Name: An Inconvenient Sequel (2017) - A Growing Solar Market Scene (8/10) | Movieclips
Uploaded: 2021-07-19T19:15:04.000Z
Duration: 2 min 28 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Adverbs of manner

Is there any precedent for a technology transfer to happen so quickly?

Well, you all know about computer chips, but let's take a more mundane example.

Adverbs of degree

Uh, cell phones back around 1980, I was in the House of Representatives and I was so excited to buy one of the very first mobile phones.

And now there are more mobile phones than there are people in the world, most of it in developing countries that had no landline telephone grid.

And so they could leapfrog and get telephone service for the first time.

There are a lot of countries where the landline electricity grids are not so great in africa and the indian subcontinent.

Now we're seeing this instead, solar panels.

This one in africa is on the roof of a grass hut.

Parents want, their Children have access to the universe of information chilling a developing country, but it has great policy.

At the end of 2013, they had 11 MW of solar by the end of 2014, more than 400 megawatts.

By the end of last year, more than 800 MW.

So look at what they have under construction this year and under contract to soon begin construction.

And there are other countries and many regions in the world that are poised for this kind of breakout, we are seeing a real turning here on a global basis.

The world gets more energy from the sun each hour than the entire global economy uses for an entire year.

 If we increase the fraction of that that we harvest and use productively, then we can solve that part of the climate crisis. 