Energy transition is a complex thing, involving technology, the economy, market structures, regulation, a changing climate, politics, and more. So why don\u2019t we teach and study it that way, instead of in siloed disciplines?<\/p>\n
In an effort to encourage more informed and collaborative work\u2014across disciplines, and at appropriately large scales\u2014a group of researchers at Stanford University has proposed a new discipline they are calling \u201cmacro-energy systems.\u201d Its goal is to grapple with the challenges of studying large-scale energy systems, focusing on phenomena that occur over long time spans, large areas, and large scale energy flows.<\/p>\n
In this episode, we speak with one of the professors behind the effort, who explains how bringing together a community of researchers from multiple disciplines to develop a lingua franca and some common frameworks can better equip all researchers to tackle the challenges of climate change and energy transition. She also shares her expertise on the state of carbon capture and storage technologies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Energy transition is complex, and understanding it requires expertise in multiple disciplines, so a group of Stanford researchers proposes to study it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[769,463,88,383,768,84,764,765,158,767,766,300],"class_list":["post-2633","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-biochar","tag-carbon-capture","tag-ccs","tag-clean-coal","tag-complex-systems","tag-economics","tag-macro","tag-macro-energy","tag-macroeconomics","tag-stanford","tag-system-dynamics","tag-teaching","xen_guests-sally-benson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n