What is going on everybody, it's Stas here and in this video I'm going to be talking to you guys about and doing an overall market update, taking a look at the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq and I also want to share with you guys what stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching as well as what I did today in terms of my trading in the stock market. And as you guys read in the title, there's this one thing that I believe if it happens it can explode the market to all-time highs and I'm going to be talking to you guys and sharing with you all my opinion on what that is in a couple of minutes here, so stay tuned for that. And all I ask from you is if you enjoy this video, if you find value in this video, feel free to go down below and hit that like button and consider subscribing to the channel if you do want to see further content about the stock market, investing, trading, personal finance, I upload videos on this channel six times per week, so get in on the action and also if you want to be a part of our community, the Stryfe Smart community, there are two links down below, the Discord group chat and the Facebook group, 100% free of charge, feel free to get in to those communities. So guys, let's get started here with the SPX, the S&P 500 and today was a pretty good day in the markets. The S&P was up $20 here, 20.52 to be exact, up 0.69%. Very very good day here, the Dow not as good, but we'll get into that here in a couple of minutes because the Dow actually had Boeing weighing it down and Boeing has been doing very, very poorly recently and we'll get into that as well here in a couple of minutes. But back to the S&P, the S&P is looking a bit bullish to me right now, we're breaking out of this wedge, this ascending triangle pattern that we're seeing here, right? We're really making higher lows and lower highs and I said in yesterday's video if we were to break this trend line, that would be very, very bullish and you guys can see we're slowly breaking that trend line now which in my opinion on a technical basis, this is going to shoot us straight up to those all time highs and break above these all time highs if certain things fall into place here in the next couple of weeks, that very well could happen right? And we'll get into that here in a couple of minutes. So the S&P if we zoom in a bit, if we go back to that or rather not back to it, to it because we didn't go to it in the first place yet, if we look at the 5 day 5 minute you can see it's kind of been teeter tottering at around $3,000, you know $29.80, these levels over the past couple of days and the fact that we held $3,000 and honestly closed above $3,000, that's a very good sign to me but for me what I need to see now for that straight shot to the all time highs, very simple, I need to see a break above the $3,008 resistance level from the 17th of October that was just about four days ago, four days previous to me recording this video. So good thing that we closed above $3,000 but I still want to see this pop before really believing and confirming the fact that the S&P is going to go to those all time highs which again are $30,27. I think that would be really a bullish move in terms of the S&P. If we go to the 20 day one hour, you can see we pulled down, held that 50 S&A, that is very bullish because we held it at a higher low and obviously we're breaking above that level and looking to push to that higher high and again that would happen if we break $3,008. So overall guys, this is looking pretty bullish to me especially on this 20 day one hour chart. Pay attention to this chart, this is telling a pretty bullish story in my personal opinion more than this four hour chart and yeah watch out for those levels, watch out for those gap fills there, SPY which tracks the S&P 500, it's probably the most popular ETF that does. This one's looking obviously bullish as well. We broke $300. Very briefly today, we failed to close above it by 1 cent guys, take a look at this closing price, $299.99, I'm thinking this one could fill the gap up now to $302. Since we did end up breaking above the $299, very strong level of resistance as indicated here by these trend lines. So watch out for that gap fill, the last time we broke $299, we filled up to $302 in the time before that, very same thing right, the same exact thing from $299 up to $302. So watch that on the SPY, I'm thinking $302 is my target right now in terms of that and if we go to the Dow Jones industrial average guys, it's kind of different from the S&P right, the S&P is breaking out of this ascending triangle, this wedge pattern that it's in but the Dow is doing the exact opposite. We got rejected at a lower high here, we're pushing down and we're looking to test $266 which is the next major level of support that I'm seeing here and why did this happen? Again, I mentioned it a couple of minutes ago, it's because of Boeing stock ticker symbol BA. BA has a weighting on the Dow 30 right and it's really just been doing poorly. From $372 a couple of days ago, it's now trading at around $1022, they have earnings tomorrow or not $1022 guys, that's the date tomorrow. He's trading at about $332 right now and on $1023 which is tomorrow or in two days rather, they're reporting earnings which, their earnings might be very poor guys here because for those of you guys that don't know, Boeing has been struggling with their planes, they grounded a lot of their planes, you have to take a look into that because that's really the reason why this stock has been struggling. So keep an eye on it, another critical support is going to be $330 on Boeing, if we break that, that could have even more of a negative weight on the Dow right? So the Dow 266, watch that level, if we break that level, watch for the hold on this trend line at a higher low, that could potentially be where we do end up finding support on the Dow Jones and if we go to the 5-day-5-minute chart guys, you can see this is not looking the same as the S&P, the S&P is breaking up like this, the Dow is selling off aggressively. So this is looking a bit bearish right now and especially on the 20-day-1-hour, you can see, okay, we hit 27-1, we sold off a bit, we're holding support from a couple of days ago at around 