The energy grid of the future demands a massive amount of materials: billions of solar panels, millions of wind turbines and more. Climate strategist Marielle Remillard reveals why there may be critical shortages ahead — and breaks down how this could also be the biggest business opportunity since the Industrial Revolution. (Recorded at TED@BCG on September 12, 2024)
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@حماس-ج7ط
July 7, 2025 at 11:03 am
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@meanderinoranges
July 7, 2025 at 11:07 am
I like the part where China continues to complete a new coal power plant every two weeks, while we self flagellate over here. Thanks very much, but I don’t care.
@TunaBossPizza
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 pm
They’re also out producing us in renewables
@solidmaninbox
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 pm
You left out the part where China built more solar in a year than the US has in its entire history.
You can have both, and you should have both, because more production means cheaper energy for the consumer. Arguing in opposition to expanding the grid is like saying we should grow less food just because you want food to be more expensive.
@meanderinoranges
July 7, 2025 at 1:09 pm
Earth to @@solidmaninbox. China never tells the truth. Never. Their “commitment” to green energy is fake.
@BonnieShadow33
July 7, 2025 at 2:06 pm
You don’t care? Well, thankfully you’re in the minority.
@floriank5424
July 7, 2025 at 11:26 am
We are completely f…ed if we don’t get this done, so the government has just to set mandates, and the private sector will have to accomplish it. Don’t cry now if it gets more expensive because we will cry really hard if we don’t get there fast!
@Bushman9
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 pm
And what happens to the price of materials when they become scarce?
Expensive is right!
@floriank5424
July 7, 2025 at 12:36 pm
@@Bushman9
The thing is we always find a way around, if that material gets scarce we use the other one…
Thing is she only creates doubts and the only thing every expert tells you is we need to get forward fast ore we are all doomed.
Sea level rise will threaten nearly every coastal city and Florida could be gone by 2100.
Food scarce, Water scarce, wildfires everywhere, … that will be the future if we aren’t fast.
Do you want to inovate and mabe change some habbits now ore be forced to later?
@Bushman9
July 7, 2025 at 12:47 pm
@@floriank5424
I agree, but I wonder how much effort is being put into these workarounds.
The scarcity threat may not be a big issue currently, but 2030 is right around the corner.
And it’s only an issue by 2030 if the whole world jumps in with two feet.
The US is reversing its course, at least federally.
I’m in Canada and we continue to export 30 million tons of coal annually.
Sadly, this appears to fall on the shoulders of private companies.
Governments only talk the talk; they don’t walk the walk.
@monkfishmondfinsternis3162
July 7, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Economically it makes sense to stop fossile energy. Already renewables are cheaper. Also, every $ invested in protecting our climate will prevent several $ of climate driven damages.
Right now its mostly corrupt politicians and lobbyists clinging to the old harmfull way. That’s why the fossile industry Invests in extreme right and fascist politicians.
@floriank5424
July 7, 2025 at 5:05 pm
@@Bushman9 the thing is they don’t need to nore should they, when a material gets scarce it gets expensive so you mine it some where less profitable ore switch technologies, until now we never ran out of anything.
When politics gets into recourses it is always bad 🙈 the only thing they can do is set good targets, industrial policy and support for the poorest so we know the US is f…ed with Trump because he doesn’t care and doesn’t want to learn 😅
@maikydb
July 7, 2025 at 11:27 am
Somethings feels off here. And i dont trust this talk. There is hardly any talk about recycling’s suply chain. It would not suprice me if her research is paid for of finaced by big oil or the H2 industry. If we only would look more at our land fils we would discover that we dumped mo many valuable recourses there. And not only there. Think of all those electronic devises that we dumped in China, India, Pacistan and Afrika. Our biggest flaw in creating products that are flawed by desighn so people have to buy it again, and again, and again…
@locobnojokofoooo12
July 7, 2025 at 11:37 am
Blah blah blah blah , you people are brainwashed ,
@robertrafer9422
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 am
Hilarious. Net zero has zero chance. Lol see what I did there?
