Welcome to Stan, the energy man. Stan Osterman here, coming to you again live from Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, in the city and county of Honolulu. And I'm going to kind of carry on a little bit from what we talked about last week with Kelly Iaquina, kind of tends toward a little bit more of the economic side of energy. But I think you'll find it interesting because, you know, as I look at where things are trending, and I look at companies, I look at a lot of companies and their technology and stuff, and you start asking yourself, how do I know that this technology is really solid and it's really going to take off? And, you know, is it going to, there's a thing called the Valley of Death when you start a new business and it's making that leap from you got a good idea and a good product and then getting it marketed and getting it through the, the manufacturing process and then getting it into the logistics system. And it's quite a challenge for a lot of companies. So a lot of companies that have good ideas, they just never seem to make it, especially nowadays in the energy energy world. A lot of those companies that sound really good, they stumble along the way for one reason or another. And as an example, one company that's been in the news a lot for the last year in the energy world, Fish and Hydrogen Energy World, is a company called Nicola Motors. And they started off to great fanfare. They were going to have big 18-wheeler tractor trailers that pull all those cargo trailers across the U.S. and get a thousand or 1200 miles out of a, a fill-up of hydrogen. And, you know, it was really exciting and they were going to be building the stations and the trucks. And, and then they, they did a demonstration and, and actually their, their vehicles capable of doing what it showed in the video, except that they falsified the video. And the CEO that authorized that fake video to go out, he ended up getting fired from his own company. And the company's stock fell and about 80 bucks a share almost overnight. But it's still a solid company and it's going to be coming back, I feel. But just one mistake like that can really, really mess things up. So, so how do you really know? How do you, how do you tell? And one of the ways that I've figured out, you can tell is when the government either backs it up with money, with loans or grants and things like that, or if the government backs it up with policy. And to give you a local example here in Hawaii, a little back about four years ago, the state of Hawaii set a really ambitious goal to take our electric grid and have 100% renewable by 2045. And of course, along the way, there were certain percentages where the grid had to be, you know, more and more fossil free up until 2045 when all of our electricity is coming from renewable resources. Well, just that one policy statement set a whole lot of things into motion for a lot of different industries and a lot of different companies, including the Hawaiian Electric Company. And that's one of the indicators you know that that something's really going to happen is when the government sets a policy. In California, they do hydrogen vehicles and hydrogen transportation and they've really kind of led to charge as far far back as what Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor. And they haven't taken their foot off the accelerator as it were. California, though, also not just policy wise, they put a lot of money, state money into building hydrogen stations and building the infrastructure. Because in in the energy game and the hydrogen game, there's already so much money invested in infrastructure that it's really hard to get new things started because the people have been in place for so long, like the car companies and the gasoline companies, all the oil companies, they pretty much they've got a monopoly on the market. It's hard for anybody new to break in no matter how good that company is. So in the states or the federal government start to put a lot of money into grants or into subsidizing stations or tax credits or just fixing some policy things. That's one of the best indicators that that technology or that company is is moving the right direction. And one of the things that we've noticed this legislative session in Hawaii are some of the bills that you really wouldn't think if you saw this bill going through the legislature. Most people would scratch your heads and go why why is this important? Let me talk a little bit about that bill. It's called House Bill 113. And it's a really short bill. And it's actually just amending an old law. And the old law it's amending is the law that says how you have to measure gasoline and how it has to be certified. And the state of Hawaii will inspect your gasoline pumps every year to make sure that they're actually giving a person a gallon of gas when they pay for a gallon of gas. And that it tabulates right when you say it costs $5 a gallon or $3 a gallon that the price is right on the machine. So it looks like a pretty benign bill. And you're like why would they be changing this bill right now? And the reason is because we're coming into a reality that electric cars and then including fuel cell or hydrogen fuel cell electric cars are really getting ready to step into the onto the stage. So why would it make a difference that you have to amend a bill about gasoline to say, Hey, these other electric cars need to have some relief from this existing statute that's in law.  And for those of you that, you know, do chemistry or physics, you know, that liquids don't compress really well. Gases compress really well, but liquids don't. There's, there's not a whole lot of space you can compress liquids into without huge amounts of pressure. So for example, you know, when you do a belly flop in the pool, it really hurts because the water doesn't compress it.  So therefore, when you try and measure hydrogen out of a dispenser and put it into a car, you have a different set of physics problems. Because if you just keep pushing the gas into the car, under pressure, as the gas leaves the station tanks, it cools down and you can actually see frost building up on the valves. As a, as the gas escapes from the tank, it chills it down. The same concept actually the air conditioning does. When you have a gas that's, that's up depressurizing, it'll actually cool down. On the other side of the nozzle, where it's going into the car, and it's pushing all these molecules into the tank, it heats the tank up. And then the gas wants to expand. So if you didn't have the correct measuring equipment, and you didn't monitor the temperature of the car, you could never get the same amount of fuel or, or energy into the car, because at different temperatures, the gas would have different volumes. And so the idea is, as you're fueling a car with hydrogen, you have to keep the temperature pretty constant. And to do that, the station, the new modern hydrogen stations under the call J 2601, the station actually talks to the car through an infrared information exchange, right at the nozzle. So as you plug your hydrogen car into the gas station, the hydrogen going into the car is going in the nozzle, but there's a little infrared communication port in that nozzle. It's talking to the car and saying how how hot's your tank? What's the pressure? How hot is it now? What's the pressure? And the idea is the station is supposed to keep that tank within a fairly narrow range of temperature, so that every time you fill that car up, it gets the right amount of hydrogen, not not amount not like if it was a car that gets 10,000 psi. If you didn't regulate the temperature, you could grab a whole bunch of really hot hydrogen into that tank. And then as the guy drives away with his car, you know, maybe an hour or two hours later and the tank cools down, you might he might be down at 8000 psi and he hasn't lost any hydrogen, he hasn't he hasn't used it in his car. It's just so as the tank cools back down to normal temperature, the gas the amount of gas in the tank changes because it's cooling down by volume. So you have to kind of be, you have to be aware of that when you switch from liquid fuels to hydrogen as a gas. And people say, Well, what about natural gas? Isn't it a gas also? And wouldn't it do the same thing? Well, natural gas does have similar properties and the same bill that is being amended or the same statute is being amended by this bill recognizes that if you have a natural gas or a propane vehicle, it sets limits for a propane that are that are similar to hydrogen. But hydrogen is turns into a liquid state at such a really low temperature. It stays in a gaseous form for so long that it's still way more sensitive than propane or natural gases to pressure and temperature. So this old law that allowed for