26-8, we already broke below the 50-SMA support which is a bit bearish, but we are holding the 180-SMA, so we're kind of trading in between these levels on the 1-hour chart. So me personally guys, I'd be watching for the potential break below this 180-SMA, if we do break that, that's going to be very bearish, but if we pop above the 50-SMA, break 27K again, hey, that might be bullish, but again, it all depends on a lot of these earnings coming up for the Dow, the main core Dow stocks and obviously Boeing being one of those, then just watch that guys, honestly, that's what's going to be fluctuating this in my opinion over these next couple of days. And going to the NASDAQ here guys, it's down about 275 now but that's not what it closed at because this is the future, let me pull up my Yahoo Finance app very quickly for you all so we can talk about that. The NASDAQ was up 0.9% today, up about 73 points, which is very good and this is similar to the S&P where we're breaking out of this ascending triangle, this wedge that we're seeing on the NQ, right? We're breaking out of it, we pulled down, we held 78 as a support, right, 7800 roughly, we're popping up above that, again we broke the resistance here of this ascending triangle wedge pattern. Now this is the next level that I'm looking at, it's going to be around 79.90 to around 8K, 8K, this is a very strong level of resistance, right? We got rejected there back in the middle of September a couple of days ago on the 17th of October, so watch for that break, if we break that, you know, we may be going up to those all-time highs here on the futures at around 8,051, right? That would be very ideal for the bulls, obviously, right, if we were to break this little resistance at 8K. Let's say we got rejected there, saw strong resistance, right, failed to break above it, we start selling off, hey, maybe we go down to about 78.75, which is a very strong support here, or maybe we test this, you know, resistance, old resistance of the ascending triangle wedge pattern that you're seeing here, that's a possibility as well, but if we go to the one hour chart, this also could be a potential head and shoulder pattern for me here, right? You got the left shoulder, the head, the right shoulder could be forming, but that's if you think the markets are going to dump here, which I mean personally in the short term, I see these markets a bit bullish, especially with, you know, positive optimism in terms of the trade talks, you know, all these earnings that some of them are looking good, right, and we have a lot of the big ones rolling in here, and a lot of people think that they're going to do well in terms of earnings as well. So that could probably pop the markets, but, you know, you can't deny that you are seeing a pattern like this, which could potentially be a head and shoulder, but, you know, just throwing that out there as a possibility, not saying that's going to happen, but it's always good to have some ideas of, you know, different scenarios, and yeah, it's pretty much it for the NASDAQ guys, for the markets in general. Let me know down below, what are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on individual stocks, earnings here heading into these next couple of weeks, as a lot of the big names, a lot of the heavily tracked names out there are starting to report earnings. So as you guys read in the title, what is this one event that could potentially explode the markets? Sure, one event could be earnings, right? Like I said, if earnings are very good, guidance is good, EPS is good for the main companies, you know, we just get some really good earnings, that could be one thing that fluctuates the markets and explode the markets to the upside to all-time highs, but another thing that's really the biggest thing right now is this trade war, and we have tariffs rolling in in December, and there's talks now that these tariffs could potentially be wiped off the table, you know, if these trade talks, they continue to really, what's the word here, they continue to push forward and really get closer and closer to coming to an agreement. If that happens, guys, the markets are going to explode to the upside. I'm like 90% convinced, and I'm sure a lot of you can agree to that because we've seen how the markets react to the trade war. This is the one kind of string that pulls the markets, right? If the trade war, it's very, very negative, these markets are getting killed because the markets hate uncertainty, but once there's some optimism around the trade war, something good happens. For example, a couple of weeks ago, when we got that partial little trade deal, the markets exploded, right? Once that little optimism comes in, eases the uncertainty a bit, that is what pushes these markets, and I'm telling you guys, if that does end up happening, who knows if it's going to happen, but if it happens, guys, if these trade talks get better, these tariffs start to get wiped off, the tariffs that were set about a month or two ago that I'm sure you guys remember, and when these tariffs were set, slapped on, the markets got killed, right? If these get taken off, these markets, I think they're going to explode here in the short term, right? That's just my opinion, and let me know what you guys think down below about that. I'm sure a lot of you guys have your own opinions on that. Let me know if you think I'm crazy or let me know if you think I'm spot on down below. So what did I do today in terms of my trading, guys? Well, there are two things that I did. I day-traded Procter and Gamble today, ticker symbol PG, and this one is doing quite well right now after hours, and it's been doing well all day today, you know, if we take a look at the price, right? We opened at 117, and now we're trading in the 120s here after market hours, which is a pretty good push for Procter and Gamble, especially since it's been squashed over these past couple of trading days. If we go to the 10-day chart, you guys can see we were at 124, had about a 10-point drop all the way down to 116, and now we're starting to pop above moving averages and looking really, really bullish. But where did I take my trade today, guys? Well, I was looking at this 5-day, 5-minute chart, and I took the trade as we