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homes are wired for electricity. that's 50 years just to get the wire into people's houses. that was created by the building boom in the 1920s. people were reluctant to tear up the walls and install, so his new housing a 1920. electricity was the standard. >> you touched on the very next question is going to ask, which is is the nature people were afraid of wiring their homes click there something that held us back to my people about what electricity to come in because of the danger represented. >> yes, although everybody recognize how nasty gaslight was. in comparison to come the people saw the electric light is safer and cleaner, but there is a resistance to put into deadly force into your house. i was especially a problem initially. the most famous is when is one of the early years is one of the vanderbilts and rather than ripping up the walls, they would run the wires and interacted badly with how it spread in the wallpaper it basically set the room on fire. the other backer, jpmorgan, one of the first desk lamps

so i'm all for an electric car in the long run, but it's an electric car that's going to be much cheaperficient, we need much better batteries. so by all means let's focus on research on batteries, but please, let's not spend lots of money doing very well. >> paul: thanks very much for being here. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. [ male announcer ] when you take shortcuts, it shows. we don't run like that. we build john deere equipment the way we always have: the right way. times change. our principles don't. you don't just have our word on it. you've got our name on it. that's how we run. nothing runs like a deere. discover the full line of riding lawn equipment at johndeere.com/howwerun or your local dealer. to get our adt security system. and one really big reason -- the house next door. our neighbor's house was broken into. luckily, her family wasn't there, but what if this happened here? what if our girls were home? and since we can't monitor everything 24/7, we got someone who could. adt. [ male announcer ] while some companies are new

part of the electric drive transportation association an electric car lobbying group.rn lomborg is back because he is skkptical. a dirty secret? what? >> john, they don't emit any co2 on the road, but once you produce them, they emit a lot of co2 because a lot of energy goes into the production, especially the battery. half of all the emissions coming out of the electric car have already been emitted when you buy it. john: like 30,000 pounds of carbon monoxide making the car is less than half of that for an ordinary car. >> exactly. and yes, zero emissions on the road, but you still have to recharge it and most of our electricity comes fm fossil fuels, so the real point is electric cars are not ready to really help us cut carbon emissions in a big way, it is an efficient way of doing it. john: he is basically saying you have pulled off a scam getting these subsidies for electric cars. >> i disagree with his numbers. which is not new, it is actually an outlier study if you challenge any of the assumptions in the study, the length you keep the car, the size of the batter

part of the electric drive transportation association an electric car lobbying group.jorn lomborg is back because he is skkptical. a dirty secret? what? >> john, they don't emit any co2 on the road, but once you produce them, they emit a lot of co2 because a lot of energy goes into the production, especially the battery. half of all the emissions coming out of the electric car have already been emitted when you buy it. john: like 30,000 pounds of carbon monoxide making the car is less than half of that for an ordinary car. >> exactly. and yes, zero emissions on the road, but you still have to recharge iand most of our electricity comes from fossil fuels, so the real point is electric cars are not ready to really help us cut carbon emissions in a big way, it is an efficient way of doing it. john: he is basically saying you have pulled off a scam getting these subsidies for electric cars. >> i disagree with his numbers. which is not new, it is actually an outlier study if you challenge any of the assumptions in the study, the length you keep the car, the size of the batt

problem with when you switch to electric car in china, most of their electric power is coal.t power is nuclear, like france you have a payoff for the environment. but china could be the answer but is going slower than anybody thought. david: that is good point. don't forget where the energy comes from. electric cars look good. you think where the energy comes from. they can actually end up spewing out more carbon than regular engines. >> if we had more solar power then it would be all good. david: the argument as circular has it gets. >> water power. liz: we look closely toys rail. nissan is working with israel to get the entire country up to speed as they call them, charging stations. thank you, jeff. great job. >> charging stations. liz: jeff flock. david: punxsutawney jeff to punxsutanwey, the phil groundhog is off the hook after being indicted by a prosecutor earlier this week. you scoff, liz. liz: i scoff. david: wait until you hear the story on "off the desk.". liz: so mean. leave the poor thing alone. a big reading on the state. economy and the jobs market set to hit t