vehicles to run on gasoline or diesel or natural gas had really tight margins on it for accuracy. And the reality is that if you're refueling with hydrogen, you have to open that mark that error rate just a little bit wider, so that you can you can still get a pretty accurate reading from the from the station to the car. And and not have to have so such expensive equipment like you wouldn't have to keep the temperature within like a half a degree or quarter of a degree, you could go a couple degrees up or down and it'll give you pretty much what you what you need. But it's not as precise as natural gas or gasoline in a liquid form or a gaseous form. So this ancient law that was written, you know, I don't know probably in the 40s to make sure you got a good gallon of gas in your car was probably updated for natural gas is now being updated for hydrogen. And if you don't understand what I just explained about hydrogen gas expanding, you would scratch your head and wonder why the legislature is is even looking at a law like this even more surprisingly and more to the point of government gets it is that the man that helped craft the bill is one of the senators in our state Senate who has been listening to hydrogen companies and and vehicle companies talking to him about hydrogen for so many years now that he he gets it and he realizes that our local Toyota company who built their own station can't actually sell their hydrogen to anybody but the people that buy their Toyota cars or lease their Toyota cars because if you don't have relief from that old bill that lets you use the new system, it isn't quite as as tight as with natural gas on making sure everything's perfectly in balance that they won't be able to stay in business and they won't be able to bring the cars in and these cars are clean cars that don't have any pollution and don't burn fossil fuels and they're zero emissions or only water that the cars only produce water, heat and electricity. That's it. So when the state legislature gets smart enough to look at these laws and say, hey, we got to change this law or that hydrogen these guys bringing in the hydrogen vehicles are dead in the water. That's one of the key ways you know that things are really happening in the industry. The other way you really know is when you start to see companies, big companies that aren't in the particular industry. Again, I'll use hydrogen as an example, because it's my favorite thing to talk about. When you see a company like Cummins Diesel, a company that's been making diesel engines for heavy equipment and all kinds of applications for decades, suddenly goes and buys hydrogenics, a company in Canada that makes fuel cells and has been making fuel cells for probably two or three decades. That's a real good indicator. And what we've seen across the board is we've seen a lot of big companies like Chrysler and Domler Bend partnering up with hydrogen companies. Companies like Shell Oil and Total Oil have entire divisions that are looking at hydrogen and looking at companies they can acquire that have understandings of how to produce hydrogen, make hydrogen. So that's another really good indicator of how you would find these companies and how you know they're really on the right track in terms of their product or their industry or their technology is at a point that it's getting ready to take a big move. So we'll take a break right here. And when we come back, I'll give you some more concrete examples of why hydrogen is on the move. We'll be back in 60 seconds. And there's a man back with you after the break here. And again, we're talking about how you know a technology or a business model is ready to take off. And in the hydrogen world, one of the first indicators that I got was that the company, the auto manufacturer Toyota, who had just finished rolling out the Prius maybe 10 years before, against all odds, and all the all the people in the industry said there's no way the Prius is going to hybrid vehicles are just they're not going to make it.  And then all of a sudden the Prius took off and people were buying them like crazy. And the rest of the rest of the professionals didn't even see that trend. Well, then Toyota and other cars that car companies have been working on hydrogen fuel cell cars for many years. But Toyota not only rolled out the Marai, which means the future in Japanese, they, they rolled it out and said, by the way, we own all these patents on this technology. And we're letting anybody use the patents. We're not going to have any court cases infringing on our patents. Here they are, and anybody can use them. So they were sending a signal to the governments and to a lot of other folks that, Hey, we want this technology to succeed. And we're going to open up and not try and be greedy about making money off of technology that's been licensed to us. And we're going to, we're going to let everybody use it. And that really started kind of a role going with hydrogen in the in the transportation marketplace. And several countries have stepped up. I mean, so again, the government and the private sector both play a role in in rolling technologies out. Some of the things that have been happening internationally are the country of Australia, and the European Union overall, particularly Germany and the European Union, have both set government policies to move to a hydrogen based energy economy. And they've set kind of like the same standards that Hawaii set for electricity, by 2035 or 2040. And I've actually heard the, the science advisor from Australia briefed their country's policy. And they are indeed actually rolling it out there. They're making hydrogen with solar. And they're selling that hydrogen to Japan and Korea. Because in Asia, hydrogen is taking off. And the European Union and some European countries like Portugal and Spain are literally having hydrogen produced in North Africa. And they're piping it or shipping it into Spain and Portugal to support their industries. Countries in the European Union are using North Sea wind. And they're taking that excess electricity when they can't sell it. And they're putting it into hydrogen. And they're pushing that hydrogen in the gas pipelines all over the country to help generate electricity and also support transportation. You see transportation trains being built from hydrogen in Europe. There's just there's so many industries that are picking up and so many countries that by policy are supporting it. So Australia and European Union are really strong. There's a serious market in Asia. And I just got this this email today. Although Toyota is has kind of made the big push here in Hawaii in particular. There's a South Korean company called Hyundai. And you know, they're probably not a household word as much as Toyota or Ford or GM or whatever. But I'm going to read this to you. As of October, Hyundai Motors has sold more than 10,000 hydrogen fuel cell powered Nexo SUVs in Korea, according to ministry data. The nation's leading car maker in South Korea accounted for 82% of global sales of hydrogen vehicles last year, selling 6,025 vehicles worldwide in just one year with Toyota selling 1064 vehicles worldwide and and Honda selling 218 vehicles. Now those are really small numbers for a car company. And that makes it even more impressive because you don't make the money until you got the volume in a in a market like that. But Hyundai gets it and they're not just selling the vehicles they're selling the fuel cells that go in the vehicles to use in other industries like forklifts and all kind of things. They're also developing and I think it's it's out now. Large scale delivery trucks and tractor trailer like the like Nicola Motors is making and Toyota is making to do long haul transportation of freight. They're developing the trucks and I think they're already Hyundai's already leasing them. I don't think Toyota is leasing the big trucks yet, but they're certainly not far off from hitting the roads.  