This is Susan. She and her husband both worked full-time to support their three children. But even with their dual incomes, they're fine to get more and more difficult to afford health insurance. How could one visit be this expensive? Wait until you see how much your husband's resuscitation's gonna cost. Incidences like this, combined with their anxiety over rising premiums, is turning their American dream into sleepless nights. Why can't Susan and her family catch a break? It wasn't always this way. The health care spending crisis didn't start until the mid-1960s, around the same time when Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law, and also at the same time that we began requiring doctors to go through all sorts of expensive licensing procedures beyond medical school. Why? Well, there's a few reasons. Everyone wants health care, but there's only so much to go around, and short supply leads to high prices. Normally what happens in a marketplace is that when prices are high, entrepreneurs try to profit by finding more affordable ways to provide these goods and services. The more people become involved in providing these services, the less scarce they become, and the lower the prices drop so that over time, more and more people can afford them. This is what happened to televisions, microwaves, computers, cell phones, internet service, delivery services, food, shipping, transportation, air travel, entertainment, home security, fitness, yoga, massages, veterinarian services, and even all the medical technology, like LASIK, that isn't as heavily regulated or controlled by government. What do I have that the common man doesn't? This beautiful television set, and this microwave and refrigerator. Sorry, but everyone can afford those now. Oh, curse you entrepreneurs. You never cease to allow the common man to catch up to me, but at least they'll never be able to talk on the phone while in a car. Okay, so I see what you're saying about the market driving prices down, but who says government can't? Well, let me explain what happened with Medicare and Medicaid as an example. In 1965, these two single-payer health insurance programs were instituted in the U.S. These programs made the unfortunate less dependent on impartial private charities and more dependent on political institutions and pharmaceutical companies. On top of that, these programs consistently require tax increases, and because they function more to satisfy the healthcare industry than the worker, they continually lead to more expensive and wasteful ways of treating patients. As a result, prices continually rise, making it more difficult for people like Susan and her family to afford health insurance. Not only that, but in 1965, the government also took over the training of new doctors, and in 1997, they limited the number of new doctors they would train at 110,000 per year, and the number hasn't changed since. Even worse, our government won't let migrant doctors from developed Western countries practice in the U.S. without undergoing this training. As a result, experienced doctors from other countries are less likely to want to practice medicine in the U.S. This contributes to the scarcity of doctors, making healthcare even more expensive. Well, I see that those programs didn't work as intended, but I'm sure Obamacare will. Won't that solve the problem? Unfortunately, Obamacare suffers from similar problems. It eliminated the pricing structure by seriously restricting competition because all providers have to offer the same kinds of plans at the same price, and because the price isn't really determined by the market, providers can charge the taxpayer way more than they could have otherwise. It's basically just a handout to the big insurance companies. I guess people like me just can't catch a break. But it doesn't have to be this way. If we get the government out of healthcare, more people like Susan will be able to get the care they need. Thanks so much for watching. If you liked this video and want to learn more about the topic, please check out fee.org for more content. Thank you so much.


What's good jobs the world Ross back again with another video so in the spirit of the elimination chamber happened in this weekend Make sure you guys check out the main channel for the elimination chamber live stream reaction on the inter clutch page being a little guy for that It's gonna be a good one this Saturday morning this upcoming Saturday morning, but elimination chamber craziest moments compilation You know, we got to get into the elimination chamber Spirit spirit.  I'm not in Disagreements with it. I know wrestling on steel grates can probably be quite painful And you know, we definitely got to make sure we care about the wrestlers Health and well-being in these type of matches, but I will say this the early elimination shame chamber matches We're roguish as hell very intense very dangerous structures and I loved it And we're gonna check out some of the craziest moments from there. Appreciate our love and support Let's go man. Let's hop right into this This is the one where he crushed his throat. Oh my god. Oh Man The first one was legendary, bro that let's go back to that real quick just that first one was so great And then Goldberg just right shot. Oh my god.  This is what I'm thinking. Oh He's gonna win this and of course he didn't he literally kicked it open. They're like, bro. I can get in there Did you not see what I did to that window and WCW I can get in there He destroyed in this match and they still give it a triple H that that bad booking decision. Oh My god This was a good one, too Now this was a good one, too, I want to say this is the one where edge cashed in on John Cena This one's a nada not high on people's list. Oh The mission Jeff oh Jesus Christ. Oh My god Yeah, and then when Sean screwed him to have another match with a man WrestleMania. I loved it.  It's like he's a dart. Oh My god, bro, you just tell the pain from hitting this steel great any regular move is gonna hurt 10 times more I'm okay with them adding the pads in the match. I know people Why but come on, bro, you're not taking these bumps the wrestlers need to be protected. Oh My god These plexiglass is plexiglass pods ain't really that strong There's always the top of the spot and this is when they added the pods And this is I believe the one I Want to say Bray won this one. I want to say Bray Wyatt won this one. Correct me if I'm wrong.  The way she died You can tell that they're a lot safer.  It's like Pain not so much carnage. You know, it's just times we in And the TV rating that I have now This is when Kofi mania Took its took his it pretty much Canapulted Kofi to the main event right here, and I believe this took place in Hey, man, this was cool It's a solid and go down memory lane. I'm not gonna lie to you the earlier ones They were Delicious bro, just so good man. Those are matches.  We were in a different time. Take me back Take me back But come on down below Let me know you guys excited for this year's elimination chamber, man. I am Indifferent I'm excited. But then again, I'm like, eh It is what it is. Like I'm just ready for WrestleMania to start. This is like the stepping stone of WrestleMania There's some things I'm interested to see how it plays out, but I'm not just overly excited about it Only because I feel like some of these matches shouldn't even be happening But just need to hear nor there I'm just really ready for WrestleMania and to see what we're gonna have lined up Hopefully it's a good one this year, but appreciate our love and support the road to 70k appreciate your kicking with me. See y'all next week. Peace


I just want to remind you with the SAIR program, I'm one of the state coordinators for the SAIR program, and this is supported from a rancher workshops. The outlet of the project they did, and our grant cycle starts from Labor Day and they're doing around the first movement. About $7,000 at grant level, and if you get three farmers together, you can get up to like $22,000. So the detail to come out on our website SAIR.org, and this is just for example to talk about, you know, how that helps get an idea started, takes some risk away to get it off and running. So with that said, we have Dan and Bonnie Blackdudge here talking about the NOAA oil and all the good aspects of that. Okay, thanks, Alan. And just to start out, we got a SAIR grant in, oh let's see, I think it was about December or January, maybe 2011, probably January 2011, for $7,000, like Alan said. And you know, we probably would have done what you're going to see here today anyway. It would have taken us a lot longer, it would have been more work, it would have been, you know, it just would have been a lot tougher for us. We got the grant, we were able to move ahead fairly quickly with it. And I gotta tell you, if you've never applied for a grant, this is a grant you ought to go for. It's like 10 pages long maybe. Anybody can sit down and write it out, the questions are common sense questions. You don't need to get a dictionary out to do it. And so it's just been a great grant for us. And we were lucky and got it. So I don't know what the competition is, but it's been a great grant. Well, kind of the beginning of what we're going to talk about here, we started growing canola in kind of a project with Michigan State University. They were looking for somebody to grow canola for oil for one of their biofuels projects. And we started out with that. And that kind of went by the wayside. We kept growing canola. And what we discovered is that we were sending our canola to a processor over in Canada, Windsor, Canada. And then they were processing it and sending all of the oil and all of the meal back to Michigan. And Bonnie and Aaron just kind of scratching our heads one time, you know, saying, this formula doesn't seem quite right here. Is there is there any way to make this a better process? And so that's how we started talking about pressing our own oil out. It was kind of a backwards way of approaching it, I suppose. That's how we started out. So that was the description. You have to come up with a project description for your grant. And this was the one that we had on our grant application. And probably the key thing there is, since then, we look at the value added aspects of that. What do we do that can have value added to it? You know, so there's our farm. We're located in Marion, Michigan. So Michigan, as you know, is shaped like a mitten. And Marion is just kind of right in the center of the state. Farm them family for 100 years with dairy farmers to start out with. And we've grown various crops on it. Today we've got about 115 acres of canola and about 115 acres of wheat. We do a rotation with them. And then the rest is alfalfa and some grazing land for cattle. There's the wheat and canola. Canola ends up, you know, beautiful fields of yellow, as far as you can see. And we have one field 70 acres. And it's quite a sight to look at right around the 1st of July. One of the things that we've embodied for about the last, you know, five to 10 years is really looking at sustainable farming from a grower standpoint. How do we do as effectively as possible work with the land and work with our crops? With minimum disruption to the natural cycle of things. And so as a logical extension of that, we started a no-till farming last year with 40 acres of no-till. We did some test plots of cover crops last fall. By the way, neither one of which did very well. And everybody's been telling us, you know, take five to 10 years to get into a no-till. And year one was, I would say it was maybe not a disaster, but pretty close to it. We're coming back this year, going to try it again. You know, we've learned some things. But we're longtime cooperators of the Soil Conservation District. And Michigan's got a certification program called the Michigan Agricultural Environmental Assurance Program, voluntary. But farmers can do this.  