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hey folks so I want to introduce you to
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a new project that I've been working on
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for the last several months this new
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project will help us keep track of our
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air quality here at verse on nature
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programs and trails science this project
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is a an air sensor an air monitor and
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I'm going to show you to you right now
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this tiny device is a particulate air
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monitor it is manufactured by the purple
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air calm purple air is a company that
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it's just a group of people the
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scientists who wanted to make a device
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that would be affordable for everyone
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that we could then use to monitor the
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quality of our air specifically
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particulate matter that is in our air
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that can be harmful to our health how
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this device works if you look up inside
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you can see two little blue rectangular
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devices those are small sensors and each
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one has a tiny fan and a tiny laser
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inside of it it pulls air in with the
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fan and then passes the air over the
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laser or passes the laser through the
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air depending on how you want to look at
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it and using the laser it detects these
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particulates that are suspended in the
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air as the air passes through the device
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so using lasers and science we are able
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to detect the particulates in the air
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these particulate scan come from all
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kinds of sources such as smoke from
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fires pollen mold mildew spores even the
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exhaust of cars tractors trucks planes
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power plants and so on these particulate
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sar harmful to our health and some of
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them can actually pass into the blood
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and then be carried to the brain and
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other organs of the body and as you can
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imagine that is not a good thing so we
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need to keep track of these particulates
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to know where their where their sources
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are what direction they're drifting in
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the air currents so this is why we have
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become part of the clean air Carolina
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Network here in North Carolina and we
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are now one of the air keepers sites in
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the state
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I'm personally working as a volunteer
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with clean air Carolina to install more
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of these purple air sensors in every
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county of Western North Carolina sort of
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my neck of the woods here and and then
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that way hopefully by installing these
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units key locations in these counties it
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will inspire other people like you
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anyone anybody can do this to install
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sensors at your home and then you can
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become part of the purple air network if
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you just go to purple air comm take a
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look at the link here on this video you
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can see how you can acquire an air
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sensor and install one at your home and
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become part of the network monitoring
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air quality locally regionally and
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nationally and of course globally so
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let's do this let's help clean up our
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air Thanks okay so we're back inside the
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sienten Nature Center and we're taking a
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look at what the students and I call
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Mission Control this is a series of flat
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screen monitors that was donated to us
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by Bob Harris of black bear solar
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Institute thanks Bob and we use it to
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monitor all the systems around the
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building as you can see from the top
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right we have our solar array that is a
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live picture from our backyard and we
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have the solar arrays feeds coming from
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the inverter that's the big middle
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screen showing how much power we're
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generating right now which happens to be
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quite a bit 4,000 391 watts that's
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excellent
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and it shows trends over time as well as
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we have weather monitoring going on up
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here with trends over time live view
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from the backyard as well and then down
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here
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current radar regionally and then of
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course globally and then over here the
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purple air map this is the map that
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shows the stations that are installed in
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our area you can see the one on our
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building showing excellent air quality
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now of zero that's because we've had
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some recent rains and then all around us
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the air is in really good condition
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right now we have really clean air in
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the mountains typically now we're gonna
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go on a little road trip
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and check out some of the other
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installations that I have recently
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installed other purple air monitors that
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I've recently installed in Western North
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Carolina I think we'll start with
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Hendersonville and then in the center of
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the screen after that we're gonna
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journey to the west and take a take a
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look at the Pisgah astronomical Research
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Institute which is reading 2 right now
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excellent air quality then we're going
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to journey even farther to the west and
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take a look at the Cherokee installation
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so let's do it let's take a look and see
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see how it's done
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all right so I'm here at here's a bill
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at the office of mountain true
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installing another air sensor this one
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is going to be mounted on the outside of
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this window right over the street to
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collect particulates here in the town of
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Hendersonville North Carolina so let's
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get to it
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I said collect particulates it's coming
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it doesn't actually collect them it
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brings them in through tiny little fans
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it brings in air passes that air over or
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around or through or about a laser beam
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or two there's two separate ones here
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and then it can count the particulates
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in the air and then give us a report on
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the purple air comm mat on the website a
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little better description yeah
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yeah I think I'll put it right here here