started to pop above the resistance from Friday's session. This is really just a simple trade for me, guys, right? I noticed the support on PG at around 116.50, like I've been talking about in these videos, and I noticed how strong of a support that was. And how do I know it's a very strong support? Because if we push back or pull up, rather, this one-year, one-day chart, take a look at this trend line stemming back almost a year ago. You guys can see we've retraced to this trend line multiple times in the past, and we've held it and popped to all-time highs from those retracements. And now I'm seeing very similar movements from PG. We pulled down. We got those support points on the 5-day, 5-minute chart. You guys can see there has been multiple trading days where we bottomed at about 116.50. And you guys can see 116.50 on the longer-term chart was an old resistance. We held it as a new support, and now, again, we're holding it as a new support popping up. So that just gave me a lot of confirmation and a lot of confidence this morning to take that trade, especially as we did, again, like I mentioned, broke above, or break, rather, above 117.75-ish, which, again, was a resistance back on Friday. So this, guys, this played out beautifully, and honestly, if I did hold it the entire day, I would have made from where I got in. I think I got in literally once we did pop above that. That was extremely bullish for me. But let's say I held it for the entire day to close. I would have made about 1%. And a lot of you guys may be saying, oh, 1%. That's nothing, Stas. Go trade TVIX. Go trade one of these leveraged ETFs that you can make 10% on. But honestly, I liked trading. And obviously, you guys know this if you've been following the channel for a while. But I like trading safer, quote unquote, safer stocks, right? The proctor and gambles, a lot of the large caps. You guys know if you've been following me for a while. And yeah, I'm cool with taking a small profit, right? I'm not in this to chase these penny stocks. Although sometimes I do in my speculative account, as you guys saw in that live trading session a couple of days ago, I like dabbling sometimes. But with my main account, I'm mostly looking at stocks like this, stocks like Avvi and some of the other ones that we're going to be talking about here in this video. But I got in very quickly. I think it was like 170, not 170, 117, 85-ish. And I wrote it up, guys, to about, I think it was like 1865. Once we pushed up to this higher high, you guys can see the RSI was getting ridiculously oversold. I ended up just selling off for about a 0.7% profit. Not crazy, right? But really good at the end of the day. I think that's a really good move for about an hour or two of a hold right there in Procter and Gamble. And that's what I'm really looking to swing in the next couple of days after they report earnings. This is one of the main ones that I'm watching. And I also took a swing position today in Avvi. So Avvi, I ended up getting in, if we look on this 5-day 5-minute chart, I ended up getting in a bit. I think it was like 76, 75. Once we confirmed the pop on this old resistance as a new support, I was watching that on the 5-day 5-minute. You can see we held a higher or low on this 180 SMA support as well, which is also something I was watching. So once I got those two confirmation points, I started to put a little money into Avvi. And this is one that I'm planning on holding. If everything goes right, I'll sell Avvi before earnings here, which is in about 10, 11 days from now. So that's the goal because me, I don't like holding stocks before earnings. That's kind of a gamble in my opinion. I like seeing what the stock reports and what the guidance is and stuff like that. That's just me taking precaution here, risk management, stuff like that. That's what I personally feel comfortable with. But I think it can make a move here in the next couple of days. And I could probably get out with the profit before earnings. That's kind of what I'm thinking here. And the goal is to sell some shares at around $79. You guys can see 79 is an old resistance here. And we're almost halfway there at this point, guys. I got in again at about 76, if we zoom in a bit here. My voice is super raspy right now, guys. I don't know what's going on. But again, I got in right around here. I'm up like, I don't even know in terms of a percentage right now. But I'm up, let's see, about less than 1%. And from my entry, I plan on adding a bit more money scaling into this. Up to the major target sell, which is at about 81, that's about a 5% profit from where we are now. From where I ended up getting in, roughly it's about a 6% profit. So first sell target, 79, 3%. Second sell target, 81-ish, about 5%. And these are honestly, guys, two stocks. Again, Avvy, Procter, and Gamble that I'm going to continue to watch. And I'm continually looking to put money into, especially after they report earnings, after I see what their guidance is, stuff like that, EPS revenue, all the good stuff. And yeah, after that, I can probably make another decision on whether or not I want to swing them into the future. So some stocks that I'm watching, guys. Again, obviously, Avvy, PG, we don't have to talk about that because I feel like I've been talking about them a lot on the channel. Some other ones are Tesla. Tesla's reporting earnings tomorrow, I believe, or the 23rd. 23rd, yep. 23rd, they are reporting earnings. And you guys know at this point, Tesla stock, when they report, it's either up 10% after hours or it's down 10% after hours. Sometimes it's teeter-tottering 2%, 3%. But for the most part, the stock goes crazy. And I think it's worth watching at this point, especially since those earnings, again, are in two days from now. So the technicals I'm looking at on Tesla are the 260 resistance. We got three different rejections over the past couple of months there, one in the month of May, the second one in the month of July, and now a couple of days ago on the 17th of October, we got rejected there again for that third time. But we are holding that 50 SMA here as a support on the 4-hour chart, which is a good sign because this is a higher low from the previous. So I'm interested here, guys, are we going to