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We’re Team Elastec. We’re from Carmi, Illinois. We've been in the oil spill business for twenty years. We’ve got over a hundred employees now, so it's a big, big family here.

We build oil spill recovery equipment. We’re the largest manufacturer in the US, and definitely a contender in the world. We export to over 100 countries. We go out in the field and actually make our equipment work ourselves. During the twenty years we've been manufacturing, we’ve worked in many spills: Russia, China, South America.

We were on the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon incident. There was about 300,000 barrels of oil that we eliminated. So we've been around the business for a while.

So we heard of this X PRIZE challenge, certainly anybody in the industry is going to recognize that’s a pretty high mark to hit. When we first started I gotta admit we said we don't know if we can do this. 2500 gallons a minute was, I felt, was unreachable. Nobody's gonna do that. We like challenges and this certainly was a challenge.

We've been building skimmers with grooves on drums. We just moved our groove technology onto a disk and gave it a shot. We built a single disc prototype. This is the first time it's ever been shown. The first time.

We have a disc with grooves on one side, and then it's a smooth surface on the other side. And we were all just amazed at what it did.

You can see the recovery rate on the right-hand side is much higher than the recovery rate on the left-hand. We rigged up just a very quick little hydraulic motor to be able to suspend in the oil, and then actually just set scrapers up onto it and filled up a 32-gallon garbage can in 35 seconds or something like that. Now that was the Eureka moment for me anyway.

You're not just improving the surface area. You're actually making a channel that the oil will want to adhere to - what we call a meniscus effect. It’s kind of a capillary thing. It's almost like a vacuum that's pulling that into the groove and allows us to spin at very high RPMs. So it can spin faster than competitors and we’re capturing more oil.

This is the largest skimmer we've ever built. I don't think I've ever ordered so much material for one particular project. In our world, ninety days to build something from concept is pretty challenging. So we pulled out all the stops. We have a rather deep infrastructure. We have 140 employees, our own fabrication shops, our own machine shops. So we're able to pull this sort of thing off. But it took a lot of resources, a lot of overtime. It was late nights and early mornings and it wasn't just for us to build, but to pull in all of our vendors. We’ve got technologies here that's never been used before in any other device.

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We never count our chickens before they're hatched. Now the wave action is going to be the biggie.

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Perfect. It doesn’t get much better than this. I think right now we’re the team to beat. We raised the bar quite a bit, so we'll see. Failure’s not an option. We didn't come here for second place.

We are beginning tonight with what could be a first-of-its-kind facility located in Moss Landing. It would combine a Deepwater Desal plant and a data center that would solve water issues on the central coast and improve energy efficiency for big tech firms.

Action news reporter May Chow has some insight on the plan, is live with tonight's top story.

Dan...cooling data centers with cold water isn't anything new. in fact nearly every data center is liquid cooled today. So what's different about this idea?

No one has ever thought to do it using the Monterey Bay. The founders behind Deepwater Desal -- a company that plans to build a Desal facility at Moss Landing to supply drinking water to Santa Cruz and Monterey counties -- say they have a solution that would solve both sustainability and environmental issues.

GRANT GORDON: "leverage the seawater that's going to be drawn in for the deep water Desal project for desalinated water to support the region, Monterey Bay region, and use that cold sea water to cool the data center complex in exchange for taking the heat that's produced from the data centers and raising the ambient temperature of the water prior to going into the Desal plant."

Chief operating officer Grant Gordon says this system will provide a more efficient solution for not only processing seawater into potable water, but also cooling data centers. He sees it as a win-win situation for the central coast and the silicon valley.

The Soquel creek water district has a future water source. And tech companies reduce their carbon footprints and utility bills.

GRANT GORDON: "these are all household names, everyone in the valley would know...(reporter softly begins listing names...)
GRANT GORON: "any of those companies...Facebook, Apple, Intel, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Amazon, any of those companies...eBay...would all be likely candidates for this type of project."

The proposed project, which is still in its early stages, would be built on the Moss Landing power plant site, and process 25-million gallons of water per day. The water would be drawn from the Monterey submarine canyon -- limiting the impact on marine life.

GRANT GORDON: "this has not been done anywhere in the world before. The elements have been done. Certainly data centers and Desal plants have been created, but the integration of the two has never been done before."

Another draw to bring data centers here on the central coast…there isn't one south of Silicon Valley all the way to LA. So having a facility here would upgrade fiber optics and increase bandwidth for the central coast, which is much needed here. Dan?

The Deepwater Desal team submitted its project application on May 30th to the state lands commission, which will begin the environmental review process. After which, it will be forwarded to the California coastal commission for review. This review will take between 18 to 24 months before any work can begin.

The fifty percent target was definitely a daunting goal. We want to develop the most fuel-efficient truck running on the streets in North America. The question was how aggressive would we need to be.

Each individual manufacturer received a Department of Energy Supertruck grant. We immediately embraced it because it fit exactly our long-term strategic plans. We want continuously to improve fuel efficiency. They not only wanted us to look at technologies that could be implemented in say the next five to seven years, but also technologies that were 10 years or plus out.

We had to do a clean sheet approach. We looked at the very beginning over the external aerodynamics of the vehicle. You try to take your ideas and shape them into something. Then test it. You say, “Okay, is that aerodynamic?” And once you get there it is a question of how to turn that into a real truck.

So the first phase was identifying and measuring our baseline and then figuring out what we needed to do to get to fifty percent. The cooling team had to work with the aerodynamic team to say, “Okay, yes, we both need to meet our goals but how do we do it together?”

