{"id":4652,"date":"2011-06-08T05:29:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T09:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:39","slug":"inspiration-ted-talks-on-green-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/inspiration-ted-talks-on-green-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: TED Talks On Green Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TED, an organization whose motto is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIdeas Worth Spreading\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, is dedicated to generating high-level conversations led by visionaries in their respective fields. They talk about a variety of issues and green technology<\/a> is often in the program as well.<\/p>\n

The editors of a website called Online College Courses<\/a> have compiled a list of TED Talks related to chemistry. As it happens, two of them are related to energy and fuels.<\/p>\n

The first is delivered by biologist and futurist Juan Enriquez, who talks about the potential of bioenergy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our current energy sources – coal, oil, gas – are ultimately derived from ancient plants – they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re \u00e2\u20ac\u0153concentrated sunlight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He asks, Can we learn from that process and accelerate it? Can we get to the point where we grow our own energy as efficiently as we grow wheat?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, says the description of the lecture. Apparently less than a month after this talk, Enriquez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s company announced a process that could just that.<\/p>\n

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The other talk is about the worrying aftermath of the BP Gulf spill. Marine toxicologist Susan Shaw presents evidence that the clean-up process designed to spare beaches may have had a devastating effect on the health of the deep sea.<\/p>\n

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