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10 AWESOME Commuter Style Hacks | Fashion Tips For Subway Train Bus & Tube Travel - Duration: 9:06.

Commuting With Style [0:00:00]

You spend a lot of time on buses, trains, subways going to and from work and you want

to look good.

How to do it?

Okay guys.

So you take your favorite fragrance.

You pour it all over your body.

You walk right on to that train and you're going to get thrown off.

No, that's not how you do it.

That's just bad etiquette.

In today's video though, I got 10 solid tips on how to commute to work with style.

Why does this even matter.

Okay.

So quick story.

My friend, Baron over at the Effortless Gent, he met his wife Katy on public transportation

in San Francisco going to and from work, and he was dressed well.

He was able to make a strong first impression and believe it or not was able to stay in

touch.

Now they're married.

So these things happened.

Who knows?

You may run into an old client.

You may start talking with someone.

You may see someone that you've been wanting to talk to for years.

You may run into a famous actor.

Who knows?

But you always want to be prepared to make a strong first impression.

Tip #1 level up the bag that you carry.

So yeah, you've got that beat up all ballistic nylon bag.

That's a cool bag.

Hey, it's made from ballistic nylon.

But this bag right here sends the signal you are a stylish man.

It's simple.

It's understated.

You want to look maybe for a brief case, look for a messenger bag like, maybe an Attaché

case.

Find something that's going to work for you.

Maybe you've got a lot more you're going to carry.

I know some of guys are students.

You're like saying, Antonio, I got to take a backpack.

Well then find a great looking backpack.

There's many options out there.

But at the end of the day you want your bag to send a signal you're a sharp dressed

man.

Tip #2, have separate office shoes and separate commute shoes.

Your office shoes you spend good money on.

You keep them shine.

You keep them in the office and you don't destroy them.

Why, because you're not commuting back and forth.

You're not putting miles on these things.

You're not getting the scuff up in the subway.

You keep them in the office.

Nice.

Now your commute shoes.

These, hey, they're much more comfortable.

They're less expensive.

They're more durable in terms of being able to get wet and get thrown around.

This is a pair of shoes whenever they get scuffed up, they get damaged, you're not

going to be crying.

In fact, you're going to get another pair cause you have fun with them wearing them

with a suit and yes it's not in the office.

You can have a little bit of fun.

Now you may be saying that's too much.

Okay.

Then go with a boot.

Go with something that's maybe got a rubber sole, something that got traction.

What you're looking to have here is a commute shoes that saves your office shoe and is more

comfortable going to and from work.

Guys, I know a lot of you are working 8-12 hours a day.

You're spending 1-2 hours commuting to and from work and at the end of your shift, at

the end of your day, your feet are throbbing.

So a pair of comfortable commute shoes is definitely going to help.

But beyond that guys look at compression socks.

So I've talked about the power of compression before.

Over the last few years, I've done a lot of research, I've tested this, and what

I have found is the compression does actually reduced recovery time.

What you want to look for in a compression sock is something that basically is going

to squeeze your feet just a bit.

What that does is it encourages blood flow right back to the heart.

Now if you're looking for compression socks gentlemen, check out Feetures.

They're the paid sponsor of today's video, and I have been testing their product.

I got a paired on right on right now.

I can tell you these things are awesome.

They used basically a patented technology.

These are Lycra bands in here.

They're comfortable.

In addition guys, they have a lifetime guarantee.

So let me pull up their website.

Go check them out.

Look at everything they've got going on.

Look at all the different types.

They got from ultra light to light to cushion to max cushion.

So if you want cushion sock, they got all types of options.

Look at the different fabrics.

They used Merino wool.

They used bamboo.

They used moisture wicking fibers.

Now guys I have to admit what really drew me to this company was their story.

So Hugh, the founder back in 2002 he was in the sock industry.

He got out saying you know what.

We can make a better sock specifically for runners and for athletes.

So he wanted to use the latest fabrics.

He wanted to use all the different properties they had to make a better sock for athletes.

They paid attention to the way the built of the toe.

They got a left and right sock.

Little things like this.

It makes a huge difference in performance socks.

And now they wanted to get into the dress sock world.

So that's their big transition.

Guys, I am proud to bring them to you.

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I'm linking to them down in the description.

Go check them out.

Why?

Because they sent me a lot of socks and guess what guys.

As you know what happens here at Real Men Real Style when I have extra socks or extra

anything, I love to send your way.

So go check them out.

Let me know down in the comments the exact size and the exact type of socks you would

like to receive and what you're going to wear it with on your commute to and from work.

Sound like fun.

Guys, go check them out, an amazing family run business out of North Carolina.

I'm proud to support them.

Tip #3 for looking stylish on the commute, gentlemen, get a classic piece of men's

outer wear.

I've got a few examples right here.

Right here, you see a classic trench coat.

This one is going to be a navy.

So not so much a classic color but like this because if I'm going to be commuting I want

something dark.

Something that can take a stain that can get dirty but the style in and of itself is going

to send a signal this man has a bit of style.

[0:05:12] It's going to stand up from the pack or

you can take a standard leather jacket and make it not so standard with small details.

This jacket right here, it's a Moto style but the contrast stitching on it, right up

here in the shoulder area it looks great.

Actually, I love the way it makes me, basically build up my shoulder.

Make me look more muscular.

But overall this is a great jacket.

If you were to wear this, you would look great on your commute.

Now right over here, we got a classic overcoat.

This is something, yes; it's not going to help you stand out too much from the crowd

unless it gets really cold.

And this one is fully functional all the way to the top.

But the key about this jacket is the way it fits me.

So this one was custom made and it actually has a bit of taper in the waist not a whole

lot but enough that you look at this you're like wow that is a great looking jacket.

Initially, it looks like something you will just grab in any men's wear store.

But I can tell you but the fit and a few small details I've added to it make a huge difference.

Tip #4, bring in some color with your accessories.

Have fun with them.

So there's a lot of different options.

You can go with your neckties.

I've talked about neckties quite a bit.

But this floral one right here you wear this and maybe you're wearing it with that leather

jacket.

Wouldn't that be an interesting combination?

Now what I think a lot of you guys are probably zeroing in on is the silk scarf over here.

This right here, beautiful.

Imagine wearing this with this leather jacket right over.

I can wear it with the overcoat right over there.

I can wear it with the trench.

Now if its cooler, of course, you can you can just go with cashmere or wool scarf.

This color isn't too loud.

You can go with something a bit brighter, something that grabs a bit more attention.

Tip #5, have fun with the color and pattern of your shirts.

Shirts are something that you're going to wear year round.

During the winter you're probably going to have multiple layers over them so they'll

only be able to see this top area.

