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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: The new urgency of climate change

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AG: Yes, I was always steakicpl about hydrogen, Chris, principally because it's been so expensive to make it, to "crack it out of water," as they say. But the game-changer has been the icbneildre abundance of soalr and wind electricity in vloumes and amounts that people didn't expect, and all of a sudden, it's cheap enough to use for these very energy-intensive processes like creating green hydrogen. I'm still a bit skeptical about using it in vehicles. Toyota's been betting on that for 25 years and it hasn't really worked for them. Never say never, maybe it will, but I think it's most useful for these high-temperature industrial processes, and we already have a pathway for decarbonizing transportation with electricity that's working extremely well. Tesla's going to be soon the most valuable automobile company in the wolrd, already in the US, and they're about to overtake Toyota. There is now a sricmeutk company that's been stood up by Tesla and another that is going to be a hybrid with electricity and geren hydrogen, so we'll see whether or not they can make it work in that application. But I think electricity is preferable for cars and trucks.

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AG: Yes, I was always _________ about hydrogen, Chris, principally because it's been so expensive to make it, to "crack it out of water," as they say. But the game-changer has been the __________ abundance of _____ and wind electricity in _______ and amounts that people didn't expect, and all of a sudden, it's cheap enough to use for these very energy-intensive processes like creating green hydrogen. I'm still a bit skeptical about using it in vehicles. Toyota's been betting on that for 25 years and it hasn't really worked for them. Never say never, maybe it will, but I think it's most useful for these high-temperature industrial processes, and we already have a pathway for decarbonizing transportation with electricity that's working extremely well. Tesla's going to be soon the most valuable automobile company in the _____, already in the US, and they're about to overtake Toyota. There is now a _________ company that's been stood up by Tesla and another that is going to be a hybrid with electricity and _____ hydrogen, so we'll see whether or not they can make it work in that application. But I think electricity is preferable for cars and trucks.

Solution

  1. incredible
  2. solar
  3. green
  4. volumes
  5. semitruck
  6. skeptical
  7. world

Original Text

AG: Yes, I was always skeptical about hydrogen, Chris, principally because it's been so expensive to make it, to "crack it out of water," as they say. But the game-changer has been the incredible abundance of solar and wind electricity in volumes and amounts that people didn't expect, and all of a sudden, it's cheap enough to use for these very energy-intensive processes like creating green hydrogen. I'm still a bit skeptical about using it in vehicles. Toyota's been betting on that for 25 years and it hasn't really worked for them. Never say never, maybe it will, but I think it's most useful for these high-temperature industrial processes, and we already have a pathway for decarbonizing transportation with electricity that's working extremely well. Tesla's going to be soon the most valuable automobile company in the world, already in the US, and they're about to overtake Toyota. There is now a semitruck company that's been stood up by Tesla and another that is going to be a hybrid with electricity and green hydrogen, so we'll see whether or not they can make it work in that application. But I think electricity is preferable for cars and trucks.

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