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The Engineers-20210822-09:35:00

so, silicon is a semiconductor. that's the material that's used to absorb sunlight and generate electricity in a solar cell. it works by absorbing sunlight, particles of sunlight, that we call photons, they carry energy, they're absorbed in the silicon and what they do is give electrons in that silicon extra kinetic energy, the energy from the photons transferred to the electrons, and those electrons, with that energy, can move around and they're freed from the lattice — they're freed from being bound and localised. and that's the current, in essence, those moving electrons, that if we contact the silicon on either side we can extract in an external circuit and generate current and voltage from the material. now, in terms of the limitations, if we look at what's the optimum efficiency a single solar absorber material could be, like silicon, they top out at about 25%. that's really the practical limit for an actual solar panel

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State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash-20210822-16:16:00

talk with us. what is the situation right now. what kind of deterioration are you seeing? what are you witnesses? >> first, fredicka, thanks for having us on again. yes, the ocean state has a storm that's on our borders right now. right now what we're asking rhode islanders to stay safe. i've asked yesterday and again this morning for people to stay at home. be safe rather than sorry. earlier this morning we had a press event. we were about 8,000 people out of electricity. right now ap etch proing almost ten times that, and expecting to be over 100,000 in a state of a million people. we're very concerned about the impact the storm is having on us. i'm calling from the west lee station. i heard storm talk about the impact of sandy in 2010. we got crushed here in west

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Alex Witt Reports-20210822-16:52:00

what keeps you up at night when you think about a storm like this. what's the worst case scenario? >> last night it was the combination of wind, rain and the storm surge that was keeping me up and making sure our team was ready for this. thankfully we haven't been hit as hard as we thought. we are not out of the woods yet. the after math of the storm is where our team has the most work keeping residents safe, getting power back on and making sure residents, for example, seniors have electricity so they can keep their medicine cold. there's a lot of health and safety risks when people lose electricity. >> best of luck riding out the storm. we have reestablished connection. we come to you because henri has made landfall about 25 miles or so away from where you are.

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The Engineers-20210822-09:54:00

seeing variation that we can tap into — if the sun is not shining here, the wind is blowing there. if it's very hot and sunny here, you've got hydropower or wind power, in another region. connecting us will be a very big part of that. the second part that's quite related is demand response. so how can those who are transmitting and distributing this electricity get signals back from industry or homes that they can, without the user noticing, reduce the load, either change the — turn off the defrost cycle of the freezer for 15 minutes, not even noticeable. 0r reduce the temperature of a cooling. these are the types of responses that we are going to have to get used to, it's not central hub and spoke, we're all part of this new electrical system together and having us connected and having there be signals going both ways from generation to load is going to be a part of making it a more efficient global system ultimately. thank you so much.

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CNN Newsroom-20210822-02:33:00

let's start with the story that is about to impact about 40 million people. hurricane henri is threatening with damaging winds, storm surges, flooding and power outages. the storm could crash into long island or southern new england sunday at or near hurricane strength. in kansas could lose electricity because of the storm and people are being told to prepare for the worst. let's go now and get the latest on where the storm is headed to tyler who's tracking henri from the cnn weather center. good evening, tyler, so what's the latest? >> hey. we're seeing showers and thunderstorms beginning to pop up on radar. you can see the outer bands moving north. companies are going to go downhill in the northeast and new england, as we get past midnight. right now henri is a

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Alex Witt Reports-20210822-16:14:00

and all the dots, the water was right up on it. if we have rain and another high tide with the full moon tonight, chances are we're going to have some flooding throughout newport. right now i know that there's approximately 3,000 homes out of electricity of the 14,000 residents. >> wow. 3,000 people who are thinking no thank you and certainly after dealing with that headache. let's take a listen to what rhode island governor dan mckey had to say a few hours ago. here it is. >> our latest update continues to show that rhode island will feel heavy impacts of high wind, loss of power and flooding. we expect that to start happening over the next one to two hours. yesterday we asked you to prepare for the storm.

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State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash-20210822-16:17:00

early rhode island. i'm down at the police department, with our police department, public safety, state police. so we're in the middle of the eye of the storm, but we do have our emergency management people that have done this before. i have as a mayor and now governor, new governor as of march. so we're ready. yesterday we did talk to the president, president biden, with governors from connecticut, new york, massachusetts, new jersey, and we did have a state of emergency signed by the president yesterday. he committed support during the storm and also on a quick recovery that we're hopefully going to work as hard as we can to get everybody back. we're facing 90-degree weather on tuesday and wednesday and thursday. if we're without electricity,

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The Engineers-20210822-09:52:00

locations where it's possible to have it _ the risk is, as you mentioned, l it's a challenge, an engineering challenge, to handle that amount of heat and amount of energy, i but it's still fairly solvable, j it's solved in a lot of power plants, so i think we'll see more and more of them, i but the scale is really hard. it's hard to scale that up to cover huge amount i of the world's energy needs. you'll cover percentages, but you're not going - to cover 100% of the world. the world is a big battery, but it's hard to harvest it. | thank you so much. i'm going to come back to the room here at the victoria and albert museum and see if there are any questions. and there's one over to my right there. thank you. jane sutton from the royal academy of engineering. just on your point about balancing demand. a few years ago, there was a lot of chat about a european super grid to share renewable electricity, and we've even had a presentation

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CNN Newsroom Live-20210822-08:54:00

however, if the weather continues like this, it could lead to a crisis in our community. >> reporter: some of the most vulnerable are facing what the index calls a deadly combination of extreme climate hazards. according to the report, one billion children are highly exposed to extremery high levels of air pollution. 920 million to water security. 820 million to heat waves. 400 million to cyclones. >> i have such vivid memories of doing my homework by the candlelight. wiping out electricity and my own bedroom as i would wake up and my story is already such a privileged one. >> sadly her story is likely to become more common among young people around the world as they face a climate crisis from which virtually none can escape. >> hurricane henri forced the big apple to cancel what was

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CNN Newsroom Live-20210822-05:55:00

decide which crops to grow. some may be resolved to planting small crops. however, if the weather continues like this, it could lead to a serious crisis in my community. >> reporter: some of the most vulnerable are facing what the index calls a deadly combination of extreme-climate hazards. according to the report, 1 billion children are highly exposed to extremely high levels of air pollution. 920 million, to water security. 820 million to heat waves. 400 million to cyclones. >> i have such vivid memories of doing my homework by the candlelight as typhoons raged outside. wiping out the electricity. growing up, being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom. and my story is only such a privileged one. >> reporter: sadly, her story is likely to become more common among young people around the world as they face a climate crisis from which virtually none can escape. kim brunhuber, cnn.

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