Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph presents on the economics of energy and emissions. There has been a lot of positive response to this video during the original broadcast, so I decided to upload it first. Some folks wonder why I haven’t got these all videos uploaded by now. The reason is simple.
Since these were shot in HD and I don’t have a super-hispeed internet connection, this video in HD took ~27 hours to upload. Since there are graphs in these, I try not to compromise the quality by going to a lower resolution. I will continue to add videos as the time permits.
No Big Oil, no Big Broadband.
I wonder what we could’ve done with a fraction of Al’s well-gotten gains.
You’re just a brilliant guy, Anthony. Hope you had a great thanksgiving !!!
Perhaps you could burn them all to DVDs and send them to folks who do have fast connections, and they could upload them. I volunteer if needed. You have my email.
Ditto. The neighbourhood supports 35 mbps, peaks at 50. It can be done securely.
27 hours? Ouch. You might consider if it might be more efficient/easier to distribute that around a bit, Anthony. Yes, there’d a be a couple days delay in sending DVDs off to trusted colleagues to help, but it still might be quicker (and less tie up of your computer for you).
REPLY: Actually, the files are so big they won’t fit on DVD’s The Tricaster records at raw resolution for best quality, no compression apparently – A
I thought this was one of the best presentations.
Great content,
Organized,
Clear and concise,
Delivered in a professional manner by a very good speaker
Content all supported by graphs and data.
Well worth the hour of your time.
Quite a contrast Ross vs Burning dolls. The HD uploads are excellent.
As always Thank You so very much for all of your efforts.
Terry and Hyon
I would suggest getting a bit of help from someone experienced in video compression. Its possible to get significant compression without losing significant quality.
If you want to experiment yourself, try Handbrake if it will read your source, and output to mp4.
Thanks Anthony, this is one of the presentations I missed. Am downloading this as well, to see how big it is – it may fit DVD9?
Well, if DVDs dpn’t work – memory sticks. We could have a whip round to help Anthony purchase some? That way folks like me from the Uk and outside the USA could contribute.
Oh – and Happy Thanksgiving Day to y’all over there. Keep on fighting the good fight!
Wonderful presentation!
Yep, raw, standard format digital video files can run more than 200mB* per minute run time, mp4, about 10mB/min (depending on compression), and flv less than 2mB/min. A dvd-r holds about 4.5 gB of data.
cheers,
gary
* An old Canon DV camera of mine could burn through 19gB per hour of run time.
When these have all been posted, a tab should be set up to access them, for future visitors.
There it all is. The Big Picture.
I wish I’d had professors like Dr. McKittrick when I was in college.
This is a primer on how to make the “dismal science” exciting and meaningful.
Fantastic presentation by Prof McKitrick. Can we find someone on the other side now who can rebut each of the prof’s points – not likely. Can you imagine Gore or Suzuski trying something like that?
Fabulouse. My phone played the video with great sound and picture clarity. The discussion point were top notch.
McKitrick’s first point, about how electrical appliances cut down on housework, should have been fleshed out with half a dozen examples: Stoves, refrigerators, vacuums, irons, microwaves, washing machines, dryers, hot water heaters, etc. The old-time method should be contrasted–kids today don’t know about washboards, coal stoves, etc.
Sorry about spelling and grammar. Typing on my phone.
I just downloaded the video from Youtube using a well known WIN HD converter and it took just 5 minutes converted to MP4 at 5000 kbps and the file is 245 MB. The quality is excellent and all text is clear.
Roger Knights says:
November 23, 2012 at 8:34 am
Regarding time-saving things, many, at their core, rely on advances in physics, chemistry, and technology – related to electricity but not exclusively. Ross McKitrick necessarily would have to prioritize what goes into a timed presentation. Nothing wrong with you, others, and me adding a bit of background.
Remember ironing. In the 1960s, each week I took a batch of shirts to a lady who, for 25¢ each, would iron them. Likely, some folks reading this won’t understand what they have just read.
My mother would run sheets, pillowcases, and a few other cloth items through a mangle. Ours did have an electric motor but must have been pre-WWII, unlike the one in the photo at this link:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/256746/mangle-hand-operated-g-h-nicoll-co-1820
I wonder why sheets and such had to be wrinkle free. Today one might ask where did the wrinkles go?
@Crispin in Waterloo — you have upload speeds of 35-50 mbps? Wow. Who is your ISP?
@Anthony As others have said, you should (in the future, probably not for this) look into video compression. This video (compressed to H.264 by Youtube) is 58:48 and 583 MBytes at 720p. Assuming the other 23 hours compress similarly, you’d be looking at about 14 GB of data, easily fitting on a 16 GB stick, or 1 blu-ray disc, or 3 DVD’s.
I also suspect it would upload a lot faster — given 27 hours to upload this, if it had been uploaded in H.264 HD, it would imply you have an ancient mid-1990’s analog modem AOL connection running at 46 kbits/s! Clearly you don’t.
A 1 Mb/s upstream connection (reasonably standard in my parochial neck of the woods) would take about 1.3 hours (to upload) per hour of similarly compressed video, assuming a decent ISP, router, and computer.
If at some point you would like to provide access to a relatively small sample of your raw footage (perhaps 5 min or so?) in that exact format (e.g. via dropbox.com or google drive) I’d be happy to test out some compression tools that cost little or nothing and suggest a workflow. (Though sorry, if you’re mac based, I can’t help; only Windows or Linux, but I’m sure there are plenty of mac people here who could similarly test out compression tools for you).
Very informative and enlightening. Hope your Thanksgiving was good as well.
jeez – Anthony- guess what youtube is going to do with your file- convert it to .mkv.
So do that yourself with the divX converter.
the converter is free.
it will reduce your file size to @ur momisugly 10% of the original with loss of fidelity that you can hardly detect when viewed on youtube.
What an excellent presentation. So clear and well put that everything was just obvious.
Thanks Dr. McKittrick for the lecture and well done Anthony for having both the wit and the pull to get him onto your Channel.
An excellent presentation that was enlightening. Well done!