Other big companies that you kind of watch on the international stage that tell you things are happening are companies like Air Lequid and air gas that are that are making the infrastructure possible. They're already into manufacturing industrial gases. But when you see them all of a sudden, start to build up one of their divisions in hydrogen that was used to be small. And now they're building they're building up those divisions to be able to produce more equipment to make hydrogen, especially clean green hydrogen, which is electrolysis. You know, they're getting serious. And I mentioned this before on the show that in just the past year, there's, I believe, four new liquid hydrogen plants being made between Texas, somewhere in the Southwest, I think one in California, that's making they're going to be making liquid hydrogen primarily for transportation and for forklifts. And those things normally you make liquid hydrogen for one purpose only. And that was NASA for space travel or rocket fuel and for we're helping, helping produce electricity in space. And the interesting thing is, those plants for that supported NASA, they're only one or two, and they produce 20 tons a day, that's kind of the scale they work at. The plants that are being planned right now, all four of them are 30 tons a day. So they're more than doubling the number of plants, and they're doubling the cure, a 33% bigger capacity on all the plants. So that's another way you know, things are happening. Another company, it's one of my favorites is plug power. Plug power, and the longer history is, I've been watching plug power for probably 10 years. And when I first started talking to their company, and their their CEO has been on my show here, at least three times. They were in the red.  They started getting close to breaking even and then, I think just after four years, about three years ago, they started making money, not a whole lot, they were making money every year. And they kept making money as their industry grew. And then you'd see news where they were buying other companies, and they were teaming up with other companies. And suddenly, they're their big business. And in the stock market, they're doing really well. And that's another again, on the business side, when you see the money happening, you know, it's it's for real. So plug power used to brag that they had 10,000 hydrogen fuel cell, forklifts and pallet jacks, you know, running around in Amazon or Walmart warehouses. They're up to over 30,000 now, they're partnering with aviation companies to make hydrogen fuel cell aircraft. They're partnering with other big companies to provide fuel cells to provide hydrogen for their equipment in their warehouses and also on the transportation side. And so that's again, another indicator that this is how you know the businesses are taken off. In the aviation side, some of the stories that have come out just in the last couple months, there's a small company called Zero Avia. And for those of you who watch the show live here or see it in the next day or so, if you go to the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum website, I don't have it handy, but it's Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. They're actually streaming a broadcast on Friday at 8 p.m. or 8 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time. So on the mainland, that would be somewhere a little later in the day. But here in Hawaii, it streams at 8 a.m. for a company called Zero Avia, who are making commuter sized airplanes and have already flown a hydrogen fuel cell airplane, I think it was about a 20 passenger airplane. And they're very bullish on making that airplane commercially viable in the not too distant future. They're already getting certifications from the IKO, which is International FAA, if you will. And they're working hard on that. But Airbus came out with a very ambitious goal of by 2035 having three commercial airliners on the market. And these airliners go from just relatively short range 500 mile range turboprop type airplanes to almost space age looking, they are space age looking blended body airplanes that they look like the new stealth airplanes you see in the military. It's the wing and the body are blended together. It's not we used to call traditional airplane as a paper towel tube with wings on it. Well, these blended body airplanes look more like triangles. They look a little bit more like the B2 bomber, which is a flying wing concept. So Airbus is coming out with that by 2035 in production. They want to be in production by 2035. And Boeing followed suit saying they're also going to be pursuing hydrogen. In the shipping transportation side, Kawasaki is making ships that run on hydrogen. And even more important than that, they're making ships that run on hydrogen that carry liquid hydrogen. So even in the shipping world, you've really got a great piece of technology. I want to show before we have to go, I want to show a really quick video because we here in Hawaii are kicking off something where the private sector is putting the money into it. And the government sector is changing some of the laws and doing the policy stuff. So let's roll a video real quick. Aloha, everyone. It's Saturday morning. We know what time that is. It's Hawaii, the state of clean energy time. Welcome to Stan Energyman, Stan Osterman here, as usual, coming to you from the great state of Hawaii, the beautiful community of Kailua on the windward side of Oahu, our main island. And we're going to talk about sustainability. Pacific players, they're calling it green hydrogen. So I said, okay, that's it. Green hydrogen. That's what we call the answer to what we've been looking for, how to solve global problems with a local solution. It's a sneak preview of what hydrogen Hawaii stations are going to look like. And they're rolling. They want to start putting these stations out this year. So that's another indication. By the way, I just found the website. So it's Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. And it's marketing at Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, all one word.org. And that'll get you to their website. You can sign up for that aviation hydrogen web webinar or show. That'll do it for this week for Stan Energyman. Well, thank you for joining me. And we'll see you next week. You're right on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha.


What's up everyone? Take down here. Welcome back to another video. Today I am actually really excited because I have been requested to make this video reviewing this online quiz to help people prepare for their firearm safety course here in Canada. So if you guys remember me with my CBSA journey, the firearm safety course is something that I needed to do because to get into CBSA I needed my unrestricted and restricted firearms license and I needed to take this course. So I ended up taking the course in February 2019. Prior to this I had no experience with guns, I've never handled firearms and I literally had no knowledge of firearms. In June 2019 I basically uploaded a video sharing about my experience taking the course here in Canada, my experience handling guns for the first time during the course. I'm basically talking about everything that I learned during the course and how my time taking the three-day course for unrestricted and restricted was. That video ended up helping quite a few people, at least people that have never handled firearms that are trying to get this for future career opportunities as either police or CBSA or other law enforcement agencies, a lot of people that have never handled firearms going into take the unrestricted and restricted firearms course. A lot of people are really nervous so I'm really happy that that video has helped quite a few people and for this video here I have been requested to make this video basically reviewing this quiz to see if it's relevant with what you will learn taking the course and if this will actually help people that are kind of nervous going in and not knowing what to expect. Hopefully this quiz will help but we're going to find out and we're going to get right into it right now. Okay so the link to this quiz will be in the description below. There is a total of 52 questions which is way longer than what I wanted but somebody actually requested me to do this so I'm going to try to do the questions as fast as I can but with also giving you guys information so I'm just going to start off here I'm going to try to go as quickly as I can. Using a firearms safety guarantees that the firearm will never accidentally fire that is false. Problems can occur, things can break, that to me is a common sense question. The first step to prove a firearm is safe is to remove all ammunition, observe the chamber. I'm going to say point in a safe direction that is the first thing that you learn whenever you try to prove a firearm is safe. When you prove a firearm is safe you're determining that the firearm is unloaded and safe to handle. As far as I remember all this from taking the course over a year ago. Which of the following steps apply when accepting a firearm from another person? Making sure the action is open and check the chamber, point in a safe direction. I'm going to say all the above because all these sound good which is correct okay. What lies beyond your target is relatively unimportant when hunting as long as you are sure you can hit what you're aiming at. That is false you always need to know what is behind your target just in case you miss or the bullet goes through. The first rule of safety when handling firearms is to assume every firearm is