Within the Supertruck program, we are able to leverage the knowledge and expertise of the global Daimler organization - experts within North America both in Portland as well as in Detroit. We have our global hybrid center in Japan. Our powertrain experts came from Detroit and from Germany. You can really leverage expertise across the globe, across different national labs, and that really accelerates the development of the technologies.

The Supertruck features the integrated Detroit powertrain. You can downspeed the engine to reduce the frictional losses and achieve fuel consumption reduction. In order to overcome the trade-off between aerodynamics and cooling, we came up with an innovative grille design. So open the grill only in times when cooling is required, and close the grill under high vehicle speeds in order to improve aerodynamics.

Waste heat recovery was not something that heavy-duty trucking had at all. So what we try and do with heat recovery devices or systems is to recover some of that energy especially from exhaust, which just escapes out of the tailpipe, and utilize that to drive the truck itself, thereby reducing fuel consumption.

The contribution to trailer aerodynamics was certainly a very surprising thing to us. We looked at the nose cone, trailer side skirts, and the boat tail. Over two-thirds of the benefit actually comes from the trailer.

How that affected the tractor - things like equal role and hybrid - we had more energy to recuperate simply because the tractor and trailer were more aerodynamic as a system. At the end, we achieved one hundred fifteen percent freight efficiency improvement on public roads in Texas between San Antonio and Dallas. We also saw better than 12 miles per gallon fuel consumption which is amazing and never heard about in the industry.

A one-percent of freight efficiency over the 10,000 vehicles running at a hundred twenty thousand miles per year – I mean you're saving millions of gallons of fuel

We have to invest in the future - not just of our company or the economy of the United States, but in the future of the entire planet. We were able to work on very high-risk, high-reward technologies and provide functional demonstration on a long-haul vehicle The super truck program provided us the opportunity to see what's really possible: not today, not next year, but many years into the future.

I'm a garbage man, and you might find it interesting that I became a garbage man because I absolutely hate waste. I hope within the next 10 minutes to change the way you think about a lot of the stuff in your life. And I'd like to start at the very beginning. Think back when you were just a kid. How did you look at the stuff in your life? Perhaps it was like these toddler rules. It's my stuff if I I saw it first. The entire pile is my stuff if I'm building something. The more stuff that's mine, the better. And of course, it's your stuff if it's broken. Well, after spending about 20 years in the recycling industry, it's become pretty clear to me that we don't necessarily leave these toddler rules behind as we develop into adults. And let me tell you why I have that perspective. Because each and every day at our recycling plants around the world, we handle about one million pounds of people's discarded stuff. Now, a million pounds a day sounds like a lot of stuff, but it's a tiny drop of the durable goods that are disposed each and every year around the world, well less than one %.

In fact, the United Nations estimates that there's about 85 billion pounds a year of electronics waste that gets discarded around the world each and every year. And that's one of the most rapidly growing parts of our waste stream. And if you throw in other durable goods like automobiles and so forth, that number well more than doubles. And of course, the more developed the country, the bigger these mountains. Now, when you see these mountains, most people think of garbage. We see above-ground mines. And the reason we see mines is because there's a lot of valuable raw materials that went into making all this stuff in the first place. And it's becoming increasingly important that we figure out how to extract these raw materials from these extremely complicated waste streams. Because as we've heard all week at Ted, the world's getting to be a smaller place with more people in it who want more and more stuff. And of course, They want the toys and the tools that many of us take for granted. And what goes into making those toys and tools that we use every single day? It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

And the metals we typically get from ore that we mine in ever widening mines and ever deep mines around the world. And the plastics we get from oil, which we go to more remote locations and drill ever deeper wells to extract. And these practices have significant economic and environmental implications that we're already starting to see today. The good news is we are starting to recover materials from our end-of-life stuff and starting to recycle our end-of-life stuff, particularly in regions of the world, like here in Europe, that have recycling policies in place that require that this stuff be recycled in a responsible manner. Most of what's extracted from our end-of-life stuff, if it makes it to a recycler, are the metals. To put that in perspective, and I'm using steel as a proxy here for metals because it's the most common metal, if your stuff makes it to a recycler, probably over 90% of the metals are going to be recovered and reused for another purpose. The plastics are a whole 'nother story. Well less than 10% are are recovered. In fact, it's more like 5%. Most of it's incinerated or landfilled. Now, most people think that's because plastics are a throw away material, have very little value.

But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel. And there's more plastics produced and consumed around the world on a volume basis every year than steel. So why is such a plentiful and valuable material not recovered at anywhere near the rate of a less valuable material? Well, it's predominantly because metals are very easy to recycle from other materials and from one another. They have very different densities properties. They have different electrical and magnetic properties, and they even have different colors. So it's very easy for either humans or machines to separate these metals from one another and from other materials. Plastics have overlapping densities over a very narrow range. They have either identical or very similar electrical and magnetic properties, and any plastic can be any color, as you probably well know. So the traditional ways of separating materials just simply don't work for plastics. Another consequence of metals being so easy to recycle by humans is that a lot of our stuff from the developed world, and sadly to say, particularly from the United States, where we don't have any recycling policies in place, like here in Europe, finds its way to developing countries for low cost recycling.

People, for as little as a dollar a day, pick through our stuff. They extract what they can, which is mostly the metals, circuit boards and so forth, and they leave behind mostly what they can't recover, which is, again, mostly the plastics. Or they burn the plastics to get to the metals in burnhouses like you see here, and they extract the metals by hand. Now, why this might be the low economic cost solution? This is certainly not the low environmental or human health and safety solution. I call this environmental arbitrage, and it's not fair, it's not safe, and it's not sustainable. Now, because the plastics are so plentiful, and by the way, those other methods don't lead to the recovery of plastics, obviously. But people do try to recover the plastics. This is just one example. This is a photo I took standing on the rooftops of one of the largest slums in the world in Mumbai, India. They store their plastics on the roofs. They bring them below those roofs into small workshops like these, and people will try very hard to separate the plastics by color, by shape, by feel, by any technique they can.

