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your support. All Right, our number two, I'm running at like,

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I don't know, seventy percent, I feel it, maybe even

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sixty it's uh may all right, sixty two percent stayed

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up too late watching this show Special Forces have didn't

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even get through the first season. Then I'm just talking

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with Bernie and Nick during the break there. And that's

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not the only show that we watched because we were

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so my sister and her family were coming into town,

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so we were prepped for them to come into town.

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But then my nephew got sick and so they didn't come.

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So we ended up with a free Friday night and Saturday,

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and so it was like, oh, what do you, Let's

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watch a bunch of like junk food TV because you know,

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we don't watch enough of that, but we started by

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watching this. Have you seen this show extracted? Oh my gosh,

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it's such a train wreck. It is a psychological and

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emotional train wreck. So they took a model. You've seen

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these shows like Alone where they drop you into the

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wilderness with nothing and you're alone, or Outlast where they

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drop you out in the middle of the wilderness with

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nothing and you have to outlast some competitors, right, and

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it's a survivalist kind of thing. And we've seen we

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like watching those shows, not all of them, but some

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of them get kind of repetitive. But these people are

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out there for like three months, like eating sticks. It's ridiculous. Anyway,

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they took this concept and they're like, hey, I know,

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let's throw like a completely emotionally and psychologically broken element

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into this. So when you go, so you go out

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into the woods, okay, or I'll use me. I go

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out into the woods, so I'm the survivor or survivalist.

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I go out yeah, because you can't call them survivor

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because that's a whole different show. So you go out

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into the wilderness and they got cameras set up everywhere

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around your little camps and everything, and you can get

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supply drops. How do you get the supply drops? Two

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members of my family are back in a climate controlled

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headquarters and they have access to all the feeds, and

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they're in one big room with all the family members

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of your other competitors. You're all in this room together,

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and you're sleeping in these little I don't know, I

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converted shipping container little pods. You got a two beds,

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so you're all. Everybody's like there, and so now you're

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you're trying to pick out supplies to send to your

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loved one. But then they always throw these sick and

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warped challenges and stuff and oh, you can take an

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item from this other person's supply drop. And so then

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they make the survivalist hike like two miles. They find

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the crate and there's nothing in it that's super demoralizing.

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And then you get the dynamics going on back in

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HQ between the family members. You know, one of them,

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I don't want to say, all right, spoiler alert, one

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of them, the daughter. So the mom is out in

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the woods and the daughter and the husband are back

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at HQ, and she's like, I don't want mom to

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be there anymore. She wouldn't want me to suffer like this,

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so like that's you, that's not her, and that she's

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using that as leverage against Dad and saying all of

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the woke words. Oh my gosh, it's such a train wreck. Yes,

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so we watched that. That was Friday and Saturday night.

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I have no regrets it was. And yeah, so the

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it's still going on the season is still going on

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in that one. I think it's tonight. I think that

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it may be this season finale tonight. Yeah, it's that is.

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It is a it is an interesting dynamic and that

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people are starting to get all cutthroaty back at HQ.

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Oh brutal anyway, Speaking of surviving, North Carolina lawmakers want

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to loosen certain building rules to make it easier for

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people to reconstruct buildings that were damaged by Hurricane Helene.

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A piece at w R A L by Paul spect

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reports on State st Senator Tim Moffatt's Senate Bill two

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sixty six. Tim MOFFITTT is a Republican Senator from Henderson County.

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He used to be a state representative in the House

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representing parts of bunkhom County Ashville area, but then he

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moved to Henderson County. Now he's a state senator, and

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his bill would allow victims of a historic flood to

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rebuild their buildings to their original specifications, exempting the property

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owners from construction regulations that were enacted into law after

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the structure was first built. Which sounds like a pretty

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good idea, except this seems kind of like an administrative nightmare.

