'm showing now. So I thought it could be interesting to show it. Okay, I don't know.


Thank you, Dr. Thornberry, for the invitation to address you today. I'm sorry I can't be with you in Monterey because really, who doesn't want to be in Monterey? But the course that you're about to begin has been a year in the making, and we hope that it's going to provide you with an intensive introduction to energy policy and its critical role in our future defense challenges. As members of the Navy and Marine Corps team, you know that being there matters. Defense is what we do, day in and day out, all over the globe, and it's unique to our Navy and Marine Corps. When North Korea threatens a missile launch, our ships with ballistic missile defense capabilities are there. When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 and the tsunami hit Japan in 2011, we had Navy ships delivering relief within hours because they were already there. When Marines on the ground in Afghanistan call for close air support, our pilots and aircraft are there. Being there requires the right people with the right tools in the right place, not just at the right time, but all the time. To accomplish those things, I focus on four priorities – people, platforms, power, and partnerships. Some people ask why is power or energy in there, but it ought to be obvious. Without the energy to power our platforms, we might not be there when it matters. What kind of fuel we buy and how we use it are strategic and tactical questions and a potential vulnerability. Our ability to get it and to pay for it impacts our national security and our ability to be there to provide for our national defense. The Department of Defense is the largest single consumer of fossil fuels on earth. The vast majority of our energy in the Navy and Marine Corps comes from fossil fuels, specifically oil. Oil is the ultimate global commodity, and it's traded sometimes on speculation and rumor. Because we purchase our fuel on the open market, this world-priced oil has a major impact on our budget. Because every time the cost of a barrel of oil goes up a dollar, it costs the Navy and Marine Corps $30 million in additional fuel costs. In just fiscal years 11 and 12, our fuel bill was almost $1 billion higher than we had budgeted for because the price of oil went up quicker than anyone had anticipated. Now that money comes out of operating budgets and training accounts, and we can't afford it. To help address these fiscal threats, military vulnerabilities and impact on our combat effectiveness, in 2009 I established energy goals for the Department of the Navy. These goals drive the Navy and Marine Corps to strengthen our combat capability by using energy more efficiently, but also by diversifying our sources of power. Exploring new ways to power our ships is absolutely nothing new from the Navy. From sail to coal, coal to oil, and pioneering nuclear, the United States Navy has led in changing energy use. All the technology, all the engineering, and all the chemistry is great. But I think the most important part of this initiative is how quickly sailors and marines have understood and embraced this change. In your seminars you'll hear about the sailors aboard Makon Island, the marines using X-Fob equipment in Afghanistan, and the Navy and Marine Corps team in the Great Green Fleet at Rempack. It's a cultural change that's happening on the deck plates as sailors and marines come to grips with the fact that these programs help them become more effective war fighters. It helps them do their jobs better. Getting locked into things because either it's the way we've always done it or we've never done it that way isn't a rationale. It's an excuse. If you join the Navy or Marine Corps, it means you've got that spirit that makes you want to see what's out over the horizon. You want to see what comes next. You want to be a part of that change. That same spirit creates sailors and marines who look for new and innovative solutions who want to find better ways to do things. That's why you have been hand selected for this program. Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert, Command out James Amos, and I need your personal attention and your leadership on these issues. We need forward thinkers to drive this transformation in the culture of the Navy and Marine Corps regarding the importance of energy in our role as war fighters. Energy is not just an issue for the far future. Or just for the young officers and policy experts that attend NPS in our new energy master's degree program. It's an issue for every one of us. We need your leadership, innovative thinking, and hard questions to ensure we begin addressing these challenges now, today. So the four priorities I talked about, people, platforms, power, and partnerships are being used as the guide in how we make our decisions. The energy to fuel our ships and fuel our bases is a central challenge for our future, just as it has been for our past. It helps guarantee our presence, and it helps guarantee our ability to respond and give the President flexibility and options for any crisis that could arise. That spirit of adventure, that willingness and wanting to know what's over the horizon is the reason that our Navy and Marine Corps remain on the cutting edge of innovative ideas. Those are the characteristics that we need you to bring to the fleet. It will help ensure that the Navy and Marine Corps remain the most formidable fighting force the world has ever known and continue to protect the American people and do the work of this country around the world. Good luck. Good luck in your studies. From the Navy, Semper Fortis. From the Marine Corps, Semper Fidelis.


