The Holy Crap Podcast

Satellite services fundamentally shape telecommunication, navigation, and remote sensing services that are vital to the global economy. The current system is on the risk of collapse due to implementation of new tech like phones, etc. Constellations offer new levels of versatility. Smaller, cheaper satellites—some just the size of a briefcase—can be arranged in different configurations depending on their goal.

It was "all hands on deck" when it came to equipping our troops for the war effort. This meant rationing not only staples, but certain "key" elements to American's diets.

Depression era scarcity

Holy Crap Accomplishment: Swedish Recycling

Sweden recycles an astounding 99 percent of locally-produced waste, thanks to the sensitiveness of its citizens to the environment and sophisticated collection techniques.

recycled waste by households has increased from 38 percent in 1975 to at least 99 percent today.

2001 rubbish landfilled = 22%, today 1%

Sweden now importing waste

Household waste 2017

5 percent was used for biological recycling,

8 percent for material recycling

2 percent went to energy recovery.

Landfills are a major contributor to global emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, and burning waste is kinder to the environment, experts say.

Alternative energy:

The recycling process does not end at the burning stage. The remaining ashes constitute 15 percent of the waste volume before burning. Metals in these ashes are recycled again, with the rest used in road construction. Just one percent remains and is deposited in dumps.

49% of household waste is recycled, and roughly 50 percent of garbage is incinerated - Heat is transformed into steam that spins turbines to generate electricity much like conventional power plants that burn coal or gas.

Instead of burning coal or gas, this power plant burns trash.

Energy from trash equals the heating demand of 1.25 million apartments and electricity for 680,000 homes, according to Avfall Sverige.

Produces methane biogas from 100,000 tons of food and organic waste each year. This biogas runs more than 200 city buses in the county, as well as fleets of garbage collection trucks, and some taxis and private cars, they report.

Four tons of garbage contains energy equivalent to one ton of oil, 1.6 tons of coal, or five tons of wood waste

Burning the waste is filtered through dry filters and water. And the dry filters are used to refill abandoned mines.

Not perfect but much better than current alternatives

Pipelines under roads that vacuum garbage which is sent by households to the stations.

Public service announcements, with prominent musicians, encourage recycling

food is used for creating biogas, while glass bottles are reused or melting to produce new glass container. Plastic materials are converted into their raw state and special rubbish trucks collect dangerous chemicals and electric waste, such as broken or old furniture and televisions.

Critics claim not Zero Waste due to CO2 emission

Holy Crap Thinking:

Sometimes you can’t make it perfect but you can make it much better

Energy in Waste

Use laws but also persuasion – different from Japan

Holy Crap Quote:

“We don’t look at it as waste, we use the energy content of waste as much as possible.”

Klas Gustafsson, vice president of the company.

Holy Crap Challenge:

Think Bigger: Look for energy in what you consider waste

Reach Higher: Don’t demand perfect – take the next step even if it’s not perfect

Do the Impossible: Collaborate to raise community standards to world class

The city of Kamikatsu in the forested mountains of Japan's Shikoku Island has a "zero waste" philosophy. And they live it out everyday. Join us as we share the disruptive thinking such a plan requires.

John Raskob came from humble beginnings and started off as a personal secretary before ending up as VP for DuPont and GMC. After a parting of ways over political candidates, he set out to build the tallest building in the world. Completed in record time, he did it. Listen to find out how!

Nearly 600 years, dozens of ships and countless people were lost. Then along comes Robert Stevenson with a crazy idea of building a lighthouse.There were obstacles, and went over or around all of them.

Dr. Loren Murfield has done what very few others have done. In July of 2020, during the pandemic, he is the co-host of 2 podcasts, runs a monthly mastermind, and blogs weekly. But then he wrote a short screen play (in March) but filmed it in July. He is also the producer and played the lead part. Then, a week later, he released 4 books in four days.

The American colonists took a significant paradigm shift to go from rebellion (anarchy?) to organized government.

Was it fake? We don't think so. And science and disruptive thinking is on our side. It wasn't fake, but it was amazing!