break down and maybe go back and test 240? That could happen, especially if these earnings get really volatile, turn the stock volatile or rather. Or are we going to break 260, which I think if we break 260, that could be a nice play to the upside here, especially if the earnings are good, if we're able to get in and time it right, I think that could be a good move from about 260 to 275. And if we're just calculating how much we can make on that, that's about a 6% profit margin there on Tesla. So this is really worth watching in my opinion. Amazon is another one that I'm watching right now. I don't really trade Amazon too much if I'm being completely honest with you guys. I can't even remember the last time that I traded Amazon, but they are reporting earnings as well on the 24th, which is three days away from now. And they do have some profit margin here. The all-time high, or the high that I'm seeing on this chart here, I'm not 100% sure if it is the all-time high. It's about a 12% away. And we're at a resistance right now under this 180SMA. We're looking a bit bullish here since we pulled down, held a higher low on the 50SMA, and now we're breaking out of the 180SMA slowly. So this could be one to watch. If we pull out a support tool here, you guys can see we held 1,700 very strongly. That's a strong level of support. And yeah, I think it's worth watching. If there's good earnings from them, good guidance, good EPS, good revenue beats, whatever it may be, this one could be flying up in the short term. I'm looking at levels such as 1850. I'm looking at obviously 1800. That's a level. So just watch these. Amazon, there's a lot of potential. It's one of the best companies out there in the world. It's always worth watching around earnings time. So a couple of other ones, guys, let's break down new gas and de-gas very quickly. Natural gas took a dump today. And if you guys watched my video yesterday, you saw and I talked about one of the scenarios that could play out is natural gas, if it breaks 230, it may be filling down the gap to 220. And that's why I drew this arrow in yesterday's video and that scenario ended up playing out. So at this point, I'm looking to see what natural gas is going to do. Are we going to find support at 220? If we find support at 220, what are we going to do from there? Are we going to hold it and fill back up to 230? If that does happen, U-Gas could be a play. UGAZ is the ticker symbol. But if we break 220, which would be very, very bad in terms of a technical break there, 213, I think is the next level if we zoom out a bit here. 210 rather, right? 210, 211, that could be where we go down. And at that point, guys, D-Gas, which goes up whenever natural gas goes up, or rather when it goes down, would be a very, very good play if that ended up playing out. So those are some scenarios at this point, right? 220 is very critical if we break D-Gas, if we hold and pop U-Gas, that's the move. But Thursday is the natural gas report. So watch that because that obviously fluctuates the price of natural gas from week to week. So that's what I'm watching in terms of that. And are there any other stocks that I'm watching, guys, mostly at VPG? I'm trying to think. Goldman Sachs is another one that's really looking to potentially break out here if we break 210. And you guys know, when I talked about this on my Instagram story today, and if you're not following me on Instagram, it's linked down below at StasSurface is my username. So go follow me on there if you want callouts and updates throughout the day. But I talked about on my Instagram how a lot of the banking stocks have been doing phenomenal.  JP Morgan's been doing phenomenal, right? Warren Buffett's absolutely killing it on his position right now, right? Bank of America. BAC has been killing it. He's killing it on this position as well right now, right? He owns Bank of America and JP Morgan, right? Well, as far goes another one that's been doing decent. Not as good as Bank of America and JP Morgan, but nonetheless, it's been doing great. So Goldman Sachs at this point, I think there's some hype behind these bank stocks right now. Not really hype, but they're doing well, right? So I think if this one breaks 210, 220 is right in reach. If we look at how much we could potentially make, it's around a 4% to 5% in terms of 210 to 220. So watch that potential break on Goldman Sachs. I am for sure looking to trade that if we do and might as well just set an alert for it now so I don't forget to do that tomorrow morning. So let me just create an alert for you guys. And by the way, if you don't know how to create an alert, right click your mouse here, click create alert, and the symbols here, which is the ticker symbol, the stock mark is at or above. You can really pick whatever level you want. I want it to alert me if it breaks 210, very simple, is at or above 210, create and you'll see it pop up right here. So if that happens tomorrow, if we break above, it'll alert me and then I can decide whether or not I want to put my money into it. So overall guys, that's it for this video. I think I covered all the stocks that I want to talk about in ETFs and ETNs and stuff. But overall, I'm just watching the markets, right? I'm looking at what these earnings are doing. I'm keeping an eye and paying close attention to the trade war, things like that, because let's be honest guys, those are what are, you know, affecting the markets right now. These major events are pushing the markets to the upside, to the downside. So it's very important to watch that stuff on a day-to-day basis. And again, if you enjoy this video guys, all I ask is go down below, hit that like button. I would really, really appreciate that and consider subscribing if you do want to see further content about the stock market, investing, trading, and also join our Discord group chat and our Facebook group and don't forget to follow me on Instagram at StasSurface. That is linked down below, like I mentioned before. So I'll catch you all in the next video. Thanks again for watching, especially if you stuck till the end. You are awesome and yeah. Hope you guys do well. Keep an eye on those earnings. Have that cash on the sidelines ready to go and I'll catch you all in the next video.


