John Doerr and Hal Harvey·Countdown How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything

John Doerr and Hal Harvey·Countdown

How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything 

Summary 

Decarbonizing means to remove carbon from our life tools because releasing carbon dioxide or other gaseous carbon compounds into the atmosphere leads to climate change. 

Net Zero carbon 2050 will be now the world’s goal. Many countries try to get halfway to zero by 2030. For this, it has to reduce annual emissions by about 10 percent a year. I was surprised that the speaker told us that we’ve never reduced annual emissions in any year in the history of the planet!!

In our economy, four sectors are related to large emitting. The first is the grid, the second is transportation, the third from the building, and the fourth from industrial activities. Thus in the story, the grid and electrify are showing. The grid is our infrastructure that is our foundation and basis, thus it’s huge, though, the good news is that the prices of solar and wind have plummeted. And then fossil fuels and oil should replace batteries that are possibilities to have enhanced safety, faster charging, fewer spaces, less weight. and cost less. It leads to addressing not only the grid but also transportation.  Some countries increase electric cars, buses, taxes, and its stations. The market for electric vehicle batteries must increase employees.  

In addition to those, planting a lot of trees and continuing those are important. This is the secret policy of the speaker. We think that scale is big, though, the planet ruining speed is more serious but we don’t realize it. We are fast running out of time and we have to do it immediately.