Ghana is among the countries in Africa to actually legalize small-scale mining. There were times when holding gold was an offence to the law. I can say that on paper, Ghana has one of the best setups or laws and regulations regarding small-scale mining. It's difficult for anybody in my mainstream banking to actually say, yes, I can give you $50,000. I can give you $10,000. It's just very difficult. In the midst of the dangers, difficulties and complaints against artisanal and small-scale mining, the industry has continued to provide sustainable livelihoods and incomes for many rural homes, as well as contribute greatly to annual national gold production. In Ghana, I think in 2012-2013, about 34% of our gold, total amount of gold produced, came from a small-scale mining sector. We haven't taken advantage of this well enough, because if we were taking 1% tax out of this, it would be significant, but the way things are, I'm not sure the state makes that much money, but at least people are employed out of that. Now, if you look at employment, the estimate has always been around 1.5 million people, almost directly engaged in small-scale mining. But how serious has the country taken the formalization of artisanal small-scale mining? Small-scale mining is very important to the economy of this country. In 1989, in the wisdom of the government at that time of the state, they passed a law that allowed for Ghanaians who were interested in mining or in small-scale mining to undertake small-scale mining. Now, the challenge we have had is how the law has been implemented and how we have applied ourselves to the law. I think that the licensing procedure has to be re-looked at to make it simpler for small-scale miners to be able to register. Among people, we say it is 90 days, but on the ground, it can take about two years. Lack of participation in policy formulation is not the only problem artisanal and small-scale miners face, but access to viable land. Most of the areas have been given to the large-scale miners, so we don't even have a space for small-scale mining. That is why they regard miners everywhere. For ASMs to have access to viable land, the Geological Survey Department has a crucial role to play. The role of Geological Survey is to delineate areas where there is good potential and that when the small-scale miner goes there, he knows that he is not just going to waste his time, but gets something out of the way that he will do. The bottom line is getting the necessary resources, logistics for Geological Survey to do proper investigation and give the documents, the mouths to Minerals Commission to sort of parcel out and give to the small-scale miners. On the concessions of large-scale mines, there are several small pockets of mineable reserves that are not suitable for large-scale operations. These have to be identified. We should be able to sit down and ask ourselves, what are the conditions that small-scale miners have to meet so that they will be allowed to work on small pockets of mineable reserves on the concessions of large-scale mines? The artisanal miner, as per the law, or the small-scale miner as per the law, should be a Ghanaian, not below 18 years. It would have land of about 25 acres. They would use simple implement and all that. Now, what we see is no longer simple and artisanal. You see the use of excavators, which is not a small-scale mining equipment, I mean an artisanal mining equipment. You see trommels. You see shangfan. You see all these equipment that the law at that time did not anticipate. Besides these challenges, artisanal and small-scale miners also have a difficulty with accessing financial credit. If you want to make more, you need to put in a lot more money. And if you, as an indigenous small-scale miner, be it woman or male, cannot access these funds, I think it's very tempting to get a foreign financier. The Chinese came in to fill a gap. People need funds. The mainstream funding agencies or financial agencies are not able to provide the funds. And if, as a people, we do not want the Chinese to be around, then the question is, what are we doing to fill in the gap that the Chinese have left? But what is the financial industry's own expectations of ASMs in filling the financial gap? You have a concession and then with a digging permit from the Minerals Commission. And you are registered with the Registrar General's Department to do the business of mining. And then we also see that you have the certificate from the Environmental Protection Agency. Then we will really finance it. With the ASM sector determined to survive, how should the state handle the sector in the face of its accompanying environmental pollution challenge? Small scale miners that are regularised, first of all, should be able to optimize their resources in terms of the flow sheet that they are using. And two, there should be environmental stewardship. And after they have closed down, there should be some form of reclamation to make sure that they tidy up the mess that they have created in the course of mining. Because naturally, mining creates mess. Deepen, the discussion towards realising a more formalised ASM sector. Friends of the nation in partnership with the International Institute of Environment and Development is showing the way with the National Action Dialogue on ASMs. The fora is going to take place in Takwa. It's going to take place over a four-day period where two days of it is dedicated to fold visits to understand what artisanal small scale mining is. In areas in Takwa, and there was a waste district. And two days to come and sit and discuss and respond to the needs of the sector. I am confident that that will be very beneficial to us. And, you know, the Commission got itself involved in it because of the belief that there's something beneficial for the course of small scale mining. In my opinion, small scale mining has come to stay. And it will be in Ghana's interest to put more energy and more effort into the sector to let it work. I think an ideal situation would be to have a financial institution or a bank that is really dedicated to the mining sector just like we have a great development bank, the energy bank. I think that would be great. I have strong hopes for this dialogue. There's something good will come out of it. But more importantly, after the dialogue, the implementation.


