All right, welcome back to insurance sells truth episode 3 your boy Cody was carriage a mentor sitting here with mr Nathan ransom. What's up, buddy? How's it going dude?  What what drew you to PNC home and health? I mean, I'm the life and health guy. I mean honestly, I love cars and And so okay, I get to see and play with lots of Cars and what's the nicest car you've ever insured? You don't have to get specifics, but we've had we've had some hummers. Okay, so the BMWs Okay, any Well, we live in Springfield, Missouri, but any any ferrari's no lambos Bentley's No Porsche There may have been a Porsche the other day, okay, if not, I may end up being your first Porsche insured I mean, I mean we're in Alexis, but you know what? This is one of the always loved Porsche, all right, so expensive to insure are there really? Yeah, dude. That's a myth. That's a myth That's good to know some on the coverage. Yeah, so what what's your? What do you like most about PNC? You know, I mean yeah, you're building something which is important as we drive by a Porsche We were just talking about a Porsche. What what what what what? What about PNC? Do you like so much? What do you love? I was just liking doing you know loving insuring vehicles and love for cars, you know I like being able to honestly I like servicing the policies and stuff so the connection with the people it goes beyond just Let me sell you a product. That's good. Let me you know, she like sell you an experience Exactly. So I'm always there. I like that. I always text me whatever You know what and I think that's the biggest difference between like a life guy and a and a PNC guy is that that customer service aspect, you know needing Take it need needing and wanting to be able to take care of customers is huge. I mean, I'm I'm more of a Transactional guy. Where's my next cell and and and who's got my money? You know, who's next? and You're more of the not that you're not selling and added clients, but you know from a customer service standpoint How do I get it? You know, how do I keep them on the books? Yep. What's uh, what's something about you? That nobody knows Well, my background is in counseling. So I'm a clinical health counselor. Okay, which helps a lot with connecting with people That's cool building relationship. Does that help an insurance business? I think so. I mean it helps me connect with people Yeah, do you read do you read people better than most?  Do you read people better than me? You know what he probably does surprisingly, I mean, I think I I do think I breathe people really well. I think that's important in this business Yeah, I Think that's a huge asset about it about to come in and freaking know what I'm thinking and what I'm going to do before I know what I'm gonna try how freaking cool is that? What's the what's the what's what's the What's the part of the PNC business where you're like, you know what? It it there was a learning curve. It took a you know, it took me to It wasn't easy, you know, it wasn't instant. It was you know, there's it's a grind to it. What's your response to that? Um, probably the commercial side of it. Um, that's probably the trickiest part because there's so many different forms and Accord forms you have to learn and how to do but once you once you get it, then it's just repetitive Absolutely, it's not too bad. Okay. Okay Uh I mean you're talking to a PNC agent and they're watching the video and they're like, hey, dude I am a new to the PNC. I'm with farmers. I'm with all state. I'm a state farm. I'm not with secure insurance group or whatever What would you say to them? I am struggling. I don't know what to do.  Well, I mean there's a lot of options But come talk to me one because we've got, you know, we've got five of the leading Um companies that are independent. Who you got? We've got nationwide Um nationwide it's all patent manning actually like the nationwide travelers. Okay, progressive safe co and foremost Um, and then we've got a couple brokerages that we can go through For how does that how does that help and benefit? Um, it gives you one It gives you a lot more options. My hands aren't tied. So and I'm not saying that, you know Some of these captive people are completely tied up, but Um, depending on the risk. I've got a company that I can almost always go to Who's your go-to? Who's your favorite? Uh, nationwide is my favorite. They won't hear this Nationwide is my favorite. Yeah. Um, just because of what you get for what you pay for well and the local the local guy, uh Tom tom triner. Yeah, cool dude. Yep. Good. Good guy. He's here nixie. So he comes and sees us and hangs out with us and All right, so what else from from an insurance sales truth? What else do you want to give? What else do you want to talk about? What else do you want to? Supply these agents that need help and they want to hear from you like like, okay Last second words of encouragement. Here's what I want to say to those agents that are thinking about quitting and Nathan The psychologist that likes to help people you've got a chance to help someone. What would you say? I mean, I honestly just keep just keep grinding because especially with p&c you get the renewals every year So your hard work now will pay off on day one of next year the next year I like that. Keep going. Keep moving forward. There is a sunny day in the future. Mr. Nathan Thank you, brother. Awesome job. Mr. Nathan Rainsworth secure insurance group right here in my office the p&c Legend in the making. Thanks for watching insurance sales truth. 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Hello citizens of Earth and welcome to tomorrow news. Very glad to have you here because this week Ryan is going to be talking about SpaceX sending up its next batch of satellites that make people like me, astronomers, quite nervous and I'll talk a little bit about why we're nervous with that and additional satellites going up as well. We're also going to cover NASA's lunar ambitions gaining a contract and projects. Projects are starting up again. Yay, projects. Before we officially get started just want to remind you of course that if you really like what we do here tomorrow don't forget to subscribe to us, like our videos, hit the notification bell, share our videos everywhere that you can because every little bit does help and we're here to try to get the cosmos out to as many people as possible. So let's go right into it because this is your tomorrow news for June 10th, 2020 and Ryan what have you got for us this week? The future for reusable capsules is bright as NASA and SpaceX have changed their contract to allow previously flown Dragon spacecraft to now carry humans into space. This is going to say SpaceX money as for every crew launch they won't have to build a whole new spacecraft although it does make me wonder will the name given by the previous crew stick around or will a new crew pick a new name? It's not only talks around Dragon reuse at the moment as the Falcon 9 has now flown for a record-breaking fifth time twice. This is getting us closer to Elon Musk's goal of 10 reflights of a Block 5 booster with little to no refurbishment which is very very exciting. The styling satellites for this flight have been equipped with sunshades to reduce the visible brightness here on Earth. In my opinion this is a good move by SpaceX to keep the astronomical community happy and not restrict their work whilst also not affecting the logical cadence of the satellites. The B1049 booster landed on what would usually be known as the West Coast Drone Ship Just Read the Instructions which was moved from the port of Los Angeles to Port Canaveral late last year although the drone ship named Just Read the Instructions wasn't actually the original Just Read the Instructions. Marmac 300, better known as Just Read the Instructions 1 was first announced to the world in October 2014 after SpaceX announced that they had contracted a shipyard in Louisiana to build it. On the 10th of January 2015 the first attempted landing occurred as part of the CRS-5 mission however this landing failed. 