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From the Ted Talk by Gavin McCormick: Tracking the whole world's carbon emissions -- with satellites and AI

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You can actually do better than that. Because there are other forms of seltltaies as well. Just like in the movies, we can switch to thermal infrared and we can look at whether pweor plants are hot as well. That matters because that's a completely independent assessment with different satellites and different techniques. So if those two methods agree, that's really encouraging. We found the right answer. You can also look at information like: Downwind from a power plant a little while later, do we see more emissions in the atmosphere where they ought to be? You can even do really subtle things, like you can look at the coniolg water intake valve near a power plant. Using commercial imagery from Planet, we are able to see ripples in a rievr near a power palnt. And that means it's drawing in so much water because it's that hot and pluontlig.

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You can actually do better than that. Because there are other forms of __________ as well. Just like in the movies, we can switch to thermal infrared and we can look at whether _____ plants are hot as well. That matters because that's a completely independent assessment with different satellites and different techniques. So if those two methods agree, that's really encouraging. We found the right answer. You can also look at information like: Downwind from a power plant a little while later, do we see more emissions in the atmosphere where they ought to be? You can even do really subtle things, like you can look at the _______ water intake valve near a power plant. Using commercial imagery from Planet, we are able to see ripples in a _____ near a power _____. And that means it's drawing in so much water because it's that hot and _________.

Solution


  1. satellites
  2. power
  3. polluting
  4. cooling
  5. river
  6. plant

Original Text


You can actually do better than that. Because there are other forms of satellites as well. Just like in the movies, we can switch to thermal infrared and we can look at whether power plants are hot as well. That matters because that's a completely independent assessment with different satellites and different techniques. So if those two methods agree, that's really encouraging. We found the right answer. You can also look at information like: Downwind from a power plant a little while later, do we see more emissions in the atmosphere where they ought to be? You can even do really subtle things, like you can look at the cooling water intake valve near a power plant. Using commercial imagery from Planet, we are able to see ripples in a river near a power plant. And that means it's drawing in so much water because it's that hot and polluting.

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