TED Talks
TED: How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan
As climate change accelerates, finding clean alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. Social entrepreneur Vaitea Cowan believes green hydrogen is the answer. Watch as she shares her team's work mass producing electrolyzers...
Wonderscape
Energizing the Future: Batteries and Electric Transportation
This video demystifies the workings of electric batteries and their role in modern e-transportation. Learn how batteries, from simple potato experiments to advanced lithium cells, generate electricity through chemical reactions. The...
Curated Video
Vegetable Oils as Fuel
Discover the processes involved in using vegetable oil as a biofuel. Could it become a viable alternative to fossil fuels? Chemistry - Chemical Industries - Learning Points. Vegetable oil is made of long chains of carbon atoms similar to...
Curated Video
Burning Fossil Fuels and Climate Change | Environmental Chemistry | FuseSchool
Burning Fossil Fuels and Climate Change | Environmental Chemistry | FuseSchool NOTE at 1:27 The pre-industrial percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 0.028% not 0.28 Learn the basics about climate change and how burning fossil...
FuseSchool
How To Reduce Carbon Dioxide In The Air
Through photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and split it and use it (and water) to make carbohydrates. So surely plants can help us reduce carbon dioxide in the air? Possibly... But equally, the carbon in plants is...
SciShow
Why Don't We Have Nuclear Fusion Power Yet?
Fusion power is supposed to save us from fossil fuels, so when is nuclear fusion going to be a viable option and why has it been so elusive?
Curated Video
Making Bio Fuels | Biology for All | FuseSchool
Can you name some fuels that can be burned to generate energy? Coal, oil, and gas are probably the first that comes to mind. In this video, we’re going to look at another special type: biofuels. The fossil fuels coal, oil, and gas can...
Curated Video
Advantages and Challenges of Hydrogen as a Fuel Source
Hydrogen fuel has numerous advantages over fossil fuels, as it is abundant and its only byproduct is water. However, the challenge lies in storing and using hydrogen effectively. Researchers at Birmingham University are tackling this...
SciShow
Why Don't We Have Nuclear Fusion Power Yet?
Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video. Check out LastPass here: http://bit.ly/2GbcEci Fusion power is supposed to save us from fossil fuels, so when is nuclear fusion going to be a viable option and why has it been so elusive?
Science360
Chemical engineer Robert Coolman - ScienceLives
As a graduate researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Robert Coolman designs and builds biofuel reactors and studies how the chemicals that make up plants interact with catalysts to form fuel. He uses a combination of...
Science360
Science for a Sustainable Future - Innovators
Princeton University physical chemist Emily Carter is using fundamental scientific principles to create computer simulation tools that will help predict the behavior of different materials including renewable fuels. The research, which...
Science360
Fructose molecular structure - Sweet Side of Chemistry
Fructose, or fruit sugar, is found in tree fruits, honey and berries, though you may know it from its corn-based origins as the common ingredient high-fructose corn syrup. NSF-funded researchers are also looking at plant sugars as a...
Science360
Black Carbon -- Changing Planet
Black carbon, composed of tiny particles of soot, is produced whenever organic substances like fossil fuels, firewood or coal is incompletely burned. These particles are polluting the air and causing serious health and environmental...
Science360
A Natural Cycle - How Do We Know
How do we know the rising carbon dioxide is not part of a natural cycle?
TED Talks
TED: How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition | Varun Sivaram
India has a historic opportunity to power its industrialization with clean energy -- and its energy choices will make or break the world's fight against climate change, says clean energy executive, physicist and author Varun Sivaram....
Curated Video
Power Stations & The National Grid | Electricity | Physics | FuseSchool
The flick of a switch, that’s how easy it is to get electricity, right? If you’re one of the lucky ones, then yes. But in 2017 there are still over 1 billion people who do not have access to electricity. In this video we will discuss how...
Curated Video
What Is Carbon Neutral and Biofuels | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn the basics about carbon neutral and biofuels, as a part of environmental chemistry. Coal, oil, natural gas, shale gas and gas from fracking are fossil fuels formed hundreds of millions of years ago from living things that got...
Curated Video
How Can We Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
If we reduce our use of fossil fuels, we will reduce the amount of extra carbon dioxide that we put into the atmosphere. There are 2 ways to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels: 1) We make our processes more...
Curated Video
Sustainable development | Ecology & Environment | Biology | FuseSchool
Like all living organisms, humans need resources to live. We need food, clean water and a shelter to live in. A few thousand years ago, this is all we would have wanted - a full stomach and a warm, dry home. But, as the human race has...
Curated Video
What Are Carbon Footprints | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
What Are Carbon Footprints | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool You can reduce your own contribution to climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide you release into the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is...
Curated Video
The Nitrogen Cycle | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
The Nitrogen Cycle | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool Nitrogen is essential to life. Plants and animals need nitrogen to make proteins, which are the building blocks of cells. Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air, however,...
Curated Video
Green Chemistry Principles - Catalysis | Environmental Chemistry | FuseSchool
Green Chemistry Principles - Catalysis | Environmental Chemistry | FuseSchool Learn the basics about the principle of green chemistry that concerns catalysis, as a part of environmental chemistry. A catalyst increases the rate of a...
Curated Video
Properties of Sulfur | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Sulfur is the 16th element of the periodic table, and is a non-metal. In its elemental form it is a bright yellow crystalline solid at room temperature. In this video we are going to look at the basic physical and chemical properties of...
Natural History Museum
Clean and Green: Is a Just Energy Revolution Around the Corner? | Our Broken Planet
How can we realise a world in which global communities have access to clean and sustainable energy for generations? Alternatives to fossil fuels are out there, and the clock is ticking to halt the most devastating impacts of climate...