13 days after the launch Musk announced that the ship would to be named Just Read the Instructions after one of the general contact units found in Ian Banks the Player of Games. A sister ship was also announced and following the same name and convention it was to be named of course I still love you and it was planned for West Coast operations. If you're now confused on why everything is flipped don't worry because it's about to make sense. After the other failed landing attempt of CRS-6 Just Read the Instructions was retired and a lot of the parts were removed in order to make a new upgraded version. During this time of course I still love you was put in place to serve as the Atlantic drone ship where it still remains today. The remains of Just Read the Instructions were then placed onto a hull which would eventually bear the same name which would then be sent over to the West Coast to support launches from Slick 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January of 2018 SpaceX announced a fourth drone ship to be named a shortfall of Gravitus. It was planned to enter service in mid 2019 however as we can see that hasn't happened. It is planned to go alongside of course I still love you supporting launches from both Launch Complex 39A and Slick 40 as there is a lot of planned launches from the Space Coast. Because this drone ship has not been constructed and SpaceX knew that they needed an extra drone ship for their hectic schedule they decided to bring around Just Read the Instructions to Florida where some of the drone ship had sort of helped with a not successful landing a few years earlier. Starship has now become SpaceX's largest priority and it is no question why it has as the production down in Boca Chica is absolutely shocking. Only two weeks after we lost SN4 SN7 is now under construction with the launch pad being prepared for SN5 testing. Another nose cone has also made its appearance and these things appear to be popping out of thin air at this point because the team is so quick producing these massive rocket parts. It's really good to see SpaceX addressing the problem with the Starlink brightness however one of their competitors has recently asked the FCC for approval for their own satellites so Jared take it away. Indeed Ryan and the bankrupt one web actually did put in a license to the FCC for 48,000 additional satellites in their constellation. Now if you take that and you add that to the number of satellites that are proposed by everyone all together that means that there would be over a hundred thousand satellites orbiting the earth and that would be a tremendous problem for ground-based astronomy. Credit where credit is due though SpaceX they are working closely with the American Astronomical Society to determine how to minimize the impact of their specific contributions to mega constellations with Starlink. Also Amazon's Project Kuiper is doing so as well but those other groups like OneWeb, Telesat and Boeing who all now have proposals for mega constellations they're as silent as space itself. This is an immensely complex subject for me and quite messy. As an astronomer myself I really want unfettered access to the skies I mean that's how we get our data that's how we understand the universe that's how we make these breakthroughs in technology and physics but at the same time I really do truly want internet to every single person especially those who can't access it. In a global survey conducted by the American Astronomical Society with 23 observatories a majority responded that yes even a relatively small mega constellation of 1500 satellites would impact their ability to observe and half of those observatories responded that the individual impact to observations alone would be catastrophic. The Vera Rubin telescope which will be one of the most potent telescopes at our disposal when it officially begins study sometime in 2022 is predicted to have up to 500 satellites visible all night long during summer. Yes all night long 500 satellites in its field of view and the argument is always made as well that oh well you know when these satellites are going to be going past so just don't do the observations at that time or prevent the satellite from being seen on the sensor that you're using use those little micro shutters in order to make that happen or use some powerful computer algorithms to get rid of the streak that's there or my personal favorite which shows me that you really don't know about telescopes oh just chuck it right into space those are all tremendously expensive i can't even begin to tell you how expensive a space telescope is if you'd like to just uh look at the james web space telescope now those are all not realistic solutions so right now this is quite a Kobayashi maru of a situation there's really no winning for anybody involved in some good news the lunar gateway continues to build steam nasa has formally issued the contract to northrop grumman to commence design and preliminary design review for the habitation and logistics outpost module for a cool 187 million dollars it's important to note that with this contract it covers the design all the way up to the preliminary design review so uh if they actually want to end up building the module they're probably going to have to do a whole new contract and in addition to that this was sole sourced just to northrop grumman themselves but after all they do have experience in building modules with the sygnus spacecraft which they're looking at basically using an upgraded system for the halo module now there were no launches this week but look at this we have got a lot of upcoming launches with the beginning of the covid 19 pandemic nasa decided to rightfully pull back their workforce on a lot of the projects that they are working on but they are starting to let some people begin to get back to work integration and testing of the james web space telescope were underway when covid 19 began to interfere with that work and personnel was dialed back to low levels northrop grumman was originally running 12 shifts a week at 10 hours of work but during the pandemic they had to scale that back to five shifts a week at eight hours of work that means that web will likely experience another delay to its march 2021 launch date but hopefully with the increasing work on the space telescope starting to ramp up that slip won't be as bad as those that we've had in the past and you know really this isn't a criticism this delay due to the covid 19 pandemic that is one that legitimately can be said to be the fault of no one involved in this project nasa stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy also known as sofia is resuming operations this month as well it's a 2.5 meter infrared telescope in the back of a 747 sp that's flown to an altitude above most of