i don't want to be near electricity.nowledge of a fishing rod. it was as if he seemed to long for that simpler time or wanted to get away from the more complex age and just beyond self ediain. >> and many people were grappling. there were a lot of critics as electric light. as much as a creative these wonderful public spaces and may wovid sy 1er and more effective, many people are disillusioned. first of all, they said this was a terriribe trade. a much more beautere aul night time, but we have made in a much of there daytime. poles and wires and of the signs what would we trade day for night. many people were concerned about that. also concerned about the psychological effects. peoples of e teor staying up too late. things we know now about the destruction of the circadian rhseuhm and sleep. people are more energized but also more exhausted. many people sta. theed to be romantic about candles and the good old days. the con eonial rev theral meauement as an attempt to sort of in this feeble to turn off the light and live

electrical shock. when we control it, electricity powers our lives. but when it is unleashed, high voltage can be terrifying. february 3, 1996, a desperate man attempts a perilous high-wire act, straight into 16,000 volts of electricity. >> i thought he blew up in a million pieces because there was such a shock and a sound, it was boom! i was, whoa. east los angeles, a vibrant hub of the city. for firefighter eric huck, one call from dispatch would be like any other. >> everybody was shocked. myself and many guys who had many years on the job, this was something you'd never seen before. >> eric and his team arrive on the scene it find a suicidal young man perched atop a power pole, 30 feet up. the rescuers immediately recognize the danger. >> we are dealing with high tension wires. we are talking about, death. within seconds. >> it's not just the suicidal young man whose life is at risk. a crowd has begun to form beneath him and if the man pulls a live wire down with him, he could electrocute a bystander down below. the fire department's first priorit

electrical engineering was an entirely new idea. there were no electrical engineers. this all started to come about. building buildings with the electricity. there was a whole generation of jobs that open up this phenomenon move forward. >> that's right. one of the other things that edison had to do is create a school. and there was increasing pressure on universities to develop the first electrical engineering programs. many cities had electrical clubs, where young men who wanted to get into this field would pay a small membership fee and get to hear lectures. they could try experiments in the laboratory not sort of things >> they were learning the hard way. >> they really were. >> the electrical connection of the mines that were being strung through the cities were not up upon tall powerlines what we are accustomed to today. >> there were no regulations for how to do desperate. >> yes, kids love this. but once these are quite companies are unregulated and the wires were there, was very dangerous. there were five or six in a given city looking for a market. it did no

the electric grid.is situation reflects an urban bias. fox: an important critique of dams is that they serve urban areas more so than rural areas. so, for example, many of the dams in laos will be selling energy to thailand and that will go to bangkok. and, ironically, often people who are displaced by dams or who are impacted in some way in the rural areas will not see the benefits in terms of electricity. narrator: displacement of people living in areas targeted for dam construction is only one fact of hydroelectric development, whether privately or publicly funded. fox: all around the world, tens of llions of people have been displaced by large-scale dams. in laos, it does disproportiotely impact ethnic minorities who live in the highland areas where the dams are being built. so they're resettled away from the reservoir areas and they're also resettled away from the mountains and highlands above reservoirs. narrator: anotr oblem with resettlement in laos isacy ofamar os wasaughinssbombed e ail. x: 9

our gas and electric together. most of the power plants in california are fed natural gas, you need to get the gas back up before you get the power plant back up if you have damage to both. we do have standards for all that activity in terms of our engineering design. the trick is for us to sit out there and talk with all the different regional areas including san francisco and make sure we understand how we're going to work together in the event we have an event that takes our services out or is greater than what we're actually expecting and that's the challenge for all of us, all the service providers, is working together to figure out how to make that happen. >> mr. boland. >> this is where we fit into that link. we represent the utilities that protect and build the resill yepbs into the infrastructure. we fill a gap in attitude which