But that's still key because this is around your face.

And even a bit of color here can grab attention.

Let's talk about this shirt right here.

You can wear this in the summer.

From distance it's going to look like a small repeating pattern.

I get up close.

All the sudden I see this beautiful floral design.

Over here.

This shirt right here, another great summer shirts.

Something that you could bring in a classic small repeating pattern.

But the color, pink, in and of itself is going to help you stand up from the crowd.

Now this shirt right here, it's using a lavender with a twill weave.

We see actually a little bit of stripe in there.

It's a great looking shirt.

One that's going to separate you from the crowd.

Now this shirt right here.

You can still wear this in the summer but maybe you want to wear a jacket over this

with an overcoat.

Still we're going to see this in here around the collar in and around the upper chest and

it's going to draw attention and compliments.

Tip #6, have a handsome leather notepad and a beautiful pen.

So you're there sitting on the subway and you're just minding your own business, sitting,

thinking, writing with your pen and somebody notices.

Wow.

That looks great.

Tell me the story behind that pad, maybe behind that really nice pen.

Small details like that people in the know pick up on.

Tip #7, the perfect sunglasses for you.

So for most men, aviators, wayfarers, club masters, starting with those and trying each

of them is going to be a great start.

But let's say you've already got a pair of aviators and you love the look.

Well why not try something a little bit new.

Go for a bolder color.

Maybe go for something in a brighter metallic silver.

Maybe for wayfarer you want to have fun.

Not just going with the black but maybe going with something it's a little bit different

of a color, maybe a tortoise shell.

Have fun with it and see what you can pull off.

Tip #8, own a pair of great fitted gloves.

So winter gloves.

You're going to look for something with lining.

Something that's going to fit your hands properly is going to keep them warm.

But you can separate yourself from the crowd by having unlined gloves that you can wear

almost into the summer time and into the fall and these are ones that kind of protect your

hands from all the germs there on the subway.

Tip #9 a functional hat.

This hat right there.

Looks stylish but it is incredibly functional when I folded it out and I got this ear covers.

Basically, it's going to keep me warm during the winter.

Pretty nice little hat here.

Now this hat right here I can wear this during the summer, wear it during the fall.

It can protect me from rain, protect me from the sun.

Guys, wearing a functional hat is an easy way to separate yourself from the crowd.

Tip #10 to commuting with style gentlemen is to master your fragrance.

Control the way that you smell.

I'm not talking about taking a fragrance and spraying all over yourself and announcing

to the world that you are approaching the subway or the bus.

That's not what you want to do.

You want to wear a fragrance to be discovered especially when you're in a crowded environment.

But what I'm also talking about is everything that you wear whether it'd be a hair product,

whether it'd be deodorant, all of this actually has a fragrance to it.

Even if it's unscented, it still has a bit of a sense.

Even being clean and the soap you used has a fragrance.

[0:10:00] Now when it comes to colognes, toilettes,

fragrances understand, my personal opinion, I like to be discovered.

I don't want to announce myself.

So, I will spray one to two sprays depending on concentration, how I know it's going

to last, how the notes are going to play out, usually at the beginning of the day right

as I'm getting out of the shower.

But I spray it directly onto my skin then I put the clothing on top.

So this is something if you get up really close to me like my wife does, before I leave,

she can smell it.

My daughters they hug me, they can smell it.

But unless you're getting up that close, you're not going to be able to smell anything.

Because understand some people can get migraines.

Other people are really sensitive to this.

At the end of the day, gentlemen, it's about mastery of the fragrance.

All right, gents.

Now it's your turn.

I want to hear from you down at the comments.

What did I miss?

What would you have added to this video to make it better?

And go check out Feetures, an awesome company.

I love the fact how they're taking the technology out of performance socks, bringing it right

into the dress sock world.

They're leveraging compression with those Lycra bands, patented technology.

Guys, go check them, an amazing brand.

And don't forget, I got some extra ones.

I would love to send your way.

You just need to let me know exactly what you want by go checking out their website.

Guys, thank you again.

I always appreciate you, what we've built here at Real Men Real Style.

Take care.

I'll see you in the comments.

Bye.

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Why a Makeup Professional for Your Headshots is Important - Duration: 5:29.

Hi everyone, Susan Friesen here with eVision Media bringing you today's video eTip

and as you can see I'm not sitting in front of my computer like a normally am

I'm here with the wonderful amazing Judy from Judy D Beauty and she just

finished making me look like this with with this fabulous makeup that she just

put on and the reason for this is that I am getting my new headshots done today at

the studio of Taneane Twele Photography and so I've got my hair done, I've got my

makeup done from Judy and our next step is to get me in front of the camera to get

some professional headshots and it's been close to three years since the last time

I had headshots done and it was time to get this done again and it was a no

brainer for me to invite Judy and Taneane again to do

my makeup and the photography. The point of today's video with Judy is that

I wanted to tap into your expertise and explain to our audience

why is it so important to have a professional makeup artist do my makeup

for these photo sessions as opposed to me just doing my makeup before coming

over to the studio. What's the difference there? Why why would I want to

hire you to do my makeup. Well there are reasons. There's the makup you

use every day is definitely different than the makeup that I used here on you

The lights for one thing are really bright and tend to wash people out

and the way your makeup looks here will look different when the pictures are

developed and so you have to take that into account where I've done it for enough years now I

know what will look good here and what we'll look at when the pictures are

ready. The other thing is there's the makeup that I use. Makeup is made for

HD photography so it will definitely make you look great and dewey and

flawless and regular makeup just can't do that. This is made specifically for

that and we were laughing a while ago about your ears, yes she's obsessed by my

ears by the way, ya, you have to take into account things like that

so you can't just stop here.We have to go into the hairline, yes

but you have to do your ears - you have to go down your neck and depending on what

you're wearing you want to go down to your chest as well. Those are certain

things that you have to take into account that normally you don't

think about to every day. Right and yeah absolutely and when I look

at myself in the mirror like to me, oh my gosh, there's a lot of makeup on but

you're right when I look at the final photos that Taneane will do for me it'll

look normal but natural and so I remember back when I worked in TV

with the same thing you have to put on a lot of makeup in order to look normal

in front of the camera and most people don't have that knowledge and expertise plus the

products that you're using is definitely different from what we use at

home so I highly recommend not only should you always get professional photos done

in order to present yourself in a professional manner in front of your

business peers and your target market and all that

stuff you want to protect yourself in a way that is does professionally. Get

professional photos done first of all don't just stand in front of a lake

and have you on summer vacation, those kinds of photos don't

work and I'm talking about your social media profile photos and anything that you

do from a professional perspective when you're

representing your business, get the photos done but make sure you get a

professional makeup artist to do the photo shoot with you. I'm

so blessed that where I live I have Taneane and Judy who have paired up and

we're physically in Mission BC but Judy and I

are from Abbotsford but if you are from the Lower Mainland, give me a

call or give Judy from Judy D Beauty a call or Taneane from Taneane Twele Photography

and then it will set you up, make you feel like a Goddess by the way

or a God, you do men too and do yourself a favour and

this for yourself so Judy tell everybody how they can get a hold of you?