the water vapor in our atmosphere which allows it to do proper infrared astronomy and it's an invaluable tool for astronomers that's been sorely missed since its grounding back in march and hopefully the upcoming budget for nasa doesn't continue these several previous year's attempts to mothball it near-earth object programs operated as best they could continuing to hunt for things that may one day slam into the earth several teams are now evaluating procedures for how to handle the potential of an impactor being discovered during a pandemic something that they have dubbed disaster layering and work for one of my favorite upcoming missions the neo surveillance mission using a space telescope to hunt for near-earth objects has continued unabated and as was noted in our upcoming launches rocket lab is back to work launching at 0443 tomorrow morning as you found out in my traditions last week i'll bring the donuts you bring the pancakes and to wrap up this week's edition of tomorrow news i just want to thank each and every one of you who helps contribute to the shows of tomorrow we really can't do this without you and each and every one of you who helps us out you are absolutely amazing it's greatly appreciated and if we ever meet in person make sure to get a high five from me now if you'd like to contribute to the shows of tomorrow head on over to youtube.com slash tmro slash join to do so and check out all of the great rewards that we have available to you at different levels of support it's more than just me giving you a high five or at least an iou for a high five you can check out things like our discord server and even get certain levels in our discord to see what's going on now of course watching our shows liking and subscribing setting up notifications and sharing us everywhere that you can is an incredible help as well and that's cco8 for this edition of tomorrow news thank you so much for joining us this week and until the next one remember stay safe stay healthy and keep exploring


Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another iPhone tutorial on this one. We're in iOS or iOS 15, and I'm going to show you how to move the address bar or what some people refer to as the search bar at the bottom of Safari or at the bottom of your browser back to the top, like the old versions, like 14 and before. This is a new change, and it can be a little off-putting for some people, especially for those of us that don't like change. All right, it's very easy to do, but there's a couple steps. The first step, you want to open up settings. So I've clicked on the settings app or the little icon, and then you're going to see something like this. Go down a little bit. And when you find the Safari under settings, you'll see Safari. Click on that, and then you're going to see a few options. You're going to see something like this. Head down to the bottom and then under tabs, which is right here. You'll see that tab bar is default selected. Instead of clicking tab bar, go back to single tab. When you do that, we're just going to close out of this. I'm just going to close it up and I'm going to reload. And then all of a sudden you'll see here at the top that we have our search bar or our address bar at the top again. That's all there is to it, guys. I hope this tutorial helped. I got a ton more stuff coming up.


where it really astonished me is in just almost any aim that I had, I could harness the five senses to do it. So if I wanted to calm myself down, I could do it through the five senses. If I wanted to give myself energy, I could do it through the five senses. If I wanted to spark my creativity, I could do it through the five senses. If I wanted to fall asleep, if I wanted to be more productive, if I wanted to connect with other people, if I wanted to listen better, just about anything, there was a way to do it through the five senses. And what I like about it is, first of all, it's very concrete, because sometimes with these aims, they can feel kind of transcendent and abstract. And it's not that anybody doesn't agree that they're a good idea. It's kind of like, okay, what do I do tomorrow? The five senses, this is stuff that we can do without spending any time, energy or money. It's like very much within our, like really within our grasp, literally. And it feels very tangible. And also it feels fun. I think a lot of people would approach the five senses in kind of a meditative way, or like a very sophisticated way, like let's have a sip of coffee for 20 minutes and really analyze them. But I think you can also just do it in a fun way. And I found it so energizing and freeing and playful. And I found I was connecting with people and we were just having fun together and laughing like through whatever sense we were sharing. And I think for a lot of people, they're really eager for that. That's why so many things build themselves as immersive because as much as people go on about the metaverse, people are really more interested in the universe. And so I was just really surprised on how it was this, it was sort of this tool that could be applied in so many ways. It was so flexible and yet it was so easy and fun to use, which are sometimes things that are very useful, take a lot of discipline or a lot of effort to deploy. This one, the five senses turned out to be a lot of fun. Let's unpack that. Cause there's a few examples that I'd love to explore. One that really stood out to me and I think a lot of people in our audience will be struggling with this is those cravings that we have, whether it's for salty or sweet. And oftentimes they feel insatiable. Like I need to have that extra M&M. I need to have that extra Pringle. And you shared that just engaging in other sense entirely could diminish that craving that you're having, which is counterintuitive when you think about how strong that craving is for that one sense. Absolutely. This is something that I stumbled upon in effect that I stumbled upon, but it turns out it works really well. I've heard from a lot of people. So say it's the middle of the afternoon and you have that urge to have an unhealthy snack. So you're feeling restless or bored or listless and you want to give yourself a little charge. So you're turning to the sense of taste, which is a classic move. But what you can do is you can turn to a different sense instead. So like John loves music, so maybe he saves new music to listen to in kind of that down period. Or I love the sense of smell. So I could go smell something really wonderful.   And I'm not sure it could be that this is just a distraction. And it works like in my book better than before I talk about the strategy of distraction.  And because now you're going to do something else, that just distracts you. That's the strategy of distraction. So that's a good strategy. Or it could be that it really is that the body is seeking stimulation, that you are craving some kind of sensory stimulation. It's like a cell phone that needs to be plugged into the wall. You need a little shot of energy. And so you're just trying to give yourself some stimulation and you can substitute one for the other. I don't know which is truly an operation. It's probably a combination of both, but whichever is at work, it is effective. And you can just instead of, you know, heading for the vending machine, you do something else. You give yourself a different source of sensory stimulation and then your urge to snack goes away.


