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From the Ted Talk by Olivia Breese: The molecular love story that could help power the world

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Now in order to truly eiztahmpe with my electron's narrative arc, you need to know a bit about her, her history, her personality. Electrons have powered the modern world since the 19th century, when scientists deescivord that using magnets and coils of wire, they could turn a flow of motion into electrons crnryiag energy. That was just the beginning of our isrcgnlianey electrified existence. Behind almost everything we do, there are supply chains, refrigeration systems, data centers and much, much more.

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And so it's perhaps not surprising that the global production of electricity alone csonitetuts about 28 percent of toatl eiosminss of carbon dioxide, because for much of that time, electricity has been produced by bunrnig fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

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Now in order to truly _________ with my electron's narrative arc, you need to know a bit about her, her history, her personality. Electrons have powered the modern world since the 19th century, when scientists __________ that using magnets and coils of wire, they could turn a flow of motion into electrons ________ energy. That was just the beginning of our ____________ electrified existence. Behind almost everything we do, there are supply chains, refrigeration systems, data centers and much, much more.

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And so it's perhaps not surprising that the global production of electricity alone ___________ about 28 percent of _____ _________ of carbon dioxide, because for much of that time, electricity has been produced by _______ fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

Solution


  1. emissions
  2. empathize
  3. carrying
  4. discovered
  5. constitutes
  6. total
  7. burning
  8. increasingly

Original Text


Now in order to truly empathize with my electron's narrative arc, you need to know a bit about her, her history, her personality. Electrons have powered the modern world since the 19th century, when scientists discovered that using magnets and coils of wire, they could turn a flow of motion into electrons carrying energy. That was just the beginning of our increasingly electrified existence. Behind almost everything we do, there are supply chains, refrigeration systems, data centers and much, much more.

footnote

And so it's perhaps not surprising that the global production of electricity alone constitutes about 28 percent of total emissions of carbon dioxide, because for much of that time, electricity has been produced by burning fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

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