Energy Systems: Transition & Innovation | Vaclav Smil
Published 2019-09-04
• Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy).
• Interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of energy, environmental and demographic change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.
• Author of 40 books and nearly 500 papers on these topics.
• In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 global thinkers and in 2013 he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada.
• He worked as a consultant for many US, EU and international institutions, has been an invited speaker in more than 400 conferences and workshops in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has lectured at many universities in North America, Europe and East Asia.
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All Comments (21)
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Until I read Vaclav Smil I did not realize how I could think about solutions and understand problems at a global scale using the fundamentals of energy and growth and energy use statistics. Scale is important and for understanding how viable change can be.
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"Everything I know, like 99.9% I've read it in the books" Vaclav Smil. A life lesson!
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What a clever man, wonderful to listen to someone making sense in these stupid times.
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Energizing! So pleasure to listen to Prof Vaclav Smil.
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2019: "It's about growth of bacteria because when bacteria and viruses grow out of proportion well you can get a pandemic and it can kill like half of the humanity" 2020: ...
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Wow! Listen from 38:19 for just 10 seconds to see how prescient Smil is and how important his work continues to be!
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I had to check, if I had playing speed still at 1.75x, as usually. And no! He is just an intellectual sprinter. :)) Great talk.
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I love that he called Elon musk the greatest swindler ever. So true
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What a stunning time to be alive
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If innovations and research were done with the wellbeing of humanity and the echosystem in mind instead of Greed and profit. As long as the driving force is wealth, profit, the progress will be flawed. It's important to be dedicated and sincere about the wellbeing and peaceful progress of humanity. A new greed free mentality will bring a much more important progress of happiness for humanity.
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This guy the optimist of skepticism
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09:10 To say I believe in global warming is the same as to say I believe in rain. Hahah. Love it!
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Fortran , your one of the last hardest programmers in the planet
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Simply the best!
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Great scientist from Czechia!
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Human is nothing but a fact of series events that he'll adapt to it which is called habits! We create habit and get to used to live by the way we taught and developed
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Dr. Smil need to read the book, Electrify: An optimists playbook for a clean energy future. He would learn exactly how we can provide clean, efficient electric heating for everyone who needs it. He needs to update his thinking!
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What year was this recorded
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Thank you.
