The mind-blowing factor we get WRONG about power
Fossil fuels still supply 80% of our energy. And people point to this number to say it’s impossible to switch to renewables, especially if we want to do it quick enough to stop climate change. But their argument overlooks just how much energy we waste – and how we could do it better.
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We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Credits:
Reporter: Adam Baheej Adada
Video Editor: Adam Baheej Adada
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-check: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read more:
How reaching net zero could be easier than we think
https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/
More on heat pumps:
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/heat-pumps
Nick Eyre’s paper:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12053-021-09982-9
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:49 THE chart
02:47 Wasted energy
04:10 Why so much waste?
06:29 The good news
08:58 Conclusion
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