Sustainagility: how innovation will help save world. Sustainable business strategy - Keynote Speaker

[pilarleandro57]

nice idea, keep it up

[pjvdixon]

@pilarleandro57 Thanks!

[pjvdixon]

Thanks for these interesting posts and debate. These are complex issues.... your comments here will be read by 1000s of people.

[deonnamalbroughkgh]

keep me warm baby *rockmycity.info*

[Snurre86]

01:40 Entrepreneurs working together with banks, with venture capitalists, with multinationals, with governments.

[denstar2]

First what should be done: to do something what everybody understands. Start it rolling. Another thing: stop associate green technology with socialism and altruism. Green tech should be profit driven for simple reason: everybody is profit driven. Everybody will do if it will have clear ROI and give practitioners favorable social status.

[mrmaciejm]

Unfortunately carbon capture and storage is not feasible on large scale. .

[pjvdixon]

@mrmaciejm Well there are a range of opinions about viability of large scale carbon capture and storage which I discuss in detail in new boom Sustainagility out in May. I am confident we will see it implemented on large scale in some nations by 2025-30

[mrmaciejm]

I have completed some calculations and just carbon capture would reduce power plant efficiency even up to 30% (due to pumping and capture energy costs). Additionally the technology is at the similar stage as Fusion Reactors, which can provide with much cheaper and cleaner energy by 2030 than clean coal.

I haven't seen your video concerning clean coal, but I will search for it.

[pjvdixon]

Hmm I would say carbon capture is much more advanced than fusion nuclear - has been practiced for years by energy companies on small scale. 30% increase in energy production translates to much smaller uplift in retail prices as much energy price relates to infrastructure, power losses and so on, billing etc.

[mrmaciejm]

The only beneficiary in my opinion in carbon storage and capture are the large coal companies, because they would sell more coal to offset energy losses due to reduced efficiency. Consumers would have to pay higher energy bills (which may have a positive impact), and energy producers invest in new infrastructure, instead of renewable energy. Everybody would love to have clean coal feasible and operational, but I have deep doubts that there will be any benefits of this technology.

[pjvdixon]

We will see - but governments are pushing ahead with it.

[mrmaciejm]

I hope you are right and that this technology may be used in real time, but for now I have strong doubts that it will make any difference, for many reasons.

[mrmaciejm]

Excellent, again.

[pjvdixon]

@mrmaciejm Glad you liked the video.

[josboogaard]

Spread this also like I did on Twitter.

[Cl1mateAware]

Take a look at William Tarkovsky's youtube eco-video The Book of New Creation...

Share it with others who care

[pjvdixon]

Thanks for this

[Smollie1]

I'm beginning to get a much more optimistic picture of the future. rises in oil prices, falls in fresh water, resource depletion, pollution and energy will be met with exponential increases in knowledge of sciences/technology. Innovation will overt crisis in the richest countries.

[pjvdixon]

@Smollie1 Yes we can find answers to the challenges of climate change, global warming and sustainability.

[ecosoce]

I have just reached the part with the figures of heat pump usage in different countries and am wondering

which country implements them in 70% of new buildings? Germany, Austria?

[pjvdixon]

@ecosoce Sweden

[ecosoce]

thank you!

[TimTrimT]

@pjvdixon

I looked into heat pumps for my house when I upgraded my furnace several years ago - it isn't cold enough in Germany year round with cheap oil. :( And I'm not wealthy enough to install something when it's financial suicide.

But I promise you - Even though it's a high tech 103% efficient oil furnace - indeed the Mercedes of furnaces - it will be the last oil burner in my life when it wears out. Shame it's so high quality - it has 20 years to go. Mixed blessing that....

[pjvdixon]

@TimTrimT It all depends what oil prices will be over next 15 years. Heat pumps best installed in new buildings rather than old - cheaper.

[TimTrimT]

@pjvdixon

Sorry - watching your video again I felt compelled to clarify: I didn't get a heat pump because my heating bill each year is not that big - and the ROI on heat pumps with oil at today's price and electricity rather high is infinity.

If you live in a cold region with high heating demands (or a hot region with high cooling) heat pumps make sense. I leave my windows open much of the year with heat switched off! If you're blessed to live in such a region, heat pumps face a challenge.

[morphaus]

Think about This EarthSHip. 4x Cheaper on materials. Than current prices. And gets rid of the tire Problem. hope to hear from you soon.

[pjvdixon]

@morphaus Interesting but needs to be a cost-effective solution!

[morphaus]

Would be nice to see all children in these around the world... Earthships. will clean earth 100% , But.. £

[morphaus]

Would be intresting, if you will look at the tech, on earthships. on my page..Hope to hear from you soon..

[pjvdixon]

Looking forward to comments, and rankings of this video. Whatever you write here will be read by many thousands of people. Thanks, Patrick

[phoo67]

the future is about emotion.