An optimist’s guide to reinventing sustainable industry | Yet-Ming Chiang | TEDxBoston
It’s easy to feel gloom and doom in conversations about the climate change crisis. This celebrated engineer argues in every crisis there is opportunity. Technology is accelerating rapidly and the clean energy transition is well underway. Still, industry is a material-hungry system often relying on dirty practices like mining and smelting to source raw material. What if we could leverage science and tech to find cleaner solutions? Innovation in leading labs are driving a startup ecosystem to create and scale novel approaches to hundreds-year-old industry processes. By fundamentally reimagining the way we make and store energy, other clean innovations are emerging—from green steel production to emission-free cement. Yet-Ming Chiang is a Taiwanese-American materials scientist and engineer, who is currently the Kyocera Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been influential in the development of new materials for energy storage, transfer, and power of a variety of different devices and vehicles. Chiang was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the understanding of new energy storage materials and their commercialization. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
