How can we decarbonise our world?
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Helen talks to Bianca Nogrady a science journalist and author about her new book Climate Change: How We Can Get to Carbon Zero. They also discuss decarbonisation, decentralised power systems, Australia's climate crisis and the global energy demand. They also talk about how companies can reduce the carbon footprint of their products.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the fully charged show podcast. I'm Helen Chersky and this week |
| 0:28.9 | we are going to be talking about really big picture stuff when it comes to well |
| 0:33.1 | redesigning civilization in some ways you know on this podcast we quite often |
| 0:37.4 | dig into the details of very specific solutions and ideas and this time we are |
| 0:43.3 | going to be taking a really broad overview of the whole thing. So what you're |
| 0:46.9 | about here is a discussion that I had with Bianca No Grady and she is an |
| 0:52.4 | Australian environmental journalist. She's written lots of stuff and she has |
| 0:57.0 | just written a book which is a wired guide which is quite hard to say that which |
| 1:02.3 | is called climate change how we can get to carbon zero and it's very very very |
| 1:06.9 | bright green and the book it's a sort of primer actually it's a it's a really |
| 1:12.1 | clear it's a sort of no nonsense guide to lots of things but what it's got in |
| 1:16.8 | it is lots of examples of projects that are actually happening now and so the |
| 1:21.0 | things that we covered well there's a whole range of things but glass production |
| 1:24.9 | and the energy needed to train machine learning algorithms so artificial speech |
| 1:29.9 | recognition I hadn't thought about the energy needed for that and we talked |
| 1:33.7 | about what happens to the energy produced by computer servers and and how it |
| 1:37.3 | can be recycled and I think that there were parsnips in there as well so it was |
| 1:41.3 | really cheering actually to hear so many examples of stuff projects that are |
| 1:45.7 | actually happening now and of course we also had a very good rant about all the |
| 1:49.4 | things that aren't happening yet so here's the chat with Bianca |
| 2:02.1 | my energy is putting the eye back into British innovation my energy is putting the |
| 2:07.8 | eye back into inventing the future my energy is putting the eye back into |
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