Inside Tech’s Fight Against Climate Change | Exponentially with Azeem Azhar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- Renowned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla tells Azeem Azhar that humanity will have to rely on new and unproven technologies to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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When I first met Vinod a quarter of a century ago, he was well known as a technology founder and investor in traditional IT. What strikes me today is how his experience in IT and the early Internet defines his approach to another new industry: climate tech. In this conversation, listen for the exponential drivers behind new technology platforms - what Vinod calls "technology multipliers". And tell me what you learnt in comments!
The solution to agriculture already exists and it doesn't involve getting rid of animal protein, it in fact incorporates cattle, sheep, goats and chicken (not all at the same place, but usually one animal combined with chicken such as cattle and chicken) to completely eliminate the need for chemicals on farms, and it's a movement that many farmers have already gotten into, regenerative agriculture. You can rotate cattle over pasture (not letting them roam wherever) in a pattern that lets them eat down the grass but doesn't destroy it, and they naturally fertilize the pasture, and then a few days later the chickens are rotated onto the area the cattle were on, and they eat the larvae of flies and bugs that were laid in the cattle manure, and they also scratch through the manure and spread it out so you don't get burned spots. So the chickens are doing the cleanup work along with eating other insects, etc..... You supplement their diet with feed. So, you have pastured chickens but once again they don't roam where they want to either. These are controlled rotations. Over time the pasture land becomes VERY healthy and fertile. You can boost the amount of cattle raised on this area over typical.
There are also techniques involved in growing crops, usually involving no-dig/no-till techniques and this keeps carbon locked in the soil. No-till doesn't mean NEVER till or NEVER dig, it means minimal disturbance. So instance the quality of the soil may require a bit of initial work which could include very deep tilling and adding composted material down into the soil. The object once again is developing the soil health so over time you never have to till. And these techniques are being evolved for large scale operations, so this isn't just a small scale thing. Having said that, a single acre of land can produce a LOT of food using regenerative agriculture so a lot of small farmers are turning to these techniques because after you develop healthy soil, the inputs are small and the output is large so you can compete against other farmers in a very favorable way, especially when they use chemicals and fertilizers. They have costs you don't.
One of the top videos I watched on solving climate issues. Solving it requires deep understanding of Technology, Innovation and Politics.Looks like Vinod is the guy who can make a difference. Thank you Azeem for capturing the essence of such a complex debate, including appeasing both right and left, to work together.
We needs negative emissions technologies
The earth already naturally absorbs CO2. What do you think sea shells are made of?
We are grossly misinformed about power generation and power use........
I would have preferred more discussion of deep geothermal, which I think holds out a much better chance of delivering meaningful amounts of energy, at the very least as heat and probably as electricity. In fact if this new microwave drilling works as well as hoped, it would transform our world is so many ways. The one slight reservation about repurposing the old coal plants etc., is that electricity generation by steam uses mind-blowingly large amounts of water, In most countries, they use 50% of extracted water, more than farming and domestic use combined.
What if Climate Change itself is a solution. One that shows us that our current economic system, while better than those that came before, has reached its Zenith, and we now need to change from a linear economy to a circular one?
tru..innovation comes from small entities and desperation.
Most enjoyable!
Host should always let interviewee speak at length & then add their viewpoints
The permanent magnet motor as a generator and dynamos brushless motors as generators with inverters and transformers are the normal legal power plants.
Excellent overview of economic and entrepreneurial drivers
And another thing computer chips are not silicon they are plastic manufacture pollution and the circuits are photo deposited on the plastic coating of the silicon wafers. The silicon is the Base not a functional aspect of the computer chip.
Nuclear power plants can be replaced on-site with a minor investment relative to the finance of the nuclear power plants.
We have the technology to solve more than 90% of CO2 emissions.
And there are profit driven steps already being taken.
I don't think that solving climate change depends on new and unproven technologies.
New technology will be welcomed as it can be implemented, but the majority of the problems are already on the way to being solved.
The Edison generator or battery powered dynamo powered electric cars trucks airplanes are probably.....
I wish I would have come up with this scheme
We have agreed not to build develop or share nuclear technology. Fusion power plants are nuclear technology and are not needed or legal because they are unnecessarily dangerous and expensive. We have Edison generator and dynamos power plants with inverters and transformers to deliver high voltage AC power to build that are much cheaper to build and are no nuclear radiation.
No mention of the Hydrogen Based Solution to Net Zero. A great ommission..
This guy is Yoda I can't lie
Yes we have Edison generators and dynamos power plants and vehicles to replace nuclear power plants and fossil fuels. The mistaken belief that wind water and steam has not been examined or dispelled. The binding of Edison's generator with magnets all around the armature is still promoted even after shell oil company invented the Edison generator powered electric car and drove the car to Washington DC. The EPA has to sue to get this patent off of the eternal patent shelf. Shell oil company and all patents have a twenty year exclusive period and the Edison generator cars trucks and airplanes are out of patent for replacing fossil fuels. We don't have a lot of needs that are not solved by Edison generator and dynamos with inverters and transformers.
NUCLEAR!!!!!
Tech companies will save us! 💩
synthetic meat will be the biggest flop of a decade
A great many people believe it’s an overblown problem that’s more about opportunistic grifting by the elite than it is about improving life on earth. 🤷♂️
I agree. It's a cash cow, nothing more.
You say that as if these technologies wouldn't improve the earth? But they very objectively would. Like honestly why do people have such a fundamental problem with technology that improves our effect on the planet? Other than the fact of course that they're mindless pawns of those who are ACTUALLY acting SOLELY out of greed.
What??? Look if you don't beleve in pollution change I know that you understand insurance... Check the stats of insurance increase & the where its not even been offered anymore.
I'm in Australia insurance companies have totally rezoned area's where now some house/business insurance has increased 200% - 400% or wont even be offered due the insurance companies can't be profitable. So, peoples main investments property/buisness is uninsurable due to pollution change, that's a massive economic issue.
@@dodgygoose3054 it's easier from both an intellectual and emotional perspective for people to reduce global problems into a dichotomous issue (often involving some kind of conspiracy) affirming their cognitive bias, versus educating themselves on the complexities and nuances of our world. . .
100% Thats why I use the insurance eg, I've found that to be the easiest, most comprehendible cause & effect to a indervidual regarding pollution change; Its an economic point which they can't tun a blind eye to. @@dexterrity
That's why Cisco died
Cisco, the company with over 200 billion dollar market cap?
climate change... give me a break.
What amount of money are we going to waste this time around the television.
One could say that eating ice cream increases the risk of shake attacks. In reality, warm weather and people going to the beach does. Correlation is not causation.
I got autism from reading this comment
I got a shake attack from it@@hcam93
One could naively repeat a common first year stats mantra out of context. In reality, trained statisticians obviously know this when building and interpreting their models. Your cognitive bias is irrelevant.
@@dexterrity You should re-read your comment; keeping in mind that personal, intellectual bias may distort your capability to see objectively. If you are the architect, the lab technician, and interpretor then whatever "statistics" you claim to have produced are absolutely meaningless until they've been systematically re-produced by a group of competant peers. 1 out of every 12 Research papers is fradulent to some degree. To any degree could be devasting, moreover, falsified works gone unchecked, become source material and reference for future studies . . .