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How you're going to have to then know every single

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building code when it was adopted, right, and then say, okay,

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well you your house was built in you know, nineteen

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ninety four, and so what's the building code for nineteen

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ninety four? Pull that manual, Pull that code, and that's

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what you can build to instead of the new standards,

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which are very expensive and in some cases don't even

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allow you to build the structure again. Critics of the

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proposal worry that the bill, if immediately enacted into law,

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could also make it more difficult for some North Carolinians

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to receive federal disaster relief funding. Tim Moffatt told the

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Senate Regulatory Reform Committee that he will not seek votes

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on his bill until he receives assurances from federal officials

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that his proposals are not going to jeopardize that funding.

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Moffatt said he has been communicating with the federal government

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and officials about loosening regulations that are imposed by FEMA

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and the National Flood Insurance Program. His bill would allow

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victims of once in a lifetime floods to rebuild in

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a floodplaine, because that's also been part of the problem

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up there is you had a house that was built

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maybe one hundred years ago, and then somewhere in that

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last hundred years they adjusted the flood maps and now

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you're in the floodplain, and now you're not allowed to rebuild.

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Stuff like that regulatory obstacles. He also said, quote elevating structures.

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So you want to put a house, you know, higher up,

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and that's one of the things we need to build

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the houses, you know, like down at the beach, all

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of the first floor is concrete, you know, and the

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garages or car ports will be underneath. You park underneath,

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and then the living space is you know, twenty feet

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up or fifteen feet up from there. But it's not

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as easy to do in the mountains because they're mountains.

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I don't know if you're aware of this. It's pretty

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difficult to like drill down into mountain. It's pretty tough.

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It's hard. And so he said, we don't have a

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lot of buildable land in the mountains that's available like

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you see in the rolling plains of our state or

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the coastal plains of our state. And he's exactly right

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about that. You know, there's just not as much land

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to build on. One of the things that was very

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eye opening for Christy. I mean when we were driving

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around looking to buy or build a house up in

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the mountains, we were trying to find lots for sale,

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and you would you would go, you know, pull up

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your realtor dot Com or whatever, and you would go

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find some lots and you'd go take a look, and

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you pull up on the side of the road and

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it's just like this sheer drop off the side of

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the road, and like, yeah, that's the lot. Like how

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are you going to build on that really tall stilts

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that go down forty to fifty sixty feet down the ravine,

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Like I'm not Yeah, I'm not doing that. Where do

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you put a driveway? It's nuts? So, yeah, you got

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limited land. So that's one way there. They're looking to

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help rebuild and then there's Senate Bill six oh two,

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which exempts businesses affected by Helene from having to reinstall

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windows under current regulations. State Senator Ralph Hyes. He said

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he filed the bill after he heard about a coffee

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shop in Spruce Pine and the owners were told that

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they would have to install windows that cost about four

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hundred thousand dollars in order to comply with current regulations.

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Spruce Pine has like two thousand people in it, Like,

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even if they're doing brisk business at the coffee shop,

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a four hundred thousand dollars bill for some windows that

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guess I have to talk about the historical history here,

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John says Pete. I realize you have only started the

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show and maybe you're going to talk about it. However,

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I feel now to be fair, John wrote this at

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the beginning of the show last hour. I'm just now

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reading it, but yes, there was historical history that was made.

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He says, I feel this should really have been your

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top story because there is a historic history being made

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that just happened. It's historic, like it's never happened in

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history before. It's so important, and all women crew has

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flown into space. I know, who would have thought we

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would have ever lived to see such historic history being made.

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You know how many years of training it took for

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them to become astronauts. They should be role models for

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young girls all around the world, showing that if you

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study hard enough, you could become a rocket scientist. Except

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they didn't actually fly the rocket. Yeah, they I gotta

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tell you, I object to them being called astronauts. I've

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heard the term. They're using it to describe these famous

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women that were taking up well in Jeff bezos fiance.

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Like they they're okay, you could call them astro knots

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like that's fine, astronot I'm okay saying that, but it

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sounds too close to astronauts. So let's just call them

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what they are. They're space tourists, that's what they are.

