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silly mean actually in South America there have a
the problem with drought and what they have done is perfected
fog catchers harvesting drinking water
from the fog literally it's essentially it's a it's a mash
or can be kinda webbing and depending on how it's made in and constructed in
various you can actually get the condensation from the fog as it passes
over it
that condensation collects an eclectic to a bottleneck and drinking water
for free from the air that's badass it's totally
I love the conservatives who are like God gave us the oil on me the ground so
and though they become southern a few so a good or put it there so that we can
utilize a token is liberals on sale the good Lord also gives the Sun
he also gave us when Eddie Gaven spock yes right
so now we're utilizing fight to get water it's not about it as well water
but that's great
I'm now I worry about it though
in you probably no help a lot more about this than I do like
if he did that in LA the fire would also be littered with smog
well I wouldn't want to drink down it depends on how you do it now the thing
that they didn't really is that they adjusted the materials that were they
use they adjusted the coating that was on a actually
literally it makes a difference the signs that the holes in the mesh that
whether or not they actually are the optimum amount
to capture all the water and I didn't see anything about pollution
in this particular explanation of this but I would think that since it's kind
of like
a distillate distillation you know where you actually kinda purifies the water so
I would thank
have to check on that but I would think that the smog and pollution or
particulate matter
that we get a lot of here an LA would not make it into a drinking water
depending on if they feel to it
and how it's constructed so are you surprised that
we haven't solved how your energy I love the Sun
yet in an efficient you know cost which way maybe we have an idea
okay see what they look there was a study that came out today
custer's that China and the lower cost for their solar panels that they've been
able to achieve
isn't necessarily because they have lower labor costs that is a factor
that does make a difference but it's really because they were able to scale
up so quickly
and it was the the massive construction love
manufacturing plants if they did and the massive scaling up
the production I love the PV solar panels and that will enable them to
bring the cost down so completely over just a few years
so you know when you have scaling up i mean it's a it's a very common business
practice that when you have
the economy of scale you can you can lower the price quite dramatically so
that's why for example subsidies would make sense
in new emerging industry so they can scale up yeah whether solar energy wind
energy you know it's the the BC valley of death
you know you get to a certain point and you're a start-up company
and you can't quite make it across that *** death where you need to be able
to have somebody to give you the capital
to open a factory or to get this the raw materials that you need
so that's the one case not China realizing that they have a huge
opportunity here when the clean energy race
put in about thirty billion dollars a year
I think over the last 50 years now and that 50 sorry the last five years
they put in so many billions of dollars way way way more than we have in the
united states
that's because thats what made them able to
scale up so quickly the government was behind them cars they have a different
set up for government they have a topdown command-and-control economy
but because if they did they made it happen so but in the long run a gate
cheaper more efficient energy right thereby are more competitive than us
because they bother to invest $30 billion now on I also flooded the market
with that cheap silicon cell
that made it more difficult for american manufacturers in order to be able to
keep up with the pace of what they were doing
and there's another problem here in the United States this real quick that we
have
all of these permitting issues and you have to go through
about 18 months worth depending on where you are
have trying to get through permits and other
building issues to in order to get solar panels on your roof whereas over in
germany
it can be up in a matter two to three weeks he because germany has purposely
taking a policy of streamlining
so that these things go up very quickly and there's a there's a great book
called The
the clean energy break by she gray davidson my talks about what germany has
done to be
I our world leader their winning the solar energy race right now
so and it's not that americans are against women we love
waiting right we love to get new markets and
expand into those a center is just the people who make a lot of money
in the old industries don't want to give that money up
so they're invested in crushing new industries
and they have more money in the beginning that they can use in campaign
donations lobbying et cetera
to crush the new industries if we had a real free market
we probably be in much better shape but the bottom line is
a it is possible if you do the right actions
and you do the right investments it is possible and the fog stories encouraging
to
known as Greece there's all kinds and innovation going on all around the world
and I'm
I'm so important that people are really here about much of it but it's
everywhere it's great that you know it's it's happening
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