loaded that is correct. Which of the following is an example of a break or hinge action firearm? That one is extremely easy for me. If you've never been around firearms this is going to be a difficult question but you will learn it in the course so it's it's stuff that is really easy once you get shown it in the course. What information does this stamp located on the barrel indicates? The size of the bore and the ammo? Okay so gauge and length of shell so basically what I said. Sight alignment means you're aligning in the rear sight with the front sight and the target that is true. The sling carry is also known as the cradle carry. Now I can't remember the carry positions but I'm pretty sure that's two separate carries so I'm going to say this question is false correct. A sling carry allows the hunter to use the sling to handle to hang the firearm off the shoulder that is correct. The sling carry should only be used with the right shoulder not necessarily it depends like what you're comfortable with. The sling carry allows hunters to use their hands when standing still that is true. A good sight picture place the front sight exactly where you want the bullet to hit the target that is correct. To examine the barrel of bolt action firearm you need to remove the bolt and look down the breach that is correct. I'm doing pretty good I don't think I got any wrong so far. Is it safe to store ammunition in a tightly sealed metal container? I'm going to say no. Ammunition for a shotgun is called shotgun shell. I was going to say slug that's not an option. 22 cartridge will not go further than one mile. I'm going to say false because I'm not sure. I can't remember the distance of how fire firearms will go or what kind of ammo will go how far. Smokeless powder can be safely used in a muzzle loading firearm. I'm going to say no. Shotgun shell has five basic parts it does. I'm honestly shocking myself that I can remember most of these. Multiple projectiles can be fired from a shotgun true. Firearm barrel stamps include information of the velocity at different yards no it's not going to list a whole novel on the shotgun. Ammunition head stamps are always found on the rifle and handgun cartridges and shotgun shell heads. Oh I put true I should have known better that actually was false that's my bad. The pictured bullet is a this is one that may get me because I cannot remember the names. I know it's not a full metal jacket. I know it's not a lead round nose because you can't see it. I'm going to say hollow point because it looks kind of hollow in here. All right that one I did not expect to get. In the four parts of a cartridge you have the bullet the powder you have the primer the case or is it rim. No I'm going to say primer yeah. Rifles and handgun can also fire cartridges that use a plastic capsule filled with small shot pellets. I'm going to say yes okay that one excuse me for a second. Ammunition should always be stored in its original factory carton or box yes firing the wrong ammunition can lead to death serious injury or death okay. I'm getting these before even seeing the the questions. Ammunition should be stored where it oh sorry in a cool dry place I was just reading them off there.  I hit true it was false. Cartridges are classified into two main types. Center and rimfire which is right I almost hit on the wrong one you can't really see the rim in this picture but got the right at least. Which type of bullet is recommended for rifles rifles rifles with tubular magazines rounded soft point it can't be pointed okay. Modern ammunition varies depending on the type of firearm rifles handguns use a blank containing a single projectile and bullet I'm going to say cartridge. You'll learn about this all in the course the first step when cleaning a firearm is to make sure the firearm is unloaded prove it safe. When cleaning your firearm say all of the above because I mean you have to prove it prior to handling it. When cleaning your firearm it is important to inspect for damage all the above again all right firearms are so well made that slendermen cleaning slendermen need cleaning false. In Canada as an individual required to have a firearms license always in order to operate a firearm I'm going to say no but you do to own one in order to own a firearm yes I mean I just answered that question prior to seeing it so that's awesome. There's no limit on the number of magazines a licensed individual can possess that is true there is no limits. Law enforcement and military personnel do not require firearms license for their firearms they own themselves false I'm pretty sure they do so got it right at least. When transporting a non-restricted long-arm rifle or shotgun which is the closest legal definition I want to say it's keep it simple the firearm is unloaded. A suppressor is illegal in Canada true fully automatic firearms are prohibited in Canada true. What is the name of the government body in charge of license licensing firearms in Canada I don't know ministry of justice firearms control okay it was Canada's firearms program I would not have been able to guess that I am sorry. A license is required for individuals to purchase ammunition in Canada that is true all air guns are exempts from no you from firearms license no black powdered firearms are exempts no revolving actions are found as hand gun yes to load a new cartridge into a pump action you must close the action yes the action of a firearm loads fires and unloads the cartridge yeah these are these seem easy but I've also taken the course when you're shooting you should always wear eye and ear protection all right I'm assuming that's the end of the quiz it says I have a hundred percent complete the quiz I was expecting it to say you passed or failed but I think I only got a couple wrong there was a total of 52 questions so whatever I was requested to review this quiz and to see if this will help people prepare for the test I will say absolutely yes the only thing is everything that is in this quiz you will learn whenever you go and take the course you do not need necessarily to practice and take quizzes prior to taking the course you need you don't even need to have any knowledge to knowledge of firearms you've never you don't need to have to prior to this course of handle the firearm you don't need any of that because I went into the course not knowing anything about firearms having zero knowledge never handling a firearm before and I took the quit I took the course over a year ago and I just took the quiz now and I remembered all this stuff everything in this quiz that I just took that I answered correctly I learned in the course so this quiz here it will help you prepare for the test if you have prior knowledge but you're going into the course and you are basically going into the course to learn all this stuff so you're going to learn all this stuff during the course so is this quiz something that will help you with the course for me I'm going to say it's not necessarily going to help you because you're going to learn everything you need to know in the course and be able to take the quiz during the course so this isn't really going to help you if you want to brush up and see what you already know prior to taking the course then absolutely that's a whole different question to be asked so I hope you guys enjoyed this video it's been over a year that I've taken the firearm safety course here in Canada for restricted and unrestricted so thank you for watching this video hope this has helped you guys understand a little bit about this quiz and for more information there is that video I uploaded last June talking about the restricted and unrestricted firearms safety course here in Canada and I talk about more of the course in that video so you can go check that out I'll leave that video linked down below I'll leave a link to this quiz down below if you want to check it out for yourself I'm going to leave this video here hope you guys enjoyed please take care peace


