How to harness abundant, clean energy for 10 billion people | Julio Friedmann

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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We can produce abundant, sustainable and cheap energy — for everyone, says physicist Julio Friedmann. He explores the infrastructure, innovation and investment needed to supply energy to 10 billion people, offering case studies from Chile's refurbished supply chain, built in partnership with Japan, to Namibia's budding clean hydrogen production, inviting us to envision a greener, more equitably powered world.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I love what today's speaker, scientist. Elise Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:12.6	I love what today's speaker, scientist and carbon wrangler Julio Friedman,
0:17.1	says about the Global South.
0:19.1	We often see the Global South as future climate victims, but he sees them as latent energy
0:25.1	superpowers. His action plan from the TED countdown summit in 2023 is for
0:31.1	powering the planet sustainably, and it's coming up after a short break.
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0:42.0	Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak
0:44.7	peek of this week's episode. The question I am most commonly asked about
0:49.4	climate change is, should I be optimistic or pessimistic?
0:54.7	I've thought about this question a lot.
0:56.4	My career has been at the intersection of climate, science, technology,
1:00.1	policy, and industry, mostly working for you, at one point working for a U.S. President,
1:06.0	and now as Chief Carbon Wrangler at Carbon Direct.
1:10.3	At that intersection, I think about that question in terms of energy flows and carbon abatement options.
1:16.4	So I ponder a variant of that question,
1:19.7	how much energy should 10 billion people use?
1:26.0	I was first prompted to think about this question
1:28.1	by the late great Richard Smalley.
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