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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,