there's the age old challenges between marketing and sales and how they communicate. And it is really important. And I have to always keep myself in check to make sure that I am communicating what I'm doing to them. Welcome to the Smarter Building Materials Marketing Podcast, helping you find better ways to grow leads, sales, and outperform your competition. All right, welcome to Smarter Building Materials Marketing Podcast, where we believe your online presence should be your best salesperson. I am taking over completely for Zach today. So we are running the show without him. We are very appropriately going to be talking about marketing departments of one. It is a huge issue within the Building Materials manufacturing space.  And we have brought on a guest today who is living and breathing that incredible space. Her name is Tracy Dacco. She is the marketing manager for Shook and she is leading the US division of Shook as a marketing department of one and getting some really cool things done just on her own, obviously with some additional support, but at least from a marketing department of one standpoint. So Tracy, thanks so much for your time. Thanks for having me. Before we get started talking about marketing, Tracy, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about who you are and what you do at your company? Yeah, I'm Tracy Dacco. I'm the marketing manager for Shook North America. And my background started out in more design and creative roles. I work for agencies and for different manufacturing companies. And I built and ran my own marketing communications firm for about 10 years. Then following that, I took on a broader marketing role for a kitchen and bath manufacturer and then joined Shook in 2016. So my role here at Shook North America is to oversee all of the marketing activities for the US and Canadian businesses. Shook is a global manufacturer of structural building components and they've been around for about 60 years. They're based in Baden-Baden, Germany. The main product that we sell here in North America is structural thermal brakes. And these are modules that get integrated into the design of the building and they help to insulate the point where steel or concrete passes through the building envelope. This is a very common product within Germany and throughout Europe. They've been using structural thermal brakes there for decades, but it is a little bit newer to the North American construction market. So a lot of what we do here is educational. We help to ensure that architects and engineers are aware of them as a solution. And we help to encourage adoption within the building codes and more widespread use throughout North America. So can you paint the picture for me of what marketing looked like within Shook when you joined in 2016? Were you the first of their marketing managers? Were you the long line of marketing managers? Were you taking over and launching as they broke into the US? What did that look like for you? Yeah, I was the second marketing manager in North America and there was a lady in this role prior to me and she did a good job of kind of getting things rolling, a lot of foundational setup. And there was also a lot of back and forth within the company of where do we fit in, what do we do, what do, and so I think there was a lot of trial and error that happened during that time. So when I came in, I think a lot of my focus was to build a bit more structure behind it and to kind of formalize things. Can you talk to me a bit about what that process looks like? Is it like you in a room? I'm imagining like you in a room with like a thousand pieces of paper on a board and like registering tied to different things and markers and circles happening. Like what's your process look like when you were putting more processes in place and continuing the marketing but really just from a single person's point of view, how did you tackle that? Well, one of the first things that I was tasked with and really one of the first major initiatives for me was finding a marketing automation system. So we had a lot of bits and pieces all over the place and we needed to sort of tidy them up, put a structure behind them and also start to automate things because of course there's so many different things to do, so many different moving parts that anywhere that you can automate something or streamline it is hugely beneficial. We had started up with Salesforce about six months prior to my starting with Shook. And so it was really important to get that marketing automation in place and tie it in with Salesforce and start to build a structure that was largely centered around our Lunch and Learn program and all of the gathering of those attendees, their information and kind of formalizing all of that within those systems. So it was a lot of moving parts of various things beyond the marketing automation. We had events, trade shows, things like that, advertising, PR, of course, content generation, literature. There was a lot of things that were being done over in Germany when I started. We do have a marketing team over there of 20 or 30 people. So they serve Germany and a lot of the closer European countries. And so there was a lot of things that had been developed over there, but a lot of them were very European focused. So they weren't appropriate and had to be modified for this market. So there was a lot of sorting through what was there and trying to put it in a few cleaner buckets and then figure out what the priorities were. So that's not a small amount of work that you just mentioned. If I can think about your previous experience versus your experience in Shook, and in case Shook is listening, Tracy has been very complimentary about her experience there. Can you explain to me how you see, what feels different when you are having to tackle a problem or bring new ideas or set a strategy into motion? What's different about your experience in Shook versus in larger marketing departments in your previous careers? Well, it definitely took some getting used to to be back to a department of one. When I started my own business, obviously it was just me for a couple of years. And that really taught me a lot about being a single individual running a lot of different things. But it also taught me about setting myself up for having a larger team. And so as I got a larger team, when I had my own company, I started compartmentalizing things that, okay, I can hire someone to do this. I can hire someone to do that. Accounting was the first thing because I'm not an accountant. I know your strengths and weaknesses. Good, good. Creative tasks. Accounting. No, you do not want me doing the books. But, you know, it was really beneficial because I had started to set things up with the thought that I would have a larger team. And as I grew and was able to delegate those tasks, it was really helpful to be able to kind of, you know, put it aside and know that someone else was taking care of it. As I am in this role here, my priorities were to, of course, see what I could delegate with the resources that I had because I do have the support of the marketing team in Germany and there's certain things that they can do to help me out. I also determined pretty quickly that PR and advertising and doing our case studies was something that I needed to outsource. And fortunately, I had enough budget to be able to do that. And, you know, I recognize that, you know, my background is not in PR. It's not my specialty. And knowing all of the editors and being involved in that process and relationship building in that space is so important. And I just knew I wouldn't have the time to do that at all effectively. So fortunately, I was able to, you know, start to outsource the chunks of it that I could. So, you know, it really, it was compartmentalizing, streamlining and automating everything that we possibly could and making good use of those resources also. So that might be asking the same question in a slightly different way, but if you were, let's say you're sitting in the president or CEO of a manufacturing company seat and you know that you have a marketing department of one, what would you give that marketing department of one based on your experience to really help them excel? A larger budget? Yes. You just got to say it. It's okay. That's okay. I say that to my boss from time to time too. I don't think it's a secret that marketing always asks for more budget. That's okay for us to say. It is, but I also, I think having run my own company, I can put myself in their shoes. And you know, when you're trying to build a business, you need to look at where everything is going. You need to look at what money is going out the door. And I think having that experience, I'm very conscious of where I'm spending money and conscious of looking at my budget, keeping to it of course, but also really looking at setting things up so that I'm getting feedback about what's working and what isn't and eliminating the stuff that isn't. I mean, there's things that I came in and I said, nope, nope, nope, we're slashing this. It's just not necessary right now. Maybe, you know, maybe it's a standard traditional thing like people will put a certain budget towards advertising. They'll put a certain budget towards, you know, a lot of different component, the SEO, the trade shows. And we've pulled back on a lot of that. I pulled back on it because I just didn't see it as giving us the most bang for our buck right now and also being the most important at this stage of the game. So I think as a CEO, I think the main thing to have a good conversation with and an open line of