AI, Energy and Climate: Taylor Sparks and Colin McCormick: AI for Materials Innovation Part 1

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What could make dramatic, transformational changes in the fight against climate change? One answer -- breakthroughs in the materials sciences that result in even better and cheaper clean energy technologies. Can artificial intelligence tools help produce such breakthroughs? Join host David Sandalow for a deep dive into this topic with Taylor Sparks, a professor at the University of Utah and host of the Materialism Podcast, and Colin McCormick, Principal Scientist at Carbon Direct, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the materials innovation chapter in the Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap (Second Edition). The AI, Energy and Climate Podcast is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap -- https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast, a special series from the DSR Network hosted by David Sandalow,
0:13.0	inaugural fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
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1:20.5	This podcast is sponsored in part by Nido, the new energy and industrial technology development
1:26.9	organization, a national research and development agency in Japan.
1:32.6	Welcome to the AI Energy and Climate Podcast. I'm David Sandalow. Several months ago, a group of us
1:38.6	released a book-length 17-chapter report on how to use AI to help flight climate change. It's called the AI for climate
1:45.7	change mitigation roadmap, and you can download it for free or buy a print version on Amazon. We'll
1:51.2	put details on how to do that in the program notes for this show. One of our conclusions in the
1:57.2	roadmap is that AI has significant potential to help produce greenhouse gas
2:01.4	emissions. Some of the ways that AI can do that are incremental, such as improving production
2:07.1	at solar and wind farms by 10 or 20 percent, improving the energy efficiency of buildings
2:11.8	and kind of by comparable amounts. Those things are already happening. We also found that there are ways that AI can help make transformational changes when it comes
2:21.3	to fighting climate change.
2:22.3	It can help dramatically shift the cost curve for some clean energy technologies, for example.
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