And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the burn and sniff technique, where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic. None of these techniques result in any amount of recycling in any significant way. And by the way, please don't try this technique at home. So what are we to do about this space-age material, at least what we used to call a space-age material is plastics. Well, I certainly believe that it's far too valuable and far too abundant to keep putting back in the ground or certainly stand up and smoke. So about 20 years ago, I literally started in my garage tinkering around, trying to figure out how to separate these very similar materials from each other, and eventually enlisted a lot of my friends in the mining world, actually in the plastics world. And we started going around to mining laboratories around the world because after all, we're doing above-ground mining. And we eventually broke the code. This is the last frontier of recycling. It's the last major the material to be recovered at any significant amount on the Earth. And we finally figured out how to do it.

And in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics. The traditional way to make plastics is with oil or petrochemicals. You break down the molecules, you recombine them in very specific ways to make all the wonderful plastics that we enjoy each and every day. We said there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics, and not just sustainable from an environmental standpoint, sustainable from an economic standpoint as well. Well, a good place to start is with waste. It certainly doesn't cost as much as oil, and it's plentiful as I hope that you've been able to see from the photographs. And because we're not breaking down the plastic into molecules and recombining them, we're using a mining approach to extract the materials. We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant and equipment. We have enormous energy savings. I don't know how many other projects on the planet right now can save 80 to 90% of the energy compared to making something the traditional way. And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make one type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.

And we make a drop in replacement for that plastic that's made from petrochemicals. Our customers get to enjoy huge CO₂ savings. They get to close the loop with their products, and they get to make more sustainable products. In the short time period I have, I want to show you a little bit of a sense about how we do this. It starts with metal recyclers who shred our stuff in the very small bits. They recover the metals and leave behind what's called shredder residue. It's their waste. A very complex mixture of materials, but predominantly plastics. We take out the things that aren't plastic, such as the metals they miss, carpeting, foam, rubber, wood, glass, paper, you name it, even an occasional dead animal, unfortunately. And it goes in the first part of our process here, which is more like traditional recycling. We're sieving the material, we're using magnets, we're using air classification. It looks like a Willy Wanka factory at this point. At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite, many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics. This goes into the more sophisticated part of our process and the really hard work, multi-step separation process begins.

We grind the plastic down to about the size of your small fingernail. We use a very highly automated process to sort those plastics not only by type, but by grade. And at the end of that part of the process, come little flakes of plastic, one type, one grade. We then use optical sorting to color-sort this material. We blend it in 50,000-pound blending silos. We push that material to extruders where we melt it, push it through small dye holes, make spaghetti-like plastic strands, and we chop those strands into what are called pellets. And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry. This is the same material that you would get from oil. And today we're producing it from your old stuff, and it's going right back in to your new stuff. So now, instead of your stuff ending up on a hillside in a developing country or literally going up in smoke, you can find your old stuff back on top of your desk in new products, in your office, or back at work in your home. And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic to make their new products.

So I hope I've changed the way you look at least some of the stuff your life. We took our clues from Mother Nature. Mother Nature wastes very little, reuses practically everything. And I hope that you stop looking at yourself as a consumer. That's a label I've always hated my entire life. And think of yourself as just using resources in one form until they can be transformed to another form for another use later in time. And finally, I hope you agree with me to change that last toddler rule just a little bit to, if it's broken, it's my stuff. You for your time. Thank you.

TYLER WOLFE, CO-FOUNDER: Most of what I do here was definitely not training that I got in a classroom. For the most part, everything that I know that I do I learned hands-on. Here we're going all the way from computer model to finished product under one roof. I do something new every single day. Every single watch is different.

R.T. CUSTER, CO-FOUNDER: We wanted to start Vortic because we wanted to make a truly American-made watch. We figured we could make the cases and crowns and everything else but we needed an American-made movement and no one was making them for resale at that time. You know, this is 2013, 2014 we were talking about this and so as we did research, we found those old pocket watches that have been orphaned from their their original cases and we realized that people are literally throwing away those pieces of American history when they were scrapping those gold cases. We figured, you know, we can solve that problem and save those pocket watches and also make one heck of a product at the same time and so we put that idea on Kickstarter in 2014 and apparently it was a good idea because we still exist.

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R.T. CUSTER, CO-FOUNDER: So in the beginning of Vortic, we decided to use metal 3D printing, and it's actually called direct metal laser sintering for our product because we couldn't afford the minimum order quantities from contract manufacturers. So, if I wanted to make a watch, and I wanted that one manufacturer to just make the case, we would have to order five hundred to a thousand watches worth of cases. The inherent problem with salvaging these pocket watches is they're all different sizes, they're all different configurations, and they were made by, you know, ten different companies across eighty years of production. And so, 3D printing actually solves a lot of those issues because we can make just a couple dozen at a time for a reliable and achievable cost, and then we could design all of our fixtures and post-processing to adjust those cases to fit the one-of-a-kind movements that we use. We kind of tripped into what seemed like a really good idea, and it's also been a lot of fun and a huge learning experience, as the 3D printing technology has come a long way since we started.