Good morning guys and welcome to today's beach vlog I'm actually on the G7X today because it fits perfectly in this belt bag and I can like still vlog on a camera I love my phone. Don't get me wrong, but like it's just so much easier in transferring footage from an SD card So anyway, I know that it has nothing to do with today and today's plans But I just felt the need to display that I am on my way to guess where Starbucks and then I'm gonna head to my friend Jamie's house. She went to like this concert Last night, so she was like I might be late or whatever So we don't even know if she's awake yet or not, but we're just gonna like Play it by ear and I've already waited a little bit just because I know like she's probably still sleeping I could not stay asleep because I thought today was Friday for some weird reason and Ended up waking up had to go to the bathroom and then my mom just like like are you awake? So that happened, but I waited a little bit and played on my phone Because I knew Jamie was probably still sleeping. I'm gonna go over to her house and then from there. We're gonna go To my friend Kyra's house and then from there. We're going to the beach And we're doing it this way just because we all kind of live far Far ish from each other So it just like is better Get my see everything works out. I think today's gonna be a great day good weather Haven't been to the beach in a little bit. I went to the beach, but it was like kind of too cold to like get in the water and stuff so everything It'll be good message to this company as you guys know, I'm gonna get dog I messaged this company about doing a review on like their collar and leash set because I think the foggy dog has such cute Like products that I would love to do a review for them I've actually I typically don't reach out to companies and ask if they do like collaborations I typically like buy the product and honestly if they say no or whatever like it's fine I'm still gonna do a review on the product. I'm gonna pay for it And then you know tax right off because like I'm doing a dedicated video about the product But it'd be like really cool to like get to work with a company that I I want to work with and like that I've reached out to I think that It would be like really cool to get that opportunity. So I'm hoping that they like will Work with me on the video. I mean I sent my playlist of like all my reviews and they view wise they do well Because I don't I go like in depth, you know, like with the reviews and like detailed I'm just very detailed and like I hope I Believe I provide like good information on products. So anyway, I'm hoping that they respond to me And I hope I get to work with them fingers crossed. If not, it's fine I know people like only look at numbers and stuff But the thing is they could take whatever I produce and like put it on their page or make it a reel or TikTok or anything like that. I feel like companies don't really realize that like when they work with a Creator or whatever if you have in the contract or not I don't even know really how this works, but it's like free content for your stuff like hello like Anyway, that's just me. All right. I'm gonna stop talking now Losty the other ones. Okay. I'm gonna just zoom in with this camera and stuff. All right, so this is Kyra's pest snake What's his name Harold?  He's a ball python. Oh ball python. I was going in and gonna pick up. Oh shoot. Oh shoot We're in the wild Okay, okay. Okay. Oh my god. Wait, you're not stressing him out too much, right? Cuz we don't need to stress out snakey No, I'm good. Oh He don't yeah, you can tell he doesn't like it All right, so we are eating at this place called hidden treasure over there It's a beautiful day perfect day for the beach Got this really good looking sandwich. It's cute. I got fish and chips and then Jamie and I got the same thing But she got sweet potato fries To the beach Very nice very nice It's not too hot on the beach. Oh my gosh. I just worked anyway. We made it to the beach Brought some hard seltzer. I haven't having the lemonade one because I'm a plain person What else did you bring in this goodie bag? Well cooler more seltzers? I know I did not actually have to carry this cooler. If you know, you know, I made sure to sell Kyra I was like Yeah, I'm not carrying anything. She's like, okay It's honestly the perfect day for the beach. I'm wearing my new little swimsuit here and I'm watching it Angie's vlog my hat keeps like falling off because it's so windy, but it's fine. It's fine Got a cut the clip here Okay, so the video is kind of short so sorry about that I didn't realize how short it was but I decided to vlog so it was just a shorter Vlog and that's gonna happen sometimes. I'm just coming on here to end the clip I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm just going to end it here Don't forget to subscribe give it a thumbs up and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye


Well, and welcome to Stand Energy Man here on Think Tech, Hawaii.  But all in all, haven't been hit really hard, like the poor folks on the East Coast who are getting belted right now. But lots going on in the world, in the hydrogen world particularly. And I just got an email right before I came over to the studio talking about how the Hydrogen Council, which is a huge council. It's grown in the last year and a half from 13 or 14 members to a total of 53 members of large corporations like Toyota, and Honda, and Hyundai, and Shell Oil, Total Oil, Air Lequid, you know, just huge companies that have to deal with energy. And they're committed to scaling hydrogen up to industrial large scale and helping it replace fossil fuels. They made an announcement this morning that they plan to make the entire transportation sector around the world carbon free by 2045. That's their goal. And you may be wondering how they do that and how hydrogen plays a role in that. Well we have a video coming up that talks a little bit about some of the hydrogen. But basically, a hydrogen fuel cell takes hydrogen and air, or more specifically the oxygen in our air, air is made up of about only 16 to 20% oxygen. The rest is nitrogen and other gases. But it takes the oxygen in the air and the hydrogen, puts it in an application called a fuel cell. And that fuel cell lets the hydrogen and the oxygen make water again and gives you heat and electricity as byproducts. That electricity can drive motors, charge batteries, basically run transportation at zero carbon. So if you make renewable hydrogen off of geothermal or hydroelectric or solar or wind, and then you put that hydrogen into a fuel cell, totally carbon free from beginning to end. And this council made a commitment to the world that they're committed to getting hydrogen to that level by 2045, vehicles, infrastructure, everything. And that's a huge, huge step. That's something that's never happened in the history of our planet before. And it's the industry's way of saying, we want the government's help, but we're committed to making this happen by 2045. And that's huge. So today we have a hydrogen center show, as would be appropriate. And our guest today is Alex Oceto from Gensel, a company out of Atlanta, I believe, Georgia. And not out of there, they're actually an international company. And he's going to explain a little bit about his role and what he does at Gensel. So Alex, welcome to the show. Thanks for being on with us. And I know you're driving right now, so if you get in this situation, you have to kind of quiet up. We'll understand. But welcome. And can you tell our audience just a little bit about yourself and