Smart Energy Futures with Professor Ray Wills
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Robert is joined this week by Professor Ray Wills, futurist, consultant and academic, who's current research interests include adoption rates and convergence of technology, disruptive tech including solar and storage, electric cars, mobility, and robotics, and the communities that rely on them, and the impact of social media on markets.
Diving straight into a broad range of connected topics, this podcast is a fascinating look at how the concept of balancing the energy equation is being addressed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | Now I first met today's guest when I was visiting Perth in Western Australia. |
| 0:19.5 | I can't remember how many years ago, quite a few years ago. |
| 0:21.9 | I was actually there promoting the latest series of Red Dwarf. |
| 0:26.8 | The comedy series said it in deep space and so it was great. |
| 0:31.7 | It was a real contrast to meet Ray. |
| 0:34.4 | I think we had lunch together that time and I've met him a couple of times since. |
| 0:37.1 | And it was a joy that he lives in Perth, which is a long, long way from Brisbane. |
| 0:41.7 | But he was visiting his brother in Brisbane, which is fantastic. |
| 0:44.4 | So we managed to get together and spend a morning together catching up. |
| 0:48.0 | And what he's done in the last few years is amazing. |
| 0:51.1 | I've followed him on Twitter. |
| 0:52.4 | He is an absolute gold mine of amazing information about the energy transition |
| 0:56.6 | about the way we not only technically deal with it, but politically as well. |
| 1:02.4 | So he's been very involved in Australian politics for many years. |
| 1:05.7 | He was an advisor to the Western Australian government. |
| 1:08.6 | He is a professor of, and I'm just going to check, I get this right. |
| 1:12.1 | With the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Western Australia |
| 1:16.1 | and has been for many years, but he does so many other things. |
| 1:20.1 | He's a kind of futurist. |
| 1:22.2 | He's an advisor and a consultant. |
| 1:24.4 | And he's worked with all kinds of people all over the world. |
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