Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations
The Life Scientific
BBC
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As the famous frog once said, it's not easy being green. And when it comes to decarbonising industry, indeed, reducing emissions of all sorts, the task is a complex one.
Fossil fuels are used to manufacture some of mankind’s most ubiquitous products, from plastics to cement to steel; and even in areas where we’re trying to improve our footprint, there are repercussions. Mining lithium for electric car batteries isn’t exactly without impact. Add to the mix stories of corporations prioritising profits, and governments focusing on short-term popular policies – and it would be easy to feel disheartened.
Professor Anna Korre says her role is to be the champion of science in this debate: providing clear evidence to help reduce environmental impacts, while allowing vital production processes to continue.
Anna is an environmental engineer at Imperial College London and Co-Director of the university’s Energy Futures Lab. Her work has led to a risk model that's now used in mining operations around the world – and her current research into sub-surface CO2 storage could hold the key to decarbonising British industry. But as she tells Jim Al-Khalili, social and familial expectations when she was growing up in her native Greece meant her succesful career in engineering very nearly didn't happen...
Presented by Jim Al-Khalili Producer by Lucy Taylor
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| 1:00.6 | recycling and creating less waste, maybe getting an electric car, traveling less by plane, |
| 1:06.1 | transitioning to renewable energy in our homes. |
| 1:09.3 | When it comes to industry, decarbonisation, indeed reducing emissions of all sorts, gets more complicated. |
| 1:16.0 | Fossil fuels are used to manufacture some of mankind's most ubiquitous products, from plastics |
| 1:20.8 | to cement to steel, and creating them comes with an environmental price tag. |
| 1:27.0 | The bad news is that even in areas where we're trying to improve our footprint, there are repercussions. Mining lithium for electric car batteries |
| 1:34.4 | isn't exactly without impact. Add to that stories of corporations |
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