What happens to gas stations when the world goes electric? | Emily Grubert

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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When the world goes fully electric, what happens to the cars, tools and livelihoods that rely on fossil fuels? Civil engineer and environmental sociologist Emily Grubert visualizes what a clean energy future will look like, outlining the considerations everyone needs to undertake now as the critical, decades-long transition begins.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:14.1	What will happen to gas stations and power plants and refineries as the world switches
0:19.2	away from fossil fuels?
0:21.6	Infrastructure retirement is something today's speaker.
0:24.1	Civil engineer Emily Gruber thinks about all the time.
0:27.1	In her 2022 talk from the Ted Countdown London Dilemma session, Gruber takes us through
0:31.7	planning for this energy transition so it doesn't disrupt lives and livelihoods after a short
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