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#Green: Green electricity is expensive, unready, futuristic. Simon Constable, Occitane, France.

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

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#Green: Green electricity is expensive, unready, futuristic. Simon Constable, Occitane, France.
https://www.kornferry.com/insights/briefings-magazine/issue-59/the-long-road-to-green-energy

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0:00.0

This is CBS.

0:05.4

I am the world.

0:06.4

I'm John Bachelot.

0:07.4

Energy for the 21st century.

0:09.7

Energy for electricity.

0:11.3

A science fiction movie I recommend to everyone.

0:15.0

Made in the 1960s.

0:17.2

The day the Earth caught fire.

0:19.6

The storyline is that simultaneously Russia and the United States have set off H bombs

0:25.8

on parts of the world that tilt the Earth's axis and the Earth is now spinning towards

0:31.0

the Sun.

0:32.0

There's only so many days and hours to correct this disorder with more H bombs.

0:39.2

Our heroes are daily expressed reporters and a weather presenter in the London news.

0:46.8

And the melting down of London is marvel with a low budget the day the Earth caught fire.

0:52.8

That was then.

0:54.0

This is now.

0:55.0

Europe is in the midst of the beginning of a heat wave that can reach 45 degrees centigrade.

1:02.2

That's hot.

1:03.2

Translated.

1:04.2

It's well over a hundred Fahrenheit in the Iberian Peninsula.

1:09.0

London has already suffered several days of heat wave and this is a city where they

1:14.1

don't much open the windows and there's not much air conditioning.

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