I guess the best way would be through my website is www.JudyDBeauty.com

And I am available for questions if you're wondering about something if you

want to photo shoot I'd love to answer any questions for you. And by

the way during today's photoshoot but

while you were doing your makeup with me, we had a videographer here, Keith Dobie

and he was taping the whole session and so if you go to Judy's website and you

sign up for the newsletter you'll get to see all of the cool tricks and tips that

she did while putting this on so sign up for her newsletter and you will get video

access, access to the videos that we did

today so that is really very cool to watch too, so thanks so much Judy, I really

appreciate you and what you did to this. So that's it for today's video eTip

until next time I'll talk you later

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The Potential for Solar Energy - Duration: 55:46.

So today, it's our great fortune and my pleasure to be hosting Dr. Jones-Albertus.

Becca is the acting Deputy Director of the Solar Energy Technology

Office, which is known to many of us as the SunShot program in Washington. That

office has been instrumental in trying to do a lot with small resources in

terms of bringing solar to a cost competitiveness with coal. And their...

their research impact, and particularly their impact on creating and informing

the community of US researchers and solar, has been absolutely tremendous.

So Becca has been with SunShot, that is said SETO, solar energy technology office,

for four years. Prior to that, she was in the private sector working on dilute

nitride materials for PV. And prior to that, she received her PhD in material

science from Berkeley and undergraduate from Princeton. I'll mention that—I want to

get on with the talk, but I will mention that papers like this—this is 2016

paper right—in Prague photovoltaics, Becca is the first author, are absolutely

essential. Anyone who wants to get involved in PV or remain relevant in PV

should read these papers to inform ourselves of how to really move the

needle on global carbon. So I find these very influential and they really help me

guide my own research, so I hope this is informative to everyone else as well.

Alright, thank you, Becca.

Thanks very much, Raf. It's my pleasure to be here talking with you all today. So

I'll be talking...I titled my talk The Potential for Solar, and I'm excited to

give a little bit of historical context about how much solar has grown and the

advances that have occurred really recently, as well as talking a little bit

about where things can go in the future. So before I dive in, I just wanted to

give an overview of solar technologies. I imagine that most of you in this room

are pretty familiar with photovoltaics. And these are semiconductor materials

that, you know, most commonly silicon, that directly convert light into electricity.

The cells shown here are integrated and strung together in modules which then

make up systems like you see on this rooftop. One of maybe the less

highlighted but exciting things about PV is that it maintains its efficiency at

any size, effectively. So you can have very very small systems that have the

same power efficient generation efficiency as very large systems, you

know, roughly speaking. And that's very different than most power generation

systems that are based on generators and turbines that need sufficient size in

order to be efficient. The other technology which may not be as well

known to all of you is concentrating solar thermal power and that's the

pictures shown here. So with concentrating solar thermal

power—CSP as we call it—you use mirrors called heliostats to concentrate all the

light onto a single receiver. In this case, the receiver is shown here. It's a

power tower, so you concentrate all the light onto this receiver where it's

turned into a heat and that heat can then be stored until it's needed. Then

it's used to run a conventional turbine generation system, so again, what...what's

...what's exciting about CSP is that it can inherently incorporate storage,

so you can inherently have solar electricity on-demand, not just when the

sun is shining. Today the large dominance of technology

that's been installed that's solar is PV. In the U.S., CSP is about 2% of installed

solar technology, but again, CSP allows for some higher value solar energy. As I

said, I see this as a really exciting time for solar. It's just been amazing

how much change has occurred over the last decade and even...even more recently

than the last decade. In the last 10 years, we've had a hundred-fold times

more solar generation installed in the U.S., going from less than one hundredth

of one percent of U.S. electricity to, for the first time last year, generating

more than one percent of U.S. electricity. Taking solar from a very

expensive niche technology to a viable electricity source that last year, for

the first time, was the largest share of new electricity generation capacity

added to the grid, for the first time. So 39% of all new power generation capacity

added last year was solar, was photovoltaics, with natural gas and wind

being the next largest shares. The solar industry has also been a tremendous

source of job creation and that has, you know, gone commensurately with the

increase in installations. So you see here over the same time period the growth in jobs

in the solar industry. There were two hundred sixty thousand jobs in the solar

industry last year, and solar has been growing at a rate that's 17 times faster

than the overall economy. More than half of these jobs—the ones in dark blue here—

are installation jobs, so actually installing the new PV systems, with the

next three largest shares being project development, sales and distribution, and

manufacturing across the supply chain.

Now as I said, one percent of U.S. electricity comes from solar, but there

are some states...parts of the country where those numbers are much higher, not

shown here. These numbers are from last year. Every time, essentially, I look at these

numbers they grow and the ones you see next year will be, in many cases,

significantly higher than here. So you have California, which last year got 13% of

its electricity from solar. A little over 1% of that from CSP, commercial and

residential systems, distributed PV like the picture of PV on the rooftop that I

had there next, and then this largest share from utility scale systems like

this topaz plant which is a 550 megawatt plant in California. You see we have

states—Hawaii, Vermont, Nevada— all over 7% electricity from PV and

growing. Worldwide the trends are fairly similar. This data is a year older from

2015, but solar generated about 1% of worldwide electricity in 2015.

And again, with some countries in this case, having much higher penetrations.

In this case, Italy, Germany at about 8% being the...being the leaders. And solar

is projected to continue to grow, showing here baseline projections that are from

the National Renewable Energy Labs regional energy deployment system model.

And for 2030 these are a pretty good agreement with the Department of

Energy's Energy Information Administration, EIA's, projections as

well. And what you see for the orange bars here which your solar, is that in

sort of the baseline case, baseline expectation, solar is expected to grow to

about 5% of U.S. electricity in 2030 and then roughly 15%. EIA's projections are a

little lower, about 12%, by 2050. But again,

significantly greater amounts of U.S. electricity growing over the next few

decades. And at the same time, projections have historically underestimated

PV's growth. These are U.S. projections from EIA's

annual Energy Outlook and the black dots are the actual installations in the

U.S. and then the lines here are the projections for solar installations for

subsequent...subsequent years. And basically the trend you see is that the

actual black dots in general, you know, are consistently above the lines where

they're projected. Same has been true worldwide looking at the IEA's World

Energy Outlook, where the historical..the actual projections in black continue to

exceed historical projections. So why has solar growth been been growing so

rapidly? One of the big factors is it's been rapidly declining in cost.