TYLER WOLFE, CO-FOUNDER: So step one to bring a lot of the manufacturing in-house was buying a couple manual machines, and that was our introduction into machining. So I would take a case, sit down there and use hand cranks to to move the machine around, and it would take me somewhere between three and four hours to do a case, and when I say three to four hours, that's three to four hours of hands on the machine. So with our Haas CNC Mills, I have to spend a lot more time setting them up. So, designing the fixture, and creating the tool paths, testing a program, but once I make one part it's essentially the press of a button to duplicate it. That's the huge difference. Manual machines are great for making one unique part, but the CNC machines can duplicate that part over and over and over again. Everything we do, I just I like to think we're combining old technology with the most efficient new technology to make something that's totally unique, beautiful, interesting with a story and not charge $50,000 for it.

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R.T. CUSTER, CO-FOUNDER: Our American artisan series is what we call it right now, basically our pocket watch conversion, it was actually inspired by railroad grade pocket watches. Those railroad grade ones actually are lever set. What that means is there's a lever actuator system near one o'clock on the dial and you actually had to remove the whole front bezel including the glass of the pocket watch to pull that lever in order to set the time, and it was literally a safety mechanism on the railroads back then so you couldn't accidentally change what time it was, but for us it makes for a huge engineering problem that we had to solve. And so we invented this casing system for railroad grade pocket watches that we call the railroad edition of the American artisan series. We decided to mill this railroad edition from a block of titanium so that we could make sure absolutely everything is perfect, and we could control the entire process on our CNC Mills. Really, what we're able to make now is the product we originally wanted to make, this amazing railroad grade pocket watch. Now we have a home for those.

TYLER WOLFE, CO-FOUNDER: Due to the fact that this lever set system requires access to the movement it is a huge design issue. I don't know the number of iterations that we did before we got to this this final version, but it just, every day, we were like how are we gonna solve this. We use the big wave board and we just kind of sat down and said, what's possible? They would throw out a crazy idea, and I'd say, I guess I can try and make that see if it works, let's see if this works, see if that works. It'd be very strange to sell a watch where a customer can touch the dial, and it'd be very strange to sell a watch that's not water resistant. So those two things alone are really what motivate the removable bezel. First of all, it uses a cam lock system instead of a thread. Before it was very difficult to get the front of the watch off and when you take off that bezel the crystal is still in the watch so the customer who does not have any access to the dial. This product is definitely a result of iteration and thinking outside of the box.

R.T. CUSTER, CO-FOUNDER: What's next for us is fully modern watches, and we're still going to make the artisan series with the old pocket watches, but we can layer on a new product line that we can completely design from the ground up, work with the Swiss experts making modern movements for us, and build a product that is truly Vortic, that says it on the dial. And I think that all really ties in well to what we stand for and our tagline, which we say America wasn't assembled, it was built. And we say that because every watch we make is built here. We try to make as much of it in Colorado, in this building, as we possibly can, and I think that's what separates us from companies that make thousands of the same thing is that every watch is handmade just for you and that to me is the difference between built and assembled.

They thought it impossible for the world to be round.

They laughed when somebody dreamed that man could fly.

They said that no one would make a car with an electrical motor while there was still a drop of oil on this planet.

Or that someone in a wheelchair could never cross a city.

Or that a car can't be made that produces water instead of smog.

So we say thank you, because when something is impossible, we make it reality.

Toyota.

Hi, everybody. I just got this FLIR ONE thermal camera. This is pretty cool. I'm very excited about this. What it is is it's a thermal camera accessory for iPhone 5 and 5S. I already happen to have that type of a phone.

I spent $250 for this. It's kind of neat. What it does is it comes with sort of a slimline case, so you put your phone in there. And then it has a hole on the back that lines up with this part right here. And then on the bottom, this really acts kind of like a dock. It really has a thunderbolt connection at the bottom, just like the cord for your iPhone 5 has on it. It's the same type of connection. And then you slide the phone right down into there, and it just clicks together.

Now, with the FLIR ONE thermal camera, it does have its own battery, and it does charge up separately. It comes with a mini-USB cable. Funny, though, it doesn't come with a little wall power adapter, but if you already have an iPhone, you probably already have one of these. So this is what I used. I just plugged it into this to charge it up. The other thing is that the FLIR ONE accessory itself makes the foam a little thicker and also just a little bit longer. The goofy thing is if you want to plug your headphones in while the camera's installed, they actually give you a little adapter. It's just a extension for the headphones, so that it literally just goes right through there so your headphone plug can reach if you want to listen to music while you're doing thermal photos, I suppose.

Basically, on the back, there's two cameras. One's the thermal, and one's visible light, and then the device puts the two together. Basically, the visible camera gives you the edges of the image. And the thermal camera isn't very high-resolution, but by putting together the thermal image and the visible spectrum image, you can tell what you're looking at.

Right here, this is the power switch. So right now it's off. And if I flip it to on, it also-- integrated right in here is sort of a little mini lens cover. So basically, turn the phone on, punch in your secret password if you have one, and then go to the FLIR app. This is a free app. You just download it off the App Store.

There's also a couple of other apps available for the FLIR camera, as well including a panorama and some other things. But we just go to the app. And what it's going to tell you is, make sure it's on, and then pull this down to calibrate it. Give it a second, then let go.

And now you've got your thermal camera. For example, I've got a coffee cup full of hot water here, and if I take a look at that through the thermal camera, it's pretty cool. Right away you can see that heat difference. It's also got little crosshairs in the middle listing temperature. It's in Fahrenheit. I could kick it over to centigrade if I wanted. Then on the settings for this, there are different color scales. So right now I'm looking at the iron, which is the default color scale, but we can flip through to different ones-- black and white, rainbow. And what they do is they kind of show the heat in different ways. You might be looking at the coldest part of the image, the hottest part of an image. There are different ways you might want to look at it. So it's nice that it has that available in there.