Gensel? Yes. Thank you for how you appreciate the opportunity to explain a little bit more about what Gensel does and our mission in terms of providing clean energy for the masses. So my role with Gensel as Director of Sales is to look at new opportunities to where we can eliminate applications that are typically using fossil fuels as part of their power generation. We have two solutions, primarily one for backup power, as well as one for primary power. So what we're going to be talking about today is some of these types of applications, the way the technology works and the possible today, not in the future. Great. So you gave us a little bit of a video to kick things off with, so I want to kind of explain how our title weaves into our discussion. Basically the first law of thermodynamics is energy is neither created nor destroyed, but just changes form. So when we start driving our cars with fossil fuel, we're basically taking an energy storage medium that was created by decaying dinosaurs and trees, put underground for millions of years, put under pressure, turned into oil, oils pumped to the surface, it's processed, it's refined, it's shipped all over the place, goes into our car, we burn it and it puts a bunch of carbon and other knock stuff into the atmosphere, which isn't good for us. So basically it's one of the most inefficient ways of making energy available from one source of energy to the other. People ask me, well, if hydrogen and those other things are so good, why are we using gasoline? And the reality is that the first cars that were built were electric and they were great except that the battery technology could let them go very far and hydrogen technology wasn't much better. So fossil fuel and the internal combustion engine kind of took the lead and has grown massively under the industrial revolution and into the 21st century as the primary source of fuel, but it's not very efficient. It's not very efficient in terms of thermodynamics and it's certainly not very clean. So we're going to start off with a video by Jensel that Alex sent me and it'll kind of give us a lead into what this company does. Have you heard about the new sustainable energy technology called fuel cells? In fact, they're really not that new. Fuel cells were invented in 1839 by William Grove and were developed by Pratt and Whitney and other companies in the 1950s. Safe and dependable, they were used by NASA and the Russian space program to power spacecrafts. Today, leading global companies like Apple, Verizon and Coca-Cola use fuel cells to generate clean power. Honda, Toyota and other car companies use them to power their new generation of pollution-free cars. So how do fuel cells work? Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical process to produce electricity and heat. The only byproduct, pure clean water. A fuel cell has two electrodes, an anode and a cathode, and between them an electrolyte. The catalyst on the electrode breaks the H2 hydrogen molecules to allow them to combine with hydroxide OH negative ions to create water and release electricity. But unlike batteries, fuel cells don't store power for a limited amount of time. They generate it for as long as you have hydrogen. As a source of backup power, fuel cells are much better than diesel generators. They aren't smelly or noisy, and they don't produce harmful exhaust. Fuel cells can be used anywhere you need backup power, mobile phone towers, electrical substations, manufacturing, and much, much more. Other green power solutions harness the sun or wind. But if you're caught up in a cloudy day or on days where the air stands still, these solutions can leave you without enough power when you actually need it. That's why you need GenCell, a proven green power solution that keeps you running no matter what. To learn more, go to www.gencellenergy.com. All right, so that's a really great video. I particularly like the graphics on how the fuel cell worked. It's really basic, and it tells the story right there. So Alex, you want to make some comments about the fuel cell technology and how it's catching on. Go ahead and hit us with your thoughts on that. The comment that you made about, are they not more prevalent? And actually, that is a great question. And it's something that I get asked on a regular basis. Every time I meet with a customer, that's always the number one question I always receive. And really the simple answer is the fuel, as far as hydrogen, is always the number one issue or barrier that any type of fuel cell application will always have. Well, until now, obviously. But having a necessary fuel for the fuel cell has always been the primary issue. Where GenCell has looked at that type of scenario, and we have actually come to a realization that if we're going to expand the use of fuel cells now and also into the future, we have to remove this barrier. So what we did is we took ammonia, which is a highly rich source of energy. And we basically are able to split the molecule of ammonia. Ammonia is made up of 75% hydrogen with 1% or I'm sorry, 25% hydrogen. So the ability to extract out hydrogen from a source of material that is readily available in every single country. The supply chain is already there. The distribution is there. The safety protocols are there. If your country is not utilizing, I mean, if your country is not manufacturing it, you're importing it. But nonetheless, every single country in the world has hydrogen or ammonia. So it gives us the ability to now eliminate the barrier to be able to have a clean source of energy rich in hydrogen to be able to support a hydrogen solution. So that's just one of the key things that I wanted to bring up to you, your viewers, is that hydrogen is no longer a barrier that most people have perception about in terms of why we can't use more hydrogen. Now that we have eliminated this barrier, you will see applications for fuel cell applications much more than we have in the past. Right, and to add to that, the other barrier that we have or that we see, especially here in Hawaii, which is a really remote set of islands in the middle of the Pacific is transportation. Transporting hydrogen, it's either gonna be liquid hydrogen, which is a really, really cold, complex element to be moving around. You need special carriers and equipment to do it, or high-pressure gaseous hydrogen, which requires a compressor to compress the hydrogen to 10,000 PSI or whatever. And that also has an impact on how available it is because the infrastructure to do either of those is expensive and doesn't pencil out, as they say, until you get to fairly large scale. So your company has kind of taken that slant that there's more than one way to skin a hydrogen cat, and that is to look at ammonia, which is NH3, like you mentioned. It's mostly a hydrogen, a little bit of nitrogen. It's available every place, and it can be transported just like any other liquid gas, water, or whatever in a tank, and then literally what we would call reformed, if for lack of a better term, near the fuel cell, and then the hydrogen goes into the fuel cell to do its work, great option. So we're gonna bring up some slides and let you talk to them, Alex. So the first slide coming up is basically your boilerplate slide about operational readiness. How well are you prepared? And that's really applicable around hurricane season here in Hawaii. The next slide is coming up on there. So those tools are the trade with the G5 backup power solution. So why don't you talk about the G5 system just a little bit? My solution is our solution specifically designed for backup power. So if you think of a UPS that