And so we'll get certified with that this spring. And here's how we started out growing canola in 2008, which was our first year really of, I would say, you know, focused canola growing. We started out with 20 acres. And then each year, we've just increased up to about 115 acres. So that's all I have this year, about 115. And each step of the way, what we've been able to do is learn a little more about it. We started out here with zero knowledge. And we learned a little more about it and just kind of grow as we get smarter. We're growing our oil business exactly the same way, starting out small and just growing and learning and growing. So as I mentioned, we've done some work with MSU over the years. And today, there's almost no canola growing in Michigan. And so we've kind of learned along with MSU and some of the extension people there. We changed over to the food market in 2009. And one of the things we've tried to do is involve other farmers in the process. Now, we've had, gosh, I don't know, we probably had four or five farm meetings, some winter meetings and some summer field days, like the one you see up here. Today, I think there's still only one of the person in Michigan growing canola. So we haven't been very good evangelists for it, I guess. But we keep trying. Was that shipped over to Canada, too, for processing? Yeah, the situation in Michigan, from what I understand, was back in the 90s, there were several farmers growing canola, but it was all shipped to Canada for processing. Farmers all migrated back towards corn and soybeans and wheat. So and that's about what it is today, especially over the last couple years of high corn and soybean prices. Maybe you want to just talk a little bit about what kind of conditions seem to favor growing canola for those that might be interested in growing it. You know, Hio, you probably want to look at winter canola. We're growing spring canola where we're at in Central Michigan. Winter canola will yield a little more. You've got the same situation with it. You've got with wheat and that's winter kale and potential deer problems over winter. Deer love canola. They'll travel right through cornfields or soybeans fields to get the canola fields. But outside of that, growing it is very similar to growing any other field crop. What I use is, I use an older John Deere drill. I put the canola seed in a cedar box on it, and so it comes out and drops on top of the ground behind the drill and then I pull a color packer behind and that packs it in. So my process is about as simple as you know, as you can get, and I had on hand, you know, the drill and the color packer, so I didn't have to buy any new equipment to do it, so that's always a bonus. Now we're looking into a no-till drill, which is going to be a little different process. Yeah, yeah, we're talking good many thousands of dollars there. We're looking at it. It's about as far as we've got. What's your soil? We've got the glacial till. So it varies from pretty heavy clay all the way to light sand. Rolling, gently rolling, you know, not hilly by any means, but gently rolling. Canola likes cool weather. Canola does not like a lot of water, so you know, it's one of those crops. We try and get it planted around the middle to the latter part of April. Last year we had a tremendously wet spring in Michigan. I couldn't even start planting till May 8th, so very late, and our crop suffered greatly because of it. What happened, the main reason for that is that Canola loves to grow and flower in cool weather, and I know when we get into July we're going to start having hot weather for the blossoms to appear, and hot weather will blast those blossoms, because they're about 85 degrees, and you'll start losing blossoms just because of the heat. So we try to plant as early as we can get on the ground. So we'll run through some things that we've learned with the project, with the SARE project. One of the things we found out early on is you got to get Canola seed real dry. Nobody in Michigan can dry the seed. In fact, I'll pass this around. This is a little container of seed. Some of you might not know what Canola seed looks like. Feel free to open that up and look. It's about like alfalfa seed, real small. So grain dryers in Michigan, none of them can handle it. It's just too small a seed to go through that. Corn you can get by with, what, 13, 14 percent moisture? Canola, you get much over 10 percent, 10 and a half percent, and you're in trouble. So the first thing we really had to deal with is how do we get Canola seed down to that dry, and you almost got to wait till about one o'clock in the afternoon, and you want as long a days as possible. So again, by planting early in the spring, I can get my Canola to ripen the last part of August, when I still got fairly long days, and fairly clear weather yet. And so we can get it down. We got down to 7 percent before in August, and we started coming around 11 percent, and by 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock in the afternoon, you've got it down to, you know, 7, 8 percent. Other thing we tried to do, we thought we'd grow Canola year after year, and we noticed that on a second year, our yields were lower than they were on the first year, and the third year, they're lower yet. So I started doing some research and found out, sure enough, you know, they don't recommend Canola two years in a row. So right now, we're doing a Canola wheat rotation. It fits well with our rotation on the land, and also Canola is a broadleaf, a brassica, wheat is a grass, and so you break the insect and disease cycle. So far, we've had good luck doing that. The only thing we might do with rotation is go to a three-year rotation, find one more crop to go in there, and so we actually got every third year we grow Canola. And of course, marketing, we could find nobody in Michigan to press it, and I spent a lot of time out on the phone a lot trying to find somebody to press Canola, because there's some soybean pressers in Michigan. They don't want to do Canola.  And so we finally bought our press to do it ourselves, and then we have a lot of excess that we ship over to ADM and Windsor. Just call a truck to come in all over there. Got an egg oil press built in Wisconsin. You see a picture of it here in a little while. If I were to do it again, I would take a real serious look at the German presses. One of the reasons being is the United States is on a soybean standard, you know. So all the presses and processes and everything here based on soybeans. Germans are on a Canola Rates seat standard, and so everything's a little bit different over there. And Canada is rapidly swinging towards Canola too. So most of my Canola information actually comes out of Canada. So back to the why Canola thing, instead of doing soybeans or one of the other oil seed crops, one of the reasons was because Canola is simply a very healthy oil. And so Bonnie and I talked about it. If we're going to be growing an oil seed crop, let's see if we can grow the healthiest one there is. And so I don't know if you can make this out very well or not, but this top line here is Canola oil. Only 7% saturated fat. So very low saturated fat content. And you can look at the other oils. Here's soybean oil is 15% for example. And olive oil is 15%. So they're higher in the saturated fat content. Canola oil has got 21% polyunsaturated. And actually these two here, the 21 and 11 are all polyunsaturated. And then at 61% monounsaturated or omega-9 oil. So you get 93% of the healthy oils in Canola and only 7% of what we would call unhealthy oil in Canola. So it's not being a healthy oil for us. And I do have more information. In fact, I'll pass this around to, this is another chart laid out pretty similarly, but it breaks it down a little more closely. And anybody wants to know more about fatty acids and so on. I'm happy to do talk to you afterwards and we can talk about you know what fatty acid contents are and how that relates to Omega's and so on. It looks that way. So in our research, after growing Canola for a couple of years, we discovered that there was a nuclear Canola variety out called Omega-9 Canola. And so we investigated that, found that we could get the seed. And that's an even healthier oil.  So we now grow all Omega-9 Canola and we now grow all non-GMO Canola. So we've converted our farm entirely over to that standard now. This is where I was. Okay, Bonn is going to go through the goals for the project. So will we first, will we apply for the grant and come up with some goals? And so our first goal was to use a mechanical press to extract the oil from 1500 pounds of Omega-9 Canola seed. And I was going to change that last night, never did. And how many bushels is that? Do you remember? It's about 40 bushels. So if you keep that in mind, you'll see where we're at now. But that's what our original idea was. And so we purchased the oil seed press and we did a lot of research on that. We found this ag oil press and you can see it in the picture. And we run it space at an incubator kitchen in Michigan. I don't know if they have those in Ohio. I'm sure they do. And it's actually was through all of our work that we've done. It was really through Michigan State University. They helped us everywhere, every place along the way. So we were working with their product center and they actually have a hand in the incubator kitchen that we were at. And they really helped us get going. But we, if you can see how, you know, we kind of Jerry rigged this together. It's, you know, we've got the oil collecting in this picture and, you know, our meal collecting here. And we have things piled up to make sure we could put the picture on, you know, collect that oil. And so that was our basic, let's get started. And a little funnel up on top. We've got about a cup of canola seed into the tie and run it through. So, yeah, but hey, we were producing oil. We could produce about a gallon an hour. And, you know, somebody asked us earlier about regulations and we had to be licensed by Mdard and have to wear the little bonnets and the gloves and the whole deal. So, you know, it's not the most flattering picture, but it just gives you an idea. We had to meet their criteria and in order to get licensed, even though we were using a licensed kitchen, our process had to be licensed. And it really wasn't that hard because we did our homework ahead of time. So if you're thinking of doing anything where you're adding value to a product and you're, you know, for commercial use, definitely do your homework ahead of time. Because we've talked to, we've got our, we got our license on the first try. And a lot of people that we talked to said, you know, they did it and then they were told, okay, you got to change this, this and this. And then they changed it. And then there was like a couple more things that they didn't do. So they had to go through their inspection like three or four times before they got licensed. So if you do your homework up front and found out it's a lot easier. So anyway, our second goal was to refine the canola oil to commercially accepted stand, acceptable standards. When we first started, we thought of using doing like a refined oil, like you would find on the shelves in a typical grocery store. Then we, the more we thought about it, we decided instead of trying to refine all the good stuff out of our oil, we would go the more natural route. And so the oil we press, as you can see, has a more golden color than what you're going to find in most grocery stores. Because it's, we decided not to bleach it or refine it. Now, if you'd like to sample, let me know because we have some samples here. If you only want to smell it, that's okay. I feel like you have to taste it. But you don't have to drink it or anything would just even just take your finger and you might want to try it. So we found that our process then became, we ran it through the press, we let it settle for a couple weeks, and then we'd skin the oil off the top. And we found that we did some test sampling, mostly to friends and relatives to see what they thought of it. And most of them liked it. There were some that didn't.  