So again U.S. installations growing—we're seeing deployment or...sorry costs, here's

for system cost,s falling by about a factor of four at the same time that

these installations are growing so rapidly. Now that was in system price, I'm

going to say a few more things about cost, but switched to a different metric—

the levelized cost of electricity. When talking about costs of solar electricity,

I really prefer the LCOE metric to system costs or other cost metrics and

that's because it's a lifecycle cost. It includes the cost of installing the

system, the cost of operating...the operations maintenance costs of the

system, tax implications through the actual taxes paid and depreciation,

expense, as well as the cost of the financing, the cost of the capital, which

is a significant factor in overall cost, in addition to any residual value or

decommissioning cost. So it's the full costs over the life cycle divided by the

power production over the lifetime. So not just how much power is produced when

the system is installed, but it accounts for how much degradation the system

experiences over time, so more reliable systems produce more power over the

lifetime—that's a lower life cycle cost. This is also influenced significantly

by where these systems are installed. The actual kilowatt hours per kilowatt, so

that's...that's actually like the climate, how much sun is there, what's the

temperature of the region. So now moving to LCOE and just talking more about cost

reduction, very recently we announced through the Department of Energy the

accomplishment of a big metric for us. So in 2011, the Department of Energy

announced the SunShot initiative. At that time, the big challenge for solar was

that it was too expensive. It was about a factor of four more expensive than

conventional electricity sources. So for solar to become really a viable

electricity source, its cost had to fall. And the SunShot initiative was launched

to drive those cost reductions forward. The goal was by 2020 to achieve, for

utility scale systems, the large systems, six cents a kilowatt hour. We announced

in September that that goal was achieved this year. So again, these...these factor of

more than four cost reductions happening even faster than was..what was seen to be

a very aggressive goal when the SunShot initiative was was announced. Now the SunShot

initiative also had goals for the other sectors—residential and commercial

systems. And in red here, you see again the costs...levelized cost of energy in

2010 in those sectors. And green is the bars in 2017, so costs have fallen

dramatically in these sectors as well, but we haven't achieved the SunShot 2020

goals yet in those sectors. And the blue bars, they still need further cost

reduction, particularly in the soft cost— the customer acquisition, the

installation, the interconnection, the permitting costs—those still need to

fall further to reach the 2020 goals. So cost reduction was a major factor in

this increase in deployment we've seen. Policy and incentives have been the

other major factor. As you see on this map, just showing the large number of

states in the U.S. that have renewable portfolio standards that are

driving additional investment in renewables. We also have the federal

investment tax credit, which is a 30 percent tax credit, so effectively a 30

percent reduction in the upfront system costs, not in the full LCOE, but in the

upfront system cost of a PV system. Both of those have also been, you know, very

important factors in driving the rapid growth we've seen in solar installations.

So as I said before when the SunShot initiative was launched in 2011, the big

challenge was cost. How do we get solar cost down? Today, solar's become a viable

electricity source. It's 1% of our electricity generation and the challenges are

changing. Now the challenge is there's... our grid integration. How do we get solar

power, which is a variable power source, which is being installed on the

distribution side of the grid, how do we integrate that well into the electricity

grid and maintain a reliable resilient grid? As well as, how do we deal with...I'll

talk more about the declining value of PV. As more PV's installed its value

decreases. And it turns out that continuing to focus on cost reduction is

an important strategy for that, but this is no longer the only focus and it's

no longer the only challenge and opportunity with solar.

So saying more about great integration challenges, I'll put up the schematic

here. So historically our electricity grid has looked something like this.

We have generation systems on the left. They flow through transmission lines to

substation out onto the distribution system. Power flows in one direction. With

solar, we have solar on the generation transmission side, but we also see

solar on the distribution system. Solar is not the only distributed energy

resource, but it is the most significant one to date. And with lots of generation

on the distribution system, when it reaches high enough...high enough

penetrations, you can actually have cases where you have power flowing in two

directions and not just one. This creates new sets of challenges for the grid. For

example, ensuring that the systems that are designed to regulate voltage and

frequency on the grid aren't experiencing reliability issues due to

operating more readily. There are challenges in how does solar begin to

support grid reliability itself through voltage frequency, power quality

regulation? As solar becomes a more significant power source on the grid,

there's also the need to manage and integrate it and deal with its

variability. So we've always had load that has high amounts of variability, but

having variability on the power generation side is something that is

being brought from wind and solar. There's also a need for new standards

for how these devices integrate and operate and what they're allowed to do

with the grid. So just some of the challenges...go to a

similar schematic, but that illustrates in addition as we're moving to what we

call a modernized grid, the Department of Energy has a large initiative called the

Grid Modernization Initiative, which is looking at how we take our our grid and

move to a modernized structure. We need to pay attention with solar in making

this integrating into a secure grid with communication and data, you know, at the

forefront, and in addition one that operates and works within an evolving

energy marketplace. So as solar becomes a larger share of our power generation one

challenge is can we make it available on demand? As I said before, you know, as a

variable power generation source, there are certainly challenges. And what's

shown here in blue is sort of a typical or exemp...an example load

profile, what electricity generation typically might need to meet. In orange

is the example of the well known duck curve. So you see solar generation that happens

during daytime hours and what it does to the net load, this is basically the load

of minus the solar generation, is it means that you can have a very low dip,

especially in sort of morning midday times, when the load isn't quite as high

and solar generation can be quite high, and then as you get toward evening and

solar generation is falling, you go back to that normal load curve, but with a

much steeper ramp than you have in the usual case. So through storage or

shifting of load, there are opportunities to better match solar generation and

demand and take what is represented by this red arm, instead of having this fall

down so far, take this area of generation in red and shift it over to the evening

hours where it's needed. Or conversely, you could imagine shifting some of the

load from these hours into these...these hours here. But effectively, how do we

better match the supply of solar electricity with the demand and need for...

need for solar? And I guess I'll say the challenges with the duck curve for

those of you who aren't familiar with it, are that as this net load falls lower

and lower, it can reach the levels of sort of minimum generation and contracts

that exist for sort of base load generation. And what that means, it's

really just an economic issue, it means you'll end up throwing away some of that

solar power. It's called curtailment. At low levels,

when curtailment happens, just in, you know, certain days in March—like has

been the main case of the duck curve to date, there's not a huge economic impact

on solar. But as you get higher and higher penetrations of solar, electricity

curtailment can have an important economic impact. And then from the grid

operators' perspective, managing an even steeper growth of load ramping is an

additional challenge. But there are also important opportunities from the grid

integration side with solar electricity, and in particular, putting solar on the

distribution system offers opportunities for

resilience that we're just starting to look at. When you have solar in the

distribution system, if you have a case where there's a loss of electricity,

where there's a blackout, it is possible for solar and other distributed energy

resources to restart areas of the grid, for those areas to begin to work

together and supply power while overall power generation is being restored.