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They are tourists. They took a ride, right, they got

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in a pod and you know, we burned up a

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bunch of fossil fuel to launch them up into the atmosphere,

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and then they came back down and Jeff Bezos apparently

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face planted in the Texas desert. He did, like, he

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literally fell down on his face while he was walking

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around the module, and it was it was landed in

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the desert. He was just sitting there and he walked

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up to it and as he was walking around it,

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he tripped and fell and face planted. I don't know

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what that means. I'm just saying. Also, it appears that

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the the module returned with a scrape on the passenger

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side rear quarter panel for some reason. That and all

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of the participants were asked how would they rate their

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their delivery? They were they did, yes, they did provide

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the driver feedback. You should always do that with your

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Amazon deliveries. This was the Blue Origin launch. My Gail

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King was on it, Jeff Bezos's fiance was on it,

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Katie Perry was on it, and like this. Matt Vespa,

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who's a senior editor at town Hall Media, he says,

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why is everybody acting like women have never been in

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space before? I mean, Biden just left one trapped up

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in the Space station, right, like they've been there. Guys like, oh,

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but it's all female, that's the it's an all female crew. Yeah,

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but they're not the crew. They weren't flying it. They

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just rode up in it. Somebody else was driving, right,

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probably a dude. But no, I'm kidding. I don't know.

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I mean, good for them, I guess, But like, I'm

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not calling William Shatner an astronaut because he rode up

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in the Blue Origin thing before, right, I call him

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an astronaut from his time on the Enterprise, but this didn't.

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That doesn't make him an astronaut. The Origin, his Star

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Trek days make him in the astronaut. How Come they're

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not called astronauts, right? They're never called Are they called astrois?

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Don't I'm not a tricky so I don't know. But

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nobody ever calls the Star Trek crew astronauts. But they

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would be astronauts, right, I think? I don't know. I

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got a lot of questions about the nomenclature here. Also,

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this is quite the story. CBS News reporting that they

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have found an ancient altar in Guatemala in the jungle,

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and apparently it was used for human sacrifices, especially of children,

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say the archaeologists. So child sacrifice in the Guatemalan jungle,

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in this very large pyramid looking like temple. And they

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have a quote in this CBS article from Maria Berlen Mendez,

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an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, but

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she said the discovery confirms quote that there has been

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an interconnection between multiple cultures and what their relationship with

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their gods and celestial bodies was. Like, Okay, so they're

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sacrificing all of the children, murdering the children all willy

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nilly for their gods, for their sky gods or or

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ground gods, I guess, or water gods, whatever, tree gods.

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so okay, I guess. And so this children murdering thing

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occurs across multiple cultures in these ancient times. That's the

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interconnected relationship between the cultures she's talking about. And then

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she says, we see how the issue of sacrificing exists

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in both cultures. It was a practice. It's not that

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they were violent, it was their way of connecting with

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the celestial bodies. See a this is a non violent

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murder people. This is not violent murdering, obviously, Matt Watsh

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points out, you've heard of the mostly peaceful riots. Well,

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now we hear of nonviolent human sacrifice. We truly do

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have received some clarification. Apparently James Kirk was an explorer,

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not an astronaut. It's an explorer. That's good to know.

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Thank you, Melissa, and Cheerio says on Twitter. It's a

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peat tweet that these the all female spaceflight. They were passengers,

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they were not a crew. Well, by the way, how

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do we know there it's an all female Why is

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this historical? Yeah? No, I'm just kind of thinking this through.

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Is it because they identified as female before they got

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on board? What if they had to change of mind

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while they were Oh man, that would have been that

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would have been a story. You get into space, or

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like right before you enter space, and you're like, guys,

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I just want to say, I identify as a man,

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and now your historical history is for naught, like an astronaut.

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Maybe that's what we should call them astronauts. Yeah, it's

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too close to astronaut. I don't even want to give

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them that. And then I mentioned the story about the

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Guatemalan ancient civilization that committed the non violent child sacrifice,

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and that was just discovered by some archaeologists. But it

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was not violent because it wasn't about violence. This is

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about worship. See, it's about getting into a commune kind

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of relationship with the celestial body by murdering your children.