I found it was interesting. I went to a presentation earlier today and they talked about the millennial generation, which is your, I think, 18 to 34 year olds. And we find that really, my kids are all like in their early 30s and so are Dan's older girls and they love it. And we found that my son, well we'll get to that later, but I'll tell you about my son later. But so anyway, that was our second goal. Our third goal was to bottle the oil in one quart plastic bottles, but we found that people that buy natural food products don't like plastic. So we decided to go with glass bottles and we found that we consider ours a specialty oil and because it is cold pressed, it is non-GMO. So it's different than the kind you're going to buy in the grocery stores. So we found that at the pint bottle size was better to market it. And a lot of this advice came from the Michigan State Product Center. I'm sure, are you associated with a university in Ohio, which is which university? Ohio State. We're kind of rivals, aren't we? Not anymore. We took care of that. That's right. We took care of that. But anyway, good one. So they have help there if you need it. We got them. Yes. Okay. So anyway, so we changed and went to glass and pint size. And I'll pass it on one of our bottles of oil that you can see what it looks like and what it looks like. The other one, another goal was to design a label that incorporates grown locally and healthy oil information. We actually got our nutrition facts through MSU. They helped us with that nutrition part of it. I love the ingredients canola oil because there's one ingredient and that's the big thing now is, you know, the less additives, the better. We don't have any additives. So we've got the label was designed by one of Dan's daughters. I actually took the canola picture and the little one of our silo on our farm and it's so funny because Dan and I keep arguing about the silo. It's an old one and it's no good for anything anymore really. And it's by a kind of dilapidated structure. And he says, well, now that it's on our label, we can't get rid of it. So I'm like, yes, because I just think of that character. So we've got our website on there. We've got a UPC. We added later. We found a lot of stores wanting a coa product code on it. And we added just their last addition was the QR code. So you can scan that if you have a QR code scanner on your phone. And so see why our oil is unique, because we figured we were going to do a net label.  And so now what we did is use the QR code so that people could scan that. And it takes them to a part of our website where it explains why our oil is better. Next goal, five, was to test market to three small food processors. Originally, we thought, well, we knew some people that were producing granola. We knew some people that were making some sort of a potato chip. We thought, let's try to sell it to people that will use it for a product they're making. And then we found out that we went to a networking. We had just gotten licensed the week before the conference. And then we went to making it in Michigan conference in 2011.  And we found that our real niche would be wholesale sales, because that's all the interest in our oil seem to come from stores that wanted to carry it. And so we changed our focus again, and we decided to market more as a wholesaler to retail markets. And since 2011, we've expanded our wholesale. We tried to do a little bit. I work full time in addition to trying to do this business, and I'm supposed to be the marketer of the group. And so I don't have a lot of time to cold call and do things like that. So we've just been expanding slowly, but we are expanding and seem to do a lot through networking. But we found an online market that carries our oil and it started very slow there. We sold, I think we started in March of 2013. We might have sold a case in two months. If that, it may have been even three or four months, it took forever. And then all of a sudden it took off. And now we're selling, we've sold like one time right around Christmas, we sold a case in a week on this online market. So that's been a real good boost for our sales. We last summer did the Grand Rapids Farmers Market. Originally we talked about doing it, but farmers markets are hard to do. How many of you have done farmers markets? A couple of you. It takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of time commitment. We did it, we committed to one of the days last summer was Thursday afternoons. And we committed to that and we did it all summer long. And good experience, but we decided it's probably not the best use of our time for our product. And we now are looking to offering larger sizes. We're looking at doing something with restaurants, offering gallon sizes. And we've actually just this month started with an organization in Grand Rapids called West Michigan Farm Link. And it connects farmers to producers. And so we just sold our first two gallons this past week through Farm Link. It connects farmers to consumers, restaurants and retailers. And so right now we're doing ourselves limited retail. I have a lot of people I know that buy from me regularly. I keep a case at my office and I have people coming to the counter and they'll say I want to buy some canola oil and we're a government office. And it's like oh, but everybody knows it's in Bonnie's office. Okay. So goal six was to select a farmers market to test the retailing of the product. We were supposed to do this in 2011. We didn't get to it that year. We just didn't. We weren't ready. 2012 we were busy. I had an election to run in 2012 in Tom Chip Clerk and I didn't have time to do a farmers market. And my son lives in Chicago and he asked if he could sell it in one of the Chicago farmers market. We retail it now. We retailed it in Grand Rapids at $8 a bottle. He was getting $15 a bottle for it in Chicago and he was selling a lot. This is Dan and this is the farmers market in Grand Rapids. If you ever get up to Grand Rapids it's Grand Rapids downtown market.  So we did that in 2013. My son got married and decided that he's too busy. So goal seven was to work with farmers to get four farmers to grow Omega 9 canola in 2011. That was a goal that was in the grant. I'm going to let Dan talk about that one a little bit. Well there's really not much to say. I kind of said you know we're still the only person Michigan really grew on canola so it was a good goal. But we were unable to get farmers to grow canola so yeah. And I think the reason was it's what you guys told me was because they could get much more money with soybeans and corn in our area than they could with canola. So a lot of them just weren't as committed to it. No actually to begin with we started out even thinking in terms of that I would broker it resell it for them. They didn't like that idea because I was going to take a commission for handling their canola you know. Well I'm going to do it for free right? What have you done about pressing it? Well we we saw most of our canola anyway because we can't even press all our own you know. We're going to grow probably in excess of 200,000 pounds of canola this year and we're going to press out you know maybe 12,000 pounds or so. Okay goal eight was to develop and maintain a website to promote canola oil and to inform the public of health benefits and to disseminate information to farmers who may wish to grow it. So one of the big we just happened to have a connection from Dan's former business a guy that did websites and we have our website is we sat down with him and you know we were going to be B&B farms or something like that on our website he says no no no when it go people start searching you want the name canola to pop up first so we did we ended up with canola oil products.com and it's been good I mean when I look for every once in a while I google myself if you guys have a website I'm sure you know you or should I google yourself and see what comes up in the search engines and it usually comes up near the top so I don't know if that's because he's still on my computer that bring it up but you know try it sometime google canola oil and see if if ours pops up but we have now let's see if we can do this if I click on the link that should bring it up okay so this is our website and we have up on the top you'll see we've got canola research canola products canola blog contact us and about us so I do have to confess I don't give it as much attention as I should my goal this year was to put at least one blog up every I forget if it was a week or a month but I never I just don't seem to be able to do that the one part I do tend to go do the most is canola products this is kind of light oh this is a fun one is recipes a lot of people like recipes and so we've come up with some recipes that we use for our canola oil and that people like and we can direct them to our to our website if you guys like homemade croutons and see I have all these places that are pending so I have coming soon I have to work on but the zucchini bread is a big hit so if you don't know what to do with your extra zucchini but that canola oil croutons are just incredible and they're so easy to make so anyway but you can go to so if you're gonna do something at you know we get a lot of hits on our website canola research we have so it talks a little bit about growing canola plants detailed information on growing canola can be found here so you can go to this link and get you know information I don't even know what it oh okay sorry don't leave I hope it's okay if I accept it so here's like a handout that we put on there that has um this isn't my computer so I'm not anyway you get the idea we've got a lot of information on your key part interested in growing canola so I'm going to get off our website there's also a place on there that you different with different links and so most of the information I use in growing canola comes from the canola council of canada um great information on all the how to which you know pest control and planting and all of that um there's also the united states canola association that's a good resource there's a northern canola growers association on a north dakota that's a good resource so for anyone interested in growing there's a lot of resources one of the things that you know I've heard again