@dammuozz
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 pm
We also have zero chance without net zero. More lol?
@urosmilosevic5299
July 7, 2025 at 11:48 am
If we don’t drastically decrease consumption and the need for energy in general none of these solutions will work. Look up Dr William E Rees. Watch one of the podcasts he was in. Warning though, not for the faint of heart.
@Bushman9
July 7, 2025 at 12:01 pm
There’s money to be made?
Introducing the new Trump Turbine!
@TunaBossPizza
July 7, 2025 at 12:08 pm
I think it depends on governments and corporations. So no. Even if we have the resources we won’t. Be honest.
@envyamore9588
July 7, 2025 at 4:52 pm
We don’t. There is absolutely no scenario where our resources last beyond gen 1 of a green transition to maintain what we have through what’s occurring. None. We have to think truly differently.
@Bushman9
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 pm
My previous kidding aside… here’s a scary thought.
The entire auto industry has switched to EV and China controls the global supply of grade A lithium.
Could see the CCP taking fast advantage of that.
@davestagner
July 8, 2025 at 12:16 pm
They’re taking advantage of it by making EVs, that are cheaper AND better than American/European/Japanese cars, and selling them globally.
@lengthmuldoon
July 7, 2025 at 12:20 pm
Need to drop the “net zero” canard and be adult about finding alternatives to fossil fuels after all they are finite.
Invoking fantasy melodrama about the evidence bereft “dangerous man made climate change” claim is counter productive. Anything “green” or “environmental” is now met with contempt by the general public because of incessant “crying wolf” wailing by “net zero” disciples.
Not a convincing presentation at all.
@joependleton6293
July 7, 2025 at 12:20 pm
Very knowledgeable lady, we heard of some improvements in the energy sector. It is speeding up in its transition, anyway good talk again. Thanks 👍 👍 👍
@LUBICA-w2b
July 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Such nonsence.
@yoavshaharabani2685
July 7, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Ah yes, the timeless rebuttal: “such nonsense” a masterstroke of scientific critique rivaled only by YouTube comment sections and bathroom graffiti. One can only imagine the years of rigorous research and peer review that led you to such a profound conclusion. It’s truly inspiring to witness someone dismantle thousands of experiments with the sheer force of unearned confidence. Please, do continue – your insights are the intellectual equivalent of bringing a kazoo to a symphony.
@mussichwaszusagen
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 pm
@@yoavshaharabani2685perfect comment
@killbotone6210
July 7, 2025 at 12:36 pm
“Money be green”
DeAngelo. RIP.
@richardlangley90
July 7, 2025 at 1:24 pm
One thing that bothered me about this talk was that Marielle failed to point out that with demand comes increased exploration and while she did say that a mine can take ten years to become operational I question how accurate this is with such a big truth being left out. Lithium is a case in point when sources were found very quickly once it became clear that EV’s and other battery consuming products would need much more than current known reserves would fulfil. Supply of Lithium is currently not considered to be and issue and in fact multiple new ways of refining lithium are being developed to ensure the process is as green as we can make it while increasing output.
@timeenoughforart
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 pm
I’m ready to invest my life savings. Anyone have change for a twenty?
@LuceSkay
July 7, 2025 at 1:40 pm
I used to think the climate crisis was just about switching to electric cars and recycling more. But the more I looked into it, the more I realized how deeply it’s tied to the economic system itself. I was working a high-stress corporate job, eating junk, sleeping poorly, constantly sick, and I didn’t even connect it to the bigger picture. Then I read Youth Protocol by Dr Tessa Voss and it completely shifted how I see health, food, and even the environment. That book showed me how the same system that’s damaging the planet is also quietly damaging us. Since then I’ve changed my lifestyle and started to feel like I’m finally living, not just surviving.
@Dashette
July 8, 2025 at 8:14 am
Wow the ads even extend into the comments
@CalmWatersLiving
July 7, 2025 at 4:07 pm
Question, has anyone done research to determine if net zero had ever been?
