Kategori : ENERGY AGENDA NEWS, ENERGY EFFICIENCY NEWS, SOLAR ENERGY NEWS - Tarih : 17 April 2019
Around the world, cities, states, countries, and companies are making the switch to clean, renewable energy to help stop climate change. Better yet? It just makes good economic sense.
Here are five eye-opening TED Talks that show how renewables are taking over every corner of the world — from Bhutan to Costa Rica, back to Germany, and more.
This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral — It’s Carbon Negative | Tshering Tobgay
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country’s mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
A Printable, Flexible, Organic Solar Cell | Hannah Bürckstümmer
Unlike the solar cells you’re used to seeing, organic photovoltaics are made of compounds that are dissolved in ink and can be printed and molded using simple techniques. The result is a low-weight, flexible, semi-transparent film that turns the energy of the sun into electricity. Hannah Bürckstümmer shows us how they’re made — and how they could change the way we power the world.
The Thrilling Potential for Off-Grid Solar Energy | Amar Inamdar
There’s a revolution happening in the villages and towns all around us here in East Africa. And the revolution is an echo of the cell phone revolution. It’s wireless, and that revolution is about solar and it’s about distributed solar. Photons are wireless, they fall on every rooftop, and they generate enough power to be sufficient for every household need.
A Small Country With Big Ideas to Get Rid of Fossil Fuels | Monica Araya
How do we build a society without fossil fuels? This is a very complex challenge, and I believe developing countries could take the lead in this transition. And I’m aware that this is a contentious statement, but the reality is that so much is at stake in our countries if we let fossil fuels stay at the center of our development. We can do it differently. And it’s time, it really is time, to debunk the myth that a country has to choose between development on the one hand and environmental protection, renewables, quality of life, on the other.
How China Is (and Isn’t) Fighting Pollution and Climate Change | Angel Hsu
China is very much in the driver’s seat determining our global environmental future. What they do on carbon trading, on clean energy, on air pollution, we can learn many lessons. One of those lessons is that clean energy is not just good for the environment, it can save lives by reducing air pollution. It’s also good for the economy. We can see that last year, China was responsible for 30 percent of the global growth in green jobs.
Hatice Kübra Güney – Elektrik Elektronik Mühendisliği – kubra.guney@enerjigazetesi.ist