So there's some really exciting opportunities on the resilience side

that are possible by having solar and other distributed energy resources on

the distribution grid. We have a project that's just kicking off at Lawrence

Livermore National Lab through the Grid Modernization Initiative, that's looking

specifically at how to use solar and storage and other distributed resources

to be able to provide power during blackouts and help restart the grid.

Another opportunity is with concentrating solar power, as I talked

about before, concentrating solar power inherently incorporates storage or can

inherently incorporate storage to allow for solar on-demand. It's also possible

with the same components for a concentrating solar system to create

plants that operate more like peakers. Plants shown here when you have, for the

same sized power block, for a 50 megawatt generator, if you have a larger...or sorry

a smaller solar field and smaller storage units you can have more of a

peaker plant configuration. If you keep the power block the same and you scale

up the size of the solar field and the size that the storage units, you can move

to intermediate or baseload plants. So basically with the same technology

components, you can have flexibility in the kind of power plant that's built

depending on what the grid needs.

And then talking a little bit about declining value that I mentioned earlier,

so as we see the penetration of PV on the grid increase, there's a decline in

the value of PV. So this is another challenge to work on. This plot here is

showing this—it's actually showing it from the sort of an effective cost

perspective. So what this is showing is... is you, for a case study of California,

and this is Paul Denholm's work at NREL, for a case study of California looking

at as you put more solar on the grid, this is the total amount of

California's load that is met by solar energy, so as you put more solar on the

grid, how does the effective cost of that solar change due to curtailment, due to

solar energy that can't be used because there's too much of it at a time when

it's not needed? Another way to look at that is it's sort of the energy

value of solar is going down. So the blue line is the overall cost for all the

solar on the grid, but what's more important in terms of where's...where you

find an economic limit is the marginal cost. So for every bit of solar that's

added, what is that marginal cost? You see that

in this case, at about 20 percent solar on the grid, you see the marginal cost

going...going steadily up, suggesting that it would not be economically viable to

add more solar onto the grid. This is for what I'll call an inflexible grid, where

flexibility is the ability of the grid to rapidly adapt to changing supply and

load demands. So this is looking at sort of maybe the structure of the grid we

have today. There's lots of ways, and this is probably too small to read, but

there's lots of ways that the...to increase the flexibility of the grid and

this kind of outlines them. Froman operation perspective, there's things

like better forecasting of when you'll have renewable energy generation, having

more flexibility reserves. There's also allowing for the use

of variable renewables of wind and solar to provide grid services such that there

may not be as high a need from sort of a minimum generation from other

generators, so that more renewables can be used. There is flexibility in when

load is provided. Here this focuses mostly on demand response.

I'm personally also very interested in exploring the overall ability of load to

be shifted across not just demand response, but across general usage of

electricity load. And if there's any of you in the audience who have done any

work on that, I'd love to connect with you afterwards. More flexible generation,

so if other electricity generators are able to ramp their production up and

down more rapidly, then that makes it easier to adjust to rapid changes in

supply and demand. There's also transmission expansion. So

if the region's over which we balance energy supply and demand become larger,

then again that can accommodate a more flexible grid. You know, for example, if

you're able to generate...take your excess solar generation in Arizona and ship it,

you know, far across to an area that doesn't have sun at that moment, then you

have a natural way to utilize that excess solar power. And last here is

storage. I'll talk more about storage later. Storage is probably the biggest

lever on overall flexibility, but today it's one of the most expensive. And just

to show...this is again, the same marginal cost for adding additional solar to the

grid. This orange curve is the one I showed before for the somewhat

inflexible case. As you make the grid more flexible, you see this just push

further out. So now instead of finding an economic limit at 18 to 20 percent,

you're out closer to 30 percent and with even additional flexibility which is

here represented by a significant build-out of CSP

plants with thermal energy storage, you see the curve push even further. So that...

that's looking at the value of the energy power from solar has both an

energy value and in most markets also a capacity value ,which is an additional

value due to typically solar's good match at low penetrations to times of

peak load. This study here from Andrew Mills and

Ryan Wiser at Lawrence Berkeley Lab is from 2012 so it's a little bit old, but

the trend is basically the capacity credit, the value for PV installed to the

grid, due to its ability to reduce the overall peak demand, goes down as...

steadily down as PV penetration increases. And you know, it's different

for different scenarios, but anywhere from 5 percent to 15 to 20 percent there's no

longer any value, a capacity value, for additional PV generation. To explain...to

explain what that means or how that comes from, I'll show these example load

profiles here. And in gray here, this is... this is load without solar, peak load

demands. So you see that in terms of determining how much capacity you need

to meet peak load demands, grid operators will look at this peak here, you see, in

green. Now the lines here are increasing amounts of solar energy on

the grid going from 2% in blue to 14% PV. And for this example, you see that as you

add more solar, where that peak steadily decreases until the point, in this case,

where you get to 10 percent where there's no decrease in where that peak point is

between 10 and 14 percent. So in this case, the capacity value goes down and it

is at 0 above 10 percent PV on the grid. So above 10 percent, the peak...where the

peak load position is, no longer changes as you add

more solar and the capacity value declines. So the opportunity here to sort

of combat declining value of PV as generation increases is to continue to

reduce costs. And last year, about a year ago, we announced new cost targets for

2030 for PV systems. Cost targets are three cents a kilowatt hour for

utility-scale PV, four cents for commercial systems, and five cents for

residential PV systems by 2030. So this is a 50% reduction compared to the 2020

cost targets, so for utility-scale PV it's a 50%

reduction from where we are today. For the commercial and residential sectors,

it's about a factor of three reduction from green where we...where we are today.

And as I talk about these costs, I want to point out that as I...as I mentioned

earlier, LCOE, the levelized cost of energy, depends on the climate, depends on

where the system's installed. The same system installed in a really sunny area

will generate more power. That generation is in the denominator of LCOE, so the

overall cost per kilowatt hour goes down. Same system installed in a less sunny

area will by the same factor, be more expensive per kilowatt hour that's

generated. And at DOE, we are focused on enabling solar energy for all Americans

across, you know, the U.S. and so we use average climate for our cost targets. So

the three cents a kilowatt hour we calculate is for average climate which

we represent by Kansas City, Missouri. That same system installed in really

sunny Arizona or California would be almost two cents a kilowatt hour.

