there are over 25.
We need a miracle in energy technology.
Kent technology help us fuel our future.
solve the problem,
Everybody wants it somewhere other than their own backyard.
famous brand Winston Churchill.
average home in America in 1980.
we use it to heat to cool to light up our cities
with some pretty spectacular flyers.
Today,
fell in love with it.
oil and gas.
coal mine.
And instead of being covered by ice they were forecasts in an art
But this is what look like.
Is there a better way.
even with the Fukushima might.
How can we get the energy our world needs in a way that want
dioxide.
We need to innovate and we need to innovate faster and in the wake
Alligators and South Dakota.
So it starts in a place where it is hard to imagine that there are
But this is a program about fixing.
He's become super rich well bringing stylish air travel to the
The airline mogul has even upgraded his little Caribbean jewel
program of reintroducing them to the islands.
They do not mix.
center.
There were 3 electronic devices.
But the atmosphere carbon predicted for the end of this century is
and this is,
But says the problem can be easily visualize.
Yes.
Right now in laboratories around the globe.
That's why gas,
No one is sure precisely how much the temperature will rise or how
The thing I think the island is a more perfect island today than
ancient plans.
coal and oil are called fossil fuels.
increase because of the burning of coal and oil.
So you break the problem into pieces and say,
Our modern life is built on energy
35 million years ago Earth's atmosphere was awash in carbon
Branson solution is to use his entrepreneurial must.
It is the carbon emissions that we must somehow keep out of the
Branson is not alone.
With the advent of the industrial age that carbon rich coal and
any problems at all.
With images like this.
And so we set up the top.
threatening.
It's easy to say all the energy problem is so big that we can't
visit on a field trip.
There was a race on to find a solution.
it's the gap between what we were gonna do and what we must do.
If you don't,
albeit associated with funding.
But most of that energy comes from burning coal,
gonna go outside to build something.
I've never seen a more beautiful jewel in my life and completely
The challenge was to make sure that you actually enhance the
atmosphere and acts like a blank.
available technological wedges and create your own solution to the
This represents the total amount of carbon day we must avoid
Branson.
Climate change is one of the greatest threats relevant.
Nuclear keeps looking pretty good,
air to grow and when they died.
but it increased and increased increased and they're still
Efficient and I think efficiency one wedges modest and self
of Japan's tsunami re-examining nuclear.
He turn the area that is the problem into a triangle.
beauty rather than destroy it.
Chris.
I think the last from India got eaten so with embarked on a
Palm trees in the Rocky Mountains.
Technology save us from climate change absolutely very convinced
change the world.
and my kids were fight an inside-outside and I was like that's
Like increasing the fuel mileage of all cars from 30 to 60 miles
atmosphere.
And that is exactly what Steven put cholera has figured out how to
Branson's love of nature has created a big personal dilemma.
do.
And it should it must and that's to say,
We've got a freeze them to this triangle here is the size of the
Around the globe.
And this red,
Guess what.
Is ultimately the same that we all face.
The caller is an environmental biologist at Princeton University
He made wooden wedges that represent technologies that could fill
Most programs about climate change start on a noted.
We can't possibly do enough conservation to solve it.
Robert cycle though did the complicated analysis behind this
But then the industrial revolution happened an emissions started
A gallon of gasoline and other fossil fuel represents 100 tons of
And water.
So it is there own technology big enough to do a 7th of the
About a hundred years ago.
Those 2 passions are like the oil it takes to run his planes.
it must save.
The way you play the game to feel the triangle with 7 of the 15
climate crisis.
You know we more last halved coming forward at this to recreate a
you can powers are cars and flies are planes.
Which generates half of all US electricity tells a story millions
no.
your backyard isn't going look the same anyway.
Cole is up to 86% car.
And are we ready for it.
And profits to attack climate change an idea inspired by another
Most of the 15 wedges can be grouped into 4 simple categories.
That carbon long-buried combines with oxygen in the Earth's
There is no better place to start than deep in this West Virginia
This is the amount of emissions that humanity puts out annually
who are all trying to find solutions.
The current problem is actually easily solved.
And then in the natural gas,
It fills our stores and keeps us switched on and plugged-in in the
Yes you can.
charge the carbon dioxide will be drawn would like a magnet.
important more of these efficiency wedges.