So we're here in Thessaloniki at the nanotechnology conference and hi, so who are you? Well, I'm Ravi Silva. I'm the director of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey. I also act as an advisor to the Sri Lankan government with regard to energy and nanotechnology. So the University of Surrey is just outside London, right? That's correct. It's about 25 miles south of London and we specialize particularly in providing solutions to everyday problems. So as a university we are a top ten university very much oriented towards the applied sciences. And so you focusing on doing things that are real in the real life and that becomes useful? Absolutely. I think the whole point of research and our university is about finding solutions to society and one of the great challenges that we have are the grand challenges faced by humanity at present and these are so significant that we need to have multidisciplinary teams that work in a synergistic manner to solve these both scientifically, technologically so that there are engineering solutions that are provided. So I guess there's a lot of different fields that are covered, that are worked on. One of them that you're talking about here is stuff like this, right? This could potentially change the world? Absolutely. Probably the greatest problem faced by humanity at present is energy. In fact, if you look at the work that was sponsored initially by Rick Smalley, the Nobel laureate who discovered Bucky Balls, he asked some of his Nobel laureate friends as well as policy makers, what are the greatest challenges faced by humanity in the next 50 years? When he compiled the data, he was surprised to see that energy was number one and when you start thinking about this, you can find out why energy is even higher than poverty, food or water. Simply because if you have unlimited sources of energy, you can do desalination, you can do greenhouses that provide your foods. So as a result, if you can solve the energy crisis, there are many other problems, grand challenges that can be also addressed. So in society we are doing impressive stuff with energy but we need to master it much better, right? That is correct. At present, energy is one of those very strange phenomena where it does not follow any standard economic principle. If you think of the standard models associated with supply and demand, you would say that the supply dictates the demand and the cost associated with that. But energy just baffles everyone. So for example, the sunlight that we see in this beautiful day in Thessaloniki, there's around 165,000 terawatts of energy coming on a daily basis. Whole of humanity put together would use about 10 to 15 terawatts on a daily basis. So there is this huge oversupply of energy coming to the earth from the sun that we are not utilizing. Ten times more than what we need? Ten thousand times more than what we need. So it's a huge factor really. So we just need to take a small piece of it and we have free energy. That's absolutely correct and that's basically what drives myself and my group. That we hope that by just taking a small fraction, 0.01% of the energy that is radiating the earth and we can solve the world's greatest problem which is energy. So if I just stand right here, when Thessaloniki is very bright sunny day, where are the solar panels going to be? There seems to be a lot of space everywhere but there's got to be studies about where you put them, right? And there's lots of space for them? There are studies as to where you need to put them and that also highlights one of the major problems associated with it because at present the world is based on centralized grid based energy provision. In the future it has to be much smarter and actually that's where the name comes from on smart grids. The whole idea is that you will have micro and mini grids all over the world that starts providing energy for those various regions. Now by doing so you reduce the energy loss that you see in transmission lines typically from the point at which energy is produced to the point at which the consumer uses it there is over 50% of the energy lost in transmission. So you can just imagine that energy that's not just lost to humanity but it heats the environment too. So as a result the consequences are absolutely dire. So we are losing 50% now in the system we have now? Absolutely right. We are losing more than 50% in the system and it doesn't matter which system you use, whether it's based on power generation on coal or whether it's based on gas petroleum products all of these lose around 50% of the energy particularly when you have grid based transmission lines associated with it. So every time you have an up converter or a down converter to regulate your voltage there is energy loss associated with it. So if I'm just going to film here one more time how do you build a smart grid? Is it relatively straight ahead? Do people know how to do this or is it like you need to invent new things? It's a bit of both, technology is such that you could take the example of the Apple iPad the iPad really has created a major revolution in terms of technology the way you run meetings, the way you have data at your fingertips in order to run your various meetings. Now when the iPad initially came it wasn't a revolutionary technology it was purely bringing together of different technologies that already existed. Capacitive touch? Absolutely all of that came about purely based on technology that was invented probably 10 years before that. So much like that in the case of the smart grid we have all those components around us it's really about bringing them together. The most important part of this is being able to facilitate the energy capture and that's where solar cells comes in. So your original question as to where do solar cells sit? Solar cells can be grid based or off grid based. I think the typical idea that I would have is every rooftop that you see should have some sort of solar cells on there. Now if within those buildings itself that it can provide just the air conditioning provision for those buildings on sunny days such as these you're probably going to reduce your energy consumption by 20% or more on the energy used to cool your buildings and the irony really at the end of the day is that in the colder climates during winter you're probably using 20% of your energy bill to heat the buildings. So once more the idea is that you will be able to have lower carbon footprints of your building by using the energy during the peak hours and then if you're not at home and using your electricity you could have a way of paying it back through a feed-in tariff to the smart grid that keeps these centralized energy systems that can then be used by others. Another example of where the smart grid could work hugely in favour of changing the human mindset is electric cars. So for example if we were to take the transportation sector which is dominated by fossil fuels over 80% of your energy comes from fossil fuels now if we were to try and decarbonize that particular sector you'd need to go to electric vehicles and now once everyone has an electric vehicle that means they have their energy storage capacity within their household i.e. in their car so you could potentially use solar cells in order to travel and fill in your lithium ion battery or any other type of battery that you might be using for your car but during the night it could act as your storage point where other sunnier climates would be charging your batteries for you while it gets stored for later use within your own household. At peak time requirements the energy would come back from the batteries throughout the smart grid and if every single car is on a big portion gets electric there will be a lot of storage in there but is anyone already doing the smart grid or are they just talking about it? I think in academic circles this is being looked at as something that is being researched actively but it needs government policy it needs some sort of governance to come in to set the infrastructure in place that makes it a reality. It's not cheap right but it's required we need a smart grid. Again I would say in terms of costing the smart grid will need some sort of capital to get it started but it's not the huge amounts that you're talking about with the current grid based electric system because it's much smarter it's smaller networks where you don't need to have large transmission lines associated with it. So it's more efficient it loses less of the power than current systems? That is correct it is significantly more efficient it's smarter because you can modulate the energy that is used you can use artificial intelligence in order to predict where you're going to need your peak