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Again, here we are Wednesday at Hawaii, the state of clean energy. We have a real treat for you today. We're going to be talking about wave power for Hawaii, a little update, and talk about the new buoy, new boy, in town, a little play on words there. So I have from H&EI my colleague, Pat Cross, who's the project manager for our wave energy test site over in Kenioa Bay. And of course we have Jay Futale, owner, operator, CEO, chairman of the board of Think Tech Hawaii. I think of the chairman of the board, Think Tech Hawaii. So thanks for coming on, Jay, and helping me out. Thanks for having us on the show, Mitch. You're welcome, Jay. So we have a special treat as we go for Show of the Week, which is a beautiful video that was produced by Royer Studios, a Hollywood movie producer that H&EI uses for our really first class movies. If you don't mind rolling it, I think you'll all enjoy this. It's got some fabulous waves in it, so important. The future for wave energy is potentially limitless. And while it's understandable to think that the generation of electricity from wave energy is something that works best in rough seas, such as the North Atlantic or the coast of the northwestern United States, there's also strong potential for the use of wave energy generators in much less energetic environments throughout the world. Here we see the Azora, a wave energy prototype, being prepared for deployment to the US Navy's wave energy test site, located in Hawaii near Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, for testing through spring 2016. Being developed by four independent companies whose projects have been approved and are supported by the US Department of Energy and the US Navy. The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute is responsible to the sponsors for data collection, analysis, and reporting, as a means of independently evaluating the technology's performance. H&EI is also carrying out environmental monitoring to assess potential impacts these devices may have on the environments where they're deployed. Four of the planned five devices are what are called point absorbers, which are essentially an ocean buoy designed to move around in the waves, and the different companies have different approaches to converting that movement into electrical generation. The Azora device is a pair of vertical spars with a large heavy heave plate at the bottom underwater, and then a float that extends between the two vertical spars and moves with the waves and converts that movement to electricity. Here at the US Navy's wave energy test site, known as WETS, the research will be used in ongoing efforts to advance the marine renewable energy industry. At present, it's still very difficult to capture wave energy and convert it into electricity in a way that is commercially competitive with other renewables or with fossil fuels. However, population and energy demand around coastlines are both very high worldwide, and the wave resource is enormous, making wave energy technology an attractive long-term proposition. Ultimately, the idea for a commercial future for wave energy would be arrays of devices, not single devices like will be tested here at a scale of, say, 500 kilowatts or a megawatt, but lots of them. That's the way we're going to get toward commercialization of wave energy is deploying it in scale. WETS is the only grid-connected wave energy test site in the United States and one of only a few in the entire world. The world's eyes are really on this test site and the results that we will produce here over the next few years, so it's really, it's fun to be part of. Well, we're back. I hope you all enjoyed that great video, which is going to propel us to show of the week, I hope. So make sure you put in your thumbs up when you see this. So, Pat, so we had you here about 36 weeks ago, as I recall. That long? Yeah, that long, believe it or not, but a lot has happened at the wave energy test site. Some of those buoys we saw are no longer there and you've got the big buoy, pardon the pun, coming in. So why don't you just, you have some slides and so you can call them up when you need them and just tell us what are the changes, what's going on now? Okay, well, I'll give you sort of an overview of what we've been doing since 36 weeks ago, which is basically we've had that, the wave buoy you saw in the video deployed twice, did some modifications to it after the way it looked in that video, redeployed it with an attempt to get more power out of it. It didn't really work for a complex set of reasons. The motions improved, but we didn't see the power performance and that's a power takeoff issue. But more exciting than that, I think, is the project we did where we redeployed the lifesaver wave energy device, which is a ring-shaped, donut-shaped device. That's why they call it the lifesaver, right? It looks like a lifesaver, there you go.  