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More than sixty research scientists signed in openly so speaking

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of sacrificing your children. More than sixty research scientists signed

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an open letter urging North Carolina Governor Josh Stein to

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halt Duke Energy's fossil fuel expansion and what they call

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the suppression of renewable energy solutions. They want him to

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exercise his executive authoritie four public health and climate scientists

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along with the Center for Biological Diversity and a solar

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nonprofit advocacy group called nc WARN. That's within an n WARN.

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They organize the letter these four public health and climate

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scientists along with the two organizations. It's signed by a

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total of sixty one scientists from universities and agencies across

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the country who say it has all of the whole

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of a Russian disinformation Oh wait, sorry, wrong letter, my bit. No, sorry,

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this is they want Josh Stein to get all executive

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authority E and the letter asks Stein to prevent Duke

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Energy from delaying the transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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This is a story by Christine ju Over at NC

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news Line, which is one of the member outlets of

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an organization called State's Newsroom. They are based in North

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Carolina and Washington, d C. And it's a progressive front group. Basically,

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it's funded by left wing nonprofits. It was founded by

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Chris Fitzsimmons from North Carolina, who's big lefty guy, And

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they put out these stories under the color of a

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legitimate and objective news organization, when in fact it's just

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a comms arm of the progressive nonprofit organizations. So the

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story goes on to say that the company possesses one

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of the biggest planned gas buildouts of any utility for

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the decade. Duke Energy recently announced its intent to consider

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delaying the retirement of its coal fleet as a result

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of the Trump administration's climate protection rollbacks. Then they quote

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Gabby sorry Tobar, a senior energy justice campaigner. I don't

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know which part of that title to start attacking first.

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Does that mean she's old? I don't know, senior energy

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Justice campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, and she

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says Duke Energy's reckless expansion of fossil gas is costing

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lives and saddling North Carolinians with skyrocketing utility bills and

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deadly or extreme weather. I mean just everything. It's like

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every problem is to blame on the expansion of fossil gas,

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which hasn't actually happened yet. It's to see the emissions

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go way up when you just simply consider doing it.

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Little known fact about the gas industry, it's already skyrocketing

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utility bills, right, I mean, it's not the decommissioning of

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all of the cheap energy producing facilities. That's not why. No,

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it's talking about expansion of the gas facility. In the

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entire article. You know what is not mentioned. If you

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said nuclear, you are correct. Nuclear not mentioned anywhere in

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the climate change energy production article, which is weird because

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if you are actually interested in not impoverishing future generations,

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because energy is the lifeblood of the civilization, if you

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want to end up, you know, sacrificing your children like

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the ancient Guatemalan culture that they just identified, well this

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would be the way to do it. Make energy production

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so costly that nobody can enjoy like air conditioning, you know.

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And here's the thing. The wind and solar power myth

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is just that it can't scale, at least not yet.

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They can't figure they haven't figured this out. It can't

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scale to the size necessary to fund or to power

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all of the all of the demand. But nuclear can.

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Many governments in the Western world have committed to net

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zero emissions of carbon in the near future. The US

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and UK both say they will deliver by twenty fifty,

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and it's widely believed that wind and solar can achieve this.

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Brian Lalan, writing at The Telegraph, says this belief has

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led the US and British governments, among others, to promote

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and heavily subsidize wind and solar. These plans have a

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single fatal flaw. They are reliant on the pipe dream

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that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity

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at scale. That's the core problem, all right. If you're

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listening to this show, you know I try to keep

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up with all sorts of current events, and I know

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you do too, And you've probably heard me say get

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your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, because It's how

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you detect media bias, which is why I've been so

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impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website,

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and it combines news from around the world in one

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can check it out at check dot ground, dot news

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more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate

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because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered

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and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which

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but it also supports ground News as they make the

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media landscape more transparent. All right, So, Brian Leyland or Leland.

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He is a power systems engineer with more than sixty

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years experience on projects around the world. He says the

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conventional power station or something very like it, will still

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be needed frequently once the wind and solar come online.