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didn't have it kids in new york city were playing with electric toys controlled by private utilities that were consolidating and not subject to any oversight that was a huge problem for the country and it took a decade several decades actually to move electricity from the status of being a luxury into being a very heavily regulated utility same thing happened with the telephone and now needs to happen with high speed internet. so you're talking about really i'm sorry sorry it's not just information i don't want to make this abstract that coming into every home and business is our window to the world it's health care education absolutely everything that we do right this is this is this is core stuff this is this is essential stuff for citizenship and for quality of life says i'd like to get into the the part of the title of your book is the gilded age i'd like to get into that right after this break we'll be right back more of our conversations with great minds with susan crawford right after this. let me let me i want to know we're going to let me ask you a question. here on this net

but, we are the electrical inspectors and we are currently working on and the electrical inspectors is what we were having interviews today to establish a list and then we will go through to actually do some you know do the final selection process. so we are, everything takes a lot longer than i ever would have expected it to be. but as you all know when the department of human resources came in and explained the testing process many of us just closed over because it seems very complicated and very and hopefully, bullet-proof, but, so, the answer is, that we have a list, we don't, we have actually we don't have a list for housing inspectors that is what we are getting right now. we are working on getting through the electrical. we don't have a list but that is what we are working on getting a list. so we don't have to wait for the broad city classification testing like we had to with the clerks. what we are doing is now is really getting our desires, wants, specification and that sort of thing and working with the dhr and getting that. >> thank you, deputy director. >> >> item 8 b, upd

it's only the supply of electricity that san francisco power program would then partner with p g and e to provide. if you are a resident of san francisco and member of the clean power sf group, your lights go out and you still go out and call a p g and e they roll out and respond to that outage and then refers the crews out for work. there is a very much heavy reliance, a partnership for implement thg program. >> for clarity, what you are saying to me is that we are not looking necessarily for any job loss for employees of p g and e based on how this is being rolled out? >> that is correct. the city's chief economist did not look at particular job sectors. they just looked at how much money would not be spent on other things since it's being spent on the electricity and conoh metric modeling as to what other jobs would be lost because the money is not circuiting in the economy. >> i understand that but we could not say for certain that there wouldn't be job loss because of certain sectors. >> that's correct. we can't say there will be job loss or job gain. we do have investments that

now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and als

take the arguments for the electric cart, supposed to be better for the environment electric car batteriesre better for on-then the environment, contributing less to global warming. perhaps not. consensus center. by that time an electric car rolls of the direction line that has already contributed 30,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions because just making the done thing, especially the battery requires a lot of energy. manufacturing in conventional cars creates only 14,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. so befe you even get on the road the so-called green energy friendly alternative, the electric car has already produced twice the negative environmental impacts regular cars. and it turns out that zero emissions promise from electric car makers is just that, a promise, not much more. when you factor in the huge commissions created in the electric cars manufacturing, the green option is still creating more carbon taxes than a conventional car, even after driving 50,000 miles. and if the owner of a car uses a coal-fired electric plant fire is car then he is producing more carbon dioxi

on the electric side, things are pretty well proat the timed already. things shut themselves off. depending on the magnitude of the earthquake, it could take up to 12 hours to get power back on really it's going to depend how fast we can get to the facility. that's one of the things we have to work with, with government officials and others, how do we get to the facilities to fix them. in terms of an emergency response stand point, we have stand by back ups, we have stand by centers, we can operate an emergency center in san francisco out of walnut creek, out of san ramon, almost anywhere in the state if we choose to. in terms of working with local governments, we are members of many state, federal and local emergency response organizations. again we're a regional company so it's not just about one general location, it's about serving every one of our local service areas whether it's san francisco or the san joaquin valley. >> thank you, mr. boland. >> we fill a little different role. we don't have any infrastructure but we represent utilities that have 88 percent of the infrastru

that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where does this end up? on the floor. it gets mixed together and becomes a hazardous soup and it's usually slippery. safeway, what do you think they have in there, kids? we will show you. bleach. okay. bleach is great i

at the shell contract and at the increase in pricing assumed that if you were paying more on your electric bill, you as a san francisco resident wouldn't have that money to spend in other ways here in san francisco and it would therefore decrease jobs in other sectors. but the report explicitly acknowledged that it did not look at the local investment, local build portion of the clean power sf program. so that's how it's distinguished. >> also in terms of the renewable as well >> correct, the contract is on renewable and the local investment component is not located in that chief economist report. >> california certified renewable, yes. >> thank you, we are getting into the territory about why -- we discussed this in the last meeting that there is misinformation put out about the loss of jobs and energy created. that's confused a lot of people in san francisco. although the survey we'll see that was measured perhaps it wasn't a great number of people in san francisco. that information has been out there and it needs to be rebutted by communication staff within offices and puc. commissioner