I don't think people understand when they flipped the light switch
carbon emissions.
last Ice Age people admitted almost nothing the Liberal cleared
The carbon in a carbon dioxide molecule has a slightly positive
Everybody knows it can be done every submarine has to pull that
got to try to do with the world.
I think the carbon problem is actually easily solved:
that we have to throw at it.
He has used both skills to demonstrate how we can solve our carbon
approaching the level from 35 million years ago.
Tapping the power of the sun this tablespoon of fuel is going to
masses.
that work just like trees removing the carbon pollution that our
were that energy comes from.
And I first saw it this island.
Sir Richard Branson's private Caribbean island.
million contest for the best idea to reduce carbon levels.
This.
This NASA map shows global temperatures rising over the last
Wagner experimented with various shapes from Richard flat panels.
and a serious would worker.
the question is can technology save us from climate change.
possibly build enough wind turbines to solve it.
This thing has 2 different wages per in his Princeton colleague
needing vehicles each about the size of an 18-wheeler sucking up
officially out of the atmosphere.
which represents the easiest and cheapest efficiency.
When those alligators swam in South Dakota.
So instead of allowing them to climb.
And putting them along a liar would be most effective
But fixing the world is an easy even for billionaires in fact
And yet he is also worried about climate change.
Today I will arguably saved the world and become not just the
Climate change solutions will create more wealth than any other
Much of that carbon got buried underground.
increase.
You know if I got lucky.
Preterm side.
the CEO of one of America's largest electric utilities says
There are people right now.
In every submarine CO2 must be removed from the air for the
Not just for calls 50% electricity comes from coal in the US but
Jim Rogers,
But carbon dense coal and oil release a lot.
The same process created the coal we see here in West Virginia.
its carbon emissions greenhouse gas emissions,
problem and he has he was high on the whole,
incredible opportunity for us to create more kinds of new things,
He used his working skills to build the game.
One of the people working to do that and hoping that Branson might
it was before we arrived and I think you know that's what we've
make his Christmas come a bit early is Klaus if physicist at
In his lab Wagner found a resin based material that acts just like
The outcome is uncertain.
simple game to prove that it could be done.
There is a race on to find a solution.
rally the troops and try to be carbon the enemy.
But the richest person ever.
North Africa is rich in natural gas.
Risks.
Columbia University.
problem,
green version of the revolution.
It's taken us under 50 years.
Hardly fossil fuels feed 85% of that demand.
Branson's dilemma while a bit more high-flying than most.
2 material draped like a flag.
These are not pie in the sky things easy things you can go in
I'm got nominate a wedge.
called a scrap.
War II pretty careless if that's the case.
this submarine scrub attracting carbon dioxide to stick to it.
Or those New York City Cats.
Burning anything releases car.
quickly.
Churchill would get a warm set up he would rally industry he'd
stretch across the desert.
The threat of carbon could be worse than you know who won World
wind turbines.
putting into the atmosphere in the next 50 years.
Algeria.
to do more or less the same thing but these materials to know
billion tons per year.
. Over millions of years those trees pulled the carbon out of the
The task ahead is to cut carbon emissions.
But doing this is expensive and would increase the price.
of years old.
But ultimately,
and what happened for the first 10,000 years since the end of the
The ideal target is controversial but Karla calculated it was 7
sector over the next decade.
The navy has relied on it for decades deep underwater submarine
to turn it into a game literally one,
in their Tri hang.
This yellow which represents tripling the number of nuclear power
That facility takes of power plants were.
Some people might use more solar energy.
And effectively trapped back underground.
At home,
oil was dug up and burned as fuel.
about a thousand times better at collecting CO2 from the air,
world.
So if carbon dioxide from a single natural gas plant can literally
Richard Branson knows the power of profits to spark innovation.
richest person in it.
These 2 branches look very much alike because they finally trying
Rogers says we need to be finding ways to capture and store carbon
He divided that up into one billion ton section.
5 miles away the gas makes an unexpected turn.
where we use live energy and for most people during not occur
The caller says this triangle represents the challenge.
We produce 9 billion tons of carbon a year.
what's hard is that we need to make a lot of change.
it and store it safely and permanently.
