Future of Energy

Discovery

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Professor Jim Skea, from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, joins Jack Stewart in the studio and brings his insight from the Paris climate talks. Paul Younger, the Rankine Chair of Engineering and Professor of Energy Engineering at the University of Glasgow, talks about geothermal energy and its potential as a renewable energy source, particularly in Ethiopia.

Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Stanford, argues for a 100% switch to renewable energy sources.

Tadj Orzesczyn, Professor of Energy and Environment at University College London, talks to us from the perspective of energy demand. If we can reduce this, then we can reduce the amount of energy we need to produce in the first place.

(Photo: Ferrybridge C power station, near Knottingley 2015. Credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use,
0:07.0	go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts.
0:11.0	It's being hailed as the... broadcasts. come together in Paris to agree to work to limit climate change and to keep
0:24.7	globalizing temperature to one and a half degrees. Richer countries will give
0:28.8	money to developing countries to help them cut emissions. The talk is all positive.
0:34.0	The court of the Paris for the climate is accepted.
0:38.0	A deal described as a turning point,
0:40.0	almost 200 countries reaching an agreement on tackling climate change.
0:46.0	It has taken much compromise and political will at the highest level.
0:51.0	The targets we've set are bold and by empowering businesses, scientists, engineers, workers, and the private
0:57.9	sector, investors, to work together, this agreement represents the best chance we've had to save the one planet that we've got.
1:06.7	On this edition of Discovery from the BBC World Service, we want to look at how these lofty ambitions can be achieved, so we're discussing the
1:14.3	future of energy. We'll ask how we can reduce our demand and consumption and
1:19.2	and how we can better generate the energy that we do need without pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere.
1:25.4	Is life off the grid realistic?
1:27.8	So what I did was I put solar on my roof.
1:29.4	I took out the natural gas water heater and air heaters and replaced them with electric water heater and air
1:36.1	source heat pump.
1:37.1	I got an electric car, got LED lights to reduce energy use, more energy efficient appliances.
1:43.2	All the electricity was generated by sunlight, so that was done six years ago.
1:46.4	So there's no reason anybody else or any community can't do that anywhere in the world.
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