a couple times today is that farm that people that are buying your product um you know they want to get to know the farmer they want a face to put with the product and so the website was a good way to do that um so another way to disseminate the information learned which was goal nine um was obviously through our website we have flyers we do have some I'll let Dan pass these out we've had a couple we were printing some we're to bring in our printer ran out of ink and um so we've got I think we we've got two of our better ones that we give to you but we found that flyers especially when we're at the farmer's market or when we're doing some trying to do some marketing it's nice to have some a mark or a flyer for people to take with them press release um we've we had a couple little hometown type newspapers do some articles on us especially the area where we're growing the canola so you know that helps and presentations here we are we've done a couple different presentations since we got this grant basically um and networking I think that's one of the best ways that we found new customers is through other farmers other producers that are making products that connect us like they say oh we have our product in like one of the stores we're in it's called under the binds and one of our guys we met at the conference said oh I have my product in under the binds I'm going to tell her about you and then you can get your product in there and that's how we get our product in a lot of different places so get to know people and um you know try to work together and help each other it really does pay um and that's kind of goes along with the relationship with other vendors and producers um then we had we have some articles that have been done we had a recent one done that is um with Michigan land use institute and it's an article tasting the local difference and this was in their newsletter and it talks about us if we have time at the end which I'm not sure we will there's a video that's there did on us that's from the video and um we can um play that at the end if we have time but this this is an article that was written about us picture of our farm picture of our oil um and then this went out to all of their the people that get their newsletters so it's a way to get our get your name out so um I think we joined them the membership was like 20 dollars and we you know we're getting a lot of a lot of people interested in our oil from that 20 dollars well spent giving a chance later we'll play that video um okay uh recent accomplishments did I have you helping with this one or not yeah so what you've seen so far was kind of during the the project the actual um serra project so um that ended in march 2013 and since then um one of the things we found out about using the incubator kitchen is a heck of a lot of work to back up canola seed haul it over there press out the oil then haul the oil in the canola meal back again and so after about six months of doing that we said we gotta figure out an easier way we're ever gonna grow beyond you know a few bottles of canola oil and so we begin planning for our own on farm commercial kitchen and that was the michigan department of agriculture and had them come out to our farm and went through everything with them and got you know initial go ahead yeah go ahead if you do it you know according to our our guidelines why we'll prove you and we did that so um just about exactly a year ago last february we got licensed for our own on farm commercial kitchen so now we press all our oil around the farm um this past summer um we we were using those one ton tote bags um which is a great way to store the small quantity of canola seed we were using um as long as it was a small quantity but last year we had to keep six of those back that becomes really unwieldy to try i mean you got to keep it road and proof and you got to keep it in store under right conditions and everything so we put up a new grain bed this year just for our food grade canola seed that we're going to press out um we converted one of our old buildings on the farm for a seed cleaning house so now we can clean clean our seed right there we got one place that that happens um we're looking at going to gallon containers because we got to we got to build beyond the pint bottle that you saw you know it's just too small for any kind of volume use so we're going to gallon the five gallon containers um and we're now just beginning so we built this kitchen on the farm you know it was a nice little kitchen a cute little thing and it works wonderful but you know what already we're bumping elbows with each other when we're now working together so now we're just starting to lay out plans to expand that um and convert another one of the outbuildings into um Michigan Department of Agriculture um licensed kitchen only on a bigger scale so it's easier to handle the seed it's easier to handle the meal it's easier to handle the oil so um we we've been able to take the project you know and just continue slowly you know frustrating some size but keep building it um and so that's kind of our model for the future now yeah we're still using that little press we're still using a little press actually that little press I ran the calculations on it that little press would do all of the canola we grow if I run it 24 seven for about uh 48 weeks of the year so we're going to keep using it for quite a while yet you know so this is just a picture showing that when we first started putting together the kitchen I was looking for pictures for this presentation and I'm like I can't believe I did not take a lot of pictures of the kitchen so but then we do have a little video to show you that we'll show you a little more uh we don't even have our sink faucets on I believe this is the one that has the video so this is Dan operating the press and his cute little bonnet that's a heater in our um we had some people there so that's why you guys see that I warm it for about five minutes with a heater or what the nozzle which warms the seed just to get it started once it started you can see it takes it off well I thought I'd run this five minutes or so with um to kind of make sure things clean out so I just put a little pan down here to cut the oil so what do you do with that pan after you've collected the oil I just I think we love the jar I've got right over there it's just oil that you can use in your chainsaw for a chainsaw chain or um for reading mountain food I mean I decide there's a barrel so the nozzle actually sticks inside it um there's two women down the way there's a big barrel up here that's where we put our canola in now so we can get you know about eight hours of running yeah instead of taking a cup and pouring it in my uh to turn it on and get it started so we think should be heated up in here so we'll turn it on here to start um the process is actually running that's how quiet it is and if you want to go over here you can watch this and see when the wheel starts to come up look here and you can see when the wheel starts to come on these holes you think it's just going to have more to run seated in there you can have a sure process here comes the meal that should start putting space in the wheel coming out of it because it's still just some some oil and some seed zoos and out what do you do with the meal livestock feed it's about 34 protein so it's a good high protein and we don't get all the oil out of the meal so the meal's got um meals about 20 fat content so it's a real rich feed okay that we stopped it there but um as after it's collected in the little uh container then we hook it up to um a little um a five gallon pail that it runs into and you made some a little device so it runs from there and collects it to the pail so it's five gallons so you only really have to uh empty it about every um five hours because it produces about a gallon an hour so and the press works it's got it's got just a screw auger in there and a pressure plate and it pushes that seed against the pressure plate and so it's a combination of heat and pressure it bursts the cell cell walls and the canola seed they're about 43 44 percent oil so pretty high oil content bursts the cell walls and then the oil comes out as you saw it and the meal goes right on on through a small harvest there now and we use the oil press for canola but we've had we used it for soybeans we had some problems with the press at first it didn't like canola it wanted to press soybeans so we actually have a friend that grew soybeans so I got soybeans from him just to run because the guy that we bought the press from to kept saying well run soybeans through it it'll get you know work itself and get it going so the press starts functioning which should so we ran a bunch of soybeans through it at times to scour it and um anyway so for a while so we run soybean through it and collected some soybean oil I know you can use it for any is it mostly for seeds do you think that we use for nuts yeah so you can use it for you know what we're doing you can do if you're growing up a nut crop or or a different kind of seed crop um I may try I don't know you know because you've got so much setup for um canola seed but I kind of like to try pumpkin seed through it just to see what that way over tastes like because the people in our area all of a sudden are really getting into pumpkin seed we're going to go in five minutes okay uh sales and marketing um I think I talked about a lot of this we we got in a lot of specialty stores and from that first conference um you know it was like smaller stores so they weren't buying a lot from us we're working now at getting into some retail grocery stores um and uh some restaurants we do have one restaurant that buys a lot of oil from us it uses it for just about everything they're big into getting Michigan products I think what's happening here is everybody wants Ohio products because you're local they want Ohio in Michigan everybody wants Michigan products so we're getting into a lot of places that want local Michigan products um we've got the online story told you about um the farmers market farm link and uh there were a few vendors that were at the farmers market that we're running a community supported agriculture and they wanted our oil for uh their customers so we did sell to a few of those too um lessons learned um be flexible as you can see our goals a lot of times were changed and ser was fine with that I mean here's our idea here's what we got the grant for we ended up doing the final what we did was what the grant said we were going to do we just did it in a different way we originally looked for somebody else to press the oil for us that didn't work so we ended up buying our own crops um you know we went to different kinds of bottles so you know we had to have that flexibility um you know everything costs more you think it's gonna just just costs more that's all there is to it everything takes longer than you think it's gonna it's just the way it is it seems to be um and number four vision and persistence I think of everything we did the most important thing we had was persistence you know every problem we had we just managed to overcome it sometimes we didn't know how um and and um I know there was at least once I told Bonnie I'm done I'm quitting this is it I've had it we were on our way home from pressing at the commercial kitchen in heart which was probably an hour and a half from where we lived it was snowing so the roads were cruddy