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Breakfast Bonus: Buying sunlight · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason sam By.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
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  Speaker 2: asking the question, would you love to make summer a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer because now you can pay for the privilege?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Well, sunlight is the new oil, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're saying, and we need to harness it. Imagine
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  Speaker 3: if you could turn on sunlight with a switch. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about a light, I'm talking actual sunlight.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a real startup that is it's a
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  Speaker 3: happening thing. It's called Solar Systems and they are sending
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  Speaker 3: up next year mirrors into space so they can reflect
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  Speaker 3: sunlight back to the Earth. And they've even got an
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  Speaker 3: app where you can purchase and buy sunlight.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, wouldn't that be great in the middle of July
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  Speaker 4: when you're just feeling a bit down and you just
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  Speaker 4: need that sunlight to give you or we pick me
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  Speaker 4: up and you can't afford to go to Fiji or
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  Speaker 4: whole way.
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  Speaker 2: You've got solar power and it's been raining in horrible
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  Speaker 2: and miserable for two weeks. You're like, oh no, hold
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  Speaker 2: on solar panels on our roof. Pay for that.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't stop the rain though, would it. No? Because
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  Speaker 4: I was just thinking, what if you had event and
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  Speaker 4: you had it on a specific day and you really needed.
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  Speaker 2: You want to find wedding day, but you couldn't, then.
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  Speaker 4: You just have a really sunny rain show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd have a sunny rain show. You could cast
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  Speaker 3: the lights. Well maybe not under the clouds, maybe just
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  Speaker 3: once again it's through the clouds, so the clouds is
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  Speaker 3: still a problem. You're working on that.
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  Speaker 2: But what about if you were like making a movie
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  Speaker 2: and you want a beautiful, like sunny rain shower. You
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  Speaker 2: know the rain's coming there day, let's get some sunlight
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 4: A good idea.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is, right, even if, for instance, street if
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  Speaker 3: you're lying at home, you're like, oh, I wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 3: working on the tan a little bit in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of winter, a little sunshine, even in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Of night, go out there when the rains on it's raining.
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  Speaker 3: And the problem is you might have made the purchase
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  Speaker 3: to purchase the sunlight, right, and I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: the cost is. I can't imagine it's cheap to operate.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking it's in the hundreds of thousands.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean The original reason for doing this is
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  Speaker 3: to send it to solar farms because at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: solar farms only work, you know, eight to ten hours
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  Speaker 3: opinion on the daylight at the place per per day.
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  Speaker 3: So what they're doing is go, well, no, now we
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  Speaker 3: can cast sun onto those mirrors, those so those solar
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  Speaker 3: panels twenty four seven days a week. So you want
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot more energy.
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  Speaker 4: There's something in it because what about growing crops and things.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, imagine what it does for
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  Speaker 2: harvest some things.
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  Speaker 4: When it's been a frost. Yeah, like we save our Great.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. There's a good reason about that.
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  Speaker 2: Although and again I'm no scientists whole space technician, but
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  Speaker 2: you remember that time, Tony, you hear that mirror at
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  Speaker 2: your house and then the sun beamed off that and
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  Speaker 2: almost boot your house down? Do you remember that?
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  Speaker 4: I remember that? But how us really started a fire
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  Speaker 4: in my house smoke?
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  Speaker 2: So how dangerous of this people were literally now booming
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  Speaker 2: off a mirror onto us.
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  Speaker 3: All technology is dangerous, Jason, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Just gonna embrace it.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, you know everything it's all about how
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  Speaker 3: you use science, you know, like for example, nuclear energy,
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  Speaker 3: great example you know, if it explodes, it's not great,
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  Speaker 3: but it's us and can power cities across the world,
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  Speaker 3: and it's the same with us. Now here's the downside
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  Speaker 3: of ordering your own little soularburst from the sun, and
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  Speaker 3: that when you pay for your sol or your your
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  Speaker 3: son from the mirror, by the time the beam has
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  Speaker 3: expanded and got to Earth from the orbiting satellites, it's
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  Speaker 3: five kilometers wide.
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  Speaker 4: So for instance, so if you bought it, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be study at my.
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  Speaker 3: House at three a sunbathy the whole of.
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  Speaker 2: Sunshine. So there is that I see right. Well again,
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  Speaker 2: if you've got crops nearby, you're doing them a favor
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  Speaker 2: to You're that guy. You're the community hero at that
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  Speaker 2: stage you are.
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  Speaker 3: You're providing sunshine through the winter months.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
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