Friends, on Monday 21st November 2022 - which as I write this is 'later today' - I will be talking to hundreds of 6th Formers in London on the topic of whether it's possible to live a carbon-zero life.

This is part of the Physics in Action series of events.

In case people can't attend, I have recorded a version of the 40 minute talk which you can see below. It's a bit flat compared to the verve I typically experience at a live event. But hopefully it's better than nothing.

The Powerpoint slides (100 Mb) are available at this link

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The thesis of the talk is that at the moment there are two epochal changes taking place on Earth.

The first is Climate Change, and my aim in this talk is to explain exactly why our emissions of carbon dioxide matter so much. 

The second change is the Energy Transition. Independent of our need to respond to Climate Change, renewable technologies (solar, wind and batteries) have become the cheapest way to make electricity in human history.

This provides an economic imperative for action where moral imperatives have failed. The switch to renewable technologies will become inevitable, not  because it's 'the right thing do', but because it is the cheapest.

So the second part of the talk is about some of the technologies which will enable this transition: heat pumps, solar PV and batteries.

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