and um it and we had been up there for like eight hours and we got one gallon of oil that the the press did not want to cooperate at all that day it was we were just so frustrated and he said I'm done the pendulum again so he was driving I had no pad of paper I said okay let's go through this you know and we just listed everything possible we could think of to fix this problem and we you know we just because I'm like we can't stop every time I think we should stop he'd say no we can't every time he thought we could stop you know I'd say no you can't so um we just brainstormed everything we could think of on the way home we didn't we went through that list and tried it and we it ended up working so um you know there was a time we thought we were going to I even put the oil press on Craigslist that's how mad we were at it we were going to buy one of those German crosses we were actually looking into those I listed that Craigslist to see if I could get anything for it nobody wanted to pay you know we paid like $8,000 for it new I we thought well we'll take a little less nobody wanted to pay more than a couple thousand for it it's like forget it so um you know we still have it we think it found out we were gonna get rid of it and it started working it's the only theory that seems to work so as it is with life I think it is with business you know persistence is the name of the game you just you just stuck with it you just stay in there if it's worth doing anyway you know I mean something you do give up on life but you know if it's worth doing you just stick with it and keep going um I just make a couple of closing comments if you have any more questions you can take them I think that that there were two keys to our are getting that Sair Grant um and this is me okay it's not Alan talking um one was we had very very specific measurable goals we did nine of them you can see what they were they were clear cut they went right down the line okay and I think the reviewers liked those the other was is we got um two or three what I consider really dynamite letters of recommendation one was from MSU okay and a couple from other people who had credibility you know and we enclosed those with our application and I think those really helped us get it so if you're looking in terms of a of a Sair Grant um think about those couple of ideas at least and the one closing thought I have if you remember I asked Dan I was how much 1500 pounds was and he said about 40 bushels so we started out our goal was to press and bottle 40 bushels which is about 80 gallons I face 30 bushels oh really did I say wrong or did you say wrong well anyway it's 30 bushels so that was about um so it's about 600 60 gallons so anyway we've gone from 60 gallons to hopefully this year doing our goal is now I've got 800 600 600 gallons sorry anyway what I'm just trying to say is we in three years we've really grown as far as what we can do and what we can sell because we all produce any more than we can sell so question you didn't say much about the cake because I looked at one time and the return of the cake was as good as not better than the oil except for more bagels in smaller units yeah that's that's one weakness with our business right now is we're really not doing much with the cake um in fact you know it's a good livestock feed I'm so far I've given most of it away to people you know we've had small quantities and stuff and I haven't really gone out and tried to sell so I mean I pay for the first so I mean other protein and then grain from still grain it's pretty expensive oh so I mean meals like 450 a ton now it's it's how to say yeah so you figure about six percent of that product is going to be in a cake yeah about 70 percent seven percent because we leave about 10 percent oil in the cake so yeah that's about a 30 70 ratio and if you do your analysis of it you can actually sell that back to that so did you do the analysis as far as whether rheumatoid or non-release do you adjust that you have to prep it like no you have to you have to you have to cook it no yeah I have I haven't done any analysis um it's I've just I've done an analysis on the meal but not animal specific so you might want to look at that's a good point you might so I think you you want to just yes make your models


Elon Musk has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2021, and he has a habit of finding success in heavily regulated, capital-intensive industries. Finance with PayPal, Automotive and Energy with Tesla, Space with SpaceX, and now with Neuralink he's adding health care to the list. Musk is always looking forward, and has big plans for the future, both for himself and for humanity. But does he plan to live long enough to realize that vision? The answer could possibly be no. Musk raced some eyebrows recently when discussing the idea of increasing human lifespan, and the media did what they typically do, but his comments require some unpacking. So let's see what he actually said, and compare it to his past comments on this subject in this episode of Lifespan News. Recent headlines have latched on to Elon Musk's words in the most sensationalized and clickbaity way possible. With futurism saying, Elon Musk says that immortality tech would be very dangerous, and business insider going even further with, Elon Musk thinks you should die. But is this actually what he said? The exchange in question took place during the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit during a virtual interview with the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern. Here are his words, direct from him. I am not aware of any secret technology to combat aging. And I mean, I don't I don't know that we should really try to live for a super long time. I think there is some it is important for us to die, because, you know, most of the times people don't change their mind. They just die. And so if they if we live forever, then we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed. Now, this is not the first time that Elon Musk has publicly addressed longevity and life extension science. And it does seem like his views on the subject are slowly evolving. For example, here's what he said on the subject in 2013. The thing that would most profoundly affect people would be to be able to re-code genetics, which is obviously a dodgy situation. But that's the thing. We're close to saturation on lifespan. I mean, it's sort of pretty much leveled out. And so even if you solve, say, any one particular disease, you maybe slightly improve life expectancy, but not a lot. You know, it's like you kind of have a genetic programming, any given species for a certain lifespan. Like you cannot make a fruit fly live for 10 years, no matter what you do. I mean, no amount of healthy living vitamins or anything. It's like, you know, so. Raincoats, while fruit flies live for 20 years. That would be a truly astounding achievement. But yeah, so I mean, it's a really tricky subject. It's fraught with all sorts of moral issues. But that's the thing that would most affect people's lives. But it's certainly is double edged sword. Here, he doesn't seem to think that extreme life extension is possible through means such as diet, exercise or even curing diseases because of biological limits that he does not believe can be overcome in this way. And about that, he may be right. However, he sees a way to bypass these biological limits through gene editing technology, though he understands this is very controversial and many people will object to it. He expressed a similar sentiment during a 2015 conversation with Tim Urban of Wait But Why. The whole system is collapsing. You don't see someone who's 90 years old and it's like they can run super fast but their eyesight is bad. The whole system is shutting down. In order to change that in a serious way, you need to reprogram the genetics or replace every cell in the body. Tim Urban then puts some pressure on Musk, questioning him more about the importance of overcoming aging. Here's their exchange. Urban, but isn't this important enough to try? Is this something you'd ever turn your attention to? Elon, the thing is that all the geneticists have agreed not to reprogram human DNA so you have to fight not a technical battle but a moral battle. Urban, you're fighting a lot of battles. You could set up your own thing. The geneticists who are interested, you bring them here. You create a laboratory and you could change everything.  Hitler was all about creating the ubermensch in genetic purity and it's like, how do you avoid the Hitler problem? I don't know, Urban, I think there's a way. You've said before about Henry Ford that he always just found a way around any obstacle and you do the same thing, you always find a way. And I just think that that's as important and ambitious a mission as your other things. And I think it's worth fighting for a way somehow around moral issues, around other things. Elon, in order to fundamentally solve a lot of these issues we are going to have to reprogram our DNA. That's the only way to do it. Urban, and deep down DNA is just a physical material. Elon, it's software. So again, it's clear to this point that Elon Musk does believe that it's possible for humans to significantly increase our lifespan but that we won't achieve these effects from traditional methods. But here's the thing, research into and making use of those traditional methods of life extension, things like healthy diet, exercise and disease prevention are still very important because the additional time that someone extends their life by through those methods could buy them enough time to access those gene editing technologies or any other technological development that could remove aging as a threat to their life. This is how someone could reach longevity escape velocity. Putting this another way, the choices that you are making in your life today, even if they only result in you living a year more than you otherwise would have, could result in you reaching the point at which aging is overcome. And you could realize decades, if not more of healthy life extension through implementing the traditional less effective life extension strategies. Elon Musk would probably agree with this but just might not feel that it's of much importance to him personally. Also in 2015, during a Vanity Fair event with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Musk revealed how long he'd like to live. Do you think about genetics and longevity and trying to sort of avoid, your friend Larry Page is investing in a business hoping to end death? I'm not actually a huge proponent of longevity. And I do think that having a good life for longer is better. Like you'd want to address the things that happen to you when you're older, like dementia and so forth. Those are pretty important. But I'm not sure it's sort of actually, wanna do that, wanna get into the genetics thing, but it is something that's gonna fundamentally change humanity and along with AI. You don't wanna live forever so that you can get to Mars? I definitely don't wanna live forever. How many years do you wanna live? I don't know, a hundred good ones. A hundred good ones or a hundred more good ones? You're 44? I mean, a hundred good ones in total, I think is probably fine and maybe a bit longer. And in 2021, during the everyday astronaut tour of Starbase, Musk, who is known for his optimistic timelines, seemed to suggest that he didn't see himself living much beyond a typical human