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El santo grial en el mundo de la energía renovable | Juan Camus | TEDxPUCdeChile


let’s think a little about what was the morning of
today for each one of us
probably everyone heard the
cell that was connected
to the plug they left him carrying the
night they were the kitchen they put water in
either in the kettle or in a heater
bread in the ham or cheese toaster
refrigerator would go to here or
driving or by metro or bicycle
each one of those activities one what
think in detail has a component
deep imbued energy
and that should not get our attention
because from the industrial revolution to
the date the energy consumption of each
one of our daily activities in
professionally and personally it has been
constant growing
and will still be so if one
look at the little per capita consumption of
each of the Chileans represents almost
one third of what countries like
sweden and a quarter of what of what
consume per capita countries like Norway
and if one thinks of China and India,
is concentrated more than a third of the
population of our planet
there is still a lot of consumption of
energy to grow from level to level per
capita but this has had a
consequence
has had profound consequences in
our atmosphere and the effects of
climate change and the main reason for
this has to do with the generation
Electricity and energy consumption
mainly we have obtained it from the
Burning fossil fuels either
oil coal and natural gas and
Their derivatives
and the consequences of these massive
greenhouse gas emissions in
our country at least and probably in
good part of the world have been super
latent the constant droughts in the
torrential center and south zone
rains in the northern area where
historically
there is rather a climate a dry climate
then we already have two paradigms
On the one hand we burn to consume
energy and we know that we’re going to get
consume much more energy than
we are consuming today and we have a
climate change challenge and answer what
planet we are going to give to the future
generations this paradigm is solved
basically passing one of a matrix
what is
imbued
the burning fossil fuels makes a
clean energy matrix and good
news for chile and these are
official results the last
bidding of distributors is that the
solar energy in chile with levels
of radiation that we have is a third
cheaper than the energy produced with
carbon
but given that if one looks at the
the production statistics of
energy of the year 2016 is still two
thirds of our matrix coming from
fossil fuels then what is it
what’s going on there because if a
cheaper energy if it’s cleaner
we continue to generate energy through
fossil fuels and the reason
main has to do with the curve of
demand in Chile the demand for energy
it’s practically flat during the day and
during the night and solar energy and
also the wind only produce
when the resource is available or
the daylight hours or when the
wind and that is not necessarily
compatible with a demand that is
continues during the day and during
night then the key to solve
this this juncture has to see how
we store energy in a way
tremendously efficient to fill the
spaces where the resource is not
available if we use solar energy
that cheap and clean energy for
store it and deliver it at night and
in the early morning
and again northern Chile offers
a tremendously creative solution for
solve this problem and offer it to
through geography where finally
what we have are two bodies of water
which are linked together to
through tunnels at different heights
then when we have access from
energy what we do we occupy excess
to raise water from a reservoir
inferior to a superior one and when we have
energy deficit that water that is
up is potential energy that is
available to be generated through
a conventional hydraulic system like
those that exist in the Cordillera de la
south-central area of our country if one
short a profile of the north basically is
what we see we have the sea that is infinite
we have a mountain range that gives us the
height and on this mountain range a
cliff
that allows us to store water in a
tremendously efficient because there is no
to do dams and these two bodies
of water in height are very close one
of the other with this the great advantage that
we have with chile is that not only
We can produce solar energy more
cheap in the world but we can also
store it tremendously
efficient and thus be able to offer energy
Chilean clean continuous and cheap during
24 hours a day
when we learn a light
or wake up in the morning I think that
the future of chile is aimed at that
energy that we are occupying is 100%
renewable thank you very much
[Applause]
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