Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast. This one's going

to be very different because I'm recording this in a hotel room in Vancouver, British

Columbia, Canada. The reason I'm here is because this time next year we'll be doing one

of our live shows here and I'm not going to lie. I'm very much looking forward to that.

I just saw the convention centre yesterday and it is amazing. It is an extraordinary place

along with the rest of Canada. I've just been up in the mountainous region of British

Columbia to a railway town called Revelstoke. Just outside Revelstoke is a Revelstoke

dam. It's a dam, fine dam. It is a massive hydroelectric power plant and it's very impressive

and we've recorded an episode about it and I'm sure it'll be on the show soon. It has been

a really one of the more interesting international trips I've made in my long and I will admit

a bentful life and I've just been thinking about it this morning about flying, about carbon

reduction, about renewable energy, about the massive well-organised, incredibly well-funded

resistance to any form of change that is manifested in the current administration in the United

Kingdom but not elsewhere and I think that's one of the things I would love to bring to this

podcast is a more international perspective. So where I'm sitting at the moment this will not

amuse UK residents, British Columbia and along with Norway. I think there is a lot of comparisons

in terms of energy. British Columbia along with Norway are net exporters of 100% renewable energy

so the population here is not very large. The land mass is mind-bogglingly enormous.

There are thousands of mountains and massive rivers and streams and enormous amounts of hydro

power. That is what powers British Columbia. They don't have any gas. There are occasional

occasions when like Norway, which is very similar to Norway. Everything I'm describing now is

very similar to Norway. At night Norway they occasionally import a possibly gas power or even

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