The other thing that's kind of neat is when you take an image here, it's going to save a photo. You can also set this up so that it saves it into your camera roll as well, which I thought was a neat feature. Now, it's not real high-res. It's only 640 by 480, so it's not super-megapixel here. Relatively low-res, but it gives you lots of information. Here's something kind of cool. I had the coffee cup sitting there for, I don't know, 30 seconds. Let's move the coffee cup. You can still see where I set the coffee cup on the table, and if I put my hand right there, I can feel that. I can feel the table's a little bit warmer. Pretty neat.

There are some other fun settings in here. That spot meter can be turned on and off. If you're in the dark, you can turn the light on the iPhone on. Settings-- let's change a few things, go from Fahrenheit to centigrade, some things like that.

Now, you can also shoot video with the FLIR ONE. All you have to do here is press this little button. It kicks it over to the video mode. It's just like taking video with your iPhone normally. The difference is it's only 640 by 480 video. It does shoot each 264, but it's a low frame rate. It's, like, six or seven frames per second, so it's going to be pretty jerky. It's not smooth video at all.

OK, we're now in my living room. You're looking at an outside wall. It's January. It's a couple degrees below zero Fahrenheit right now. We have a wood stove in my living room. This is the chimney pipe for my wood stove, but let's take a look at the wall through the FLIR ONE thermal camera.

And right away you can see some vertical lines and a horizontal line. Those are the studs in my wall. That's the actual house framing. Where the studs are it's a little colder, because that's solid wood instead of fiberglass insulation. So if I look around, I can actually use this as a stud finder, which is pretty amazing all by itself.

The dark spot there on the left-- that's my back door. It's a big glass door. Glass is not a very good insulator. And one thing I am glad to see is that the stove pipe here hardly shows up any different from anything else. That stovepipe isn't cold. That's good. It means it's not letting heat out of my house.

But up at the very top here-- that's the connection where the stove pipe leaves the house-- and if I look at that, that's that dark spot. That part's really cold. So that might be a good candidate to see if maybe I could insulate that. But just being able to take a look at framing in a building is pretty neat. You can see where there is and isn't insulation. Here's another neat thing if I look to the right a little bit. There's a window. The window is dark because it's cold. But the camera only has a certain thermal range. So just like an auto iris, if you put something really cold and something really hot next to each other, those colors are going to change. Like if I frame out the cold window, we go from the oranges back over to the purples. So a good way to use this device, actually, is kind of move it around a little bit. You get a much better sense of the differences between hot and cold by moving it around like that.

Here's something else that's fun to look at. In the upper left here, there's a bright spot and a dark spot. The dark spot is actually a heating vent, because my furnace is off right now and it's made out of metal, so it's cold. And that bright spot is a light, and it's a can light, and if you see it's a little darker on the left. That can light is basically up in the attic, and it looks like there's less insulation on the left side of it than on the right side of it.

So overall, the FLIR ONE camera is pretty easy to use. It adds a little bit of heft to the phone. It makes it a little bit larger. It fits in the hand pretty nice, but it's not the sort of thing that I would walk around with this on my iPhone all the time. It's a little bit of a pain that it uses the slimline case on the phone to line it all up. I'd liked the case that I had on my phone. And you would think it's a little bit of a pain to switch back and forth between the two cases, but typically, I think most people are going to use these a whole bunch but at a crack. You might swap the case and then use this all day, looking at where you do and don't have insulation in your house, for example. It does charge separately from the phone. In the latest firmware, it is set up now that when you plug in the mini-USB cable that comes with it, once the FLIR ONE is charged, it will then continue to charge the iPhone. That's an update they did recently, which looks like that's kind of a cool thing.

And still, here's that coffee cup with hot water in it-- pretty neat. This is great for looking at electronics, looking at heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. It was pretty interesting looking at my furnace and my water heater. I haven't done any external views of my house yet, but I have already found a spot in my attic where there's a strange circle of cold, and I think that may have been where there was a leak, for example.

But check out the FLIR ONE. It's pretty neat. And please head on over to EcoProjecteer.net to see my full blog review of this cool little thermal camera.

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MATT ROGERS: All around the world, the home is the center of people's lives. It's where you start your day and end your day. It's where you raise a family and make memories with the people you love.

So wouldn't it be cool if our homes could be more aware? If our homes could learn from us and help take care of us? At Nest, we do just that.

It all started with the Nest Learning Thermostat. Then, came Nest Protect. But for us, that was just the beginning. Our goal has always been to bring this kind of thoughtfulness to the rest of your life. That's what Works with Nest is all about.

Works with Nest makes it possible for your Nest thermostat and smoke alarm to interact with the things you use every day. Because we make connections between these different parts of your life, we can deliver personalized comfort, safety, and energy savings without you having to do a bunch of work. We've been working with companies big and small to make this a reality. And we're very excited about we've been able to do.

TRAVIS BOGARD: UP is a combination of a band that you wear on your wrist and an application on the phone that together help track your movement throughout the day. By connecting your UP and your Nest, you can have this complete, effortless experience. Because UP's right on the body, we have this rich, contextual set of information about what the person's doing in the moment.

So that means those days that you might wake up a little bit earlier, before you even get out of bed, we can let Nest know that. So it can then adjust the temperature in the room to start to be for my daytime.

This is about technology not for technology sake, but technology in service of a better life-- helping us be more human, allowing us to live our lives better.

