We're going to talk a little bit about innovation in vodka, innovation in distilling, and our most recent innovation at Hangar 1-- Fog Point vodka. All right.So before I get too crazy talking about fog point, you guys probably would like to know how vodka is made.
They're falling from the cloud to the ground. Fog droplets tend to float.They move horizontally. So fog collectors will be posted in a vertical fashion to try to maximize the fog going through the material.
So the process, like I said, it's pretty straightforward. Fog droplets impact the mesh.Then they get trapped, and they start moving.
Next, go ahead and take a small sip from your vodka. Fog Point, unfortunately, took quite a while, because we had the lead time to collect all this water.
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And in that search, someone from our team came across FogQuest. Now FogQuest is a nonprofit that works worldwide to collect fog for agricultural and drinking water use. They work in countries like Chile, Nepal, Guatemala.
Excellent Hi. Like Caley said, I'm a volunteer with the charity FogQuest Sustainable Water Solutions. And FogQuest's mission is to provide water to people in remote locations using fog . And right now, FoqQuest has projects in eight countries supplying significant amounts of water.
And out here in the Bay Area, the most prolific kind of fog that we see is the fog from the ocean, the fog comes off the ocean. And that is technically called advection fog .
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success these guys have chosen to go and invest in other areas so that leads to the fogy Institute and what we're here to do the whole point of this of The Institute is to provide these guys with a period of time in which they can develop and grow to a point where we can
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It's literally over sand dunes, isn't it? Ben Fogle does cry a lot most of the time.
With that said, let's welcome Mignon. Mignon Fogarty: Thank you, Nadine. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here today. I, I used to live in the Bay Area and it's, it's great to be back. Great to be at Google. Google does not disappoint. I'll tell you. Even your parking lot is cool.
use 'he' generically. Yeah? >>Male Audience Member #2: What about 'they'? Mignon Fogarty: 'They'. You could. Embrace the plural be on the leading edge. I mean that's probably what I would do. Yeah? >>Male Audience Member #3: Mignon Fogarty: You could definitely drop the second 'he' or 'she'. 'Tell the next caller that he or she wins , is the hundredth caller and wins a car.' So it's not so bad because
Mignon Fogarty: 'They'. You could. Embrace the plural be on the leading edge. I mean that's probably what I would do. Yeah? >>Male Audience Member #3: Mignon Fogarty: You could definitely drop the second 'he' or 'she'. 'Tell the next caller that he or she wins , is the hundredth caller and wins a car.' So it's not so bad because you get rid of the second awkward 'he or she' so that would be better too. Yeah.
Female Audience Member #1: So "they" is OK? Mignon Fogarty: 'They' is okay if you're willing to take a little bit of heat. So and I tell people, I say, 'Be bold. Use "they". Fight for advancement of our language.' But you have to know that you will take criticism. I mean like I said, I posted, obviously my followers are bigger sticklers than most people. But I posted this
just know that you should avoid it whenever you can and when you do use it, it'll, it'll cause some people to cringe. Yeah. >>Male Audience Member #6: Mignon Fogarty: Um hmm. >>Male Audience Member #6: Mignon Fogarty: It's true. No, you're right. Some people, in, in sort of trying to swing the pendulum the other way from 'It was he' for so long for the last hundred years. Now they'll use 'she' all the time except when it's negative
form of ëtheirí to use, go to Sista Sally's YouTube page and learn some ways to make your comments less whack. Mignon Fogarty: So it's seems so simple. It's your, their with the apostrophes. And it's true. When you go to YouTube and you see the comments, it's always the wrong 'its' and the wrong 'you're' and 'we're' instead of 'we areí and ëwere'. So what's the deal?
up? I'm sorry. >>Male Audience Member #9: People seem to think that all plurals need apostrophes. And I have an example, a challenge for you. Mignon Fogarty: Okay. >>Male Audience Member #9: I was wearing Levis and an apostrophe might look >>Mignon Fogarty: Yes. Male Audience Member #9: Is an apostrophe wrong? Do you skip it when it's a word like trousers or ? >>Mignon Fogarty: So the question was about
The P is capitalized. >>Male Audience Member #12: McMahon? Mignon Fogarty: Hmm? >>Male Audience Member #12: McMahon? Mignon Fogarty: McMahon as for a name. I guess that would be camel case. It comes up so much more often with the name of companies or the band OutKast. They capitalize the K.