communication with, with a marketing department of one is just to really be crystal clear about what you want to accomplish and then letting that person hopefully, you know, someone who has the ability to, you know, to do that but letting them move forward based on those goals, not just moving forward based on, okay, I need to do this, this, and this because that's what you're supposed to do in marketing. If that makes sense, I'm not sure if that does make sense. No, that makes total sense. It makes exact sense. And you should, right? We shouldn't just say, this is the way we've always done it and so this is the way we'll continue to do it. That's not how good results are achieved. So you said something really important that we've talked to tons of marketers who are either marketing departments of one or very small marketing departments within rather large organizations. And the key word that like perked my ears was feedback. And that's the main pain point that we hear is you are often creating things and then deciding if they're good or not in a silo. What does that feedback system look like? Who are you bringing your work to, your ideas to, your results to as a measurement for success? Yeah, and that's, there's a number of different components to that because it can feel like you're working in a silo. There is the feedback with your supervisor, whoever that is, the head of the company. There is the feedback to the people that are on the front lines, your sales force or your distributors if that's your business model. But those things I think are really important to have in place and to have a regular occurrence of that feedback. So having a meeting however frequently you need to, a monthly meeting, a weekly meeting with the people that you need to share information with. It's very easy when it's just you to like, I know what I'm doing. I know that I'm doing this this week and I know I'm doing that next week and you forget that no one else actually knows what you're doing. And it's a constant struggle to, for me in this role to remind myself to tell people, I have a call with my boss once a month where we'll kind of chit chat about what's going on and anything that I need help with from his end of things. There's the age-old challenges between marketing and sales and how they communicate. And it is really important and I have to always keep myself in check to make sure that I am communicating what I'm doing to them. And one of the things that I did recently is I had, that my internet team in Germany had brought up Google Data Studio. I had never heard of it, didn't know what it did. But I saw the reports that they were doing over there for Germany and for the other European countries. And I looked through and said, wow, this would be a great way for me to crystallize all of the information in Google Analytics and in Google Ads and bring it into a more concise format. And when I sat down and thought about what that would look like, I talked with my internet team in Germany and they said, okay, yeah, we can definitely do that. It'll be probably by the end of the year. I was like, now I want this now. So I taught myself Google Data Studio one afternoon. And now I have a four-page report that I can send to my sales team and to my boss and to our internal sales manager and our product manager and they can see what's going on on the website. They can see the trends. They can see how Google Ads is doing and where we're spending money, what search terms we're searching on. So all of that is part of setting up the regular intervals of dialogue between the people who need to know what you're doing. And the other part of the isolation also is isolation of your ideas. As you said, you're looking at something and saying, is this good? Is this right? Is it on target? I'm not sure. And I actually, I know that that is a potential issue. I've experienced it before from both ends of the relationship. And I know that you always have a better product and a more effective product when you have multiple people involved, multiple inputs in there. And I work very closely with my product manager who is a very technical engineer and he's the one that kind of gives me the checks and balances to make sure that everything that I'm creating is technically correct. And I also created a cross-functional marketing review team. So it's the head of sales, our product engineer and our product manager and myself. And we have, anytime something is created, literature and ads, something like that, I will circulate it to them just to get the input from different sources to make sure that we're on target. Because I can talk to one of them and we can be completely in line. And then I talk to someone else and they're like, whoa, wait a minute. Why aren't you mentioning this or how come you said it this way? And you need that different perspective because you cannot work in isolation and be effective. So you basically made like your own little marketing think tank. Yeah. I love that. I guess so. I love that. It's, I had started this journey of surrounding myself with people from other areas back when I had my own business because being the top of the food chain in the business I could, you know, certain things that I talked to my employees about, but there was also certain running a business things that you just don't know about and you need someone else who is also running a business to think about these things from a different perspective and give you good input. And I had started then we had a mastermind group and we met for dinner once a month and it was myself running a marketing community I was running a marketing communications business, a life coach, an attorney in like a large corporate firm, someone who was running a benefits company and an accountant. So completely different areas than what I was in. Yeah. But it was great. And I thought at the time, you know, what am I going to teach someone who's running a benefits company, you know, who has like 30 employees, but you see things differently. And there was a lot of input that I think was unexpected from all of us. And, you know, I think it was all well received because you did have other people's opinions, people with completely different backgrounds. So maybe you already said it, but it's November 2021. You're a marketing department of one or small marketing department within a manufacturing industry. What advice would you give to other smaller marketing departments as they're planning for the next year? Whether it's how do you prioritize? How do you evaluate strategy? How do you execute? What advice would you give as they go into the next year when probably I'm assuming marketers in departments of one feel overwhelmed because I know marketers in much larger departments also can feel overwhelmed at this time of year. Yeah. And it is. It is easy to feel overwhelmed. And it's one of the challenges of being a marketing department of one. You can't get deep into something. You have to kind of be a generalist and, you know, field whatever fires you need to put out that day.  And those things get you off track. So I really, I try to keep everything in one spreadsheet. I'm sure there's probably some fancy softwares that do this too, but I'm a lot. I like to keep things simple. I also like to write out my to-do lists every day. I just, I know their software to do it, but writing it is just somehow, I like writing it. I like highlighting what it's done. On to the paper. I can identify with that. Yep. But I try to keep everything in one place and schedule certain activities for certain days of the week and make sure that I have goals for each marketing channel. You know, so I'll, you know, I'll look at what I'll have on different tabs of a spreadsheet. I'll have, you know, trade shows and events on one tab, you know, Google ads on one tab, web content, you know, and I try to set a schedule to make sure that I don't forget one channel because it's just me.  And we, you know, all of a sudden we're like, oh my God, I haven't posted anything on LinkedIn in a few weeks. Like, you know, those things can slip your mind. So I think it's really important to have everything in one place. Take the time to lay out each different channel and what you want to do with each, even if the choice is to somewhat put it aside and put it on the side burner and say, you know what, I don't have time for this right now. One of the things that I did when I first came in is I closed the Twitter account. I put aside Pinterest, Instagram. I don't have time to do Twitter. There's just no way. You don't need to. That's not something you can do half-heartedly. You have to have someone, you have to have a need for it first of all, which I don't know. But I wanted to just kind of put aside the things that were not really going to happen and that weren't terribly effective anyway.  