lifespan of today. I'll be long dead before Mars is self-sustaining, but hopefully the momentum is strong in that direction by the time I die. Hopefully, which probably isn't soon, but no, no. So Musk expects to live a fairly normal lifespan and perhaps hopes to die around age 100, which would be the year 2071. But what does this imply about future decisions he makes? Well, in 2020, he said this. I think there's gonna be a lot of breakthroughs on the medical front, particularly around the synthetic mRNA. You can basically do anything with the synthetic RNA, DNA. It's like a computer program. So, I mean, I think with effort, that's not too crazy. You could probably stop aging, reverse it if you want. These are, you can basically do it. You can turn someone into a freaking butterfly if you want with the right DNA sequence. Now, here's where it gets really interesting. Elon Musk appears to be saying that using gene editing, it's not going to be too difficult to stop or even reverse aging. He feels that this is technically possible and knows that there are intelligent people working on it. He must foresee some possibility that these technologies are developed while he's still alive, but he's already made clear that he doesn't want to live forever and isn't interested in longevity. So, what happens when these technologies are developed? Does Elon Musk not use them and instead age and die while those around him are rejuvenated and continue to innovate? Now, I find it very hard to believe that Elon Musk wouldn't make use of this technology, but if he truly doesn't want to extend his lifespan, that's totally fine. The answer to the question, how long should people live, is as long as they want to. Elon Musk doesn't seem to want to die anytime soon, but if he's right and as he approaches age 100, he begins to question whether or not he wants to continue living. I fully support whatever he decides. However, I think it's very likely that he'll change his mind and here's why. Let's return to the original quote we started with. Most of the times people don't change their mind, they just die. And so if we live forever, then we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed. Elon Musk has a fear that people living longer could stifle innovation and stagnate our culture. But even if it is the case that a 90-year-old of today is more stuck in their ways than a 30-year-old who was to say that we're rejuvenating the body and brain of that 90-year-old back to the body and brain of a 30-year-old wouldn't also give them the neuroplasticity and mental outlook of a biologically younger person. After all, at that point, they are that biologically younger person. I think this is quite possible and I find it hard to accept that someone who believes we can turn a human into a butterfly struggles to also see that it's possible to make sure chronological age doesn't affect the human brain in the way that he's worried about. And it's even possible that the technology he's working to develop at Neuralink could be a part of the solution to that very problem. So moving beyond his fears of society-wide ossification, we can move on to the other concern he brought up, the moral questions of gene editing. And I think it's important to point out here that I don't know of Musk saying at any point that he personally has moral qualms or concerns about this technology, only that he understands that others do and that it's highly controversial. Now, Musk has stepped into his fair share of controversy in the past, but he's also human. And certainly the misrepresentations and public opinions and negative headlines have some impact as they would on anyone, but I also think he deeply cares about ushering in a positive future for humanity and he does take the concerns that people raise seriously. For these reasons, and regardless of how much I personally want him to, I don't expect Elon Musk to get deeply involved in longevity in the near future, though I also expect him not to be a barrier to it. And after all, Musk already doesn't have much bandwidth remaining. He's working on making humanity a space faring a multi-planetary species, limiting the risk of AI by making sure that humans can coexist alongside it, addressing climate change and energy through technology, limiting the impact of traffic and reimagining the monetary system through blockchain technology. He's doing a ton of work, possibly more than anyone else towards building the future that will be important to have in place once life extension technology goes mainstream. I don't expect him to personally take on longevity as well, though I'd love for him to financially support the developments of this technology. So what will the future hold for Elon Musk? I'm not sure, but if I had to guess, I would think that his concerns about the moral questions and the stagnation of society will subside as time goes on. And I'd wager that as Elon Musk approaches age 100, he might be far less interested in dying than he seems to be today. I imagine this might be true for a lot of people. What do you think? Will Elon Musk eventually take longevity seriously or is he right to be concerned about this? Let us know what you think in the comments and make sure to subscribe because we have more content like this coming soon. I'm Ryan O'Shea and we'll see you next time on Lifespan News.


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to the second lecture of the course on hydrogen energy. Today, we will look at the global as well as Indian status of hydrogen supply and demand. Before going to the numbers, let us first see where is hydrogen being used. So, the majority of hydrogen is being used in the industries and oil refineries. Oil refineries which were once upon a time being considered as a producer of hydrogen are now major consumers of hydrogen. Hydrogen was being produced earlier as the by-product in the refineries, but because of the strict emission norms as such hydrogen is being consumed in the periphery of the refineries for various processes. These are hydrotreatment processes like hydro de-sulfurization, hydro de-nitrogenation, hydro cracking, reduction in the aromatic content of the crude. Hydrogenation of the heavier as well as dirtier feedstock to get refined reformulated gasoline and diesel. It is being also used in industries primarily in the chemical industry for production of ammonia and methanol in the fertilizer industry. In the semiconductor industry for electronics for silicon, silicon passivation it is being used in the food industry for various hydrogenation process of edible oils, of fats. It is also being used in the other sectors like transportation sector, but the currently the use in the transportation sector is very nominal. However, with the various OEMs coming up with various fuels and electric vehicles, the demand is expected to increase in the transportation sector and more promising demand will be in the long haul transport like freight vehicles. It will come from the shipping and aviation sector. Hydrogen is also being used in the space applications wherein because of the high energy content per unit mass, this is of preferred fuel. Hydrogen is also finding its way for use for power generation, whether it is used as a in gas turbines or for stationary fuel cells because of the intermittency of the renewables. In order to curtail the output variable output to match the supply and demand, hydrogen will can be used for long term large scale storage. It can also be used for various other applications like domestic applications, heating and cooling. Now, if we look at the current status, about 90 million metric tons of hydrogen is produced globally. Out of this 80% of it is being used as pure hydrogen and 20% of it is being used as a mixture of other gases for various applications. If we look from the production side, then 59% of this is being produced from natural gas, 19% from coal, 0.6% is coming from oil. Another 21% of hydrogen is a byproduct of byproduct hydrogen wherein it is coming as a secondary product. Only 0.7% of it is being produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture use and sequestration. So, we can see that majority of it is being produced from fossil fuels. If we look at the demand side, it is being utilized in refineries, 37.18 million tons of it is being used in refineries for the various hydro treatment processes. 51.3 million tons is being used in industrial sector. Out of this 51 million tons, 46 million tons is being used for production of various chemicals including for ammonia synthesis, 75% of it and 25% of it is being used for methanol production. 5.3 million tons is used in a steel industry for direct reduction of iron. Now, all these since most of it is being produced from fossil fuel, it results into emissions and except for 0.7% which is wherein carbon capture use and sequestration is being integrated, all that emissions is released into the environment. So, hydrogen when we say it is a clean carrier or it has potential for decarbonization, in order to have entire value chain to be decarbonized, the production of hydrogen also need to be green. Now, what this green hydrogen means, what do we mean by the color that we will see in the next slide. All these emissions they contribute about 900 million tons of CO2, whether it is from natural gas, depending on the compositions the numbers may vary, from natural gas it is roughly about 10 tons of CO2 released per ton of hydrogen being produced. From oil or oil products, again heavier oil or middle distillate or lighter distillate it is roughly about 12 tons of carbon dioxide being released per ton of hydrogen being produced and if it is from coal then around 19 tons of carbon dioxide is released per ton of hydrogen being produced. The positive sign is that the contribution from green hydrogen is also increasing, the electrolyzer, global electrolyzer capacity is growing in the 2021 it is around 350 megawatt and it is expected that projection says that it is expected to become 52 gigawatt by 2030. Now, if we look at the India status, India country status then about 6 million tons of hydrogen is being produced per annum, out of this 2.6 million tons per annum is used in refineries, 3.2 million tons is being used for chemical industry, for the in the fertilizer industry and the remaining is obtained as a by-product hydrogen. There is a different coding which is given to hydrogen, as we have seen in the first lecture, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. So, hydrogen itself do not have a color. However, there is a color coding given to identify from which source that hydrogen is being produced. So, the color coding given for hydrogen being produced from coal is black, from bituminous coal if it is being produced from lignite then it is brown. Hydrogen being produced from natural gas without carbon capture use and sequestration then it is gray. However, if it is being produced from fossil fuels but with carbon integrated with carbon capture use and sequestration it is blue hydrogen. There are few more colors which are been assigned. Methane pyrolysis if the hydrogen is being produced by methane pyrolysis decomposition of methane giving carbon and hydrogen then it is turquoise hydrogen and if it is being produced from renewables then it is called green hydrogen. Now, what are the different methods of production? What are the different conversion technologies from these feedstocks? We will see in the next class. Thank you.