energy supplies and the classic example of the vehicle we were talking about you could get into your vehicle go to your office and while you're in your office sitting in your office your car would be connected to your smart grid that then allows you the provision of using the energy or storing the energy as what would be needed in your building and therefore with smart technology for metering you could even make some money going to the office not just by doing your work but also by your car actually discharging some of the energy stored at your home place or street side using solar cells to capture it. So you're in the UK and Theresa made this cool thing on her way out right where she puts targets and now it's going to happen in the UK and the EU everybody's talking about green green green all the time everybody's like this is the number one priority right now so now they need to put the action where their words are right now this things are going to happen right very soon. Things have to happen very soon otherwise the potentialities of climate change hitting us and all the gas and fossil fuel CO2 gases that have gone out will probably start changing the way we live so I think the various provisions that the UK government are putting in place and in order to be carbon neutral by 2050 is extremely required. It's positive even though she does it last days, she could have done it in the first days but anyways it's happening now hopefully and can you show because you had that presentation yesterday kind of like at the opening. Yes so this is very interesting because what I wanted to try to show was that when it comes to energy the changes that we see within the world usage is quite slow so if we were to compare the energy usage in 2010 to the energy usage that we see today in 2018 the change of renewables hasn't been very significant typically for the last 10-15 years we've stood at about 80% fossil fuels and 20% renewables that's because it's so difficult to make change we as humans and society are ingrained in using fossil fuels what it needs is a significant boost in order to change our lives to start using renewables. Now in order to do so we currently use solar cells based on silicon. Silicon provides nearly 90% of your solar energy but we can do better because silicon needs about 100 microns of thickness in order to absorb the energy that we require for energy harvesting. Now to put that into context 100 microns is about the diameter of a human hair so two diameters of a human hair side by side will be the thickness of the silicon you need. Now the new materials we are using and working on called polymer electronics or polymer solar cells have come to the fifth generation of technologies and in looking at these sort of technologies what we want to do is to be able to harvest that same amount of energy with 200 nanometers so if you notice there's a scale there from 200 microns to 200 nanometers it means that you're using a thousandth of the thickness of what we used previously to harvest the same amount of energies that the silicon solar does with polymer solar cells. It doesn't mean a thousand times cheaper no? It doesn't necessarily mean it's a thousand times cheaper but you're absolutely right. Due to the scale of reduced material usage you're using a thousandth of that material so by definition the cost of your material is going to be much lower but saying that the technology that we're using to produce these solar cells based on organic materials is sprayable so it's much like painting much like putting coating on your roof or your wall what we're doing is using solution processable inks that are produced in layers such that they can harvest the energy that we require. Is it so what's happening here? So this is a this solar cell is a classic example of a solar cell that is going to be there on your rooftops on your cars on your windows on the wall yes so as you can see it's truly flexible it's made out of layers of materials that starts with a metal grid on the back that metal grid is on plastic and above that metal grid you would have a number of layers that allow you to capture the sunlight and that is topped up with a transparent material in this particular case. And this can just be done by roll to roll potentially very very cheaply. It's the same technology that's used for your newspaper runs so the idea is that with the scale of manufacture with large numbers square kilometers of organic solar cells being produced we will be able to get as cheap as newspapers so your initial summation that indicated can we go to a thousandth of the cost of a silicon solar cell may not be that bad a prediction but I would say right at the beginning you're probably talking about an order of magnitude lower but that's amazing if you can do that yes the order of magnitude itself is quite incredible because at present if we were to compare the cost of energy provision from silicon based solar to fossil fuel based electricity they are comparable so for example at present just last week in California they provided an auction for four hundred megawatts of electrical energy and that four hundred watts of electrical energy was auctioned off at point zero one nine dollars per kilowatt hour so that's basically just under two cents per kilowatt hour so per megawatt hour you're probably talking about twenty dollars to put that into context within the UK nuclear energy is being provided or is being requested from Hinkley Point C at ninety five pounds per megawatt hour on a thirty five year payback deal so when we are the government is trying to buy nuclear at ninety five pounds we can provide silicon based renewable solar energy at twenty so five times cheaper already it's five times cheaper already you do have to look at the point that in the case of solar at the moment due to its intermittency you need to have the storage capability too it needs to have its infrastructure and as I said the smart grid so there are kids in the electric cars yes at least yes so these are the different provisions that need to be there before we can start really thinking about the availability of total solar power based electricity but people buy a lot of cars every year so if you just have a large percentage of all the new cars and pretty rapidly over two or three years try to have a majority of them be electric maybe you could have the smart grid and before like three or four years and five years from now well I think that is happening and once more the UK government have taken the lead there where they said by 2030 there will be no more fossil fuel only based vehicles being provided through the national network so just to put that into context within the next ten years there will be no petrol only cars being sold in the UK that's a great yes in China in certain cities it's even faster where certain ministers have come out and said by 2035 they want to start removing fossil fuel only based cars so number of countries and a number of European nations also have similar provisions being put within their governance structure to fast forward this adaptation adoption of electrical cars electrical vehicles in order to save the planet as well as provide cheap energy is there other ways to store the energy other some other things are being researched could you use for example huge tanks of hydrogen or something like that there are many many routes in which you can store electricity and as we currently know even today if you didn't have nuclear you need to have some way of providing continuous electrical supply so a typical example is hydroelectricity where during low usage you would pump water up to hills or higher places and then during peak hours you would use that to run your turbines a fly wheels is another technology that is being used even today to store energy fly what fly wheels where basically you just have a wheel that is turning and and you keep turning it faster and faster using oversupply of energy and you decrease the speed whenever you want to pull the energy out of those fly wheels the fly wheels or the water based systems are they efficient enough they also lose a lot of power they do lose some power but again they are as efficient as you can get at present for the scale in which we want to work with but just for backup when it's very very cloudy right yes and and probably probably the most exciting area currently is energy storage and in energy storage too there's huge leaps and bounds being made it's not just lithium ion lithium sulphur that is coming sodium ion batteries but many other types of new energy storage for example in the older days if you took your laptop and you had one hour of battery life that would have been quite significant my current computer has ten