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Grand Challenge 5 How We Keep Cool and Stay Warm (8:17)

Key Ideas

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Key Ideas

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  1. 01:08 How is Grand Challenge 5: How We Keep Cool and Stay Warm one big feedback loop, meaning its effects ultimately become its main driver?
  2. 01:31 How do air conditioners and heating methods produce carbon emissions?
  3. 02:05 Why is demand for air conditioners and heaters expected to rise in the future?
  4. 04:18 What are the Solutions for the How We Keep Cool and Stay Warm Grand Challenge?
  5. 05:42 What are heat pumps? Why are they significant to reducing emissions from heating and cooling?
  6. 06:32 Describe one obstacle to the widespread adoption of heat pumps.