But for the second deployment, we used that power, the power and instrumentation suite and an undersea charging capability that you can use for charging autonomous vehicles under water, which was a very cool demonstration, a first in the world, as far as we know, of using wave power directly for something like that. So that means you're like a little torpedo-like underwater vehicle can slide in, hook up some way, interface with the power supply and recharge this battery and then go off and do another mission. That's the idea. It swims in and it docks and it downloads whatever data it's been collecting, gets charged up, goes back. That's real James Bond stuff. That's really great. Pretty cool. We didn't actually do the demo with the AUV, but that's kind of the next step. We just demonstrated the capability to do that. The other big thing we've been working on here for the last two years is kind of a complete redesign of the moorings, the deep-earth moorings at wet. There's three bursts, the two deep ones had a lot of issues. So for the general public, what does mooring mean? The mooring is the system of three legs of chain up to surface floats, which the wave energy converter developers, oh, I see a slide has been brought up. Yeah, I don't know. This is an example of a mooring system. This is the lifesaver ring-shaped device I mentioned. So I'll talk to this slide since it's up. Basically, you've got those Hauser lines, the ones that kind of go out to the sides to those little subsurface floats down to an anchor at the seabed. That keeps the thing in place, in the case of a storm, when the failure of the main mooring system, which are the vertical lines down to rock bolts into the seabed, those are what actually hold the device in place but also drive the power takeoff mechanisms on the deck of the device and generate power, winching in and out. But we also have mooring systems at the deep bursts. This is what's shown here is the shallow berth. So I'm not sure the sequence of the slides here, but if you can advance it by one. Okay, well, I'm changing the course a little bit just based on the way the slides are here. So I'll just focus on the tagline there at the bottom in yellow. This was the power production during that second deployment in the lifesaver that I mentioned. And the takeaway is that we were able to power that instrumentation suite 84% of the time so that it could do its job. If you tried to do that on batteries alone, you'd get less than 1%. Less than 1%? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So we're getting to where we can almost power a system like that. It doesn't have a huge power draw. Right. That's kind of the way wave energy has gone is everybody's focused on making lots of power to feed onto power grids. But there's more of a realization that, hey, if you can just make power out at sea where others can't, even if it's only a few kilowatts or even a few hundred watts, it could be very useful to a wide range of systems. Let me chime in a little bit with some thoughts about number one, with all the waves we have here and why we have plenty of waves, I don't have to give you supporting information about that. We know we have plenty of waves. We had the movie that showed them, too. Yes. We don't have a single wave action, working wave action, device that's actually generating power right now. At the moment, no, because those first two devices have been recovered, those demonstrations are complete, but we have more coming. Okay. But they're all R&D. Second is the thing about the mooring. The mooring. I mean, if we had a tsunami or some heavy wave action at some point, for whatever reason, is that mooring going to be able to hold the thing in place? Because you can imagine the forces are huge in a tsunami or a big wave and the thing gets in the wrong place and the wave carries the device away from the mooring, you know, no chain's gonna be strong enough to keep it in place, am I right? No. No. No. No. Actually, in the case of a tsunami, the wavelength is so long that all you'd see at the depth of wet is a gentle rise and fall. Where that becomes a problem is on the beach, where it shoals up and breaks. But what we do worry about are what we call 100-year storms. So we're designing for that worst case, we hope, storm. And so these moorings are designed to withstand the forces that those, that they will encounter during a 100-year storm. Though they are very beefy. Is it their elastic or just strong or a combination of that? Wrong. We're talking heavy-duty steel and I have some pictures that- We have pictures of the mooring. Okay, so the next question that comes to mind is something that you said that the chain has something to do with the generation of the power. I think we should explain to people how this device actually generates the power. Assume a wave that goes up and down