hours of battery life so within the time frame of five years you're probably talking about a ten times increase in the capacity and what we are also seeing is that there is about a twenty percent decrease in the cost of batteries lithium ion batteries at present and with newer technologies coming on board I can only see the cost of energy storage getting lower and lower to match the reduction in cost we are seeing in the solar energy provision too Do you think the sodium or another technology is going to replace lithium ion soon? There are other technologies that are coming that are certainly competitive Maybe cleaner or what's called easier to make cheaper? Yes there are cheaper materials and also we don't even have to go down that route of sodium or lithium based ions we can do even super capacitors and pseudo-capacitors but these are much more used when you need to have fast power delivery there are mixtures of both super capacitors and lithium ion batteries so there are a number of areas in which this is being looked at and within the UK once more we've got the Faraday Challenge which is a 280 million pound program set up by the government that is purely looking at new ways in which energy can be stored And in your presentation you also talk more about the efficiency so what's the latest in terms of technology matching or potentially perhaps exceeding the silicon based efficiency of solar maybe also most importantly the cost right? Yes so it's a very interesting point that we currently have that if you think of just purely plastic purely plastic electronics on a daily basis these new technologies coming on board and what I'm showing you here is some new non-fulerene acceptors that have come on the market and with this sort of non-fulerene acceptors these are materials that can be used with polymers over large areas we are getting over 10% power conversion efficiency in fact we can push this up to 16% Are you talking about what's going on here? Yes that is correct so technically we can go up to 16% Now on the other hand we can also start looking at the newest materials the newest kid on the block where we have materials that have come through called perovskites and these perovskites are pushing on to 24% now 24% is very significant because that's beyond silicon. So you can do perovskite with this? Yes this is the same technology that we will be using for perovskite materials and looking at the perovskite provision it is really a very cheap technology some would say it's cheaper than earth the whole point of this is that it's some of the cheapest materials that are being used but like everything else there are the plus and the minus points and in the case of perovskites the highest efficiency materials currently is using lead based compounds so once more due to the toxicity there are certain precautions we need to take but we will be once more looking within the research sector on how we reduce the perovskites that are being used or mitigate against that particular material system because we are talking about small small fractions we are talking about less than 0.1% of the entire material build with being just perovskites. Is it possible to replace lead with something else? We are working on replacing lead with tin at present unfortunately that will reduce the efficiency of our devices so for example you could take something that is working at 20 to 24 degree percentage efficiency down to probably something more around 14 so we are losing but we keep we keep inventing different types of materials that can keep reducing the cost so I think on one hand we are looking at the next generation of plastic electronics that are coming through but on the other hand we already have silicon based technologies that can certainly compete grid electricity so I think that is the key thing that we need to work on and if I can just show you one further chart as to how cheap can solar get and this basically is showing that if we keep deploying silicon in the current manner for solar by 2035 there is a good chance that the cost of electricity from solar will be half that of any fossil fuel based system just to put it into context if you were to go and look at your electricity bill today you will probably be paying something like 15 cents of a dollar for every kilowatt hour that you are consuming and if I were to say that with solar I can provide that at 3 cents per kilowatt hour now wouldn't you want to change your power supply change your lifestyle and also help save this earth that's the proposition I have for you today in using silicon or other new technology based solar in order to provide your energy in terms of changing lifestyle to me it sounds like you could be using even more energy and be cleaner that is correct you could certainly be consuming more having more fun on this planet it doesn't have to be like you're hurting to be green that is correct but at the end of the day what we all would like to do is to democratize the whole process of energy and at the present time we in the west are using probably on average 5 times more energy than some of our Asian colleagues or African colleagues so as a result if we are truly trying to be democratic in terms of energy usage we need to start having energy efficiency gains within the western world at present within the western world on average in the US you would probably be using about 10 kilowatts on a daily basis in terms of energy provision whereas in Europe on average you are talking about 2.5 kilowatts in terms of Africa you are talking about less than a kilowatt so as a result we really do need to start becoming more democratic with the energy and there is no fun in just wasting energy absolutely right nobody is gaining anything to be smarter and humans we are quite smart sometimes it is a little bit sad if the smart brains are not being used and somehow you know what I mean I do understand and I think the key point that you made there was the fact that if we were to just waste energy for the sake of instead of walking down 500 metres or taking your car that is fully air conditioned to drive to that point that is a luxurious way of living whereas on the other hand many other people depend on energy to such an extent that they don't have electricity in the rural community so therefore it is a luxurious way of style for us but it is an absolute necessity in some of the third world developing countries that need this electricity not just in order for school kids to learn in the nights to be able to read up books to be able to connect to the internet and tap the vast amount of energy and knowledge that is out there that we take for granted I have a feeling that it looks like a lot of technologies exist it is just a question of somebody saying it has to be done but on the other hand how much technology needs to be found if there is a will there is a way of doing things I am a great believer in that and at present I think we just need to have a number of world leaders from developing nations and developed countries to work together in order to find certain areas in which we can demonstrate our technology I am pretty sure that we will be able to demonstrate this in countries such as Singapore already and it really is about scaling it up next to provide this and then provided to everybody in the world all the developing countries can have better access to energy and that would be amazing for them that is the dream the dream is that everyone has free energy and if necessary someone pays for their supply so it is a bit like data at the present time you go to the developed countries you go to Singapore, you go to Hong Kong you go to the various airports in all major cities you have a free internet connection you have unlimited data downloads I believe electricity can also be sold in a similar manner simply because if you think that there is a 10,000 oversupply of solar electricity at present there is no money in trying to charge people for the electricity bills it should be a service industry and much like the air, water that we have around us it should be provided free of charge is there any chance in the next 5 years we have a role like this that is as efficient or more efficient than silicon and that is unbreakable it stays on the walls and no roofs without breaking or something like that or easily replaceable to a point where it is a no brainer I think it is going to be a no brainer I don't think we do need to replace silicon with this sort of plastic electronics because in everything in life it is about an energy mix it is about having silicon where silicon is appropriate where organics are appropriate but to put it into context as to whether you need it to last a lifetime or not organic materials such as the ones we are looking at in this case has a payback time of less than one year to put that into context if I were to buy silicon solar in order for me to pay back the capital it will take me around 6 to 8 years at present which is already okay I would think yes it is already okay because it used to be 20 years any bank would say this is a no brainer to invest should be yes now in organics you are actually talking about less than a year probably 6 months now just imagine that right you spray coat your house every 6 months right because your energy provision has already paid for the cost of implementing that change but you don't need to do it every 6 months we don't need to do it every 6 months but that's the sort of aspects that you could have because these solar cells will last you up to 2 years and in time with increased stability we will probably go up to 5 years so as a result after your initial period of payback of 6 months the rest of it is going to be free energy for you because your capital has already been paid for with the electricity that you've used