MARC BITZER: Why would we ever bring the thermostat and washer together? That's a good question. If you look at it from a perspective of energy consumption, it's an easy one. These are big energy consumptions at the home, and these are also the ones which require a lot of day to day interaction with the consumer. You have already the thermostat communicating to the utility company, it's much easier if there's one signal going to the Nest. And that is disseminated through the household to all appliances to basically reduce consumption now, because we're the peak. It's just a tremendous consumer benefit that just happens in the background.

PHIL BOSUA: LifX is an LED light bulb that you control with your smart phone. When we first heard about the Nest developer program, we were really excited to be part of it. With Nest Protect and LifX, when the smoke alarm event is triggered, we can pulse your lights red, which can help you see in the dark, as well as give extra notification that there's a problem in the house, which is especially good if you're hearing-impaired. Nest brings this whole other dimension to LifX. Who would have thought by combining Nest products and LifX products, we could help save lives.

JOHANN JUNGWIRTH: Automotive industry is in a very deep change. I foresee that in the next 10 years, the changes are going to be more substantial than in the last 50. Likely your car today interfaces with your home through the garage door opener.

After learning about the Nest developer program, we thought about, how can we take this to the next level? How can we integrate the car better with your home? As you get into your car and drive home, the car will, in the background, send the estimated time of arrival to your Nest thermostat. So your home can be at the right temperature as you arrive at home.

Taking workload off of customers-- it will improve safety, it will increase comfort, because people just don't have to think about all these things. It's just great-- like magic in the background.

MATT ROGERS: At Nest, we believe these experiences are the future. We're able to connect things inside and outside your home to better anticipate your needs. We're already doing some pretty incredible things, but this is just the beginning. And we can't wait to see what's next.

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An empty beer bottle can be returned, refilled, and resold all in one day. Here's how. So, have a good day.

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[ON SCREEN TEXT]: What if the NYC Subway sounded like this?

JAMES MURPHY: I'm James Murphy. I am a musician who lives in New York. I used to be in a band called LCD Soundsystem which played its last show in New York at Madison Square Garden three years ago almost. I'm a DJ and a record producer and mad about town. It's kind of a tough city and expensive city, but the Subways are sort of like very, very egalitarian, purist, New York thing. Runs all night. So I have kind of have a love affair. It's like the best of New York, I think, the Subway. I'm sort of noticing that the Subway sounds quite brutal. I'm missing an opportunity at the turnstile. At the moment, there's this kind of unpleasant beep. I said given that all that information is already in the turnstile, why don't we just make it a nice sound? Just make it pleasant.

[ON SCREEN TEXT]: James Murphy's MTA audio concept. Turnstiles at each station generate different notes from a given harmonic set.

JAMES MURPHY: Recently when I read that the Subway system's going to move to a tap and ride rather than a swipe, I thought this is my chance, really. I wanted to be part of the installation of the Subway inherent, so it didn't cost any money. So, it's just... there's already going to be a thing that makes a sound, why can't it make the sound, the nice sound? The more I thought about it, it's an opportunity for music. Why not make the worst times in Subways, the best times? So, the more people going through, the more times the turnstiles gets turned, if you have different notes that are in agreement it would make music. It's just an opportunity to have something quite beautiful in a place where something beautiful seems impossible or unlikely.

Okay we're making bricks. We've made, oh I suppose, around sixty or eighty this morning already. I’m told we’re making one every 35 seconds. You can see a number of them coming in here. I'll walk you through the whole process from beginning to end, and I'll show you the whole process. We’ve got a lot of people working here.

Moving around, there you see the machine working, but that's the end of the process. Let’s walk down here.

We begin the process down in this little hole. Here these guys - they're digging out the clay that we need for the bricks. Wave at the camera! All right! Wave at the camera! Yea, that’s right!

They’re digging the dirt out. Then they carry it over here and it gets put in the wheelbarrow. And then it gets sifted. This gentleman here is sifting it through a quarter inch screen. We have a screen on either side. Usually we have two people here. Barry’s down there digging up the extra to get rid of it. You can see we’ve got two sides to the screen. So we have one on either side sifting through the dirt.

At the same time we sift the sand right here. It’s a different kind of setup. But that's also a sifting unit. So we sift the sand. We need three buckets of dirt to one bucket of sand. Then we carry it up here. We mix the dirt and the sand all together on the board. And after they get it mixed up good, we put in cement and they mix the cement in. They just turn it over and over and over again until it’s mixed in good.

And after they get the cement mixed in, they’ll add water. We have a little problem with the water content.  When it’s sunny it dries out. When it’s cloudy, then we’re a little wet, so we’ve got to keep adjusting to get just the right amount.

They’ll shovel that over and over and over again until it’s all one color. Then they’ll add a little bit of water to it.

When they get the water done they’ll carry it up to the machine. We have two of those outfits going. Here’s another crew just finishing up with the mixture. They’ll pour it in the bucket. Then they’ll carry it up here to the machine. Then they put it in the hopper like he’s doing now. This young man is learning to run the machine. Wayne’s helping him.

There comes a brick. Wipe the excess off the top. And then these other two gentlemen carry the brick up and put it in place. Meanwhile he goes back to make a new brick.

And there comes another brick. Brush it off, and then we're back where we started. It gets carried up to the brick pile. We have to put plastic under it and then plastic over it. It can’t dry out too quickly. It takes seven days to cure. We’ve got, I think, 20 bricks in a line. 1, 2, 3, 4… Four complete lines and starting the 5^th. So we’re approaching a hundred bricks. We’re at 80-some.

The idea is to keep the machine working all the time. The operator is still learning to do it. It looks like they had a broken brick here they’ll have to put back in the hopper.

