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Time Is Running Out on Climate Change. The Metaverse Could Help | Cedrik Neike | TED

The metaverse could be our key to making real progress in the fight against climate change, says engineer Cedrik Neike. Examining how AI-powered modeling eliminates the trial and error of wasteful industries, he explores how this emerging technology is already improving everything from the gigafactories that churn out electric car batteries to the fuel efficiency…

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The metaverse could be our key to making real progress in the fight against climate change, says engineer Cedrik Neike. Examining how AI-powered modeling eliminates the trial and error of wasteful industries, he explores how this emerging technology is already improving everything from the gigafactories that churn out electric car batteries to the fuel efficiency of your home. Learn more about how these “digital twins” are transforming the world — and not a moment too soon.

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27 Comments

  1. @tlb2970

    December 19, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    The climate will change forever and a day, it always has and always will 😂😂😂

  2. @barryamorris

    December 19, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    Let’s be clear here. There is no climate crisis. Just manipulation of the weather systems and wild fires started by arsonists and direct energy weapons! The earth actually needs more CO2 not less!

  3. @Limberg2063

    December 19, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    no, there is no time, its over.

  4. @vthilton

    December 19, 2023 at 4:56 pm

    Save Our Planet Now!!

  5. @Aaery.

    December 19, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    you should be ashamed of yourselves

  6. @cityofwelland634

    December 19, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    Excellent

  7. @bluntdude

    December 19, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    Commencing Eye ROll.

  8. @Lewis1k

    December 19, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    To solve population growth, you plug into metaverse and your physical body is ignored. No food no water…little by little online players die in the real world and the solution has been accomplished. All the while climate change has only changed because people are plugged in. When they unplug the real world will be dying because society would have interrupted the normal cycle.

  9. @HappySlappii

    December 19, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    I don’t understand how that was at all different than modeling using any other modeling software.

  10. @BillyTheKidCENTURION

    December 19, 2023 at 8:35 pm

    There is no “Climate Crisis”, crack a beer and take a kid fishing.

  11. @bbreimm

    December 19, 2023 at 9:30 pm

    Metaverses require big data centers and server farms to deliver the experience to the end users. How many of them will be ENTIRELY powered by green energy?

  12. @benwarped7272

    December 19, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    No it can not. Too many idiots wasting their lives and energy hiding from the real world playing Farmville. Quit tryna make Meta look like a GOOD thing. Clearly paid advertising. … WHAT A WASTE OF TIME.

  13. @TotallyFriedChannel

    December 20, 2023 at 12:32 am

    amazing

  14. @sick-days

    December 20, 2023 at 2:33 am

    this thumbnail/title is like a parody of TED talks

  15. @JACK-wh6jl

    December 20, 2023 at 2:43 am

    NO !! SPRAYING THE ATMOSPHERE IS BEING SPRAYED FOR THE LAST 20 yrs: BUT WHO IS THREATENING YOU NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT REALITY !!! UNTIL YOU TALK ABOUT THAT 90%+ OF THE OZONE LAYER IS GONE. NOT FROM THE PEOPLE, BUT FROM OVER 2000 NUCLEAR BOMBS WERE BLOWN-OFF IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE W/O ANY KNOWLEDGE KNOWN TO THE PE0PLE !!???
    SO DON’T BLAME US , KNOWINGLY LYING WHY !!???

  16. @autodemais668

    December 20, 2023 at 9:21 am

    Você é um pudindin perfeito😊❤

  17. @robertmarmaduke9721

    December 20, 2023 at 11:24 am

    It’s -65°F today on Greenland. Anyone for a swim? China seeing coldest weather in 50 years. Hong Kong 40°sF Magic CO2! _India only in the 50°sF clear south to Bhopal!_

    California, Oregon and Washington, now faced with huge broken budgets, looted pension funds and Cap&Trade auctions fizzling out, have filed a $100B lawsuit against the oil refineries, claiming that they ‘hid the truth’ about ‘climate change’.

    The 3W USA Future. It’s back to Walking, Waiting and Wood stoves … Oh, wait. _They banned wood stoves!_
    😂🎉

  18. @1927su

    December 20, 2023 at 12:12 pm

    Hey !
    IF we lose our DEMOCRACY,
    NONE of our legitimate concerns will even matter!
    VOTE to PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY in 2024! Register if you haven’t, and VOTE 🗳️ IN 2024!

  19. @liestricks

    December 20, 2023 at 1:55 pm

    Did they really just try to use climate change to pitch the metaverse? FFS. Its never going to happen, facebooks is dead, now piss off. You will not be missed

  20. @jimbob4413

    December 20, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    smart cities? no thanks

  21. @BillyTheKidCENTURION

    December 20, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    There is no “Climate Crisis”……There has been no increase in hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, sea levels, human migration, nations disappearing, animals disappearing, deforestation, or charging stations promised by the fake “Inflation Reduction act”…… folks….. there is no “Climate Crisis”..,.,. what are these people after?

  22. @bademoxy

    December 21, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Climate change? Like the 5 Ice Ages planet Earth’s already had-long before human industry- often with average temperatures in between them MUCH hotter than current temperatures, yet supported much greater biodiversity than the present, including the poles , where tropical fossils are now covered by ice caps .
    Too much carbon produced? Like whenever volcanos -especially supervolcanos- emit more in a single eruption than the accumulated output of all human activity in history? These events originate in Earth’s tectonic plate movement, something NO amount of tax theft can control.
    Carbon still is a problem? Any biologist running a successful green house realizes plants CONSUME carbon(in fact thrive in hot atmospheres containing 1100 ppm carbon, because it’s their primary vital NUTRIENT.

  23. @rodhalligan5136

    December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    What total bullshit

  24. @rodhalligan5136

    December 21, 2023 at 5:55 pm

    Ted talks are getting worse.

  25. @briangubash9707

    December 22, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    The gas of life🧐 Everything on the planet gives off this🤯 I gotta ask the question if we get rid of everything what were there be?👈🤣 Nothing👏

  26. @jaykayenn

    December 24, 2023 at 8:54 am

    Excuse me? We’re gonna save the world with lame marketing buzzwords?

  27. @DavidSanchez-vx4bv

    December 26, 2023 at 12:39 am

    When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about how everybody should move to the Metaverse and stop doing a lot of thins in the real universe, that could be something to discuss. But extensive simulation adding Metaverse word is not…

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