Hi, my name is Jesper and I'm part of the SD TouchDFX team. In this video I will give you an introduction to the Gauge widget, which has been added to the TouchDFX version 4.16. I have a new TouchDFX application in the designer. I'll add a box just as a background, like this. And then I'll add the Gauge. You can find it here. I'll put it in the center. You can see the Gauge already has a background image and a needle. It has a style called the Standard Gauge 1. Here we also have a Standard Gauge 2. So as all other widgets, when you have selected a style, it will preset some of the properties for that widget. So in this case the background image, the rotation center, the angles and so on. As for all other widgets, you can press the question mark on the top here and you'll see a link to the TouchDFX documentation page describing this particular widget. Here you'll find all the key properties and the description of those. You will also find a link in the bottom to the API reference for that particular widget. So let's have a look at the properties set for this Standard Gauge 1. The background image, where it is the background here, of course. The rotation center, well that is where the rotation center of the gauge is. In this case where the image of the needle will be persistent. So you can see I can change it here. The angle is the angle in which the minimum and the maximum values of the gauge will be represented at. So you can see we have a value range here, so the minimum is 0 and the maximum is 100. If I put this to 0 you can see we are hitting the minus 90 degree angle here and if I write 100 it will go like this. So we can try and run the simulator and see that we get this behavior that we see on the canvas in the designer. So we have the needle positioned a bit out here. Type in 125 again and we see that it will be positioned in the center. For the needle itself we see we have these properties down here. So we have of course the image of the needle. We have the rotation center of the needle, so that is the point in the needle which will be put on top of the rotation center of the gauge itself. Then we have two properties here. So that is the rendering algorithm when the needle is moving and the rendering algorithm when the needle is steady, so not moving. The needle itself is drawn by a texture mapper widget which is the same texture mapper as you can add here, like this. So it is the same way of drawing it. It has two options, so nearest neighbor which is pretty fast to render but not completely perfect in image quality and the binary linear interpolation is much better quality but it is a bit harder on the microcontroller to draw. So that was the basic setup of the properties for this gauge widget. So let us try to make it update the value of the gauge. I am now opening the project here. I am opening it with your studio but you can open it in whatever editor you would like to. Here I have the header file of the screen 1 view. You can see if I open the screen 1 view base this is where I have my box 1 and my gauge 1. To update it during execution normally you would have some sort of readout of some meter and that would enter into the model class you would propagate it to the presenter and onto the view but here I am just going to simulate it by implementing the handle tick event so that is called each tick in TouchDFX. I implement it in the CPP file so if I just do like this so I can use update value let me just get the current value of the gauge plus 1 and it takes an argument called duration so that is the duration of the update so how long would it take to reach this value so in this case I will just do an instant update which is entering the value 0. Compiling and running so we will see it animate to the maximum and then just stay there because I am just adding 1, 2 whatever value it has. As you might remember we put in the value range 0 to 100 so if I go back to my code here and let's say add a modifier value here so now I add 1 to it but let's say so if the current value is either the maximum or the minimum so equal 0 or if it is equal to 100 then I will change the direction so modifier multiplied by minus 1 we go back and forth here but we put in the value range here and the designers are from 0 to 100 maybe it is not the best design to just have a magic number here 0 and 100 so if I would like to change that I could use the get range method in the gauge widget so if I have a minimum value and a max value here so I could say gauge 1, get range so this one will get you the range and it takes as an argument a reference to an integer so I can add my minimum value and my maximum value here and I will get those and then I could put in minimum value and maximum value instead so a little bit nicer so this is just to show you that there is a range of methods here you can pick and choose from to get the values from the gauge widget itself and it still works okay let's look at another feature of the gauge widget which is the arc so you are not limited to having a needle or a texture matter changing angle you can also add an arc to your gauge I will demonstrate that by adding another gauge to my application I will put that one here so if I select the style 2 it will show exactly that so here if I change this you can see it is not only the needle which is changing but also this arc here the behavior and properties of the arc is very similar to that of the needle so down here you see it now says use arc it is basically a circle known as like the circle widget itself so here we can either choose an image or a column in this case it is an image so we can go and have a look at the image so we have this background with the grey background for the arc and then we have this arc here which is a circle which kind of changes thickness so we use that one we have a set arc position which places the arc inside of the gauge so in this case it is because the image of this arc is not the size of the gauge itself so we need to place it in the correct location and then just as a circle we have a radius on a line width and a cap style also if you want that you can position the arc on top of the needle force it to be on top of the needle if you want to and let's just animate it just as gauge 1 we have the same value range and the same initial value so we should be able to just go here and copy this line here so the modifier will still work if not we need it 1 for the gauge 2 as well so let's compile here run see it animate so that is the basic settings for the arc if you want to learn more about it play around with it and see what will happen in this case we could try to add one in the gauge 1 so I have here so let's say radius 50 and line width so 0 it will be a full arc if it says 2 it will do like this we can make it a bit bigger like this 6 the round ending and it should be just to run the simulator and you will see that it now has an arc as well so this is just the color so not an image like this one over here so just one plain symbol color whereas this has very in the thickness but also in the color I believe but yeah play around with it and see what you can make of it the last thing I would like to show you is how to use this duration when updating so if we jump to the the code once again we will need to have an integer tick counter here so we can we can hold the update for one of the gauges so let's have here so we have a tick counter now that is increasing each tick so here for number 2 we will say if tick counter models like what should we say 30 is equal to 0 then we want to update so only each 13th time so we can see how that looks with the duration of 0 here so that will be an instant update once