The molecular love story that could help power the world | Olivia Breese
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The key to revolutionizing the world's energy landscape may lie in an unlikely love story, says energy innovator Olivia Breese. She details the fateful marriage of a green electron and a water molecule -- a powerful source of carbon-free, sustainable energy -- and calls for universal investment in this potentially transformative resource. "A world which runs entirely on green energy, it's not a luxury. It's a necessity," she says.
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| 0:13.7 | Energy Innovator Olivia Breeze is kind of a matchmaker. |
| 0:18.5 | A matchmaker for molecules. |
| 0:21.4 | In her talk from the Ted Countdown Summit, 2023, she lays out a vision for pairing green |
| 0:26.9 | electrons with water molecules. |
| 0:30.2 | What does this pairing mean? |
| 0:32.2 | A game-changing energy source that doesn't emit carbon dioxide. |
| 0:38.3 | She explains after the break. |
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