100% Renewable Energy - Can We Do It?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We need to ditch fossil fuels. Can America go 100% renewable by 2050? Does the technology already exist? We speak to Prof. Mark Delucchi, Prof. Christopher Clack, and Prof. David Connolly. UPDATE: Since this episode was published, Tesla have unveiled a prototype of a electric semi truck. Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/38ku2a4 Our Sponsors: Tushy | Wordpress.com | TuneIn Credits: This episode has been produced by Wendy Zukerman, Heather Rogers and Shruti Ravindran. Production help from Rose Rimler. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. We’re edited this week by Blythe Terrell and Annie-Rose Strasser, with extra help from Rachel Ward. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Sound design by Martin Peralta. Music written by Bobby Lord. For this episode we also spoke to Professor Vijay Modi, Professor Mark Jacobson, Dr Gorm Bruun Andresen, Professor Willett Kempton, Dr Dylan McConnell, and Dr Jane CS Long. And an extra thanks to the Zukerman family. Selected reading: Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi paper showing that the US could be run on 100 percent renewable energy.Christopher Clack and his team’s paper criticising Mark’s workSurvey published this year of more than 100 energy experts on the future of renewables.National Renewable Energy Lab’s look at Renewable Electricity Detailed report on California’s energy future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:05.2	This is the show where we pit facts against our future.
0:09.1	On today's show, we're asking, could the US be run entirely on renewable energy?
0:16.8	Like, is it even possible?
0:20.4	So, just imagine.
0:24.7	A world where air is clean, where every car, instead of guzzling dirty petrol,
0:31.9	is powered on electricity.
0:34.6	Imagine a world where houses are plastered with solar panels, and in the distance,
0:39.8	factories no longer pump out smoke, but instead wind turbines taller than trees blow in the wind.
0:46.1	Yes, all around us, our computers hit us jet packs,
0:49.7	are powered by the wind and the sun.
0:52.3	Just imagine, or any way, any way.
0:55.4	We get it.
0:56.2	Really?
0:56.8	We get it.
0:58.2	No, right.
0:59.2	Well, that's the dream of the renewable future.
1:03.2	And the thing is, we need to start making this dream a reality soon.
1:08.8	Because the best science tells us that to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change,
1:14.2	we have to drastically cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
1:19.7	That's only 33 years away.
1:22.8	33 years to completely change the way we live.
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