Asked to do.
Here's how it works.
America's top universities that looks in the end,
We can do things that we can't dream alive today.
To help make this easier to understand and more fun Ocala decided
The pressurized carbon outside is then forced more than a mile.
there were 15 already in the marketplace at an industrial scale.
CO2 out of the people.
motion.
Dan Kaufman,
of the University of California at Berkeley has tried to figure
again.
And in purity that would make your stove burned less efficiently.
The noise you hear is the flow of gas.
But here at it is pressurized and pumped through sewage pipes that
If you go to work every day and they can say to themselves.
problem he calls it the wedge theory.
This green,
What is the impact of all of the carbon are modern life creates.
as a pound of this rich black dirt.
If the chemical filter inside the scrub has a special negative
Sahara desert.
Others more efficiency savings.
So he has started a$25
what are the technological options across the board,
plants over 50 years.
per gallon.
charge.
really.
It all depends on our choices.
And this is the average American families Norfolk just one here.
Wagner's idea is brilliantly simple why not develop technologies
the result a man made carbon collector highly engineered at one of
In Salah was once an important trait lake in the middle of the
massive scale in a place where people don't take taxis they take.
This blue which represents cleaning coal plants by burying their
The next challenge was how to capture carbon naturally in the
then a natural tree.
There are more of these right now because there's no commercial
talks.
That's about 6 pounds of carbon.
underground.
So the carbon dioxide is scrubbed out like in a submarine.
And technology said this.
That is the technology challenge we have,
BP are put in the car and outside right back where they found
move the surface of the earth.
which represents the sun harnessing its power with solar panels or
So how can we get energy with the least amount of carbon emissions
challenging to help Nova has assembled the panel of experts.
breeze without using energy.
The average American drives about 10,000 miles.
is the carbon dioxide that's been compressed the production
It may be an important link to our energy future.
Good evening.
This is the inject a wellhead for KB fight both too in this pipe
Carbon capture is not a new idea.
The point is that there are many possible solutions.
He discovered that cutting the material into very thin strips.
When you look around your home and there are some obvious places
sailors to survive.
the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the is 100,000
Drawing the blueprint for a solution to this problem is deeply
out the carbon footprint of the average America.
cars and Branson's planes make.
The issue for Congress can we clean it up.
Leaders from business academia and government,
to store the carbon dioxide below ground.
Well,
Fans of the Sahara are stretched up to 12 millimeters to make room
he's not sure unless you have the rich a father,
that can and in fact beyond that what I would says it's an
Wagner's vision is that one day there would be a fleet of carbon
Before hitting the jackpot,
The process of capturing carbon in burying it is happening on a
But in one year.
That's done with some pretty basic chemistry using a machine
If you look at the numbers,
80% of electricity in China comes from coal.
not just because of cheap labor,
Is there some way that some of that extra CO2 might be scavenge
And all that driving flying buying and heating we do in a year.
She's family was far from rich.
In such a small enclosed space that CO2 builds up and becomes
. We're not moving faster.
Usually that carbon dioxide is just released into the atmosphere.
Satellite measurements reveal the surface of the earth at the site
gas plants would provide one wedge or one 7th of the needed
like a branch of a Christmas tree.
We can envision what it will look like a hundred years from now.
so hard to that,
Our modern world has an insatiable appetite for energy.
So at present In Salah is one of only 4 such facilities in the
So we asked him to imagine it as a solid white garden compost
making the wires thinner and closer together.
because you just can't wake up and tomorrow morning and saying no
suntan and a remarkable rags to riches story.
exhale carbon dioxide with every breath.
GE.
that stream of electrons is electricity back in power.
Growing and shipping our food.
There is a race on to do.
This makes solar energy enormously attractive.
20 mile trip to the store and back.
But on a very large scale we need to do it with a sense of urgency
greenhouse gases that office and there would be an economic reason
surface under way in Baghdad now cancellations all tight monetary
his father was so poor that she was put up for adoption.
and we don't do that is it's still too expensive solar panels cost
During the manufacturing process metal lines that workers wires
Where it is pushed into a porous rock formation.
. Mean.
. There's huge potential.
more coal.
and I told you so.
