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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Can nuclear energy, solar and wind farms, and carbon capture scale fast enough to save the planet? GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian on stage at the Climatech conference in Boston to detail how green energy is evolving in 2024. GE Vernova is a new company spun out from General Electric, and helps power around a quarter of the world’s electricity. Strazik explains how today’s electrical grid limits renewable energy’s potential, and why it desperately needs a “new brain.”
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now. |
0:07.0 | Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response has expanded into its own feed. |
0:12.0 | We're releasing shows twice a week, |
0:14.3 | focusing on the urgent issues |
0:16.1 | that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
0:19.9 | While some rapid response episodes appear |
0:22.4 | on Masters of Scale, |
0:23.6 | many of our best are only available every week |
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0:32.1 | wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe. |
0:35.0 | See you on the other side. |
0:39.0 | I think the good news in the world is we're kind of past the point that most leaders are denying the |
0:44.9 | dynamic of climate change. |
0:47.6 | This is real and time is not in our favor. |
0:51.3 | We can set many long-term goals and they're important, but we need to act now. |
0:57.5 | What I would tell you is the technology exists to a larger extent than the world appreciates |
1:02.3 | and the challenge is how do we |
1:03.6 | industrialize that technology and scale. We need to drive action and move the |
1:08.6 | needle now. That Scott Strazic, CEO of G.E. Vernova, a new energy offshoot from General Electric. |
1:21.0 | I sat down with Scott in front of a live audience at the |
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