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Patricia Espinosa and Susan Stone on the role of technology in combating climate change

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The Scale of Architectural Glass

There are 20 billion square feet of glass installed in architectural settings around the world every year. Almost every building, almost very piece of window glass you can buy to day has those two ot basic technologies embedded in them. If we can transform that into active electricity generating glass and not change anything else, for us as usurs, we can set almost ten % of global carbon emissions by just generating electricity at the building and not changing anything else. Andd reallya if we can get to mass adoption, for there're plenty of technologies like that. Ih, that that presents a challenge in that we have a lot of existing building stock that we need to transform. But it ougt to

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