We can see these guys. They've added the cement mix now. So they're going to be ready to add water. Looks like they’re gonna add water right now.

Okay, signing off.

Kiva.org is a website who’s mission is to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva brings small loans to entrepreneurs all around the world who could use a little bit of money to start their own business and in the last six years has helped 800,000 small businesses in over 60 countries get started. Kiva is a word in Swahili that means unity.

When you make a loan to someone across the planet, and you help them out and then they pay you back over time it helps you see how interconnected you are with someone else even if you may never really visit them. 183 people lended to Jose with the connect the power of technology today I can now connect with a woman in Uganda who wants to buy a cow to start a dairy business. I can partner with her, not actually donate money to her, but actually partner with her as an investor. I can invest in the informal sector of the developing world which is forty to sixty percent of the developing world economy, on a personal one to one basis. Through that relationship she can economically empower herself and then pay back that loan and I can do this in 5 clicks or less.

What I get excited about is how technology can connect us in ways that were previously unimaginable. It's allowing people who previously left out in the financial services system to actually get access to quality, affordable, ethically provided financial services like a microloan through Kiva.org. Behind us you have some of the best banks in Nicaragua, but they will not make a loan to her. She seems too risky. But she’s now taken six loans through a Kiva field partner. She’s paid them all back in full.

If you're poor, you don't actually have a lot of options. If someone's going to give you an option at an affordable price, you’re going to steward that money very carefully, you are going to be very judicious about how it’s used, and you know that not only is your future loan access dependent on it but everyone else in your community is counting on you to pay it back so that they can get access to the Internet communities capital.

To give you a sense of the growth of Kiva, in their first year we raised four hundred fifty thousand dollars in twenty-five dollar increments from the Internet community and now we raise one million dollars every three days. It's accelerated in the last six years at an incredible rate and we're really hopeful that more and more people will want to get involved.

My name is Marvin. I am Nicaraguan. I have been running this farm for fifteen years I work 12 to 15 hours a day. My family is my wife and three children the youngest one is 4 years old. Her name is Jimena. As long as I am able to support my family, this is my struggle, my work, so that they have everything. In Nicaragua it is important to have outside help because if you're with your hands like this and you don't have anywhere to go, you can't do, you can't act. Kiva provided the loan that allowed me to increase my crop. I have more income and we are improving and that is why I feel grateful. Kiva is looking for the small ones to lift them up, to support them. It is a big deal because this does not happen here in Nicaragua.

What I can't tell, I feel here, I feel it here that Kiva is great. I feel that my daughter now has a future. When I go around the world and visit micro entrepreneurs, what you find is a ton in common with entrepreneurs right in Silicon Valley or New York City or all around the world who are building for-profit businesses that scale to you, affect hundreds of millions of people I think being an entrepreneur is fundamentally about believing tomorrow it's going to be better than today even if there's an insurmountable challenge whether it's feeding your family or actually changing the way something works that really needs to be improved. I think entrepreneurs are fundamentally optimistic people. They're willing to take risk and they're willing to bet on themselves and basically on humanity in order to create a better world.

WILLIE HOLLEY: I've never heard of a watch manufacturer here in Detroit, let alone the United States. It's an honor to be a part that and to bring something like that to the city after all the little trials and tribulations that’s happened here. It's just amazing to bring jobs here to the city - especially, the city that I live in.

HEATH CARR: Well, we were talking about how we would create an American-made accessories brand with accessories that we were passionate about - one of those being watches and leather goods and bikes and journals. Detroit was a natural for us because of the manufacturing heritage here.

So we built a factory that we’re sitting in today that can manufacture 500,000 units a year. We had a partner in creating Shinola, which is Rhonda. They designed the factory and actually built all of the equipment. And it was all shipped from Switzerland.

JACQUES PANIS: The parts are brought in from Switzerland and are assembled right here in the facility in Detroit. Doing that in this country hasn’t been done in decades, so doing that, I think, is what really makes them very, very special.

DANIEL CAUDILL: The Shinola design is really about being simple. It's not about the bells and whistles. It's about great quality, beautiful materials, and simple design. A lot of detail underneath and on the inside, so the product that you buy today is something that you'll still want to wear ten years from now.

Obviously, there’s a huge movement right now in regards to American manufacturing. People want to know where their food is from, who's making their shoes, who’s making their bag. Shinola fits in that world.

HEATH CARR: Shinola for me and, I think, for the team here, is about a community of people who are focused on quality over quantity, and making an investment in a purchase of something that you'll have for a lifetime - whether that's a bike or a watch or a leather good. And we hope to convince folks that you can do this. You can make just about anything that you would dream up in the United States.

DANIEL CAUDILL: It really is about these people that we work with - from the people in the factory to the people in our bike factory to the designers - everyone coming together. This is a really big family.

JACQUES PANIS: People here are proud to be doing what they are doing. We all love this brand. This brand is something that has created blood, sweat, and tears among all of us.

WILLIE HOLLEY: Bringing a fresh new breed of manufacturing here to my city is a - that’s a big deal. I am honored that Shinola, itself, is willing to take a chance here in the city.

On Screen Text: Too many fish released by recreational fishermen are dying. NOAA Fisheries, state agencies, recreational fishermen, and the Pacific Fishery Management Council have come together to address this problem.

[music, images of rockfish fishing]

On Screen Text: Recompression Devices - Helping Anglers Fish Smarter

Pete Gray, Sport Fisherman and "Let's Talk HookUp" Radio Host: It's so important for us to care about the future of our resources. Nobody else is going to do it but the guys out there fishing.