and assume a chain that holds the device at a certain fixed distance from the bottom. How does that actually wind up generating power? Well, the one that we showed the picture of, so the answer to your question, how do these things work, how do they make power is different for every one of them so far. That's where wave energy is. Very early stage R&D, lots of very different ideas about how best to generate power. In some cases, it is the mooring itself that is a critical piece of that. So with the lifesaver, yeah, a taut connection to the seabed, the thing rocks around on the seabed and it drives a winch back and forth and that motion is a direct drive power taker. It generates an axle in there somewhere which keeps going in the same direction. So the cantilever turns a winch that keeps going clockwise or counterclockwise and that will generate like a generator inside the device. In that case, there are three generators. Two generators. And that is generating some power. Is there electronics before you offload that power onto a cable onto the shore or does it go directly onto the shore as I guess it would be direct current? Well, the Azura device, which was the one from the video, did send DC to shore where it was inverted on shore and conditioned for the grid. Others for the most part are going to do that power conditioning offshore on their device before sending it to shore. So they want to send grid quality power. So you have a frequency. You're generating power at a certain frequency. Like 60, what is it? 60 cycles per second, yeah. So now one thing, I'll get off this in a minute. Okay, I hope you do because we have a break almost now. Okay, now, we have a break now. Yeah, we can do the break now. Let me make my next question a cliffhanger. I'll just tell you what it is. Okay, and we'll think about it. You know, we have heard that there's a number of different kinds of these devices that are possible. We've seen pictures of just one of them and they have different technologies. And my question is going to be, which one do you like? Now let's take a break. Okay, he's left us with this cliffhanger question. So we're going to take a break right now. We're going to think about it behind the scenes. We have a whole minute to figure this out and we'll be back in one minute. Hello, I'm Mufi Hanuman. I want to tell you about a great show that appears on Think Tech Hawaii. It's all about tourism. In fact, we call it Tourism 101 where we talk about the issues and challenges that faces our number one industry throughout the state. We'll have some interesting guests, very informative dialogue and allow you an opportunity to maybe learn a little bit more by why this industry is so important for our state. It's been great for us in the past. We need it today and especially going forward. That's Tourism 101 on Think Tech Hawaii. Mahalo. Aloha, my name is Victoria and I'm a host at The Adventures in Small Business. This is a collaboration between US Small Business Administration, Hawaii District Office, and its partners where we showcase the stories of local entrepreneurs and small businesses, talk about how to start a business, talk about great tips for small business owners. Please join us every Thursday, 11 a.m. Think Tech Hawaii. Can you say Mahalo? Well, welcome back to Hawaii, the state of clean energy. And Jay left us with this cliffhanger question. We cogitated about it for a whole minute and Pat has informed me that he has an answer. Well, let me rephrase it or re-state it so they can clear what we're asking. There's lots of different kinds of technologies. These technologies have been, I want to say in play, but they have been in research, in process, in design for about 10 or 15 years, at least. I'm sure you can give us some historical notion of where it all began, probably in the year 1215, yeah? But most recently, there have been at least half a dozen of them that I can think of, which would generate electricity out at sea. And for various reasons, they all have their pros and cons. So now you've done research on this type with, I don't know how you distinguish it, the cantilever kind, with the inside generator and all that. Why do you like that one? Is that your favorite one? Or are there other models you're working with that may actually be better? Well, I'm gonna cop out to some extent by saying that I personally don't have a favorite design yet. However, so what we've tested, those two devices, they've each gone through two iterations, they're both called point absorbers, which means they're just a buoy in the water and they move around and then different people have different ideas about how to take that motion, turn it into electrical generation. The next one coming is one of the more promising concepts. And this is the big boy that we've been talking about. It's called an oscillating water column. So it's basically a huge chamber of air. It's