100% renewable energy? Can it REALLY ever be our reality.
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Robert talks with Mark Z. Jacobson all about the impact a 100% renewable world would bring. Is this really viable, if so, how will we adjust to it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. Now, in this |
| 0:28.0 | episode, I talked to someone I've been following for years on Twitter and who has read an enormous |
| 0:33.8 | amount of articles by him. His name is Professor Mark Jacobson. He is a professor of civil and |
| 0:38.9 | known environmental engineering at Stanford University in California, director of its atmosphere |
| 0:44.8 | and energy programme. And over the last 20 years, he has developed computer models to study the |
| 0:50.0 | effects of fossil fuel and biomass burning on air pollution, weather and climate. He is very |
| 0:57.1 | firmly of the opinion, and this is really what we're talking about in this episode, very firmly |
| 1:01.4 | with the opinion that it is possible for almost every country on earth. So every country on |
| 1:06.5 | earth bar one or two literally that would be able to function on 100% renewably generated electricity |
| 1:15.6 | for all their needs. Heating, transport, engineering, manufacturing, everything can all be powered |
| 1:22.9 | by electricity and it can all be powered by renewable electricity. He has written a number of |
| 1:27.2 | fascinating books and articles. The latest being, it's very obvious title, 100% clean renewable energy |
| 1:33.0 | and storage for everything. He's also involved with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. I don't know |
| 1:39.2 | what Leonardo does, apparently he's very busy here and there, but I know he runs this foundation and |
| 1:44.2 | I know Mark is involved in that as well. So, but before we start, let's just hear a word from our |
| 1:49.7 | wonderful sponsor, who is also working towards making a 100% renewably powered world a distinct |
| 1:56.7 | possibility. Well, that's enough of the pre-roffled. I mean, the obvious things stand still. Please do |
| 2:02.6 | subscribe to this podcast. The numbers of subscribers are growing. The numbers of listeners are |
| 2:06.4 | growing. We're getting great feedback. It is amazing. We've got some other fabulous guests coming |
| 2:10.7 | in the future, but for now, please welcome to the fully charged plus podcast, Professor Mark Jacobs. |
| 2:25.9 | My energy is putting the eye back into British innovation. My energy is putting the eye back into |
| 2:32.6 | inventing the future. My energy is putting the eye back into inspiring a nation. Recharging the |
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