Nick Wagner, NOAA Fisheries: The big problem with barotrauma is that these fish are at the surface and if you don't release them using one of these descending devices, they're going to die - they're going to get eaten by a bird or succumb to their injuries. Nobody wants to see that.

Jeffrey Liederman, Developer of the SeaQualizer: Barotrauma is the effects that are caused from bringing a fish up from deep water too fast. Most bottom fish have an air bladder to keep them buoyant and when you bring those fish up from the bottom, that air bladder expands, and it'll push his stomach out, his eyes will start bulging and once you release that fish at the surface he has so much gasses built up inside of his abdomen the fish can't swim back down.

Ken Franke, Sport Fishing Association of California: About a year ago, we were really impacted by a lot of closures out in California for rockfishing. When you catch a certain number of them statewide, the reaction is by the agency is to close the areas to fishing. So a number of private vendors developed devices called descending devices and said, "Hey, this is a cool device. That fish that you guys are so worried about, if you clip it onto this device and send it back down to the bottom, the device will release it free, and the fish will be alive and well."

Nick Wagner: There's several different types of recompression devices. They've all been invented mostly by the recreational fishing community who's concerned about this issue. And it's not necessarily that one device is better than the other, but they can be used in different circumstances and there's a lot of options for fishermen to choose from.

So, we're doing a tagging study offshore that looks at the survival of rockfish released using these recompression devices and our results so far show that 80 to 85 percent of the fish are living and that's a really big deal. So, even if you take a conservative estimate and say that 50 or 75 percent of the fish that you're releasing are not mortalities, are alive, that really changes the fish counts, the number of fish that are considered to die and that really affects how we manage our fisheries.

One of the things that we're doing and the purpose of today's trip is to test out the different devices, get the fishermen familiar with these devices and have them tell us how they think they're working and then share that with their friends.

Steve Lauriano, Recreation Fisherman: I didn't know anything about barotrauma before I came out here. I didn't know what was being done to get these fish back into the water safely so they can be released safely. I was very excited about that. It was nice to see the fishing guys - the boats, working with the scientists to come up with a solution for this problem so that we can all come out here for years to come and fish.

Ken Franke: The environmental groups brought these devices to us. The NOAA scientists volunteered as well as the Department of Fish and Wildlife in California to come and monitor the studies. The commercial passenger boats are bringing in the recreational fishermen, and we're working with the media to get the message out. It's kind of like one of those amazing stories that you just never hear. So we're pretty excited about it.

Nick Wagner: Everybody's a winner in this project, especially the fish. But the fishermen are happy because they're not wasting fish, they're releasing the fish that they don't want to keep. The fisheries managers are happy because it gives us more options potentially to manage the fishery, and environmentalists are happy because fish are not dying.

[Garbage rustling]

Nobody wonders where, each day, they carry their load of refuse.

Outside the city, surely; but each year the city expands, and the street cleaners have to fall farther back.

[machines droning]

"The bulk of the outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified, extend over a wider perimeter." ~ Italo Calvino, invisible cities.

[lively orchestra music begins]

Imagine we could use smart tags to follow where our garbage goes...

We could reveal the final destinations of our everyday objects and increase awareness of sustainable practices.

Trash Tag Ver 2.0

Trash tag Ver 3.0 – Qualcomm InGeo

We invited 500 people in Seattle to tag their trash and followed a total of 3000 trash objects.

The day of deployment

After 2 days

* map showing trash travelling across the united states.

After 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, 7 days,

After a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, a month

After 2 months

[upbeat orchestral music continues]

Credits

[music ends]

In this video we're going to show you how to make the silo BBQ surround. It's easy to make because you're just taking one small curved section and repeating it four times. You stack them and, voila, you have something that’s permanent and really compliments the iconic American barbecue.

Hey! I'm Eric! Welcome to the Cheng fabrication shop. Here’s what you're gonna need for the silo barbecue surround: the form; decorative aggregate; Cheng outdoor pro formula; Sakrete five thousand-plus; clean water; rubber gloves; particle mask; safety glasses.

Step 1: mix the concrete. Step 2: pour the concrete.

We have a finished silo mold here. We're ready to pour. We can't get the concrete in between the form wall and the liner. Now we got it about halfway filled up. We’re getting the air bubbles out. Now that we're close to the top we're going to rod again. We're going to let that set up for a little bit and we're going to trowel in some decorative aggregates for the finished top.

Step 3: add decorative aggregate.

It’s been 15 to 20 minutes, and we’re all ready to add some decorative aggregates into the top. Just kind of sprinkle them. You want them to fall in sort of a natural pattern, and you probably won't see them all by the time we're done with it, so we’re going to add a little bit more than you think you're gonna want to see. Then we're going to take our trowel and kind of smooth them out. Then if the concrete covers them up a little bit it’s not a not a big deal because the idea here is we're going to come back and polish this, which will expose the aggregates just under that surface.

So now we're done pouring the silo mold, we're going to actually cover this with plastic and let it sit for three days.

Step 4: De-mold the concrete.

Basically just this front board is all we need to take off. After we do that we're going to actually turn it on its side so we can take the bottom off first. And then we're going to separate the two halves. And that’s it!

I've been working around concrete for about 25 years as a professional. I’ve worked in design and I’ve worked in fabrication but I started my career as a DIYer. Since then I've had many opportunities to expand the creative potential of concrete. My new product, Chang outdoor concrete formula, does just that. This unique formula transforms ordinary concrete into high quality designer concrete. It provides color for your project. It provides crack resistance. It holds up in extreme weather. And the creative possibilities are endless. Enjoy!