The solution to our energy problems is … a toaster - Rachel Yang
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Industrial manufacturers spend a huge amount of energy generating heat to make everyday materials and objects, like cement, steel, and paper. And since most companies use fossil fuels to reach these high temperatures, industrial heat accounts for 20% of our annual global carbon pollution. Thankfully, this is where a century-old technology comes in. Rachel Yang explores how heat batteries work.
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Meet The Creators
- Lesson Plan created by
- Cheney Munson
- Educator
- Rachel Yang
- Director
- Sofia Pashaei
- Narrator
- Pen-Pen Chen
- Composer
- Cem Misirlioglu
- Sound Designer
- Cem Misirlioglu