has a very definable amount of energy stored in batteries, will only give you a certain amount of runtime for all your equipment based on that battery storage. So the more batteries you have, obviously the more runtime you're gonna be able to get. The problem with that is that it's a stored energy device. It's not a generation of energy device. So when you're talking about a long duration application where you'd need a lot more runtime than typically maybe 45 minutes to an hour, that's where it becomes a big problem because once that energy is consumed, there's no way else to replace it unless you hook up some other device that will actually generate the energy to recharge those batteries. So this is where Gentile came up with a hybrid solution where we take a fuel cell being the generator, we take the energy bridge, which is the box to your right, and that is basically your UPS. So the same application, the same functionality to some degree that you're getting from a traditional UPS is what we're using for a fuel cell solution called the G5. So when you ever have some equipment like servers, cell powers, or anything that requires immediate need when the utility power goes offline, this will give you the ability to have that instant flux of energy, but at the same time, when the energy starts to get in, the state of charge of the battery starts to degrade or lower, the fuel cell will automatically kick in and recharge those batteries on the fly. So in essence, you will always have a 100% charge on your batteries to ensure that as long as you have fuel, you will be able to keep operation only readiness of your facility. Right, and it's one of the biggest demands that we have with this type of technology. Yeah, that's why we focus on the term energy storage for hydrogen, because batteries do energy storage as well, but when you need to recharge them, it takes hours and the actual storage of energy and batteries, when you get to large scale, is very, very expensive and very inefficient. So what we look at is, a battery is good for, like you say, minutes to hours, but when you start to hit maybe a day, your battery energy storage becomes almost unaffordable and if you exceed a day, it's definitely unaffordable. Whereas hydrogen can be stored at many pressures in many ways with ammonia, and like you said, as a liquid or in pressured vessels that are relatively cheap, have a long shelf life. In fact, our friends in Arizona have hydrogen tanks that were used in 1917 and have been used every year since then and certified pressure checked since 1917. So 100 years, these tanks have been used. They've been paid for long ago. So that's a great point, Alex. I tell you what, we got another slide coming up and we're gonna take a quick break here and get you in with this next slide because, boy, time flies fast when you're having fun. Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on Think Tech Hawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me, where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaii Anna all across the sea from Hawaii and back again, aloha. Hello, I'm Yukari Kunisue. I'm your host of New Japanese Language Show on Think Tech Hawaii called Konnichiwa Hawaii, broadcasting live every other Monday at 2 p.m. Please join us, where we discuss important and useful information for the Japanese language community in Hawaii. The show will be all in Japanese. Hope you can join us every other Monday at 2 p.m. aloha. Hey, welcome back to my lunch hour, as usual here on Friday in Think Tech. It's now your turn to talk to Alex Solcido from GenCell about fuel cells, but a different variety of fuel cells, one that we haven't really seen on the market until his company started to bring him along. So let's go back to that first slide, Robert, and talk a little bit. That's the G5 backup power solution. He had a couple more comments to say about that, Alex. I did think things that I wanna highlight, just that when we're talking about fuel cell technology is that this type of fuel cells in particular, based on the alkaline type of technology, was actually used on the space shuttle, both on the Russian and US program. So, and the reason for that is because there's almost zero moving components inside of this fuel cell. It's all chemical reaction between, as you mentioned earlier, hydrogen and oxygen. But one of the biggest advantages when you're looking at a technology that's not only very resilient and robust and making sure that when you actually need the backup power, you actually are gonna get it on like some other technologies, like renewable technology, solar panels or wind, where you're highly dependent on mother nature providing the resources to be able to provide that resource to generate electrical energy, which they're unreliable. You get a cloudy day, you don't get it, or you're not able to generate as much energy. If the wind stops, all production ceases to exist. So, this type of technology really gives you the ability to generate hydra or energy on demand whenever you need it, and that's one of the biggest advantages. The second thing also is on the maintenance, considering that there is a very minimal amount of moving components or mechanical components, is that maintenance is typically done either once every year or once every six months depending on air quality and how often we would have to replace those air filters. The other thing too is that when we're looking at the application, as you mentioned earlier, stand that there is no emissions, there is no combustion, is whisper quiet operation. In a lot of applications, those are key features that you would want to have in any type of power generation application, because once you start adding the smoke, the noise and all the dirtiness associated with diesel power or natural gas or any of those mechanical power generators can become a real problem in certain urban areas. So, this kind of gives you a good alternative to that. Yeah, and back to our theme. Well, I tell people one of the ways you measure wasted energy is by heat. When you have an internal combustion engine of any kind running a generator, you're exhausting so much heat, that's all wasted energy. And so that's just, if you compare a fuel cell compared to an internal combustion engine running a generator, you're wasting an awful lot of energy. It's coming out as heat, not electricity. So we have your next slide is the G5RX. So why don't you explain the difference between that and the G5? It's another version of the G5. The G5RX is a solution specifically time for substation applications where basically a substation typically has a battery bank of batteries to provide backup power for systems within the utility substation. And the idea behind this is that, batteries are typically are designed at least in this particular application to provide enough power for approximately eight hours. Again, after eight hour period, the problem is that basically the whole system shuts down and the utility is not able to remotely turn these systems back on. And the biggest challenge that they have is that a lot of these substations are typically in very remote locations. So it could take anywhere between a couple of hours to five, six, seven hours at a time just to travel to these substations and either bring a generator, bring some more batteries or what have you.  