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An Archipelago Leads the Way on Clean Energy

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The Wall Street Journal

Technology

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A small Scottish community is perfecting new technologies that could help to power the green energy industry. Advances in wind and tidal power have turned the Orkney Islands into an exporter of renewable energy, instead of a fossil fuel importer. Rochelle Toplensky reports, Janet Babin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stream climate events cause death and destruction across a broad swath of the world this year.

0:33.7

Millions are suffering in the Pacific Northwest as a stalled out heat dome drives temperatures

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to historic, endanguous numbers.

0:41.0

Yeah, brutal trees, crushed cars, building debris, and possibly the biggest problem of

0:45.2

all.

0:46.2

Much of southern Louisiana has no electricity.

0:49.8

Also this year, a spate of research papers, including one from the intergovernmental panel

0:54.7

on climate change that unequivocally links this destruction to human activity.

1:01.3

The IPCC report was dire, but it did offer one hopeful note.

1:06.7

It describes a small window for the world to change course, to limit greenhouse gas emissions

1:12.8

and therefore slowly halt rising temperatures.

1:17.5

That action most likely starts with a transformation of the world's energy sector.

1:23.1

By some estimates, the origin of more than 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

1:28.4

Today, the future of everything begins a special series looking at how the world can move

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to a zero carbon future.

1:36.8

And we're starting with the latest advances in energy production.

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