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The Future of Renewable Energy: Becoming a Type 1 Civilization
What challenges does humanity face in the 21st century? Where will we find the strength and the ingenuity to overcome them? One huge challenge is centered on the ways we produce energy. Current methods of extracting fossil fuels from the...
Ancient Lights Media
Cells - Ribosomes
Cell Structure and Function Set: 10. This clip looks at the structure of ribosomes and examines how they facilitate protein synthesis during the translation of M-RNA.
Curated Video
Exploring Biofuels: From Past to Future Solutions for a Sustainable Planet
The video explores the history and advancements of biofuel technology, showcasing how cities like Vaxio in Sweden have successfully transitioned to renewable energy sources to combat climate change. Researchers are developing innovative...
Financial Times
How farmers can cut emissions
FT Climate Capital - Agriculture and food account for about a quarter of all climate change-inducing greenhouse gas emissions. And with production methods becoming increasingly intensive, farmers are under scrutiny like never before. Now...
Curated Video
Science stories – Sustainability
How do we face the same challenges now as we did 350 years ago? Professor Robin Perutz, Fellow of the Royal Society, looks at how ‘new ideas’ such as the greenhouse effect and alternative fuels were built on old ideas through the pages...
Curated Video
Carbon Trading
International governments have put caps in place to limit carbon dioxide emissions from industry. What are emissions caps and will they solve the problem? Human Geography - A Changing World - Learning Points. The percentage of carbon...
Curated Video
Methods of Extracting Copper from Low Grade Ores: Bioleaching and Phytomining
The video explains two methods of extracting copper from low-grade copper ores. The first method is called bioleaching, which uses bacteria to produce a leachate solution containing copper ions that are then purified using electrolysis....
Curated Video
Living Green - Episode 81 - Biomass Power
In the UK, Biomass has become one of the new methods of sustainable and renewable energy sources being used to heat homes, providing an alternative to fossil fuels for providing power generation. The biomass market is growing as more...
TED Talks
Safeena Husain: A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India
"Girls' education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world's most difficult problems," says social entrepreneur Safeena Husain. In a visionary talk, she shares her plan to enroll a staggering 1.6...
DoodleScience
Renewable Energy Resources: Part 2
What would we do without electricity? A video discusses alternatives to using non-renewable energy resources to create electrical energy. The focus is on geothermal conversion and solar cells.
MinuteEarth
How To Avoid The Next Atlantis
Can we stop the major cities of the world from going under? Science scholars discover the methods of controlling rising sea levels and the energy our swelling waterways could produce. The video includes specific examples from the...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Solar Car
Explore how solar panels can be used to produce electricity. Watch kids use the scientific method to find out how the sun's position in the sky affects a solar car's performance.