So what this system does is that we created this solution in order to extend the range of those batteries. So you still may have those same battery banks that you have there for eight hours, 12 hours, whatever it may be. But then we also attach a charger that then our fuel cell converts energy to supply to the charger which then the charger charges the batteries. Or we can eliminate the charger directly and we'll just charge batteries. But the idea is that this will really extend the range of the ability for that substation to be able to have the power necessary to restore power to the substation so that the transmission lines can provide the power to the end user. And so this design was actually designed specifically with the support and guidance of some of one of the largest companies out west that help us develop a specific solution for what you're looking for in this type of application. Yeah, and in this application also, I noticed that it's also got seismic resistance. So it's really great for disaster applications as backup power because it's earthquake resistant which is directly related back to your limited number of moving parts and mechanical pieces that go together. They're very basic components that work together. Now you have another version, is it the A5 or the, yeah, the A5 equipment, is that the next slide? Yeah, A5 off the grid power solution. So what's the difference between the R5 and the A5? Great question. So the G5, the G5RX are typically utilized in emergency backup power, right? And the reason for that is because we typically store the hydrogen in either steel or composite cylinders. And obviously depending on how many cylinders we have in place will ultimately determine how much runtime you actually get. So we have to bring in the hydrogen in that respect. When we're talking about continuous power and what I mentioned earlier in terms of the biggest barrier why sometimes fuel starts are not more prevalent in the industry is because again, hydrogen is something that has to be brought in. It's not something that you can typically go to your neighborhood gas station and acquire that energy source. This is something that you have to contract out an industrial gas company to bring it in. And depending on what application you're doing they'll either bring it in in liquid form for large volumes or they'll bring it in already in gaseous form. But as you mentioned earlier, it requires high compression. So there's a lot of equipment involved. It's not something that the normal end user is always, is ever going to have at their facility. So it's something that you have to bring in on a regular basis. But if you're using it for backup, that's not an issue because you're only using it when it's absolutely necessary it's a backup application. So it's almost like having a diesel generator that you're going to have 30 gallons worth of fuel but at some point in time that 30 gallons is going to be consumed and you still have to bring somebody in to refill that tank. So give us some application with it. Some of the applications you've talked about too they're fairly small, maybe five or 10 kilowatts but this technology also scales really well. You can put multiple units in there to scale up to fairly large scale production including grid scale. Could you give us an example of how much hydrogen you could store like a 40 foot container and how long that would last before you'd have to go refill it if you brought in a 40 foot container of ammonia to run one of these systems? Merrily and tonnage, right? Okay. Because we're talking about a pretty fair amount of application here. So a one ton tank of ammonia will yield you approximately 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 30 days per time. Yeah, at five kilowatts. I'm sorry to say that again. At how many kilowatts? About four to four and a half kilowatts worth of energy. Okay.  Or using a 24 hours a week for 30 days. Yeah. So really the idea behind this was to bring in a large amount of fuel so that you basically could run continuously without having to worry about where you're gonna get the next tank of ammonia. The idea behind this also is that if you were to scale this up because it is scalable, so if you were to take a larger tank, say a six ton tank, well you're basically getting six months worth of full power for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These applications that we're referring to, things like a telecom application where you got a cell tower in the middle of nowhere. So whether you're using a diesel generator where you still have to bring in fuel on a regular basis because the consumption rate of diesel fuel is much higher on a diesel generator than it would ever be on our fuel cell. So the refueling process would have to occur more frequently with our technology as you can bring it in one time every six months. And that'll give you continuous power constantly with very low issues with maintenance, reliability issues. But more importantly, it gives you the fuel source that you need to make sure that your systems are operationally ready all the time. Yeah, that's really critical. And another point that we talked about earlier was with your hydrogen system versus the ammonia system, you don't have to use that same purity of hydrogen that the cars need. The vehicles need that five nines ultra pure hydrogen. But your hydrogen systems don't even require that high grade of hydrogen. What do they normally use? As you mentioned, a lot of the technology that's out there today is using the PEM, which is the proton exchange membrane, which is basically where all the magic happens in terms of over splitting up the proton electrons. Type of solutions, which is basically your car vehicles, forklift applications, some types of other types of stationary power, those all require ultra high purity levels, which is clinical grade basically, which is more than five nines. So in our technology, as we knew that that was also a barrier to use this more for the masses, and the cost of ultra high purity level hydrogen can also potentially be a barrier because of the cost. So what we did is we designed a solution that actually uses industrial grade, which is more prevalent out in the marketplace and the cost is significantly lower than it would be for clinical grade, which also when you're looking at your OPEX, makes more financial sense long term when you're looking at the total cost of ownership to make sure that you're using the most cost effective fuel source. That's really important. Well, believe it or not, Alex, we've bumped up against our 30 minutes here, and I wanna thank you again for calling in all the way from being on the road for a week and calling in from your car while you're driving home from the airport and spending some time with us here in Hawaii on ThinkTech. And we really appreciate it. We have about 10 more slides to go through with you, so you're gonna definitely have to come back and we'll talk a little bit more. So maybe in a couple of weeks we can get together and have you back on the show to spend a little bit more time talking about gen cell, especially if things start picking up and we start really seeing hydrogen move. So thanks again for being with us. Thank you very much. Okay, and for everyone out there in video land, thanks to you for watching. Thanks to Robert and Cindy here in the studio for making all the magic happen with the slides and the videos and everything that I can't make happen. And we look forward to seeing you in two weeks. Next week, Dave Mullen Erwin will be in with Ryan Wubbins to fill in for this spot so you can learn all about, I think they're gonna talk about girling and barbecuing so it may be something different than hydrogen and energy. So anyway, we'll see you in two weeks while I'm off in Detroit looking at things over there. Aloha.


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