Similarly in Seattle, one of our least sunny regions, it would be four cents a

kilowatt hour. And one of the reasons this is important is if you're thinking

about costs that you hear reported for solar, typically when folks are talking

about really low costs of solar and PPAs that are being

signed at four cents a kilowatt-hour, that's almost always for very sunny

regions and it's also typically including the...if it's in the U.S., the

investment tax credit. So that will cause you...you know, you could hear numbers

today of four or five cents a kilowatt-hour, but those numbers reported

in that way aren't comparable to the targets I'm talking about. And you know,

how much does this matter? How much would cutting costs 50% matter? So to get a

sense of that, use again projections from NREL's regional energy deployment

system. And this shows this business as usual case, where again, you know, solar is

expected to be about 5 percent of generation in 2030. With cost being half

that in 2030 instead, so halving the cost, you get more than double the solar

deployment. In this case, you know, lower solar costs again come they..they

counteract the decline in value. At three cents a kilowatt-hour solar also would

be cheaper than many existing...operating many existing power plants. So it could

actually be cheaper to install and use solar energy than to run some existing

generators, which could lead to an overall reduction in electricity prices,

making electricity more affordable. So I'm going to talk about a pathway, how

would we, you know, moving to the technology side, how would we get from

where we are today to three cents a kilowatt- hour? Is that practical, like what would

that look like? So to walk you through this waterfall, and to get from the six cents

cost to the three cent target, here's one example pathway. Of course there are

others, but this illustrates what it would take. In this case, you'd be looking

for module prices to fall to about 25 cents a watt. This bucket here

about 0.4 cents, might be too small because it's based on sort of reported

prices on the market today, which may not be what we

call sustainable, so it may actually be a little bit larger. What we're targeting

when we target reductions in the module costs or we're targeting what we call sustainable

reductions, which allows for enough profit for module manufacturers and in

the supply chain for them to continue to grow capacity. So it's not what they're

selling in cases of oversupply on the market, but it's what they would be

selling at with enough sustainable profit to continue to grow their

businesses. So ways in which we can get there, you know, one key way is improving

the efficiency of systems without increasing cost or while decreasing costs.

Next bucket here, larger bucket, is lowering the balance of system hardware

and soft cost, so this is everything from the inverter, the wiring, the racking of the

system, to the installation and our connection and permitting costs.

Improving the overall system efficiency does help with this bucket as well. And

things like speeding up, standardizing installation and interconnection

processes can help this as well. Third buckets, also a large bucket in

this scenario, and this is an area of particular interest to us at the

Department of Energy's solar office right now, is improving the reliability

of the systems. It's a big lever. If you take systems from 30 year lifetimes to 50

year lifetimes, you reduce degradation rates to 0.2 percent a year from a half to

0.75 percent a year, that can be a big big lever for cost reduction. And I'll

show that in a different way on the...on the next slide. So better understand...

ability to understand what causes degradation and also better ability to

predict that, so that as structures and devices change, we can immediately

understand how that impacts their reliability. Last is lowering of

operations and maintenance costs. It's an important bucket in this case too. And here,

employing automation and better data analytics to better predict what

maintenance is needed and more quickly diagnose issues improves

characterization tools help as well here.

But as I said before, there are a number of pathways to get to these targets and

I'll illustrate the number of pathways here just from a module

technology perspective. So in this plot, it's looking at module price on the

y-axis and module efficiency on the x-axis and different reliability cases

on the curves I'll show. Everything else in this scenario is held constant. So in

this case, if you just look at the trade-offs between module price and

efficiency for a system that is a 50 or a lifetime 0.2 percent per year

degradation rate, you see that you can hit the SunShot 2030 cost targets with a

module that's 25% efficient that costs 30 cents a watt. If you have a more

efficient module, it can cost more. In this case 35% efficient, it can cost an

extra five cents a watt. Conversely, if it's less efficient, if

it's more like sort of the average efficiency on the market today of 17% well,

it has to be cheaper, it has to be 20 cents a watt. Illustrating the importance

of reliability, here's the same curve for a system that is more like the lifetimes

and degradation rates assumed today—30 years, half a percent per year

performance degradation. Here, looking at the 25 percent module now instead of 30

cents a watt, if all of the change is borne by the module price, it now has to

be 13 cents a watt, so it has to be substantially cheaper for this lower

lifetime case. And if you look at even lower yet still not that low

lifetimes, in this case, 20-year lifetime, one percent per year, it becomes very

difficult to achieve these cost targets. Here you've, you know, if your module were

free, it would have to be 27% efficient. If it was 40%

efficient, it could only cost about six cents. This is holding everything else

constant. Lots of folks who get interested in new materials and new

system possibilities that could be a lot cheaper, might not last as long, are also

looking at possibilities that would reduce installation costs and some of

the other costs. Changing some of the other costs, if this kind of a system

enabled that, would push this curve out like this, but I think one of the

messages I want to drive home on terms of how important reliability is it's going to be

very hard to achieve the substantial cost reduction targets without systems

that are at least as long-lived as today, without getting to 30 year lifetimes...25

to 30 year lifetimes. We also have cost targets for residential PV systems as I

showed. This is just the waterfall here. Again, similar buckets, but what you see

here is a much much larger bucket than any seen on the previous slide and this

is for the soft costs. As I mentioned before, the commercial and residential

systems have a much larger soft cost component. Just blowing this up to get

this kind of a reduction would require major reductions in customer acquisition

costs, permitting interconnection taxes, installation labor, the supply chain

costs, as well as the profit and overhead costs of the installers and developers

themselves. The other bucket that's on here that wasn't on the other waterfall

is lower finance rates. The cost of capital, the financing of the system, is

actually a major lever in the overall levelized cost of energy. And if

residential systems were able to obtain lower financing rates, if they could be

tied into mortgages, things like that, that could also be a big cost reduction

lever. Similarly, we have cost targets for CSP systems. CSP systems are utility

scale systems and you'll notice that the 2030 cost target here is 5 cents

compared to for PV, the utility scale system is 3 cents.

