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Presentations — Nat Bullard
Given the fact that annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion surpassed 37 billion tons in 2019, the net-zero goal by 2050 will call for an energy transition unprecedented in both pace and scale. A closer look at…
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Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Around 2014, a team of Stanford scientists hired by Google to research green energy technologies came to a startling conclusion. “Even if every renewable energy technology advanced as quickly as imagined and they were all applied globally,” they wrote, “atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn’t just remain above 350 ppm; they would continue to rise exponenti... See more
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
Worldwide emissions of CO2 are approaching 40 GtCO2 per year. Therefore, to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, NETs must be able to operate on the scale of gigatonnes CO2 per year.
Howard Herzog • Carbon Capture
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Robert Bryce • Numbers Don’t Lie
Humanity Adding a Lot of CO2.How Much Excess Heat Are We Adding? The equivalent of 4 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs every 4 seconds.
Albert Wenger • Climate 101, Part 1 with Albert Wenger
In the “energy is a necessary evil” frame, we look at our current electricity needs and then ask, “How can we generate all that from zero-carbon sources?” In the alternate framing, you say that to the extent we can develop affordable, zero-carbon sources of electricity, we want to generate tons and tons of electricity. Ideally, we would want to rep... See more
Matthew Yglesias • The case for more energy