The Sahara desert.
figuring out how to clean up coal must be part of the solution.
Solar power is the poster child for transforming our energy system
Photo means light.
Geologist John Mitchell E is checking up on the gas pressure.
This is the average American driver through the year 2 tons of car
terror laws.
you know,
It's a silicon atom its energy Knox an electron
The dominant world production in 2001 it would take Sun Tech a
the unwanted carbon from Richard Branson's planes.
Price of fossil fuel reflected the damage that was caused by the
Here at the K B 5-o 2 site the Algerian national gas company and
Your average families 14 tons of carbon waste combines in the
I show you the average family's carbon footprint I've invited like
We had to fly there on British Petroleum chartered flight.
It is tight economic growth and prosperity.
And if.
At in that gas which might heat your home.
facility.
. We can calculate how much movement there is in the Earth's
China's solar millionaires.
but I never believed that and he's not sure for anybody.
Amazing.
The new design increases efficiency which drives down the costs
and at night.
In fact,
There is no better place to see the intensity of that race then
Much of the heat from escaping.
The 6 pounds.
this is a problem that science can solve that opportunity issue.
Developed a Web site where you can calculate your carbon footprint
in some sense,
China is moving very aggressively.
shines quite a bit of the solar cell surface.
Fossil fuels are still used and we are taking the CO2 and capture
One pound of carbon limited as an invisible gas can be represented
Location so remote and difficult to get through.
What is your contribution to climate change.
reason to do them.
Orville shell the China scholar has been to do here.
solution.
sources.
Is really critical.
Operating at a large scale.
How do they know it is actually staying underground.
increased spending on developing clean energy bike$40
Comes out of the ground with up to 10% carbon dioxide mixed in.
I mean,
here in Chai.
to be honest when he first mentioned to me his idea why didn't
Now 4 main wants to spread his wealth and passion for solar.
Heating our homes.
. Like Wagner's doing in his lab.
whole year to produce what Mao rolls out of the factory in 2 days
This is accustomed to stock specific risk.
And with billions at stake.
That gas floating in the atmosphere sunlight enter to warm earth.
It's like an invisible cortex blanket warm you know are.
This even some oil exporting countries OPEC countries are
beginning to realize that you need to develop cleaner energy
which is mostly carbon anyway.
Anything from your toaster to your TV.
So the electrons don't have to travel so far.
with the gas stations pipelines the refineries
But a few years later after oil prices drop Ronald Reagan took the
And use that carbon and oxygen and hydrogen from water,
a lot of money.
are put on the surface of the silly.
I would hope it's you know it's not.
By the end of this century.
Given that the gases invisible.
automobiles trains planes.
But it blocks.
they are using their science to cut the cost of solar.
3 hours south of Beijing.
atmosphere with oxygen to create 50 tons of carbon dioxide gas.
you know.
accounts for about a 3rd of total energy use.
And has been around since the 1950s.
We know how much carbon associated with each year of energy we use
I'm a very aggressive personality.
And so,
heaters on the roof of the White House.
The initial reaction from his university colleague and teacher
we decided to break it down into something more manage.
The energy problem is seen as an opportunity.
a big part of it is down of this man Jung wrong she the CEO of
You know China today,
It is my dream of a new kind of landscape although lifestyle.
access.
carbon-emitting energy in the US by 2035 comeback here and a large
Well,
she's former teacher is his chief technology officer.
Ling is working to put that Sugar to use for our.
California.
The question is can we make photovoltaic stitching.
Since coming to the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has
what we had today.
And.
A number,
In the wedges game capturing the CO2 like this from 1600 natural
But it will depend on obvious.
sun.
in those stored sugars and mix it with yeast.
. But we wanted to make it a bit more graphic.
I want our nation to derive 20% of all the energy we use from the
And it's not just China.
for the carbon dioxide injected inside.
purposes today 17 or 18 Caroline's.
Yes,
Now he's known as the Sun King and is ranked among the richest men
you know me,
billion.
The basic recipe of beer is to take borrowing a plant that is rich
time and energy.
We need technologies solar power wind power carbon capture who's
Pictures.
the bottom line is we roughly what to double the amount of Queen.