People don't know where I come from. I come from a really dark past. I was addicted to drugs. I suffered a lot of trauma in my life. I've done prison time. I hung around with a lot of, you know, interesting characters, very deceptive environment. Well I saw you make the changes like I can do too. How old are you? Twenty-sixty. They've been in this for a year. You're lucky man. When did you get away from all that shit? Well they're still my mates. Yeah, yeah. I'm just... You're taking a different path. I'm walking my own path and I still see them every now and then. I recognise what's happening and I just keep my distance. They all end up in jail or drug addicts or in the ship mate. Everyone does. It just depends on what type of sentence they get when they do get caught. That's the luck about it.  Less than one percent of people get out of there. You made the right choice mate. I saw the world in a certain way. I saw the world in a very sinister way because that was how I was brought up and spent ten years in gangs and you know around dodgy people. Committed acts of violence myself.  You know I had a lot of respect for the acts of violence I committed on people. I've done a lot of things I regret in my past. I suffered a lot of PTSD from things that happened. Thank you for being the inspiration to show us. Of course for a lot. I'm sure you hear a lot like thanks, thanks, thanks for all that praise but I really want to share that. Your story is one of the most important to me man because by that life there's nothing good that comes out of it. So many good people are wasted down that hole. Definitely. We've both seen it. It turns people into the monster that they're not you know. So it's better to do something worthwhile with your courage you know what I mean. Yeah I love it. I try my best to go home and strike it. When I was in prison I had a wake up call. There was a lot of gang members in prison.  And you're not a tough guy in prison. I'll tell you that. You might think you are on the outside but you're just like everyone else you know.  You know I come from the gutter mate and now I've got to be platform to help animals and nothing feels better than that though. It must be. When I got out of prison I started to see the hypocrisy claiming to care about some animals while eating a dead one. I changed because I felt that I was not an evil person.  I wanted to practice what I preach.  Use that in your activism. Why do you avoid that in your activism? Don't be shy. That's what changed me. You either go vegan or you continue for this cruelty in your life which is bad, yeah? It's really hard for them to justify something that's obviously so cruel and unjustified, yeah? I know we're all different. We all have our own styles. We're all, some are softer spoken. Some are more polite. Some are more about peace and love. We've got one thing in common though. We think animal abuse is atrocious. Now what changed you? What changed you into an ethical vegan? It was the animals, hey? I don't want to pay for something I'm morally against.  I don't want to be an animal abuser. Now I don't want to be a human abuser. I don't want to hurt people either. I was a hypocrite across the board, trust me. More than anyone. This evolution that I had all come from self-realisation. Hey, you're in gangs. You're doing bad things. Your mum's crying. You've hurt your family. Everyone's scared of you.  The animals did nothing wrong to me, alright? Nothing at all. You've got to speak to that in other people. However you do it. Like any other animal. They don't want to die. They're scared. They want to be protected and cared for, like, muffin. We just disconnected it. Imagine the animals in the water, right? They're just animals in the water. Muffin in the water. Fish. Exactly the same. Next minute they get dragged out and they're suffocating and then they're big. You know, so from when you look at it, you look at it from the victim's point of view how that would feel like.  Obviously, I do it my way. And you'll do it your way. But you have to make that person feel responsible. You have to speak to that part in their heart that knows this is wrong. And you have to lead them to the realisation that they're causing it. You have to do that. Otherwise, it's just an interesting thought. Oh wow, they made me think. No. You don't want to make them think. You don't want to make them feel responsible. The blood is on your hands. Okay? I'm not asking you to swear and be blunt and do what I do. Do it in your own way. Alright? Because we're all different. But make sure you never forget that this individual here is paying for something they're against and they don't know yet. So you have to do them the service. Yeah, yeah. We've got all this power and we're abusing the power and then we pay for that to go on. We don't deserve one cent of your money ever again. It's not okay. Would you agree? The knife is in the hand of the consumer. You're paying for them to be killed. There's no way around it.  Okay? Stop pandering. Yeah, I think I fell into the trap of pandering a little bit too much because I thought that that was the way. I realised that I was wasting everyone's time. Their time, my time, the animals' time. I just want to be direct. You might have five minutes to talk to this person. Only five minutes. You might have one minute. You have to make them feel responsible for what's on the screen in one minute. Are you going to talk about this and that issue and that? No. Keep it focused on the victims. It's hard to learn from me to be like something else. Well, who's it harder for? That's why if it's not hard for me to be a vegan because I look at it from the animal's perspective, not my own. Then it's easy when you look at it from their eyes. Put them in the victim's position. How would you like it? If you're being held against your will, raped, have your children taken and stabbed to death at the end of it and turned into a burger, digested and flushed down the taller. Is that not animal abuse? How would you feel? Put the onus on them. Help them understand what it's like to be a victim. The alien's going to come down with the same to us. Maybe then people will learn what it feels like to be a victim. Because many people here, they wouldn't have the first clue about what it's like to be a victim. I know what it's like. I've got a gun to my head. I know what it's like to stare down the barrel of a gun. I know what it's like to be held hostage. I've seen it happen. But many people here don't know what it's like to be a victim. So it's hard for them to look at it through the victim's eyes. You've got to help them. You've got to help them understand what it's like to be pushed into a gas chamber, to use empathy. If you've only got five minutes, choose your words carefully. Okay? Don't spend your time talking about this climate and health and all these things. Focus on what the knife has been shoved into the animal's jugular. So do you think if the animal agriculture have any effects on the global warming? I don't know too much about the climate change issue. It probably does. If you speak to the experts, they could probably tell you. But for me, the issue is through the eyes of the animals. They are being tortured and harmed and by good people who don't see it. So for me, the climate is important for all of our survival. But when you think of a cow, they're only thinking of being free and they don't want to be tortured. So for me, this is the issue. The issue for me is animal rights and for the animals, it's for their own freedom. You know, like Gary Ofsky said, one of the best things he ever said is always to speak for the animals. Hey, you would want to be spoken for if you were in their position. And that's exactly how I want you to speak for the animals and that's what they deserve. This is Animal Rights Activism Sydney and they're showing what happens to animals for meat, dairy and eggs and other industries that exploit and kill animals. The outreaches will talk to the public and show them how they're actually causing this to happen. Torture. Disgusting torture. So the responsibility is on the consumer. They pay for these horrible industries and most people have a good heart.  So we're showing them how they are but how they don't know about it yet so that they can change. So thank you everyone. Keep up the amazing work and always use the animals to motivate you too. Always use, you know, like, look, we all go free ups and downs. Like, look, it's hard in the movement too. Everyone knows what the best way is. You know, everyone's, like, the most critical person. You'll be doing the right thing in your heart and you'll be shot down for it, trust me, by people that you thought were comrades. But you're not doing it for them. And I've seen some comments online, like, you're two, I don't know, brutal or almost whatever that is. Yeah, I know. And there's other people doing it in a different way so everyone coming together, it's like... And I don't tell them, don't do it that way. I do it my way and we're all doing the same thing. Exactly. Is the pig shooting you down? Has the chicken done anything wrong to you? No, they're still being victimized. So don't worry about what other people say, what other vegans say, what meat eaters say to you, what, you know, close-minded people say to you. Just keep the animals in mind and you'll stay in this movement for life until this ends, because I will be. Okay, because I will be. All right. Thanks everyone.  You know that already, but I just need to add to the voice of probably lots of people who are telling you this. Thank you. Can I give you a hug? Of course. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for everything. Thanks for the animals. Thank you, mate. You too, mate. Thank you. Keep going too, brother. All right. Don't stop. All right, let's keep it up, mate. Oh, no. Oh, dear. Hello, Julia. I heard you went big and that's fantastic. Thank you so much for thinking of the animals by doing making that choice and I hope you get out there and do some outreach so you can help defend the animals with all of us here like we're doing here in Sydney. Boom. Take care. All right. So this is it.  It's been very interesting and I've learned a lot. I've learned a lot since I've been an activist. We need to move this movement forward and keep it focused on the victims. So this won't be the last you see of me. Meat should be illegal. Animal products should be illegal, 100%. Got to go vegan. They've seen that and then the message they're left with is you've got to go vegan. It's like they're walking past. I mean, it's more than... it's better than not saying nothing, eh?


