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Okay, hey short waivers, Emily Quank here.

I am talking to you through a microphone powered by a battery.

You know batteries.

They store chemical energy and turn it into electrical energy to power your phone, your

remote control, and most certainly this interview we did a few weeks ago at the American Association

for the Advancement of Science or AAAS annual conference.

We are live at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC with China.

I was joined on stage by Bill David, an STFC senior fellow at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

and professor of energy materials at the University of Oxford in the UK.

Back in the day he was part of a research team that helped develop the lithium battery,

and now he focuses on clean energy storage.

Storing it so it's in the right place at the right time for the right people.

I also got to interview Serena Cussin, a next-generation battery innovator and professor in energy

storage materials.

She heads up that department at the University of Sheffield also in the UK.

I get to work looking at solutions for energy storage and developing the next generation

of materials that will form part of that fabric of net zero in the future.

You know so often the focus of climate conversations is on energy production, right?

Wind, solar, nuclear, how are we going to power the planet in a green way?

But Serena and Bill made us all think about green energy storage,

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