• Episode #3 - The Energy landscape

  • Jun 17 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
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Episode #3 - The Energy landscape

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  • Yesterday, I was driving a friend’s family back to their home in my new Volvo after they helped with the cleanup following a party at our place. While driving, I explained to their daughter, how the car works. She was curious about the battery indicator below the speed reading on the display in the center. I told her "we were driving on solar energy—the sunshine drives us home and will take me back up the hills“. When she asked how it works, I explained that the panels on the roof capture sunlight, generate electricity, and store it in a battery. This electricity powers our house and charges the car. Occasionally, we feed excess electricity back into the grid. It feels quite funny passing petrol stations now because I never stop there for gasoline. She also asked about gears, and I explained that electric cars don’t have gears. They can go from 0 to 100 km/ h in just a few seconds without shifting gears—just press the pedal, which isn’t a „gas pedal" anymore. This conversation got me thinking about our journey to make our home and life more CO2 efficient and energy-independent and how renewable energy can be both intermittent and permanently adaptive.
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