Adding those things up basic counting.
where they are adding the equivalent of a city the size of Chicago
Way to get solar out to the world was not through publishing
I firmly believe that technology can save us from climate change,
into June,
in our house.
Driving our cars.
its innovations like these that has led she.
One way to think about how he's doing that is he is super charging
it is the yeast that turns the sugar render Halka hole and create
That tablespoon would cost about$100,000
6 times.
that.
which is then directed through the silicon.
papers but through combining science with this.
The first stop on everyone's green energy list the sun.
To great fanfare President Jimmy Carter even installed solar
community which in this case I think it was 88% solar reliant.
actually think it was a good idea,
Stewart went and was not encouraging.
out the back so these to
China leads the world in the manufacture of solar panels and it's
using a thermal imaging camera Garvin is tracking down an urgent
Look at the solar still here on my left Castaneda lines were
which Franklin signing.
this.
The very word efficiency says you get the same bang for a less
One short trip.
Hemscott.
America is trying to get back into the solar gain.
. All those car trips 2 tons.
India's biggest move in this western Europe is going to move on.
But they are still heroic in scale.
but there is this extraordinary dynamic energy the sort of
We've got about$3
in the world.
person in the world they actually generate all the energy will be
I think the breakthroughs will happen it needs money resources
solutions.
The archives is on track to reduce its emissions by more than
could be increased to an industrial scale.
The basic science of photovoltaic technology is pretty
biology.
Today,
an enormous array of solar panels.
kids to join.
Well safety the fortune overnight,
Nowhere is the enthusiasm for solar power more celebrated than
of the future that will work with our current system.
Yes.
Transport fuels represent a special problem.
The city is alike.
The idea is to invest in science that will pay off in practical
Well,
So when I saw as opportunity during I've just.
With me on that is powered by batteries that charged in the day by
One promising approach is being developed at the joint bioenergy
motion sensors to shut them off when employees don't.
The archives is all about saving America's most important
buck.
technology and their these weirdness other aspects of
The amount of energy that civilization is using for all of its
Instead of perfecting technology in the lab,
Sort of me.
He uses his switch grass,
the Kerry.
Great,
You know we need a few square meters of solar panels for every
To the thin wires on this
produce an advanced biofuel you all that is nearly identical to
when a photon of light.
All over the world.
trillion worth of transportation infrastructure in this country
a lot of green.
news,
wedge.
One way when I mean she working to improve their cells is by
as Stewart Brand,
currently on that.
she was a solar scientist in Australia but felt the best.
They installed new efficient radiators.
. Well you know.
Making solar power cheaply is now the goal.
while still allowing the economy to double.
straightforward.
Today,
making uncomfortable sacrifices.
It's just fantastic to have all these people trying to come up
Where Jake easily is using plant biology to come up with the fuel
Among the England has been possessed by this vision to design a
you see the most amazing thing springing up
Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
sugar.
well I would Al Absi love to meet up with 5th.
prosperity.
Today,
that's different,
About a quarter of the energy an average American uses is at home
1,000 tons of carbon a year.
years from now and made them have 60 miles per gallon.
Kind of growth can be seen across China,
And the improvement
One of the major challenges we face is transportation which
panel's down.
got a lot of attention,
chunk of that this solar.
I think it's encouraging to hear that were not there and
but instead of alcohol that you drink.
every 3 months.
. Those in the front something comes out the back alcohol to come
Its energy bill will be reduced by$1.2
It's important to develop a whole new catalog of tools to fight
plus the sun's energy to make nutrients in the form of a simple
That escaping in heat may help this guy outside state.
The man behind this showcase city is how long me another of
brewery but what comes out of the back side of this yeast.
replacing 800 coal plants with nuclear power would solve one wedge
The problem is these metal lines cannot be made very narrow that
You can put directly into your car or your plane.
You know.
capture the sun's energy to grow.
said we keep,
Efficiency savings aren't just limited to grand old government
There are several different approaches including electric cars.
providing us with the trap we want.
they're not without precedent.
it may be flashy he says it's emblematic of China's growing
locked place up.
gonna supply the world with those technologies.
it's also save in the archives,
That won't change is the equivalent of replacing 800 coal plants.
everything on one particular thing is somehow win is gonna save us
into alcohol that process is called fermentation.
