An Idiot's Guide to Saving the World

Can Technology Save the Day?


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Burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and heat is one of the biggest contributors to climate change, making a fast transition to clean energy crucial to the solution. Fortunately, the technologies for a sustainable energy system already exist. Wind, solar and batteries all offer a promising pathway to a healthy and liveable planet, but what are some of the other, lesser known technologies that could help save the day?


In this episode Gail and Loyiso look at two Global Goals and discover how new innovations (Goal 9) are offering solutions to greener, cheaper and cleaner energy (Goal 7). They ask Gabrielle Walker, a leading voice on carbon capture technologies, how we can remove the carbon that’s already in the atmosphere, they find out from Vaitea Cowan, founder of Enapter, if Green Hydrogen will make it OK to fly again, and ask plasma physicist Tammy Ma, if one day we will be able to generate unlimited energy like the stars.

 

Guests:

Gabrielle Walker, co-founder of CUR8 and co founder of Rethinking Removals.

Vaitea Cowan, co-founder of Enapter

Tammy Ma, plasma physicist at the Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility.

 

For more:

https://www.globalgoals.org

 


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