The climate emergency has pushed me hard into quite a few areas that have a lot of promise for huge impact, to name a few:
- electromobility: concerting bikes, kick-scooters, cars ... this all is much easier than it seems, also has a vibrant open source culture
- demand response in electricity grids has quite a few startups (one of which I just joined) that help integrating a lot of renewables in a way that does not break grid stability
- passivhaus buildings that can save 90% of heating/cooling for 10% extra cost in construction
- storing carbon into buildings with wood/CLT
- plating trees, reforesting deserts etc
- if you really want to go long there are a few fields of microbiology that could reduce our pollution from agriculture a lot
- electromobility: concerting bikes, kick-scooters, cars ... this all is much easier than it seems, also has a vibrant open source culture
- demand response in electricity grids has quite a few startups (one of which I just joined) that help integrating a lot of renewables in a way that does not break grid stability
- passivhaus buildings that can save 90% of heating/cooling for 10% extra cost in construction
- storing carbon into buildings with wood/CLT
- plating trees, reforesting deserts etc
- if you really want to go long there are a few fields of microbiology that could reduce our pollution from agriculture a lot