a man-made blowhole. The Halona blowhole only floats so it forces the waves force air through a turbine, just a regular air turbine, it's a 500 kilowatt turbine. So this thing at least has the potential to generate some significant power. So OWCs as we call them, oscillating water columns are one of the more encouraging concepts. But there's another concept called an oscillating surge wave converter, a big flap that's typically deployed in the near shore waters where the waves tend to come at them more and that's a different type of generation. You can pressurize water or drive hydraulics. So there's a lot of good ideas out there. So what we do with Pat, we could call it the big flap about the big flap. Yeah. What do you think? We can talk about flaps. Get your flaps down. Ooh, yeah. So maybe that was, I think it was slide six. Yeah, so this gets to kind of wrapping up the mooring discussion. This gives you a little taste of what some of this mooring hardware in the redesign looks like. So if you start on the bottom left of that picture, you have the big anchors. Those are 10 ton dragon bedman anchors out on a sandy bottom connected to two and three quarter inch chain which is what the whole system was before but it became apparent that that's not big enough. So we now have those things called H-links that connect that existing chain to four inch chain which is shown on the right. This stuff's massive. I mean, it's hundreds of pounds per link. And you see what some of the hardware across the top to make it all connect together. It looks like it can necessarily get good scale on that but trust me, no guys are picking those things up. Well, you have the ladder beside there and you can see where the size of the link is like a by a foot almost. Well, yeah, in the top left is the surface float, the new surface float with the hardware hanging beneath it. And that float is 4.2 meters in diameter. That's about 14 feet in diameter. It's a huge float. That gives you a taste of what those shackles and links look like. So that chain was not cheap either, was it? So what's kind of a rough order of magnitude cost? Are you willing to say or? Well, we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars to just to procure the chain for three legs or one more. Well, it was not cheap. Is it worth it, what I mean is this is an expensive proposition to test out these bigger and bigger devices. And you have inherent, what do I call it, challenges. Number one comes to mind is it's steel and steel rusts. In fact, everything corrodes at sea and the combination of elements in the sea. Maybe, and those are changing maybe with climate change. So, as the years go by, these things are going to corrode. And so they have a useful life of X, whatever that is. Maybe that's part of your research. The other thing is it does affect in Hawaii, it's gonna affect the navigation. You have to put them out there in the ocean, deploy them in a certain place and there will be the inevitable fisherman who comes by or who knows what kind of boats are out there. And they might run into these chains or into these devices and have a really bad day at sea. And the question is, that's a challenge. Call it a political challenge, call it a traffic challenge. Is it worth it, are we going in the right direction with this kind of energy generation system? Well, I think so, you know, partly because I, you know, it's what I do for a living, but I'm sorry, I'm sorry for that question. No, but I, you know, these are very real questions. If there's a commercial future for wave energy, then you're deploying these types of large machines in significant numbers and you have cables to shore and you have mooring systems. And yeah, you're a user of the ocean and you need to get along well with the other users of the ocean. Tourism in our case is important, fishing, cultural sensitivities, it's all there and we can't ignore any of it. But the resource is just so vast that it's almost, it wouldn't be a response to not to pursue it. It could run all the way, it could run all the way. And it wouldn't have any effect on the ocean. It would just generate this enormous amount of completely green energy. It would, it would be fabulous. But there, you know, there would be impact. And it's as a society, you have to decide whether you are willing to take, take those trade-offs. But yeah, compared to some other generation, it's relatively clean green, you know. But.  