in a while you can see it moves if we change the ok so maybe this modifier thing is a little bit boring we only see it move slightly so if we say plus 30 times the modifier we will see a bigger change ok if we change the duration so let's say we will use 20 ticks for the update and then we will have 10 ticks of pause and then run again so like this it will move in a nice behavior we can change the movement here if we say activate this one and then the easing we put an easing back so we could have like a cubic with the ease in out generate the code back here and now the movement of the needle will be slightly different following that particular easing equation so this feature is useful if you are not receiving new values for your gauge all the time if you get that each tick well then of course you should just use instant updates or close to each tick if you have like a second between your readings well then an animation to the new value will probably look better the last thing I would like to show you is the example for gauge so if you create a new project you will find gauge example try to have a look here at this so here you have 3 examples of different gauges so let me just compile it you have 3 different screens with each of each gauge so first of all we have this one so here you see a needle and actually an arc but in this case just showing dots second one you have you do a readout of the current value of the gauge and then you update and text and actually also changes color on this icon changes the image of the icon the last one is just one big arc underneath a big needle ok that's all from me hope you enjoyed this video and want to have a look at the gauge which is that has been added


Good afternoon pastor. How are you doing John? As you guys see we're in a different location I want to welcome those to random moments and unfiltered with pastor David and pastor I want to speak a little bit more about the vaccine It seems that is the vaccine has been surrounding the church in quite a different a number of different ways and I came across an Article today and wanted your feedback on it where pastors are now requiring their attendees to get the vac state Vaccine in order for them to come to church and I wanted your feedback on that Well, we haven't done that I think that I've got a lot of opinions on that. I'm trying to figure one that would fit into our narrative at the moment I I still believe that I have the right to make a determination Personally as to whether or not I feel comfortable receiving a vaccine That's first thing and my wife and I would be in agreement with this kind of thing that Adults should make a make their decisions for their own body With the help of their their physician if you will and taking everything into consideration, so That's a personal choice and I don't feel that I as a pastor Have the responsibility to foist my requirements on people Based on what I think is best for their life. I'm not a scientist and therefore I have to be careful not to not to impose on people what I'm hearing and Sure is real and and true and so we haven't done that in our church We do still have a a section for those who feel comfortable using masks, of course Why is that it's because there are there are some who've been told by maybe a doctor maybe a health provider or even a husband or wife that They feel comfortable for whatever the reason may be They feel more comfortable with that person wearing a mask than not wearing a mask and I have to abide by Their own conscience. I have to abide by that. So on one level In our church, there's no requirement for you to wear a mask I haven't seen the reasonableness of that for some time I like every other American have been not so much confused by but Tired become tired by the conflicting opinions that can come out of the same mouth In the course of a week or two, you know, we have a doctor Fauci saying No, you don't need to wear masks. It's does it, you know, then you say well, it would be best to wear masks Then you hear I'm saying now you need to wear two masks and He's not the only one doing that and so from my perspective You have to just make decisions based on which you what you feel is best for yourself because You can't rely on those who've been hired by the government to To give their own propaganda. I do know that That young people are being told you need to have a mandatory Vaccination in order to attend classes and yet at the same time we're being told That the young people are not even being affected by this virus, you know, and then they're saying we want to To Vaccinate children as young as six that even younger than that and then others are saying that's harmful for their systems You know, have a have a COVID You know anti COVID vaccine and then you're getting enlargement of hearts and in people 18 19 and 20 Are being affected to some even dying and so this is a conflicting thing. So I as a pastor I'm no medical practitioner. I most certainly have no no Experience in that field. So I have to basically get as much information as I can put it together and make a decision For the best of my church. And so as a pastor, I'm not afraid I wasn't afraid before and I and my wife and I had COVID even as you and your family, you know We had it. We survived it. Thank God. I bless the Lord for it We still have lingering effects of it. My wife and I both Are still kind of like fog memory-wise because of it You know, but you know what? We're here. We're doing our ministry and all and so getting back to the main question If people come to my church, I don't think that that the preaching of the gospel of the inoculation or the vaccine is um, what I've been called to do, uh, I I say come to church, you know here in california it's it's it's borderline crazy in some ways where you have politicians who are making money Peddling fear. That's what it is I don't understand for example how you can reopen Dodger stadium with 50 60 thousand people And then well, no, you shouldn't you really shouldn't congregate in church So you can get 60,000 people into an arena But be careful when you go into a restaurant. It makes no sense You can stand in line in a an airport You have to be six feet apart and then you're placed next to a stranger shoulder to shoulder And he takes his mask off as he's eating and drinking and doesn't put it back on John, it's just it's a farce in many ways. I think people are aware of it I I have I have I'm not a sheep in that way. I'm a sheep for jesus, but I'm not a sheep for science And so even though falchie claims to be the incarnation of science itself To argue against what he says is to argue against science as if he has incarnated He's the personification of all the wise men who've ever lived That's a confusion.  We do the best we can to To secure those who are concerned We don't We don't make people feel bad because they wear masks Um, and um They should come home. They should come to church That's that's how we're looking at it And come to church where their gospel is preached and things paddled Well, actually this sunday is Uh, we're you're starting a new book. I'm starting the gospel of mark and uh doing the first aid verses and And uh one of the things that stands out I'll say quickly because I know I'm gonna lose people that are gonna stop watching but John the Baptist he dressed in a certain way and he had a certain message And uh, so he he he personified the message he gave He was a humble man. He taught a message of humility He was a man aware of who he is Who he was and he taught a message of repentance and rightness with god and Would god more pastors would actually live out the message that that they preach We'll be looking at that this this is the message that needs to be pushed In our nation. I would think it's called the gospel You know, I I go to church not to hear about who I should vote for You know, I go to church not to hear the latest news that somebody got from some friend of a friend of a friend is a doctor um I go to church so I can know how to live for jesus christ. I think that's why you go to church or should And that's what we're trying to do in our fellowship is just teach about jesus and let people Use their own common sense and And seek God in prayer on his word Well, you guys, thank you so much for tuning in pastor. Thank you so much Of course church starts at 8 30 a.m Sunday morning 10 45 We also have our israel trip in march is rose coming up And so you guys go on our website and register it will change your life with us Yes, and we'll also change lives if you come on sunday morning It can change your life. It'll change life. So come on out and join us and again pastor Thank you so much for your time. All right. God bless you guys. Thank you