Choose one of these videos, look up the words of the vocabulary list and answer the questions. You can use the subtitles and transcript.
The missing link to renewable energy
Vocabulary:
Intermittency
Enabling
Heterodoxies
Electroplating
Grid-level storage
Paradigm
Axiomatically
Abundant
Recedes
Electrometallurgy
Workhorse
Bistro
Questions:
1. In the very
beginning, what does he say a battery could solve?
2. Who invented the
first battery and how does the presenter describe it?
3. Why does he say
that certain parts of the periodic table must be axiomatically off-limits?
4. What does he say is
the economic miracle of modern electrometallurgy?
5. Describe the new
type of battery that the presenter wanted to create.
6. Who built the first
liquid metal battery?
7. Describe the
batteries they (LMBC) make today and the ones they hope to make in the future.
8. What does he say the liquid metal battery
story is a blueprint for, and why?
Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability. IKEA example
Vocabulary:
Scarcity
Blueprint
Impact
Yields
Standards
Codes of conduct
Audit
Discerning
Luxury
Questions:
1. What did he say was
the issue with 3 billion people joining the global middle class?
2. What does he say
about six degrees centigrade and what does he give us as a point of comparison?
3. What are the 3
reasons he gives for making sustainability go from a nice-to-do a must-do?
4. What is the name of
IKEA’s business strategy for sustainability?
5. What was the main
problem people had with sustainability in the past?
6. What was his
argument for LED bulbs versus incandescent? Give the details and numbers he
provided.
7. Explain the Better
Cotton Initiative.
8. Describe IKEA’s
renewable energy situation.
9. What can a business
do today to actually use total value chain to support a better quality of life
and protect children’s rights?
