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Lei Zhang

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107 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Natural energy, agriculture, then transferred to muscle power.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Since the revolution, our global GDP expanded 100 times because we are using 100 times more energy.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

So abundant fossil fuel energy has been turned and created forces to drive the machines, created materials like steel, created fertilizer to improve the food production.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Today, it's even creating tremendous intelligence for humanity.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

So how can we unlock such a big potential from desert to push humanity to a next level of prosperity?

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Because when our solar radiation is able to meet our entire annual demand of energy, it is free and it is green.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

In front of Gobi,

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

we have to solve three challenges.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

The first one, how can we capture the rough and the raw wind energy?

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Just as steam engine is able to turn coal energy into motion, we end up with wind turbine to capture wind energy to turn into electricity.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Most importantly,

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

is to really design a wind turbine that is able to survive in extreme wind conditions in the desert.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Secondly, how can we avoid building long-distance or thousand-mile transmission lines, which are costly and extremely expensive?

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

We end up with the largest off-grid renewable system by integrating wind turbine, solar panel storage with AI orchestrations.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Okay, then the last remaining challenge.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

How can we utilize such abundant locally made electricity?

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

we end up with a solution to build net zero industrial park, which is going to produce energy-intensive products like batteries and green hydrogen and ammonia, those green molecules.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Why green ammonia?

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

One ton of green ammonia is able to hold 10,000 kilowatt-hour electricity.

TED Talks Daily
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang

Most importantly, the green molecule is so important for us to decarbonize our economic system.