Low Carbon Conversations
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom wind and solar to hydrogen and nuclear, Cormac O’Malley explores the challenges and opportunities presented by clean energy technologies with a host of experts from Imperial College London. This podcast is brought to you by the Integrated Development of Low-carbon Energy Systems programme and Energy Futures Lab, Imperial’s global energy institute.
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Episodes
Episode 5 - Rethinking Road Transport
July 28, 2021 00:30 - 43 minutes - 80.4 MBFrom electric vehicles to micromobility, how will we move around in the coming years? In the final episode of the series, Cormac meets Dr Aruna Sivakumar, senior lecturer in travel behaviour and urban systems modelling at the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London and Director of the Urban Systems Lab. Together, they explore the technical challenges and the human behaviours central to road transport decarbonisation, taking in electrification and the emergence of new transport ...
Episode 4 - Hydrogen: What, why and where?
June 29, 2021 00:30 - 37 minutes - 68.3 MBHydrogen has the potential to be a vital piece of the puzzle in creating resilient, low-carbon energy systems. It emits only water when burned and can be produced using power generated from renewables. It's a flexible energy vector, potentially capable of supporting low-carbon transitions in a range of sectors, from heating homes to powering aircraft. However, the extent of its role remains a point of heated debate, with challenges around its high production costs, transportation and storage...
Episode 3 - A Hot Topic
May 27, 2021 00:30 - 42 minutes - 97 MBHot water and heating are staples of modern life and it's sometimes easy to forget that, for most of us, our hot shower in the morning is made possible by burning natural gas. In this episode, Dr Adam Hawkes, Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute, is in the hot seat to explain how heat pumps and hydrogen could decarbonise our heating system. We discuss how the technologies work, the challenges of large-scale deployment, and what conflicts there are with the parallel decarbonisation of th...
Episode 2 - A Tricky Balance
April 26, 2021 09:08 - 20 minutes - 37.8 MBRunning a power system is a delicate balancing act; system operators must carefully match supply and demand around the clock. Typically, that means turning on fossil fuel generators when demand is high, but how can that balance be maintained in a system dominated by renewables? In this episode, Cormac is joined by Dr Luis Badesa, a Research Associate in Imperial College London’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, to discuss the role of ‘inertia’ and explore how an increase ...
Episode 1 - A Powerful Transformation
March 26, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 55.3 MBWhich electricity generation and storage technologies are the best options for meeting our future energy needs in a low-carbon, low-cost way? In this first episode, Cormac meets Dr Marko Aunedi, an expert in energy system modelling whose research investigates cost effective decarbonisation of the electricity system. We find out about the electricity sector in the UK and how it has been undergoing widespread transformation, drastically reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, and what we might ...
Coming Soon: Low Carbon Conversations
March 18, 2021 14:38 - 1 minute - 2.89 MBLow Carbon Conversations is a podcast from the IDLES programme at Imperial College London presented by Cormac O’Malley, an Electrical Engineering PhD student with a research focus on low carbon power system operation. In each episode, Cormac will explore a different technological challenge that needs to be overcome on the road to a Net Zero society and the solutions research can offer. The podcast is supported by Energy Futures Lab, Imperial's energy institute.