So as far as the moorings and their strength in their life, it's not so much the corrosion. There is a corrosion factor we allow for a certain amount per year. But that'll last decades. What you worry about is the fatigue on the different elements and the ultimate strength as we talked about before. We've designed a system that, as a minimum 10 year design life, we hope for considerably more than that. And we inspect on a regular basis. And also they wear the links when they're bobbing up and down. They wear, the studs can get knocked out. Yeah, so we have the whole system now with the intention, even when there's no wave energy converter, to partly address that, because we didn't before. You know, I'm reminded of the whole affair with telecommunications cables. They come from far away. They're at the bottom of the ocean. They have to get ashore in order to live a signal. We don't talk about exactly where they are because then there would be those people who would like to do malicious mischief on them. And so they have their, you know, you wouldn't find it so easily on a chart. Exactly where the cable is coming ashore. Furthermore, you know, even if we did know where they're coming ashore, it would be, it would be, it would be with sucking up some beach or some, you know, some shoreline. And so- I think they bore in under the beach though. Yeah, they must, they can't be visible. No, no, they go in well under the shoreline and come up. So you have the same issue, don't you? I mean, out of these devices, inevitably, whether it's processed into 60 cycles out there or not, whether it's direct or alternating current, you have to have a cable that doesn't corrode very much and that drops down to the bottom, comes whatever distance it is. And I guess it can be a fair distance. And then somewhere along the line, it has to come ashore. Maybe like a telecommunications scale. Yeah, right.  And it also doesn't act as a malicious, not a malicious, an attractive nuisance, right? To people who, you know, may want to do malicious mischief. So have you addressed that or is this something in the future? Well, we have an advantage at the test site in that it's, that shore entry point is on the Marine Corps base. So it's, and it's a pretty remote part of the Marine Corps base. So it does, most people don't know what's there. We worry more about the wave action on the sand carrying the cable apart and not people. But if you had it in, where near Waikiki or Alamwana, yeah, people would mess with it, you know. It's probably going to allow wave energy boys off of Waikiki anyway. Perhaps not, yeah. One other thing comes to mind from what you say is we live in a world of climate change. We live in a world of sea level rise. We live in a world of, what do I call it, shifting sands. I don't mean political shifting sands. I mean real shifting sands. Yeah, okay, yeah. And so the sea bottom, the sea floor, where you're dropping the anchor, so to speak, as well as the sea floor under the cable or with the cable, where the cable comes up onto the land, they're going to shift maybe more than before because of climate change. And the shore itself, the beach, that's going to shift. And you're going to have changes. And maybe good, maybe bad. So the question is, if you want to have these things last for 10 years in a cycle or 20 or 30, how can you cope with what we know is going to happen to the ocean floor and the beach in terms of climate change and sea level rise? I think we're probably assuming that those sorts of changes are slow enough that we can adapt to them kind of on the fly. That's not a very good answer, but it's hard to predict that far out ahead what the beach will look like and what the wave action will look like, although we are doing modeling along those lines at the university. So, but you're right, you always have to look ahead. Well, did you want to finish with the big boy? Oh, yes, yeah. We don't understand how we need to get it right now. Show slide eight and nine real quick. So this is the big boy that Mitch talked about that's coming next. This thing's huge. It weighs 1,000 tons. That's it under construction in a shipyard in Portland. Look at the size of the cars. These are the cars, yeah. Show the next pictures of it. How tall is it? Must be a hundred feet or something. It's 37 meters in length and it's about, I forget, 20-some meters in overall height. So it's huge and it has the potential to make, as I said, 500 kilowatts with its turbine that's up in that top part. Well, on that happy note, with the big boy, going for shore of the week, we have to wrap up. How far offshore does the big boy go to be affected? Well, in this case, it'll be deployed where we have a berth for it, which is at our 60 meter test berth, which is about a kilometer and a half offshore. Ah, sounds right, yeah, yeah. That wouldn't be a big problem. Sorry. I just have to ask about it. Well, I've got to wrap it up. Otherwise, the CEO of Think Tech Hawaii is going to be all over my case and he won't invite me back. He'll look down. So that's it, everybody. Thank you very much, Pat, for coming out at short notice again. And that's your, this is Hawaii, the state of clean energy, and we're winding up and we'll be back next Wednesday before you know it in a flash of an eye. So, aloha, everyone.


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