Mignon Fogarty: Hmm? >>Male Audience Member #12: McMahon? Mignon Fogarty: McMahon as for a name. I guess that would be camel case. It comes up so much more often with the name of companies or the band OutKast. They capitalize the K. They use a K. I mean what do you expect? Really, we're gonna hold them to high standards when they spell OutKast with a K? I, I think it's, it's,
Just try to avoid it when it's unnecessary. Yeah. Mignon Fogarty: It is. >>Male Audience Member #13: We donít need to know as much classic grammar as before. >>Mignon Fogarty: Yeah. The one I was really
Just try to avoid it when it's unnecessary. Yeah. Mignon Fogarty: It's actually one of my pet peeves too. So people will say,
Just try to avoid it when it's unnecessary. Yeah. Mignon Fogarty: Okay. >>Audience Member: When is it appropriate to use underlines in printed text versus italics? >>Mignon Fogarty: Hmm. Well it depends on,
And all of a sudden, we're still on the ship, but the ship is elsewhere. We see as fog rolls over the stage. And it comes into the crowd.
they tended to be one note, and AI was sort of infinitely clever, but didn't really have much purpose apart from to kill everybody and was just this kind of sort of Borg-like fog . And I thought, "That's fine, but maybe we can do something, you know, more interesting." AI is being built by humans, and humans, you know, and built by computer engineers, and there's a lot of power struggles in any computer engineering team. So I just wanted to explore the idea of it was built by two
only does things like raise your cancer risk by 44%. It also makes you tired. It gives you brain fog , lethargy. When your immune system is being activated by this inflammation, you're taking energy away from your brain. It c it's a lot of energy to activate your immune system. And so,
So I envisioned the maximum color contrasts that would happen with the orange of sunsets in the cloud and the blue fog in the valley. And this was the image that I visualized.
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And through using our own water, that was one of those things that started to inspire me to look at our water usage and make something like Fog Point. I'll get there in a few, though.
It sounds really cool. And we realized that fog is so iconic here in the Bay Area, the solution for our water issue was actually right in front of us this whole time. Right? The question is, could we actually use fog to make vodka?
So that's the mechanism for generating ocean fog . This ocean fog is the starting point for fog collection in most areas. And in one area where FogQuest has the largest network of fog collectors-- it's in a remote village in Guatemala-- the advection fog is the starting point.
And in one area where FogQuest has the largest network of fog collectors-- it's in a remote village in Guatemala-- the advection fog is the starting point. In this village FogQuest has around 35 large fog collectors. And that occupies a collection surface of around 15,000 square feet.
Now out here in the Bay Area, people have a little more mixed feelings about the fog . Sometimes the fog will cause traffic delays or airport delays. But also during the summertime, the fog can cool off an entire city or an entire county.
So I hope that helps a little bit. Now the process for fog collection is pretty straightforward. What has to happen is fog has to be blown through a mesh for several hours.
And then larger droplets fall from the mesh into a trough, and then into a collection tank. So basically what these fog collectors are doing is they're converting the small, microscopic droplets in fog into larger droplets, which we can then plumb into a tank. And one tool that fog researchers use is called the standard fog collector.
So basically what these fog collectors are doing is they're converting the small, microscopic droplets in fog into larger droplets, which we can then plumb into a tank. And one tool that fog researchers use is called the standard fog collector. A standard fog collector can measure the fog collection efficiency in a particular area.
And one tool that fog researchers use is called the standard fog collector. A standard fog collector can measure the fog collection efficiency in a particular area. And last year for the fog vodka project, we mainly used these standard fog collectors.
And from June through September, this one small fog collector averaged over a gallon a day, produced over a gallon a day during the fog season at Sutro Tower. Now these standard fog collectors, because researchers use them, they're made to standard specifications and standard sizes.
during the fog season at Sutro Tower. Now these standard fog collectors, because researchers use them, they're made to standard specifications and standard sizes. The main component on a fog collector is one square meter metal frame.
There's two layers of shade cloth that go over the metal frame. That makes up the fog collection panel. Then the fog collection panel is lifted two meters off the ground.
That makes up the fog collection panel. Then the fog collection panel is lifted two meters off the ground. It's also anchored in place with guy wires.
But the main criteria that FogQuest requires is the fog collectors should be placed at around 2/3 the height of the fog bank. So in the Bay Area, that means generally around 1,000 feet up.
And this is because the fog collection is passive, an additional condensation step is required. And as the fog from the ocean travels up the hill, more condensation occurs. And the fog becomes more water dense.