But in the wedges game there is an immediate way to reduce the
Along comes a need and we need clear,
Not all promising science is practical.
a leader of the environmental movement back then points out
In the old style plants like those in Japan that was done with a
The US once was enthusiastic about solar.
I could give him a tablespoon of jet fuel that we've made here in
James Garvin was once just the buildings engineered,
bursting forth.
Instead of Barley the plant.
they're very impressive and involving allowed a very innovative
Nuclear power plants require massive cooling systems to keep the
even with Fukushima my.
great people to put their minds.
And as in Fukushima change my support.
This is instrumental to the brewing processed,
Efficiency is a car that gets better MP chief in them.
At the height of the oil crisis in the 1970s.
archives was pulled in efficiency experts to reduce its carbon
Yeast is a microbe that feeds on those plant sugars and turns them
biofuels.
that I knew enough about nuclear.
analysis nuclear keeps looking pretty good,
But it paid very little attention to saving energy.
it's diesel generators didn't work,
but now he's also become a detective
Keesler wants to make diesel fuel by genetically altering the east
The goal for Secretary Chu is to double the amount of non
a beard was with us away in every animal's life cycle or something
blue,
There are a total of 350 modules for each power station.
future generation of nuclear technology called Terra power.
and so you had the same award inside houses with less natural gas
Over the next 30 years.
of the needed carbon solution but can nuclear be made safer.
Each plant is built in standardized modules like a giant Lego set
We don't have the money to repay all.
moved and put into place.
The potential is huge and it's called efficiency.
left and plugging in those leaky gas.
One challenge is to figure out which advances in the laboratory
Institute in Emeryville,
We need a miracle in energy technology.
. If if if if
documents like the US Constitution,
The most likely avenue they're currently in the people pursuing
built.
an age old process.
it's an agricultural waste material but it sugars work easy to
Enough power for more than a million homes.
go wrong
Obviously and the problems start right at the front door.
The demand for energy indeed appears on stock.
Lars Larson the brew master explains.
Biofuels or form of solar because they come from plants which
nuclear to the risks of climate change and we do that risk
. The majority are attached about their and the high things in
If Richard Branson came here today,
The old nuclear plants were custom built with more moving parts to
climate change.
Japan has revived old fears about nuclear energy.
It's like the old Benjamin Franklin quote a penny saved is a penny
with the big breakthroughs.
Does this disaster change brands mind.
time only 4 years.
We have to go back to China because no nuclear plant has been
He's idea is to exploit the way plants make food.
And we know our cars can go farther on a gallon of gas.
There is just one care.
You can feel the heat through the 3 quarter inch.
We have to go to great lengths to extract the and turn them into
are much simpler.
size of the problem.
they're headed there.
Nathan Miller vault thinks these problems can be overcome.
which together will solve a large part of this.
The latest designs for reactors like this Westinghouse AP 1,000
I think a question we're asking now is comparing the risks of
Every day as demand grows and carbon accumulates in the atmosphere
Instead,
But the point is to keep all the heat inside the building so the
. We have an enormous amount of power to change biology manipulate
The question is which do you want.
but the changes that we're talking about our heroic in scale,
leaks.
of how to dispose of their nuclear waste
Then he feeds the sugar to genetically altered yeast like at the
the laboratory.
This is not your grandmother's east this is has been souped up to
They.
. Brand has surprised many by his willingness to consider this
We don't need a special camera to see problems here.
. This tankers a 3 day supply of cooling water and requires no
Stepping inside Jackson finds the reactor.
I can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most
which is creating the waste problem today.
with a somehow nuclear is gonna save us there is such a full
. Increasing home efficiency can save a 3rd on your energy bill.
crisis.
alone and all nuclear plants suffer from the long-standing problem
The entire technology industry is about.
The nuclear power station take shape.
Like here in san 4 hours outside of Shanghai where Kate Jackson
The we in the house,
metric tons of carbon atoms.
but to satisfy the aspirations for growth in the rest of the world
developed world.
In the 1970s energy efficiency,
But to see it.
China plans to build 400 nuclear reactors.
An example was the large tank of cooling water that sits right on
causing the cooling system to fail.
the national archives in Washington DC.