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Because it's intermittent, governments, many of them have kept the

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lights on only by using existing fossil fired stations as

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backup for periods of low wind and sun. This brings

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with it a new operating regime where stations that were

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designed to operate continuously now have to follow unpredictable fluctuations

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in wind and solar. As a result, operating and maintenance

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costs have increased, and many stations have had to be

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shut down. He talks about open cycle, which can be

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throttled up and down easily, but open cycle gas turbines

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burn about twice as much gas as a combined cycle

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gas turbine, so you're actually creating more emissions. Power prices

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will soar, making more or less everything more expensive, and

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there will be frequent blackouts. Only one thing can save

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the day for the renewables plan, reasonable cost, large scale

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energy storage sufficient to keep the lights on for several

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days at a minimum, That would solve the problem. Right,

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You got to be able to store the power for

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you know, three, four, five days where it just rains.

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What are the options? Battery storage? Okay takes a look

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at that breaks it down by the numbers. Wind farms

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cost about one point five million per megawatt, so the

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cost of battery storage would be astronomical eighty times greater

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than the cost of the wind farm itself. A major

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additional constraint would be that such quantities of batteries are

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simply not available. There's not enough lithium and cobalt and

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other rare minerals that are being mined at the moment,

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so that's off the table. He breaks down hydro pumped storage.

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That's one of the options, but like that's not going

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to be a feasible option. It cannot solve the problem

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on a national scale. Hydrogen is another technology that's often

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suggested for the storage, but it's got a ton of

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problems as well, and he says the conclusion to all

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of this analysis is that barring some sort of a miracle,

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there's no possibility that a suitable storage technology is going

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to be developed in the needed time frame. Right if

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you're looking to be you know, net zero by twenty fifty.

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The present policies of just forcing wind and solar into

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the market and hoping for a miracle have been memorably

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and correctly likened to jumping out of an airplane without

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a parachute, and hoping that the parachute will be invented,

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delivered and strapped on in mid air in time to

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save you before you hit the ground. He says, wind

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and solar need to be backed up close to to

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one hundred percent by some other means of power generation.

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If that backup is provided by open cycle gas or worse, coal,

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then net zero will never be achieved, nor anything very

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close to it, because the open cycle, as I said,

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burns more gas because you're having to turn on and

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off the power plants in order to adjust to the

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ebb and flow of the wind and the solar generation.

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There is one technology that can provide a cheap and

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reliable supply of low emissions electricity, and that would be nuclear.

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I'm kidding it's nuclear. Interest in nuclear power is increasing

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as more and more people realize that it is safe

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and reliable. If regulators in the public could be persuaded

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that modern stations are inherently safe and that low levels

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of nuclear radiation are not actually dangerous, nuclear power could

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provide all of the low cost, low emissions electricity the

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world needs for hundreds of thousands of years. But if

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we had one hundred percent nuclear backup for solar and wind,

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we wouldn't need the wind and solar plants at all.

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And that, my friends, is why it's supposed they are pointless.

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If you have nuclear, then wind and sow, wind and

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solar are irrelevant because you're creating way more electricity for cheaper,

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way more reliable. And that's why they won't. They won't

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talk about it, they won't use it as part of

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their strategy. They don't want nuclear at all. It's a

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left it's a remnant of the sixties era like that

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that the left wing sixties movement. There's a study that

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was put out by the Radiant Energy Group public attitudes

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towards clean energy. Support for nuclear energy outweighs opposition by

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one and a half times. Across twenty three surveyed states,

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forty percent support nuclear energy, twenty seven percent oppose it.

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Nuclear may act as a safeguard for climate action, providing

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insurance against potential backlash to the net zero goals. Among

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climate action skeptics, nuclear energy has the highest level of

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net support at plus thirty two percent of any clean

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energy tech. Also, preference for nuclear energy is larger than

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for onshore wind biomass from trees or gas with carbon

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capture and storage. It's the preferred technology, and regarding government policy,

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the public wants to keep using nuclear energy and wants

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to build new plants. Support for nuclear is less politically

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divided than or on shore wind farms or large scale

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solar farms. Again, nuclear has more support and it takes

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up less space. By the way, Republican and Democrat voters

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share similar views on key energy attributes and environmental issues,

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but concerns for climate change remain the most significant dividing

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factor between them. Like this is the win, guys, take

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the win, all right. That'll do it for this episode.

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much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.