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Construction currently accounts for a staggering percentage of the world's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions; exploring the world of timber buildings for a more sustainable future.

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S1, EP5 "Maritime"
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S1, EP5 "Maritime"

Shipping companies and engineers create remarkable new machines to make their industry greener, using a resource that has moved man across the world's oceans for thousands of years: wind.

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S1, EP6 "Solar"
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S1, EP6 "Solar"

The sun is the biggest source of energy in the solar system; innovators search for new ways to capture more of the sun's power and make it available through the night, everywhere.

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S2, EP1 "Electric Vehicles"
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S2, EP1 "Electric Vehicles"

The emerging world of electric vehicles, the infrastructure needed for them, and the radical changes needed in the transport industry.

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S2, EP5 "Perpetual Power"
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S2, EP5 "Perpetual Power"

All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem: how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a large scale but at a low cost.

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S2, EP6 "Timber Skyscraper"
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S2, EP6 "Timber Skyscraper"

Construction currently accounts for a staggering percentage of the world's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions; exploring the world of timber buildings for a more sustainable future.

S2, EP5 "Perpetual Power"
Ended

S2, EP5 "Perpetual Power"

All over the world, engineers and scientists are racing to solve one key problem: how to safely and efficiently store electricity at a large scale but at a low cost.

S2, EP4 "The Race to Space"
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S2, EP4 "The Race to Space"

A new era of space is dawning, where small satellites no bigger than a shoe box will be deployed in their thousands, referred to as satellite swarms.

S2, EP3 "Hyperloop"
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S2, EP3 "Hyperloop"

Virgin Hyperloop is a train that runs inside a steel tunnel; this vehicle floats along the track using magnetic levitation and glides at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag; it's fully autonomous and enclosed.


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