electricity cables have also been downed.company workers are volunteering to get the light back on. one huge challenge facing those workers. >> high in the air, trying to restore electricity to the people of a lot of. he works for the state's electrical company for years. when rebel fighters to the government out of these governments, the people living near lost the service. >> cannot even describe my feelings. i'm really so happy volunteering for a humanitarian job like this. we are taking care of people just like freedom fighters. >> these men are not fighting. their job is still dangerous. two key members were recently killed by snipers or they were perched on the rooftops. >> my family says bless your help. sometimes we do not think he will come back from the human italian work -- humanitarian award because you leave in the morning and did not come back until night. >> the days are long because of high demand. irregulars supply have left entire neighborhoods in the dark. >> we haven't had no electricity. i hope people fix

john's names, general electric and unitedhealthcare, picking two dow components here. unitedhealthcare had a good day yesterday. they had a good month and good quarter. general electric, looking at where the up side is here. you can pick a growth exciting story. do either of those fit those parameters? >> well, they're special cases. now with the market that has run up, 10, 12%, depending which index you look at, we're looking a little more at stock picking. here are the special cases. you unitedhealthcare. you know all the money in the health care sector this year is arguably flowed into the hospitals, leaving the insurance providers somewhat behind, especially on a performance basis. that is where unitedhealthcare comes in. they will see more customers. they will see more revenue.

the other utilities generating electricity. those are 17-1800 jobs and you are contracting their work under this proposal you are contracting their work out to shell oil. that is our objection. there is no misinformation, there is no uncertainty, no lack of clarity. this is a contract to shell energy to provide electricity. pure and simple. that is our objection. those are jobs. people want the work and we want control of that energy here in san francisco and in california as a whole. not out of state contracts to purchase electricity. the other two items we heard today again, there is no plan for a local build out. commissioner mentioned it, rate board members mentioned that. he said it just right because it's our concern as well, if this plan doesn't work and we are stuck with a contract with shell, that's work that my members do that no one else gets the do. that's our issue. and finally, again, using -- moving money around, creating, using a reserve fund as collateral which is what i heard to permit bondings capacity, it's

green technologies, especially the electric car, far from proving themselves.k, if you were to peel back the support for doreen energy and its desire to reduce carbon emissions, what you find is a group of people who have fundamental problems with this country's energy consumption. they don't like the fact that we consume 24 percent of the world's energy. they say it is a tragedy that the average american consumes twice the energy of a person in japan were six times more than the average mexican. they think the u.s. should pare back its size, and floods, and capabilities. here is what i say. america has the world's biggest economy would just 5 percent of the population. does not something to apologize for. it's something to be proud of. it takes energy and lots of it. we are the most productive people on the face of the planet and that's a good thing. coming up later in the show, of morning by one state not to do your taxes with turbo tax. is it too late? bang average of three under and $50 per year in fees that you don't have to pay. covering your assets with

liz: gasoline, hybrid, all electric. you chose not to go with the electric. why?to all electric. eventually into or three years with california in the emissions standards coming into play into a dozen 17 we have to have an electric vehicle in california. this is the first up in the electrification process for our brand. liz: the imf would like to eliminate subsidies on gasoline tax, etc. to you look at that and say, okay, we need to shift that will more and more? >> we have to. that is where it is going in terms of the customers are looking. they want everything. they want to have a green card, grade fuel economy and give good about themselves. liz: you're offering of sleep in your groan of our company, you have to have that as part of it. >> absolutely which is what this card as rise. it allows us to appeal to another group of customers and get them in. if there not interested, perhaps they're interested in the forest around packer one of our other vehicles. liz: we know all these names. we have seen the commercials. what is the number one thing a car buyer reall

and that is not, mentioning the electrical and plumbing permits. they go, they are all on the fifth floor but i don't keep track of them the same way. >> there is a large volume of that going on. that should probably pick up to 140, 150, at the peak in the summer time. as far as in-take, we seem to be just a couple of weeks to get a couple of weeks to get it assigned, and depending on the job size, and complexity, it can be back out anywhere within six weeks to six months. >> okay. for jobs such as the transbay, of course. >> yeah. >> it is going to take a long time. >> yeah. >> that is the addendum process. >> okay, all right. >> okay, is there any further questions for deputy director sweeny? >> seeing none? >> is there any public comments on items 8 a to 8 d of the director's report? >> seeing none, item 9? commissioners's questions and matters, 9 a, inquiry to staff, at this time, commissioners may make inquiry to staff regarding various documents, policies, practice and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. >> commissioner melga