@mrfries9753
July 7, 2025 at 4:09 pm
yes currently in bhutan is in net NEGATIVE because the very low emissions and vast forests
@CalmWatersLiving
July 7, 2025 at 4:34 pm
@mrfries9753 okay, so if there is a net negative then what is net zero?
In what time period was this net zero basis determined?
How much of the change was due to natural disasters?
How much was the change due to and accelerated by human societal inventions?
@envyamore9588
July 7, 2025 at 5:00 pm
@@CalmWatersLiving We’re talking anomaly. Net zero would be we match our emissions through what is removed. Net negative would reduce more carbon than released. We are currently greatly net positive where we release more carbon than removed. Time periods vary, but we would need to sustain it both globally and locally. I am unsure of the study. Natural variability in carbon levels is very complex. But everything researched suggests there is no known natural source for emissions that isn’t induced by large entity human activity. What percentage is human activity is represented by the temperature anomaly and ppm of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and other ghgs that do not correspond to geological, ice core and many other studies.
The major change in natural conditions and processes in recent times is the reversal of the SMOC… this can double our carbon levels which would be toxic in part to even breathe in many places… among many other consequences. This is the first proven tipping point.
@mrfries9753
July 7, 2025 at 4:09 pm
I doubt its impossible considering bhutan is in net NEGATIVE
@rameshg2717
July 7, 2025 at 10:25 pm
Bhutan is not providing enough economic opportunities to youth, they are forced to migrate and it’s heavily dependent on India for fuel. Its hilly terrain helps produce power with the help of india. Recently, China took a small portion of its land and it started to become friends with it. So, ya u have to be small, less populated and have to be dependent on someone.
@envyamore9588
July 7, 2025 at 4:51 pm
The real green transition is banding together with your community to survive. We literally don’t have the resources. We don’t even have the high quality sand for cement.
It’s time to understand our lives as we know it are gone. The late 1900s will be as much of a fairy tale as the late 17 and 1800s. We are entering an age of disaster capitalism where humanity is slowly being shackled to wages to survive an increasingly toxic and unstable prison like planet.
@bartroberts1514
July 7, 2025 at 10:43 pm
Or.. hear me out.. zero nuclear reactors, which are five times more expensive than BESS + Renewables + grid interconnectors + UHVDC, for the same level of grid reliability or better. Until geothermal electric catches up.
@bartroberts1514
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 pm
Basalt fiber doesn’t need boron, though. Nanocellulose, either. Geopolymer. Biochar. Oh, and if you don’t waste it on nuclear, iridium makes chips 10,000x more efficient.
@abnormaalz
July 8, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Geopolymer? Like asbestos??
@bartroberts1514
July 8, 2025 at 12:18 pm
@@abnormaalz Nope. Not like asbestos.
Metakaolin is formed by dehydrolization of simple kaolin clay, one of the commonest byproducts of dredging rivers to undo the clogging that happens over decades, for example.
Add water glass and alkali such as fly ash, and you have a concrete binder that cures in a fraction of the time of OPC (the high-CO2 cement made from limestone), at a fraction of the cost, with double the strength and better chemical resistance.. and if you do it right, you take more CO2 out of the air while making it than you emit. Add biochar to the concrete, and you sequester even more carbon drawn down from air. Replace asphalt with it, and you reduce emissions still more, and decrease carcinogens near roads and parking lots.
@agennarien2418
July 7, 2025 at 10:58 pm
Why would we want to “sustain the green transition”. Complete scam
@urbanstrencan
July 8, 2025 at 12:58 am
Great talk, we need to think about getting net zero, in more than one way
@الداعيإلىالإسلامبثلاثلغات
July 8, 2025 at 2:43 am
I invite you to the religion of Islam ❤
@andreeatudor5096
July 8, 2025 at 3:26 am
Hello there. Anyone has some smart/researched idea which industries/jobs are the most impactul for the climate crisis?
Looking to transition into a new job, but I am unsure where to go.
@BeQuickly-d2x
July 8, 2025 at 4:43 am
She got a perfect body🔥
@vladbolshakov6387
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 am
The war between The East and The West will require drones. Billions and billions of drones. Not solar panels. Amazing that people still worry about few degrees C instead of worrying about being enslaved by the commies.