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here since I'm about several different topics in this video here today We'll be talking about scream six. We'll be talking about the conjuring We'll be talking about the last of us and we'll be talking about Tremors the tremors franchise briefly Just to kick it off with scream six screen six will have a Super Bowl ad at this year's upcoming event from Paramount And of course it'll have other spots in its in its slate But scream six is one of them. This is something that many people like myself were hoping for a lot of people were curious as to Whether or not this would be why we hadn't seen too much marketing going on and this kind of now gives people a sigh of relief when They see that they had this big Marketing tactic plan related to the Super Bowl So this to me indicates a lot of confidence in this upcoming sequel deadline broke the news yesterday And it's gotten a few people in the fandom excited It's bothered the Nev Campbell community And it's raised a lot of questions for me as to why they're doing this now some of the reasons They could be doing this for starters. This would obviously be a tremendous way to get scream six So much needed attention at an event that averages over a hundred million viewers I believe and then of course everyone in attendance Secondly Jen or tega has gained so much star power that this would be a great way to let casual fans of her Know that she has another project on the way very soon to just casual wednesday fans Thirdly for me This seems to be tied to how successful screen five was for paramount last year and thus they are willing to invest In this franchise a lot more than last time I would say even though people would argue the marketing was better last time Something of this magnitude and how expensive it is to get spots like this tells me that they are willing to invest In this ip going off of the success of five Now this alone is the biggest marketing tool that they've done so far And I cannot wait to see what it includes the footage that is going to be showcased in the tv spot Is most likely going to be A new crop of footage mixed in with stuff we've already seen possibly from different angles Maybe an extended look at the bodega sequence. Hopefully we get more shots of curvy reed and gale weathers But we'll see what happens So just to jump into the conjuring universe and talk specifically about the main series Which we know is the conjuring that started in 2013 with edin lorraine worn Related to its main set of movies with edin lorraine worn This series could be ending with the conjuring four now James won had this interview with collider last month in january where he discussed the process of working on these movies And the conjuring four by saying yeah, we are working on it right now with the conjuring films We are very precious about them and so we want and so we kind of want to just take our time to make sure We get it right and to make sure the emotion of the warren stories that we want to tell and moving into And potentially wrapping up We just want to make sure That it is the right thing the right story that we're telling When asked if four would be the last one basically said you never know and we will see so four isn't going to for sure be The conjuring movies conclusion Uh, I always felt that what the conjuring movies did so well The three that we've gotten anyway They do a great job at making every film wrap up with no need to drag the previous investigation into a sequel And I think that's mostly what wand was referring to but they do a good job at of course We know it has several spin-offs at this point They do a great job at establishing certain characters or certain villains Like valik and allowing those to see potential in spin-offs But they never tell stories about the cases they're working on in a manner in which It's left to bleed into a sequel the case is always resolved in that one contained move I like how they always felt contained each case never bleeds into the other because they could always take their liberties With this fictional piece of work that they're doing and just stretch out these cases into sequels Uh, but they don't do that. So we'll see if the conjuring four Is going to actually be the end. I doubt it will be I think what mostly wand was getting at was the fact that each investigation in these movies always has a Wrap-up to it of sorts It never feels like it is going to bleed into the next one We always know that the next movie is going to focus on a different case unless This villain that was established in this case is going to get its own spin-off movie stuff like that But just to go into the last of us So the last of us season two has been confirmed the series continues to be a success in terms of viewership over at hbo with over 22 million Viewers in total across several platforms is what I've read. Um, this is what was said by Some of the producers some of the executive producers are one of them anyway I'm humbled honored and frankly overwhelmed that so many people have tuned in and connected with our Retailing of joelen ellie's journey said executive producer neil druckman the collaboration with craig masin our incredible cast and crew and hbo Hbo exceeded my already high expectations now We have the absolute pleasure of being able to do it again with season two Season two to me most likely is going to have to be set on that game that recently came out Admittedly I have never played the second game. So I'm going to take my time to do that in the near future So by the time part two came out Of what had happened was I just wasn't a kid anymore. So therefore I didn't really care too much to pick this game up and play it I was always intrigued to play it. I said I would give it a chance at some point I started to gain interest in playing part two once the show adaptation was announced and now I have grown even more Anticipated to play that game once I finish this first season of this show And I definitely will make sure to play it before I see season two when that drops So you guys can let me know what you want to see out of the last of a season two I'm certain there are certain bits from the game The last of us part two that people want altered and hope that they can tweak those errors by adapting it better into the Into the television show because I already know there's things about The second game that people have gripes with so let me know what you want to see from the second season down in the comment section below Last thing we're going to talk about is kevin bacon who is down for another fight against grabboys in a tremor sequel When asked about it by a fan over on twitter bacon responded with i'm just waiting for the call So these films to my knowledge, haven't they been directed ebd since the sequel started in the 90s? I mean I gave up on this franchise a long time ago. I didn't stop watching the sequels I just gave up in the sense that I never turned them on expecting much The first one I believe is The best I'm sure many other people would argue that it is the best Some other people probably argued the first movie is trash, but I'd be down to see a true legacy sequel with val as the central character that we follow And maybe you could even bring back stars from the original film besides bacon Like ariana who played mendy and she plays lex from Jurassic park for anyone who was like who the hell is ariana? Earl of course cannot join us sadly him rest in peace to fred ward, but you can always find a way to Make it work in the sense of You can always find a way to make uh earl important to the story in some type of manner the same way they were able to make Deceased actors who played characters in other movies relevant still to the plot You can always use that in some capacity still in a true legacy sequel to tremors What would you like to see from a tremor's legacy sequel? Let me know down in the comment section below Please at this point when it comes to tremors just give me a movie with someone besides bert Because bert is in almost nearly every single one I think let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications that you never miss a video in the description I will have links to all my social media accounts I am on facebook twitter and instagram you can message me there of course Let me know if there are any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future And with all that in mind guys, I will see you in the next video