[This video is a compilation of clips of Joe Biden's tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado. A complete video feed from the tour was not made available. Any video available with audible speech is included, in the order recorded.] Mr. President. I know you the second I see you on, man. Yes, sir. By the way, you know, I got in trouble. Folks [Inaudible] expression for you about a month ago. I used the word [Inaudible] in the last Senate session [Inaudible] And it hasn't gone unnoticed. You, guys -- that old expression you all firmly [Inaudible] man. Mr. President, Jason Wardrip. It's good to see you. It's good to see you, sir. Mr. President, Brooke Wardrip. Hey, Brooke, how are you? I'm good. [Inaudible] Mr. President, Rob Delgado. [Inaudible] Mr. President, Zachary Hering. Good to see you. Nice to meet you. [Inaudible] old, man. [Inaudible] sure, and how about this big? Yeah, it's big. It's just about half the size of what we're doing offshore. So, this is about 50 meters. Offshore is over 100 meters. And, look, I mean, all these -- the people from the union would be doing so much. You all are doing an amazing job for us to keep everything running and going. And so, this is awesome. One of the things I wanted to talk about at some point, and maybe we don't have time today but is -- do we have enough of a workforce as we're moving into this nearer -- and I know these guys will going to provide more jobs for the IBEW than they've ever had, but my point is we've got to be training more people, too. But I want to talk to you all about it. And I know there are apprentice programs you got going but -- and also making sure we attract more of you. Yeah. Well, I'm not being facetious. I'm being deadly earnest because that is one of the things that Xi Jinping is worried about my trying to stop. Yeah. Well, I'm not joking. Well, yeah, look, I -- Direct discussions. I tell you, first, as you can hear, I was born in Germany, actually. I know. I came to the U.S. because this [Inaudible] was where the action was. Yeah. And I never returned because I want to be as a scientist where the action is, and that's here in the United States. Well, what you've done, you're attracting it. No, I really mean it. I really mean it. You know, when the Recovery Act, when I was vice president, able to invest money, it finally get to the point where, you know, wind and solar are cheaper than new coal-powered plant. Yeah. Yup. That just makes ends all right. Anyway -- That's just the beginning. Yeah. You're driving it further. Well, I'm going to want to ask some questions about that. Yeah, good. And you know this team, don't you? Oh yeah. Very well. Trouble. Trouble. They're the ones getting it all through the Congress. Yeah, that's right. We're working on it. We're working on it. [Inaudible] With our union brothers and sisters here, too. Fantastic folks. Yeah. Good to see you, Congressman. Hey, guys. Hello, guys. [Inaudible] you think I'm kidding. IBEW supported me right off the bat. You bet. Absolutely. And because the future, that where the jobs are, in energy. This is going to be new jobs, I mean, that are across the board. And I tell them, not a joke, every investment banker could go on strike for a month. These guys do a month to shut -- the country shut down. No, I -- in a literal sense. But you're all nuts climbing up those poles in the middle of -- you know what I mean, putting on these -- I've watched you guys in the middle of storms. You've been out with it. They're as crazy as you when you were in Afghanistan's special forces. I don't know about all that. He wins. Anyway, so -- Awesome. So, great. We'll -- Let's walk to the -- By the way, repeat -- I know these guys know, but repeat what you said to me. I was saying I got early on, Recovery Act, I mean, push wind and offshore wind. And I said we're doing a great -- this [Inaudible] [Inaudible] all this material science, all these next ways of doing this. Jeremy, you're the strongest [Inaudible] He's already going through it with that. See? Watch out, Mr. President, because if you look [Inaudible]. So, shake it. See, it's -- it just moves a lot. So, see how this is built from an architecture that is completely flexible. Watch your head. Yeah. I should be able to do this. All right. All right. Watch your foot. I tell you, build back better. That's right. Yes, sir. Right. I think -- [Inaudible] By the way, they tell me that the ones that are going offshore, 100 meters long. Twice as big. Twice as long as big as this is, per blade. What have you learned from this trip, sir? I'm learning on this trip that we made a great investment in this laboratory. I was out here in 2011. It's expanded considerably. And we've brought down just in time that I was running the Recovery Act, we brought down the cost of energy generated by wind and solar cheaper than the cost of a new coal plant. These guys are changing the world, man. No, they're really -- not no joke. Thank you. Hey, guys, let's go. Get in the car. [Crosstalk] Would you sign a reconciliation package with slimmed-down climate measures? Guys, let's go. Get in the car. Let's go. I'm all for more climate measures. You, guys, let's go. Get in the car. We got to roll. [Break in Pool Video] Welcome to the Flatirons Campus. Where we are right now is where we do our grid integration research for what we call ARIES, Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems. It's really here to help us build out the future decarbonized energy system so that we can have a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and a, you know, carbon-free economy by 2050 and work very closely with utilities like Xcel Energy. We work with different manufacturers like General Electric, Caterpillar, AES, First Solar, Nextracker. And we also work with communities like the city of Los Angeles to help them with their clean energy goals. And so, what we're doing here at this site is looking at technologies like wind turbines, solar panels, how do you integrate them with battery systems like this that -- and this bat -- this has like 100,000 iPhone batteries in it, the equivalent of that, to help transform our grid and our future industries. So, we get wind and solar and batteries source work together to create this new future energy -- [Break in Pool Video] How it relates to the landfill. So, how do we address that? So, we're using smaller research blades like this one here to develop completely new material systems. So, NREL has the capability to develop brand new materials on our main campus in Golden. We can then fabricate an entire blade like this one you see here in the CoMET facility that I think you just walk by a moment ago. And then in this facility, we can prove whether that new technology works or not. So, in here, they can put basically 30 years worth of loading per one turbine blade, compress that into just a few months, right? And then more dramatically, you can actually load it until it snaps in half, which is quite dramatic as you might guess until -- Especially in a room this small. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, we have control room back there with the, you know, the bulletproof glass and all of that because it is quite remarkable when that happens. And this whole process, including what happens in this building, so it's again sort of doing the testing and proving out the technology is critical for the technology transfer. What is the change -- the fundamental change in this series? Yes, right. So, this, you know, is mostly fiberglass and epoxy resin. And then this is actually just a filament, so there's also wood in there, right? You may -- Yeah. You can [Inaudible] or process or something. And so, it's that epoxy or resin material that is the problem today to do anything with it at the end of life. You can't -- once it -- once the epoxy sets, you can't do much with it. So, what we're developing, both thermoplastic resins, we keep it melt out at the end of life, as well as bio-resin. So, from, you know, biomass feed platform or something else, which we're trying to get the fully recyclable blades in the near term. And as you might guess, the industry really likes to see it proven in a test facility like this before they're willing to take that kind of challenge, so -- It allows you to chop it up, put it in a field. It will biodegrade and leave no footprint. Exactly. And we're even -- that's totally true. We're even shooting for we just reuse the same material in a new blade. That's kind of our ultimate goal. [Inaudible] Yup. Now, how long will it take? [Inaudible] how much this -- how long is this displayed before you can kind of know when that'll happen? Well, it's -- to break it, for instance, it's -- it depends on the blade architecture and size, but many, many tons of load to get this to break. I mean, I think Martin may have already shown you the large blade closer to -- Yeah. This one is smaller because if you do the research [Inaudible] You go get blade [Inaudible] now, as well as [Inaudible] Yeah, those are [Inaudible] one [Inaudible] we put 30 years of loading into a small amount of time we have [Inaudible] same principle -- [Audio ends as pool is escorted from the room.]