@jimthain8777
July 8, 2025 at 6:21 am
One of the most important things she says will be missed by a lot of people.
When she talks about Boron she says the *known* reserves are in Turkey.
This is because no one is looking for Boron.
If it’s found it’s because we were looking for something else more “lucrative” and stumbled upon the Boron.
Once we start searching in earnest for some of this stuff we will find a LOT more of it.
This is exactly what has happened with oil.
It CAN happen for a lot of other commodities too.
@prakashnarismulu3332
July 8, 2025 at 10:31 am
Aluminium needs high temperature smelters which consume a lot of electricity ⚡️ powered by coal
@questioneverythingalways820
July 8, 2025 at 8:48 pm
0:29 lmfaooooo there is no transition to anything but utter poverty and energy enslavement. Clueless shills want to use YOUR money to enslave you.
@royaumeuni5730
July 9, 2025 at 6:55 am
As soon as you start talking about “we” it’s about a planned economy. Industrialization was successful because it wasn’t about a planned economy. It was generic and demanded gradually, whereby development took place on market terms. Exactly the opposite of what is being tried to achieve now. Another difference was that during industrialism there weren’t a lot of talkative “experts” who told you from the side what had to happen.
@user-fk8zw5js2p
July 11, 2025 at 2:09 pm
How does the use of “we” equate to a planned economy? Industrialization was successful because industrialists were naive to consequences due to the consequences not immediately presenting problems, they were a future problem, they are a problem now. The problems now are why people are talking about it and are a result of there being no “talkative experts” back then.
@royaumeuni5730
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 pm
@@user-fk8zw5js2p The problem is all the useful idiots who let themselves be intimidated by these disaster theories. Industrialism has made everyone better off. Do you want to move back to the 19th century?
@markgemmell3769
July 9, 2025 at 11:29 am
Luckily she doesnt have to centrally plan the global economy.
Markets will respond as seen a million times already. Lithium in short supply? Not any more 😉
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July 9, 2025 at 7:59 pm
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July 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm
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@beyondfossil
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 am
The global energy transition *has* to be done and it *will* be done. Staying on fossil fuels would doom our civilization to only another 100- to 200-years tops. That would be a shame, because our civilization has some 4500 years of history–much more than that if you include our hunter-gatherer days. Almost all of our time here has been was *without* any fossil fuels!
Our sun’s power is truly astonishing and cosmic.
The sun provides the Earth a cosmic amount of power at 173,000-terawatts constant non-stop or about 1000W/m² peak on the ground, and it’s always at peak somewhere on Earth at any given time. This clean and abundant *fusion* energy is gifted to us for free by nature. For reference, this amount of power would provide our _annual_ 620-exajoules of primary energy needs in just _1 hour’s_ time! Or just 1/10000th of that spread over the 365 days of the year. Some combination of sunshine and wind is available everywhere on Earth. Sunshine and wind cannot be sanctioned, blockaded, taxed, or tariffed as it arrives freely providing solar and wind energy with *zero fuel* costs!
We know that the fossil fuels we use today are just captured sunlight from hundreds of millions of years ago.
Renewables, especially utility-scale solar, have reached historic low costs of energy production and are growing at exponential rates. The world has never seen electricity production so cheap yet renewables _still_ continue to drive their costs lower each year!
This is not surprising really when considering our parent star’s mass is 99.9% the entire solar system! This makes the Earth look like a grain of sand next to watermelon, especially when the remaining 0.1% is mostly the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.
@jameslee-dp6cb
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 am
If you put a white sheet of paper over to hole in a telescope, arrange the telescope to point to the ground, and then, point it toward the sun, you will see how powerful sunlight can be. It will ignite a stick in less than ten seconds. (Be extremely careful not to look into the lens, or get in front of the lens. It would blind you if you look into the lens, and it world give you a severe burn if you get between the lens and the ground.) Give the telescope about 3 to 5 minutes of pointing it on concrete and put the cover back over the aperture. Then feel how hot the concrete gets. Be careful and approach it with caution. You could get burned. If nuclear is used to heat water to turn a turbine, couldnt a temperature regulated telescope do the same thing? If you try this experiment be extremely careful. It has the potential to blind you, burn you, and/or start a fire on combutible materials. And dont let the telescope stay sighted in the sun for very long. It will cause it to heat up and ruin your telescope very quickly.
