I am an energy reporter and I am also an energy madman.
But today, if you don’t have an opinion, I’d like to try a new career,
And you have to be my mouse.
I want to be a consultant on sexual relations.
Do not misunderstand.
What I want to talk about is our relationship with energy.
And electric energy, gasoline, wind energy, etc. all the energy.
Or, for most people, it is a state of missing relationship.
There is no conversation between us and energy.
We are separate and alienated.
for example:
When I first started reporting on energy,
Asked some friends if they have questions about energy.
One of them is a professor of physics and he is wise and he asked me:
“We also burn coal?”
Then I was stunned. Do we still burn coal?
We two people, a PhD in physics
An energy reporter with an engineering degree was baffled.
Because of the fact that
“Do we still burn coal?” is a very reasonable question.
We tend to use energy all the time in our lives,
But it does not care about it or even know nothing about it.
Energy makes everything possible
However, we do not pay enough attention to it.
Because there is no exchange between us and energy,
Even if you ask such a question, you will feel embarrassed.
“We also burn coal?”
In case you are curious, yes, we are still burning a lot of coal.
However, as a reporter,
I am qualified to ask questions, no matter how basic the problem is.
It took me about three years to ask questions.
From grid engineers to energy economists, I asked everyone.
What have I learned?
Many of us have no relationship with energy.
Don’t use me to remind everyone
We are facing major energy challenges.
If we do not attach importance to energy, we cannot solve these challenges.
But now there is good news.
There is already a tool for restoring relationships.
Then, we started to enter the consultation process.
Let us recall how we got to this point.
The relationship between energy and energy is alienated and there is a lack of communication.
What is energy?
This question is a good starting point.
The physical definition of energy is: The ability of an object to do work.
That means moving or changing anything,
Use energy.
It is presented in many forms.
Iced a can of beer in the fridge and needed energy.
Beer itself is also energy, calories.
When you think about Halloween when you drink beer,
The neurons in your brain are also using energy for conduction.
And this cute Lombard dwarf dressed up (from Charlie and the chocolate factory)
(laughter)
Need more energy.
That’s right, that’s me.
(laughter)
Don’t laugh, this is important:
We can move energy, convert its form,
For example, we can burn coal to generate electricity.
But we can never make or destroy it.
It is still to be developed in space.
On the earth and from the sun,
This is all our source of energy.
In the montage of movies, we trace back the history of our interaction with energy.
First crossed into the former agricultural civilization society about 50,000 years ago,
We absorb energy through food, plants and animals.
Then we consume energy by cutting wood and walking.
Our upright walkers are all productive forces.
Power stations, factories, and supercomputers are all equipped in a powerful body.
The energy we consume depends on
Our food intake and moving distance:
Up to a few thousand calories per day.
Then, with a big breakthrough: we began to house animals,
Use them as batteries to save energy for us.
Now we begin to control the energy outside our bodies.
Then the waterwheel, the windmill, we also invented the steam engine,
We started to burn coal, and then to the more recent 1900,
Each person uses about 12,000 calories of energy per day.
Then we built a modern power grid, the largest machine in the world,
We got nuclear power,
We can also send humans to the moon,
The last is the digital revolution.
Those giant data servers in the desert, and then instantly:
We came to 2016.
Every American now consumes an average of 208,000 calories a day.
This figure is not an exaggeration.
This is equivalent to having one battalion for each of us and we need 100 people a day for energy.
It is equivalent to the energy of a lightning.
We are all Zeus now!
Most of these dramatic changes occurred in this short span of 100 years.
Since we have all become Zeus, how has the relationship with energy become?
I can tell you clearly what the experience was before Zeus.
Although I am not a time traveler, I participated in the ultra marathon competition.
Last month, yes! I participated.
I took a 100-mile race in the mountains of Idaho.
Over the mountains, across the quagmire, ran over the gravel slope.
(applaud)
thank you all!
(applaud)
(Cheers)
A total of approximately 29 hours were spent, consuming about 15,000 calories of energy.
In that test, I established close contact with energy.
I plan my energy intake and consumption in minutes.
And I keep checking.
Eat some energy pectin, slow down, drink more water, prepare for the downhill,
It doesn’t sound so hard, I just started to win, and then!
The result I spit!
(laughter)
When raised to a certain limit, the body functions collapsed.
In order to avoid this happening, I must maintain close contact with energy.
I guess people who lived hundreds of years ago probably lived like this.
But now, as energy consumption soars, we become more and more ignorant of it.
We no longer keep confirming
Began to blindly believe in our energy.
We are no longer using visible objects.