that is the sound of an electric engine. faster, goes farth and costs less. how is this possible? i will explain from behind the moving wheel of a nissan leaf, the 2013. stay tuned. we're in traffic though. oh gees. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online so i can react in real-time. plus, my local scottrade office is there to help. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) scottrade. voted "best investment services company." ing. david: sales of all-electric and plug-in vehicles are expected to increase 89% from a very low mark and only a third about demand automakers previously expected. >> nonetheless bee spite slow consumer adoption and kind of weak forecast, nissan says, we don't care. we're in early of what will be a big change. they're going full speed ahead with the new model of their

company to connect the hired electric project to the pg&e grid at a maximum grid of cost of 700,000 and subject to reyule every year they are asking. >> barbara hill assistant general manager for power this is a routine item that allows us to connection our proposedded university mound to pg&e's grid and it's a requirement to have an interconnection agreement and because it's long-lived and it will neat need to go to the board of supervisors and we are asking four your consent to bring it there. >> any public comment? any comment from members of the commission?? >>> mr. courtney. >> ms. hale would you mind coming backup to the front for a moment please i'm trying to scroll through and look at section 16 the sub contractor clause could you be kind-enough to develop on that and for the commission just in your own words exactly what that means for us please you are on section i'm sorry you said 16. >> looking at the table of kents on page 16-12.11. >>> yes. >> sub contractors. >>> so the contract we are looking at here is a pacific gas and electric company standard contract that they a

parts of the city are also without water and electricity. and the rebel leader who is the new president ed made his first political promise. michel said he's going to review mining and oil contracts signed by predecessors. may by chinese and south of an firms. translator: we didn't come to destroy him. on the contrary, we came to improve things at the former regime didn't do. obviously, i will ask relevant ministers to see whether things were badly done and we will try to sort them out. >> in latvia, more than 220 people were rescued after being stranded on ice floats. strong winds caused the ice to drift fast. widening the gap from the shore to four kilometers in about three hours. about 180 of the people rescued were fishermen. pope francis marked his first good friday as head of the roman catholic church, calling for peace in the middle east. good friday is one of the most important days in the religious calendar. the pontiff led thousands of people, who turned out at a rome coliseum for the way of the cross procession. mohammed was at th

electric cars don't in any co2.. partly when you produce the car the battery takes up a lot of fossil fuels. fundamentally when you produce the car it's like you had already driven 8,000 miles. melissa: 8,000 miles. >> you have to drive and a lot. it's more efficient when you drive it compared to gasoline car, but you have to drive it very far in order to actually get ahead. melissa: is that just the manufacturing of the battery? >> that is the whole thing, but it is substantially more than what a conventional car, and only in its about 14,000 pounds compared to about 30,000 pounds of co2. you are well ahead of your emissions. you really have to up break up the miles before you actually even that up. melissa: you don't break even until you have given the car for 8,000 miles. >> actually, you have to get tough 60,000. thereafter you reduce emissions a little bit. nowhere near this zero emissions because your still plugging it into your outlook where you get it from fossil fuels, mostly in most of america. the fundame

destination elevator save 35 to 40% of the electrical energy over traditional elevator.se elevators save energy by using a regenerative drive. when the cars are going up empty or down full of people, they generate electricity that goes back into the building grid. these elevators have energy by grouping people going to the same floor in the same cab. and the way they work is you have a shared elevator call button in the lobby. you would indicate which floor you're going to, for instance like 3, and it will direct me to elevator c. so, i'll go to an elevator with people that are going to that same floor. what's also interesting is inside the elevator floor cab there are no selection buttons because i selected my floor in the lobby. this takes some getting used to as we're all accustomed to choosing our floor inside the elevator cabs. ♪ ♪ >> another thing we saut that was a challenge for this building was the permitting process for the delivery machine to use reclaimed water in an office building. and i think that we really broke the ground for future use to be much more c