Chasing Carbon Zero Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 6 | 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Here’s how the U.S. could reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Can the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. Here’s the technology that could get us there.
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Chasing Carbon Zero Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 6 | 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Can the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. Here’s the technology that could get us there.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] What would it take?
- We are at a critical point in our history right now.
- [Narrator] To cut emissions to zero.
- We need our electricity, our power plants to be zero carbon.
- [Narrator] Do we have the technology?
- This is something that just a few years ago was considered impossible.
- We wanna turn buildings into Teslas, smart, green, healthy, all electric.
- It's not just about designing something.
You gotta figure out how to build it.
- [Narrator] "Chasing Carbon Zero" on NOVA.
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