The higher costs target is possible because CSP systems have a higher value

due to their incorporation of energy storage, so they can be competitive at

comparatively higher costs. For getting costs down with CSP systems, here's some

example buckets. A big fraction of the cost of a CSP system is the mirrors,

the heliostats, a solar field, we have a number of different terms used, but

finding cheaper ways to collect the sunlight and concentrate it is an area

of critical need. rRducing the cost of the power block and improving the

efficiency of the power cycle are other other large buckets. CSP technology is...a

great opportunity for that is to incorporate supercritical CO2 power

cycles that are currently under development. These power cycles are of

great interest not only for CSP, but also nuclear and fossil energies. And they

offer opportunity for higher efficiencies, as well as higher

efficiencies at smaller size, so you don't have to have as large of a plant

to reach efficiencies and lower costs. Also, we need to see the remaining parts

of the system, the thermal energy storage, the receiver, and the operations and

maintenance come down. So the next section I'd like to talk about is, I'm

gonna call here the solar storage synergy, and if you remember this plot I

showed earlier on grid flexibility, one of the biggest levers, probably the

biggest lever for increasing the flexibility of the grid, which in turn

enables greater solar deployment, is storage. However today, storage costs are

really too high to see large-scale deployment of storage, but one form of

storage, battery costs are falling dramatically. And so we've looked at what

would happen if these large cost reductions in battery storage or other

forms of storage, but batteries are the example here, continued. So here's

the projections of solar deployment, the percent of U.S. electricity from solar in

the low-cost solar case of hitting the SunShot 2030 goals where we get to 3

cents a kilowatt hour for PV in 2030 and 2 cents a kilowatt hour PV in 2050. If we

throw a low-cost storage on top, where low-cost storage in this case is getting to

a system install cost of $100 a kilowatt hour in 2040, that's about a factor of 4

reduction in storage costs by 2040, what you see of course is that there's

dramatically greater solar deployment.

This is, you know, somewhat of an arbitrary choice of scenario, but just

illustrating what a large lever for solar deployment at the same cost of

solar, you see substantially more deployment with low cost storage. This is

just illustrating what the assumed battery storage capital costs are for

this scenario. So the bold lines are from Wesley Cole at NREL's study, looking at

overall projections for energy storage cost, so those are mid-case projections

are the solid lines, and the dashed lines here is the low-cost scenario, where for

utility scale storage it's hitting $100 a kilowatt hour and 2040. That's for an 8

hour battery, whereas commercial and residential

assume 3 hour storage. So as I just mentioned, more storage leads to more

solar. Storage does this by providing a sink for curtailed solar, so rather than

just throwing away excess solar, you can charge the batteries and then use it at

times when power is needed. But I say this is the solar storage synergy, because

it actually goes in the other direction as well. As you put more solar on the

grid, there's more market opportunity for storage and I'll explain why on the next

slides. And in addition to that, actually coupling solar plus storage systems

together, offers some opportunity for cost reduction in some of the soft costs,

and possibly even in some of the hardware like the inverter. So instead of

deploying them independently when they're actually deployed together, you

may have cost reduction opportunities. But in terms of understanding why

increasing solar increases the market opportunity for storage, I'll come back

to this plot here where we see...here's the net load and how the net load

changes when you add more solar. Now just going to the case of no solar and the

case of solar with about 10% of PV, and what you see here is it's looking

effectively at capacity value. So to have about a two gigawatt reduction in peak

capacity, the capacity value for storage, in the case without solar, requires in

this particular illustration, requires about a five to six hour storage life

time. With solar, this load peak decreases, load peak narrows, so now it's two and a

half to three hours storage that are needed, which for the same overall peak

reduction. So for the same capacity value, you don't need a battery that can last

as long, which is an easier requirement on storage costs. And Paul Denholm from

NREL has looked at this across electricity markets and found this trend

holds broadly even across markets for which load shape can vary significantly.

So in all these cases, these bars here represent going from zero solar

penetration up to 20 percent, and after the initial, in some cases there's

an initial decrease, basically in all cases you see that as solar goes up, the

market for storage, in this case, it's four hour storage, the market for storage... market

size for storage goes up. And as part of getting to a conclusion, I want to talk

or just sort of end with a discussion of really what I see the tremendous

potential for solar. I've shown some of this already, but just to talk a little bit more

about what could be possible with aggressive innovation in solar and

synergistic technologies like storage, but that allow for a greater grid

flexibility. I'll be talking a little bit more about this deployment projection

modeling that we've been looking at and just before I do, these are models,

modeling tools at the National Renewable Energy Lab, at NREL, it's the regional

energy deployment system is the primary tool here. And this is an optimization

model that looks at what is the lowest cost way to basically meet electricity

needs, to balance supply and demand, maintain power quality across the U.S. and

it explicitly deals with renewable energy integration issues and

variability by having a large number of time slices over which it does its

balancing, and looks at transmission build-outs as well across 134 balancing

areas. What it does not do well is project deployment on the distribution

system. And so it's coupled with a model called D Gen that looks at adoption of

distributed solar. And these are the same projections I showed earlier. Based on

these models, baseline...again baseline sort of expectations here, low cost solar,

low cost solar, and this particular case of low cost storage, showing again by

2050 in these scenarios, low class solar alone could enable 30% of electricity

demand by 2050. With a more flexible grid, this number only goes up and in the case

of low cost storage, could be over 50%. Now of course, the one consistent thing

about projections is they're always wrong.

They account for many many many many many factors in the baseline cases so as

I said, only guaranteed to be wrong. You know, it's looking at expected costs for

the whole suite of energy generation technologies, expected electricity demand,

and how that changes over time— a large number of factors, all of which

are subject to change. So in this case, we did a sensitivity analysis that looked

at a wide number of potential changes and came up with sort of a wide range of

possible outcomes, all for the same low cost solar, low cost storage case. The

general trends, however, remain clear that decreasing the cost of solar leads to

substantially more solar deployments, making the grid more flexible. Decreasing

the cost of storage leads to more solar deployment for the same solar costs. And

this is just a plot looking at the build-out of PV for these sets of

projections and so here we see projections to date, you know, where

we're in the less than ten...tens of gigawatts. You see, you know, a large

expected growth in solar deployments over the years around 2020. This is due

to cost continuing to fall while the investment tax credit makes solar

effectively even lower cost. And then you see some drop-off and then another build

out here expected when, as solar cost continue to decline and reach a level

at which solar becomes competitive even with generation from some existing

sources. And here's where you see, at this point, the value of solar is falling in

the case of an inflexible grid and you'll see these orange bars, that solar

deployment would fall, but in the case of a more flexible grid, low cost storage,

that solar deployment can stay...could stay at this higher rates. Again,

projections with all the usual caveats here. But one thing I do want to show

from these projections is that solar build out is not just occurring in a few

places in the country. When we get to low cost solar, low cost solar plus storage,

you see deployment across the country and

this is colored where darker colors mean that more of that state's electricity

demand is met by solar, lighter is less. In this case, goes from about three

percent to 60 percent depending on the state and here these numbers are even...

even higher. So solar, you know, you really do see solar deployment across

the country. And I'll end just talking a little bit more about the solar office at

DOE and some opportunities that might be of interest to some of you. So just

introducing what we do. As Raf said, we were commonly known as SunShot until

recently and, you know, with the accomplishment of the utility scale

solar goal and with cost reduction no longer being the only important factor

for solar, we're using more...our solar office name. And so what we do is we

support early-stage research and developments of solar technologies that

strengthen grid reliability, resilience, and security. We do this through

primarily through funding opportunities. We have what we call funding opportunity

announcements or FOAs that are competitive, that are open to

applications, certainly from MIT and generally to the general community.