@vasu_devan
July 10, 2025 at 2:21 am
Its important climate change is tackled and ensure the economy works in the right way for everyone
@vannguyenngo_nirmit
July 10, 2025 at 4:51 am
A big deal here is whether the supply can meet the increasing demand to achieve our ideals.
@apollodavis4090
July 10, 2025 at 6:18 am
Why the dislikes? Im so confused….
@FortyNBeyond
July 10, 2025 at 8:01 am
So how much power is needed to get more aluminum and steel?
@KimSteding-Wright
July 10, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Getting rich should not be environmental sustainability, reality of survival is. Powerful knowledge with this issue is vital, selling as a scheme of profit isnt. Earth resources creating discension in global power. Who has what earth resource. Example China has boron resource. China is a communist state. Be diplomatic with choices and process of resolving needs. The entire future of survival is a fragile ecosystem based upon belief of planet , combined ideology of lifestyle. Im not a capitalist but i am a Democracy believer. Understand the difference.
@zf8604
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 am
Still cheaper and less polluting than the fossil fuel industry, especially if it expands…
@kk-xj5oz
July 11, 2025 at 4:50 am
You mean the economic opportunity in green washing 😂
@simonpannett8810
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 am
Highlights the flaw of replacing ICE cars with same number of EV’s! We need smarter Public Transport in ALL high population density countries that will reduce material demands hugely!!
@binhmai7901
July 11, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Đọc rap hay j mà nhanh v
@opossumboyo
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Energy blind and hopelessly optimistic. Jevon’s Paradox proves that we will not “replace” energy sources with green ones, we’ll just add them on to the ones we already have. Eventually if we run out of a certain resource we’ll replace it, but that will take far too long to keep the biosphere stable.
The solution to the climate crisis is inherently anti-industrial, and thus will never be promoted in a market-based system focused on infinite growth. We reverse course, we find a magical energy source that has no downsides, or we collapse. And i’m not betting on the first two.
@johnkintree763
July 11, 2025 at 2:42 pm
The COPs are a farce. It’s time to build a platform for digital democracy, and hold a global referendum to approve a worldwide carbon tax.
@SachinGanpat
July 11, 2025 at 5:31 pm
We won’t solve today’s problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
Someone is going to become richer, and the poor become increasingly poorer.
@dd81807
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 pm
She is right and the idiotic Trump administration is not helping .We are seriously and catastrophically behind and once the polar ice melts and sea levels rise it will be irreversible.
@dd81807
July 11, 2025 at 7:50 pm
I see many idiotic comments here by people, nothing surprising though. At the end of the day it’s about clean energy, we need to use as much clean energy to make more clean energy. It’s all about reducing emissions and reducing the green house effect that will cause further warming of the planet. Again, America chose a person like Trump as president, so the idiotic comments are not surprising at all.
@dd81807
July 11, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Mine the moon if necessary
@dd81807
July 11, 2025 at 8:01 pm
In my opinion, solar energy and using it as much as possible is the low hanging fruit, granted we will need solar panels but still it will need less materials then batteries.
@paulw5150
July 12, 2025 at 9:55 pm
“Going to need to be more thoughtful” as you urge people to consider how rich they can get…
Not appreciating your mindset in this approach. Learned a lot from you, though, so thank you for sharing.
@Atilla-m9i
July 12, 2025 at 10:29 pm
What about environmentalism that isn’t a money maker. Using material resources from local area. For example, thatch roofs, wood, water, stone etc.
@frankchong5585
July 13, 2025 at 1:19 am
So, what did I just listen to here? From highlighting RSS scarcity without suggesting any solution, to ‘everyone can get rich’? Wasted 12 mins