It’s a machine that runs thousands of miles away.
For example, if you turn on the mixer, you want to make a peanut butter banana smoothie.
Blender and socket, substation in the neighborhood,
And transmission lines are connected;
Then all the way to the power station.
When you start stirring, a generator in the power station
Begin to combine your frequency gradually to speed up or slow down the speed.
It’s true!
But you can’t feel it, right?
You only care about milkshakes.
This invisible system is like magic.
You believe it will work.
In the past century, we have left behind the original energy consciousness.
Began to believe in energy blindly.
We already think this is a matter of course.
This is the process by which energy is thrown into the cold.
this means
When we are thinking less and less about our energy system,
We also become more dependent on it.
This dependence only appears when there is no energy.
When there is no electricity
You find that you can only eat a can of cold beans at dinner.
This is really dangerous:
Not that our energy needs are growing.
But most people simply don’t realize how fast it grows,
Or how much of our energy needs are in the end.
So when there is an energy crisis that needs to be addressed,
We feel so overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.
When I was racing for 100 miles, I encountered some energy complications.
Remember that vomiting?
But I can handle them because I have always been concerned about my energy.
Problems arise in any relationship.
In relation to energy, issues that arise include climate change.
Economic issues,
Geopolitical issues,
Energy poverty.
The key to maintaining a harmonious relationship lies in the ability to face issues together.
When it comes to energy,
If we have not entered the dialogue stage, how do we deal with these problems?
There are various technical remedial measures,
However, if the relationship cannot be repaired, what kind of technology will be paid?
Relax and take a deep breath.
I will not put you in a hopeless place.
As your energy relations consultant, I have some practical suggestions.
But I said, I am also a newcomer,
So I consulted the wiki guide,
How to use simple four-step method
Go to repair the relationship.
Because such tutorials do exist, right?
Take a look together.
The first step: understand the problem.
The first step is a good start.
The main problem between energy and energy is that we are already too accustomed to
With such a perfect and reliable partner,
Taking its existence for granted, it began to ignore it.
This brings us to the second step: Learn to talk better.
(laughter)
There is no need to hide these questions about energy.
It is entirely possible to ask, “Do we still burn coal?”
Or ask, “Can I have a wind turbine at home?”
You can also learn to master some listening skills.
For example, look at the electricity bill for the next month,
Although you have been set up to pay automatically.
(laughter)
It does not matter, I do.
So communication requires both parties’ efforts.
And this inertial communication is bad,
It is not your fault.
So far, you still have a hard time establishing real communication with energy.
Even in your own home.
Electricity bills can track every single degree of power delivered to your home by the power plant.
But your house is like a black box.
There is no detailed list on the bill.
So how much electricity is supplied to your computer, lighting,
Or dissipated as heat loss, who knows?
However, this situation is no longer
The emergence of smart meters and smart appliances,
Can help us find out what the black box is.
But information alone cannot fix our relationship.
So the third step is: You have to re-establish contact.
For example, pulling a hand to look into each other’s eyes,
This kind of thing can make us do more with less on the road to success.
To be honest, energy is not the only relationship we have to deal with in our lives.
So the process of reconstruction must be simple.
It cannot cause our information overload.
I have done this interesting attempt:
Back to the topic of consuming 208,000 calories per day, choose an activity,
For example, watching the latest quarter of the “women’s prison” (American drama) in one breath.
Then think if I have to eat it containing
And calories of food consumed by my TV,
That should be a big piece of chocolate cake.
And this does not count those data servers in the desert.
So to re-establish contact, you don’t need cutting-edge technology,
You just need a creative open mind.
Bring your energy goggles,
Try to observe these intricate connections in the world,
This will change the relationship between you.
Now that we have understood the problem,
Learned better communication and is re-establishing contact.
Let us be ready for the fourth step: Find out how to proceed.
I feel very excited for the future.
Changes in our relationship with energy occur at the individual level.
It also happens at the social level.
The 20th century grid was originally set to be magical, invisible,
Keep energy away from us.
But now innovation can take us back to intimate relationships.
Such as dynamically changing electricity prices,
Home appliances for generating electricity and electricity,
Detailed data record of energy consumption behavior,
These innovations can help us drastically reduce energy consumption and costs.
But to be able to act correctly,
We all need to play a more active role in this relationship.
You don’t have to go to the 100-mile race like me.
Has always been obsessed with your energy.
But you can pay attention from time to time.
Because when we start to value energy, we treat it as a true partner.
Only when you look at energy issues, can you find a solution.
thank you all!
(applaud)
(cheer)
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