They're open for applications. They fund different critical research areas which

we identify, but broadly, you know, aiming at continuing to lower electricity costs,

integrate solar energy into the grid, and enhance the use and storage of solar

electricity. We have what's being called science technology policy opportunities.

We have what's been for the last several years a great fellowship program in our

office that I wanted to talk about and would love to talk to any of you who

might be interested and please do spread the word. This is a...it's a fellowship

opportunity to come and work in our office.

It's both for recent graduates as well as folks who have been in the field for

awhile. Recent graduates at the undergraduates or PhD level, as well as

folks who have more experience. We also have a senior fellow equivalent program.

And you come, you work directly in our office and have the opportunity to

really be exposed to this broad, big picture, to think about what are the big

challenges in solar energy research, and then to work with our team to define and

design new funding strategies as well as to help manage our funding program. So

it's a great opportunity to get involved in, you know, looking at and shaping where

millions of dollars of research will go and new research directions. We've had

really fantastic folks come through this program. It's a...it's a two-year program,

and, you know, people have done all kinds of things afterwards. A lot of them

have stayed in our office and have grown into all kinds of different roles

and people have done a variety of other things as well. But I, you know, I'd be

delighted to talk with any of you who are interested or feel free to send me

an email. Our next application deadline is January 15th and the program is run

through Orise. There's a...there's a website here and again you can feel free

to follow up with me if you don't get that down and you're interested in more

info. We do have one funding opportunity open the moment and this is actually a

new area of funding for us—solar desalination. This funding opportunity,

it's a 15 million dollar funding opportunity and it's looking at

utilizing concentrating solar technology to desalinate water, so leveraging solar

thermal technology either to directly drive desalination processes or coupling

thermal desalination processes with solar thermal generation to utilize some

of the the waste heat of the soil thermal generation and more

cost-effectively generate clean water. So this is an exciting new area for us and

concept papers which are short, I believe five page descriptions of a proposal and

an idea, are due in about a month if you're interested. The way our funding cycles

work is we have a concept paper cycle and then concept papers are either

encouraged or discouraged to submit full applications. So you'll get some initial

feedback on that idea and then full applications can be submitted

whether you're encouraged or discouraged, you can submit a full...a full application

based on that feedback, but we provide that feedback to help folks know whether

or not it may be worth their time to develop...a develop a full proposal. So I

will end here. I just want to acknowledge we have a fantastic team at DOE that's

contributed to all the work I've talked about, as well as some really excellent

analysts at NREL whose work has been what I've been highlighting here. Wesley

Cole, Paul Denholm, Dave Feldman, Robert Margolis and Mike Woodhouse. Thank you

very much!

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If you ask yourself what I did at the beginning with the windrower, I dont't know either.

Baling in the sunrise.

Always a god start of the day.

Finished with baling.

So let's start collecting them.

The UAL flatbet trailer really comes in handy here

We will store these two trailer and are gonna sell the others.

By the time I was recording this I was really hungry so I wanted to eat something.

And what do you do while you are beeing afk because you are eating?

Right! You let the helper do a big mission.

This is why you can see the helper seeding field number 5 right now.

But don't worry I will speed it up even more than it is now.

Of course I set the time speed to 120x so that our little sheeps will produce a lot of wool.

Finished!!!

Now we need to fill up our water for the sheeps because while doing that mission they quiete drank a lot of water

Now we will start seeding.

But this time our own fields.

I know the music sounds like it's broken.

But I promise you, it is not.

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Two Young Boys Face Bullies For Standing During Pledge

Two students at a Georgia elementary school say that they have been bullied because they

stood for the Pledge of Allegiance.

10-year-old Jason Newberry told WGCL that he and another boy in his class at Orrs Elementary

School were called names all day after they stood for the morning pledge.

"Nobody put their hand over their heart except for me and one other little boy and

we said the Pledge of Allegiance," Jason said.

"Me and him got called KKK, Nazi, and we just kept getting bullied the whole day."

Jason said he didn't realize there was any controversy over standing for the flag until

his second period teacher showed them news clips about NFL players kneeling during the

national anthem.

That same teacher then handed out a poll, asking her students if they thought taking

a knee was right or wrong.

"Teacher said that she'll never stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and if she did

stand for the Pledge of Allegiance then she wouldn't really mean it," Jason told WGCL.

A spokesperson for the school district told WGCL that the assignment was supposed to teach

the students about First Amendment Rights.

They declined to say if the teacher faced any discipline for her comments.

The next day a letter was sent home with students with a statement from the teacher.

"I apologize for expressing my views to my students.

I recognize that while this was not a one-sided lesson, the topic itself and the expression

of my views were not appropriate, my intentions were well-meaning," she wrote.

In the letter, the school's principal, Evelyn Jones, said all students can choose whether

to stand or sit during the Pledge of Allegiance.

"All students have the right to stand or not stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

They have the right to choose their response to the pledge without ridicule at school and

without influence by any staff member," Jones wrote.

Jason's mother Lisa Newberry expressed her disgust for the teacher's actions, telling

WGCL, "these are our kids, we should be able to instill our values on them, not her."

The day after the letter was sent home, Orrs Elementary School replaced its old American

flag with a new one.

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Safety is the number-one priority for the Department of Transportation and

also for the Federal Transit Administration. People count on us to

make sure that when they get on a train or or metro that they're safe.

We have a chance each year to get together the State Safety Oversight

agencies and the rail transit agencies in their jurisdictions so that we can

talk about program oversight, safety oversight, and the challenges that the

industry is facing.

We've done dozens of workshops we have reached out to the community and we

hold regular monthly, quarterly, weekly and sometimes everyday meetings with our

stakeholders to help them answer the questions and the challenges that they

have.

You have to do it together and just do the work, you have to just do the work.

That's all there is to it, because at the end of the day your state is responsible

for it not not the FTA and ultimately it could save lives so it's worth it.

It's important that we all you know are able to stand up a safety organization before

the deadline of April 15 2019 and we at FTA are committed to making sure everyone

gets there.

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