So, you know, putting stuff aside, focusing on only the channels that you want, figuring out what you can outsource, how you can outsource. I, you know, I also, there are some tasks that I kind of have a list. I keep a running list of things that I can compartmentalize for a virtual assistant. You know, if I have, I work with a great person up in Canada who helps me out with, you know, spreadsheet stuff and things like that where I know it's going to take me time to go through things and she can go through it very quickly and effectively and it's, you know, it's relatively inexpensive and it gets something off my plate. So, you know, I think all of those things and, you know, getting yourself kind of organized, making sure that you have measurements for what you're doing, some way of telling, you know, so of course it's the age old problem in marketing is, you know, there's so many channels where it's so hard to tell the effectiveness. But I use my, you know, I, in a way, I use my sales team as a bit of a barometer there of like, what do they need to know about this? And, you know, how can I tell them whether it's effective or not? And that has helped me to do things like the Google Data Studio report because it's something tangible that they can look at and understand what's going on at a glance and they can see what's working and what isn't. And so can I, you know, it's great for me too. And, you know, and I think the other part of it being a single person working in that silo is that you need to also devote time to self-education. You know, you have to stay in the loop. It's very easy to sit behind your little desk and do your thing and kind of forget that there's a whole world out there. Obviously there's so many resources, videos, podcasts like this one. I do the LinkedIn learning, you know, and I try to do some of that, you know, every other week or so. I'll try to at least listen to one video and sometimes you can do it while you're doing something else too.  Oh, man, like, what should you stop doing? You said incredible things, but then that's, that can't be understated either, right? What's on there that's just, it's not going to be a priority? Like Twitter, PSA, it could be Twitter. Yeah, it really could be.  I should use them too. But you shouldn't necessarily. I, you know, squished all of our, I think we have five different social media accounts and for years I said, we're doing LinkedIn, that's it. We're not, we're going to ignore all the others for the time being. I've recently started doing some Instagram, but that's like dipping one toe in. I mean, that's the exact right next channel. I don't, I obviously can't say that I know your web presence like in great detail, but that feels like a great next step. That's really smart. Well, Tracy, this has been fabulous. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful advice. If any of our listeners wanted to get in contact with you and pick your brain a little bit about marketing, what would be a great way for them to reach out? Seek me out on LinkedIn and make sure that you put something in there that's like a personal message, not just like connect with me. Because I tend to ignore people who I don't know who don't actually write anything. But if you truly want to connect, you know, LinkedIn is probably the best way to do so. Awesome. Well, thank you so much. And to our listeners, if you found this information to be helpful, definitely hit subscribe or go to Vinvio.com slash podcast to get our weekly emails. Thanks so much.


All right, so today we're going to talk about some really exciting news. We've been holding onto this one piece of newly discovered information for the next teaser because we wanted to align it and it finally happened last night. So we'll get to that a little bit further into this clip. I'm going to give you a refresh of the few things we discovered a bit back just to refresh your memory for those that maybe weren't here a month ago when we started talking about this and just to refresh your memory to help with this video and to digest the information that we received yesterday. All right, so we have Val Raven's bottom of the first drop track here. It is 10 volts by 8 volts. That plays an interesting twist into our coaster because we recently just discovered because some tarp flipped up earlier this month and we discovered that our track is actually 10 by 9 volts. Now what that tells you is this might be a higher stress point in the coaster than that to Val Raven or the trains might have a different design. It could be a couple of different things, but this could suggest that our coaster is going to be larger than Val Raven. I think this has to do with height and stress more so than trains because I don't see 10 across trains fitting in this tunnel for those that have seen in person can vouch for that as well. So then we went and measured the distance of the pull out on Val Raven and it measures 51 meters long. Now this is also interesting because our pull out on our coaster so far is about 60 meters long. That is about 10 meters longer than Val Raven and it potentially could be a slightly longer because the pull out isn't done being built on our coaster yet either. So it could end up being around 65 meters long. Now this is interesting because pull outs are typically designed to lessen the force on the coaster after its drop. When you look at a coaster like Leviathan, this could put this picture into a better perspective. So Leviathan has a pull out of around 55 meters. I believe I could prove myself wrong in this next clip. So I was right 55 meters. So Leviathan has a pull out about 55 meters. A dive coaster should have a bit larger of a pull out than that to a giga coaster because there is slightly more stress on these heavier trains. So for example, if this coaster does end up being a giga coaster, we should see a longer pull out, which we do. Now this doesn't mean necessarily just because we have a longer pull out that it's going to be a giga coaster. It just helps kind of prove this new conversation that's arisen about, you know, if this is a dive coaster, is it going to be a giga coaster? And I do strongly believe we are going to be seeing a dive coaster at Cannon's Wonderland between the height of 255 feet and 300 feet. So we measured the lift hill length about 97 meters. Again, it's not 100% accurate on Val Raven. And then we measured based off of some footer locations. And we do know where the lift hill ends on this coaster now because there's the largest footer on the property of this construction site. So it looks like again, this is just an estimate. We do not know where the lift hill starts fully. We just see footers suggesting where it could start. Then our lift hill is about 100 meters long, about 330 feet. That does 330 feet doesn't mean the height of the coaster. It just means the length of the lift hill itself with a 45 degree angle approximately. So here's the teasers that popped up out of nowhere on Snapchat from Cannon's Wonderland last night. They were not deleted and they were not posted anywhere else. So it reads giga coaster or dot, dot, dot giga coaster wink face. Now at first glance, it looks innocent and it looks like it could just be a mistake. But why would there be a wink face if this was just a mistake or just kind of like a giga coaster or hyper coaster, let's say, if that's what they meant to put. I more so see like a starry eyed face or a smiley face. I don't see a wink face. So this is interesting. This kind of with the information we've been discovering slowly would suggest that maybe this dive coaster really is going to be a giga coaster. And that would be insane. They could market it significantly across North America and we get a lot of media attention. So it goes further. So we decided to kind of like tease Wonderland in itself, kind of like see like if it maybe was just a simple marketing strategy or like a mistake and they ended up liking our tweets. So we had everyone important at Wonderland that we knew of and asked teaser or mistake, winky face question mark and they liked it. And we do know that they've been liking other people's tweets as well, asking if it's a teaser so that could suggest that this was a teaser. And that would be really exciting. Could you imagine a giga dive coaster at Canada's Wonderland?  