What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is possible. Energy policy analyst Ksenia Petrichenko has a three-tiered strategy for thinking differently about buildings, transforming them from passive users to active players in the energy system and bringing us closer to our climate targets.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.8	Zanya Petrochinco wants to see buildings improve their energy efficiency.
0:18.1	For obvious reasons, it would lower emissions in our effort to curb climate change.
0:23.1	But in her 2022 talk from Ted Countdown London Session, the policy analyst says buildings
0:28.2	don't just have to be passive consumers in the energy system, but can be active producers
0:33.7	if they're working smarter and more sustainably.
0:36.7	How?
0:37.7	After the break.
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0:44.7	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me.
0:47.3	You might wonder, could my place be an Airbnb?
0:50.0	And if it could, what could it earn?
0:52.6	You could be sitting on an Airbnb and not even know it.
0:57.2	Maybe your kids have gone off to university and you suddenly have an extra bedroom or two.
1:01.1	You could Airbnb one and make money while they're away.
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1:15.4	Slash host.
1:16.4	What's up with the weather?
1:19.6	If you're confused about climate change, there's a show for you.
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