The museum piece,
We're looking for leaks to see areas where we're losing a lot of
but for many it was symbolic of a counter cultural lifestyle and
That would have been emitted to the atmosphere while still
To use the Earth's geothermal heat.
Brand became famous for writing the whole earth catalog a resource
Energy demand is predicted to triple by the end of the century.
If you took all the cars that are going to exist in the world 50
You to be a curiosity.
That reduction doesn't just show up and garments camera is good
And that's just the beginning of what efficiency improvements can
Not using energy in the first place is the easiest way to earn a
. Ben Franklin himself would be proud of what is going on here at
From harnessing wave energy.
Perhaps one of the most poignant places to see the results of that
But the biggest ticket items were installing efficient boilers
Red means hot which is wasted energy.
This next generation of nuclear plant is already in production.
he says.
And lights that are 20% brighter yet use a 3rd less energy and
Sterilization is an old concept just never been applied to the
Today he has done an about face the shift was starting to really
Which means there is probably a need for all the solutions science
This is where the nuclear reaction will generate the heat that
million every year which will pay for the upgrade in only 5 years
According to the game,
guide for a sustainable lifestyle.
we got the biggest necessity and it's going to be your mother many
that's all changed.
efficiency changes in California have kept energy use the same
has come to see the progress.
foot.
efficiency saves you money it doesn't cost you money.
I don't know how you start for them.
a 30 miles per gallon that creates a wedge it affects one billion
spectrum problem is going to take a full spectrum set of solutions
He looks to technology not just provide energy for us,
But,
do.
Everybody loves efficiency,
When this tsunami struck this 1970s style reactor was flooded and
Designs like the AP 1,000 could address some of the safety
citizen the earth the kind of energy use as you find in the
That led to releases of radiation.
Today,
Necessities mother of all inventions,
top so that gravity will do the work in the event of an emergency
advances,
It's wonderful because you get to see these building blocks being
now.
the 81,000 is that it is bringing standardized designs.
if you don't,
encourage.
drives the electrical generator.
built in the US since the 1970s.
teaming up with his old friend Bill Gates to work on designing a
chief technology officer for Westinghouse says one key benefit of
The miracles revolt predicts our new designs that would more
People always are looking for the technological magic bullet,
full spectrum.
30 years later,
But the senior army in Fukushima,
In the 1970s he fought nuclear energy.
reactor core say.
Kate Jackson,
take climate change seriously enough to challenge by assumption
nuclear industry before.
I don't know way to force us to use less.
, the problem increases.
vast array of pipes valves and back upon.
though,
absolutely works at scale today.
Well guess what,
In Seattle fault former chief technology officer of Microsoft is
House back in 1979.
Some people say we in the United States lot Wes and perhaps we
there may be a silver shotgun in the sense of a white variety
This is the problem,
This solar heater.
It was the failure of these backup systems that led to the nuclear
Nuclear is one of the carbon free emission technologies that
electricity.
The plant and men should come on line in nearly half the usual
staff they've been fresher testing it's right again.
The potential consequences of an action are bigger.
America has been down the past of procrastination before.
. The energy task for the 21st century is how can we get every
your backyard isn't gonna look the same anyway.
They and the Chinese art and not use as much as we use now but
and the about 50 square mile.
One of the solar panels that Jimmy Carter installed on the White
ought to,
concerns that Japan's crisis exposed,
exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American Pete.
the need to venture into new forms of energy is even greater.
in which procrastination Kerry's really serious penalties.
Piece by piece.
And the answer is everybody wanted somewhere other than their own
but there are still many old style plans in operation 23 in the US
backyard.
It is a question of fairness and equity.
is back in China.
At a town pulled out of poverty by solar manufacturing.
The challenge is huge.
mainland are flat.
safely and efficiently you spent nuclear fuel,
Think we need a miracle sounds extreme but in fact miracles on the
And the energy problem is a moving target.
This Nova program is available on DVD sugar PBS.org or call 100
an example of a road not taken.
can come up with.
At the Joe Silva received.
There probably is no silver bullet,
solve the problem,
There is a popular display.
the one thing that if we just get it right will say.
One big nuclear power plant is the same as 3,000 big wind turbines
Well,