So these hints and the theming that have been kind of tease would suggest a dive coaster. What do you guys think? Do you think that this is going to be a giga dive coaster based off of what we're seeing so far, based off of the bolts on the track being more than that to Valraven, the length of the pullout being longer than Valraven and even longer than Leviathan? Do you think this dive coaster is going to be a giga coaster? Because I am strongly starting to think so. I always kind of thought so, but I was not fully on board with my own idea. As you all know, I've been kind of like talking about this giga dive coaster for about a month now and with more information coming forward and the teasers coming forward and, you know, us kind of figuring out the layout of the coaster. I do strongly believe this coaster is going to be between 250 feet and 300 feet tall and 300 feet tall. And I could just imagine that I'm picturing the marketing campaign and the teaser campaign. Like I am so excited for the full blown teaser campaign of this coaster. Now I'm fully invested in this coaster, as you know, and I just cannot wait to find out more. So I'm going to touch on the construction of this project. So this this project started two years in advance and dive coasters typically start six months in advance before being built. So that alone was kind of a hint that this project was slightly bigger. As you know, my construction updates have slowed down because construction has slowed down as well. They're working on landscaping now instead of the coaster project. And I do predict that they'll start the coaster project again. Shortly, they just want to make sure the landscaping gets done. The construction team is still there and the vehicles are all there and the equipment is all there, suggesting that they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. This week, they've been working on landscaping. As you can see, they lay down sod, planted more trees and finished the fencing and added speakers and blah, blah, blah, such and such. But yeah, at first there was a lot of rumors about a second mountain, a lot of theming. That's why they started early. And I am not seeing any evidence of a second mountain. I'm not seeing any evidence of extensive, extensive theming that would force them to start two months in advance or sorry, two years in advance, two months. So I'm starting to think that they started early because this is another unique coaster from B&M for Canada's Wonderland. We all know that Canada's Wonderland doesn't get coasters every three years like that to its sister parks like Cedar Point and Kings Island. We get coasters every like five to seven years. Yes, we got, you know, Wonder Mountains Guardian, but that was like a dark ride. And they just decided to add a bit of a coaster element in there. So we know that our park has that extra funds to build these big coasters. We got a really awesome hyper coaster that is a bit underrated in the, you know, North American aspect, but a lot of people who have written it understand that it is a really like awesome hyper. We have Leviathan, which can be underrated as well. It was the first B&M Giga, which was super awesome. And our park seems to get these really unique, awesome high thrill coasters that aren't necessarily like looping coasters that go like breach limits like that to Cedar Point and Kings Island. They get those like awesome, really high thrill attractions, whereas Canada's Wonderland gets these really highly marketable coasters that kind of like have a broader audience. And I really think that's what we're going to see with this dive coaster. If it ends up being a dive coaster, and that's super exciting. I could only imagine how marketable this new coaster is going to be. You have an underground, underwater tunnel, underground tunnel, and you have this Canadian theme potentially going into it. And if you add 300 feet to a dive coaster, we're going to be the first park with two giga coasters. Correct me if I'm wrong below. And we're also going to be the second park to have two coasters over 300 feet tall. Again, correct me if I'm wrong below, but that's awesome. So I guess like comment below, guys, what you think. Do you think this is going to be smaller than Valraven? Do you think it's going to be the same size as Valraven? Or do you think we are looking at a giga dive coaster? I'm super interested to see what you guys think because, as you know, I've been trying to follow this coaster project as closely as possible and I'm presenting the information as I discover it as well. So yeah, comment below what you guys think. Thanks for watching this video. Thanks for watching all my videos. If you're like a constant subscriber and viewer and share this video and get everyone excited. All right. Thanks so much, guys. Have a good one. Bye.


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This is Witchspace news for Friday the 13th of March 2020. I'm CMDR Buur. In this weeks news, the Fuel Rats hit a new rescue milestone, the Hot Mess initiative hits a roadblock, the loose screws podcast will be getting a VIP guest and more. If you enjoy this video consider subscribing and also click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any of our future videos. The legendary Elite Dangerous Intragalactic Rescue operation known as the Fuel Rats hit another significant rescue milestone this week with their, wait for it, 70,000th rescue. If you've been living amongst rock hermits for the last few years and don't know who the Fuel Rats are then they're an entirely player organized and run emergency refuelling operation. If you run out of fuel anywhere in the galaxy and I do mean anywhere, the Fuel Rats will attempt to reach you, deploy refuel limpits and get you on your way again. They have a breath takingly efficient and very slick web interface that you use to call for assistance that has live dispatchers from around the world working 24 hours a day. I myself had to call them when I was not paying attention one day doing Robigo runs and they arrived within about 5 to 10 minutes of the call being made and got me on my way. According to the Fuel Rat website there are over 10,000 commanders signed up as registered Fuel Rats across 3 platforms, it's nothing short of amazing, all hail the mighty rats. As you may be aware there is currently an initiative underway driven by the Hutton orbital truckers to deliver at least one Hutton mug to every single station outpost and installation in the galaxy that has a commodity market. The initiative called Operation Hot Mess which stands for Hutton Orbital Truckers mug every single station has managed to reach over 77% of the 53,263 stations it needs to reach but has hit a snag. The only station that sells the rare Hutton mug Hutton Orbital Station in Alpha Centauri fell into a state of infrastructure failure this week. One of the side effects of infrastructure failure is the closing of the purchasing half of the commodity market meaning no one can buy any mugs to distribute. The infrastructure failure is expected to last around a week but it's thought that the time can be shortened by delivering power generators and water purifiers to Alden Prospect in Alpha Centauri. If you want to help combat the failure then the guys at Hutton Orbital would be grateful for the assist I'm sure but bear in mind that Alden Prospect is an outpost and so large vessels will not be able to land there. The guys at the excellent Loose Screws podcast have a special guest arriving on the show early next week. Steven Benedetti one of Frontier Development's community managers on Elite Dangerous will be joining the guys for a chat. The guys at Loose Screws are always an entertaining listen and it'll be fun to hear them chatting with Steven. The interview should be available early next week. Renowned Elite Dangerous photographer Commander Placid has been releasing some amazing Elite Dangerous themed digital art over the last couple of weeks that explores some imaginative ideas in the Elite Dangerous universe. They're simply stunning and wouldn't look out of place hanging framed on a wall somewhere. Our particular favourite is the crashed Coriolis image entitled Fallen Giant. Links to the commander's images and social media are below. Just incredible. And finally a quick bit of non-elite related news Frontier Development's announced a multi year deal with Formula One Racing this week to develop and publish Formula One themed management games. The first of which is expected to launch in 2022 with further titles expected through to 2025 subject to the games hitting certain financial targets along the way. This strikes us as quite a logical addition to the company's growing portfolio given their now extensive experience in producing extremely accessible park and management sims. For more details on anything we've talked about in the show this week then check out the video description below. If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and be sure to click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any of our future videos. And if you want to help support the work of this channel you'll also find links below to Patreon. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.