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we go we're installing one more clean
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air Carolina there monitor that we'll be
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able to be accessed via the purple gear
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Network purple air calm until this guy
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walks by here don't want it to slip and
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drop it on somebody's head all right
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here we go right we're installed then we
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just need to plug it in and do the
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internet setup all right so the sensors
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installed outside we have the window
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closed and locked and and we're gonna
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gonna attach this wire transfer anyway
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just sort of trying to get it out of the
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way here
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you
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so I'm up here at Sperry the Pisgah
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astronomical Research Institute and we
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have installed another purple air air
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quality monitor and it's right over here
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device into the power box and power is
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actually coming from solar modules down
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off the side of the building we'll take
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a look at a minute in a minute and I
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wind turbine hopefully they're working
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together to keep this little tiny sensor
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online reporting the particulate matter
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in the air up here on this beautiful
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ridge top you can see down in the valley
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one of the large radio astronomy dishes
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pointed at the sky and you can see the
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entire facility laid out below us so
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this sensor is going to be monitoring
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the air quality here on top of the ridge
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at perry's I believe they call it
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observation ridge you can see in the
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distance top of the ridge with more
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astronomical measurements measuring
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devices and antennas and such and a wind
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turbine this installation is powered by
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solar and wind energy so hopefully it
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will run all the time even when the grid
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goes down in the local area so yet again
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we've installed another sensor a few
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more here in the next few weeks and
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hopefully cover all of Western North
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Carolina with air monitoring sensors to
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help us monitor our air and be happier
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and healthier
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you
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so I'm here in Cherokee on the Qualla
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boundary Cherokee North Carolina by the
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way and I have installed another air
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sensor for clean air Carolina we
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installed the purple air sensor right
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outside this window overlooking a
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Columbia River
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take a look sensors down here to the
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right and so this sensor is reporting
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the air quality that the particulates in
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the air coming down the river from the
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beautiful gray Smokey Mountains National
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Park so we now have total of three
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sensors installed in Western North
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Carolina and we're working our way west
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so there you go that's our next sensor
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installed here in Cherokee here this is
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showing the sensor aerial photography
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view of the location of the center here
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at the Visitor Center along the side of
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the kind of leftie river and a really
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unique thing about this Visitor Center
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also I'm going to show you next so let's
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go take a look so I'm outside the
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Cherokee Welcome Center now where we
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installed the air sensor and I just
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wanted to to bring to your attention the
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awesomeness of this place so take a look
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the Welcome Center has two solar trees
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and one wind turbine these units were
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installed in I believe around 2013 with
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an EPA and Cherokee Preservation Society
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grant or grant and they're making clean
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energy right now and that clean energy
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is going down through the wires into my
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electric vehicle which you can see over
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there underneath that solar tree and on
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and also not just my electric vehicle is
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being charged at the moment but take a
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look at this to my left I'm gonna have
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to make my way over there carefully
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a Tesla Model S is parked here charging
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right now at the new Tesla destination
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charger so here in Cherokee North
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Carolina we have electric vehicles all
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over the place let's go over and take a
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look at the ones on the other side of
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the parking lot so over here under the
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solar tree there's not only my leaf but
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there's also one of the Air Quality
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Program vehicles from here in Cherokee a
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Chevrolet Volt which is a plug-in hybrid
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electric vehicle beside the Volt is a
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little Volkswagen Golf in this little
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car yeah I know it has an internal
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combustion engine but something very
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special about this vehicle is they run
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it on biodiesel so they're doing
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everything they can here in Cherokee and
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more to keep their air clean in the
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beautiful Great Smoky Mountains of North
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Carolina oh there goes the Tesla so over
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here all from another angle you can see
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the leaf and it's getting its power from
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the solar arrays as well as over here on
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the other side of the building the wind
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turbine so thank you Cherokee for the
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great work you're doing to take care of
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the environment
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you
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I've also installed an air monitor on my
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private residence you can do this as
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well all you need to do is visit Clean
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Air Carolina org in North Carolina or if
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you live elsewhere
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just visit purple air comm and you can
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be part of the solution and we can work
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together to clean our air
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[Laughter]
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you
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okay so I'm here at the Cherokee Welcome
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Center on ok so here in Cherokee on the
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Qualla boundary on the Eastern Band of
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the Cherokee Indians land
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ok so I'm here in Cherokee on the follow
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me so here in Cherokee on the ok so I'm
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here in Cherokee on the Qualla boundary
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Carolina
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