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I quit my tech job at the end of last year, and have been working since then to find the most impactful ways that I can combat climate change. I'm currently lo
by oli-hall 7y ago
I quit my tech job at the end of last year, and have been working since then to find the most impactful ways that I can combat climate change.
I'm currently looking into energy storage, particularly batteries, and how to effectively create grid-scale storage to improve the electrical grid and facilitate the uptake of renewable energy.
In the mean time, I started https://www.forgethefuture.com/ https://www.forgethefuture.com/ to compile resources for others, and I run a newsletter off the back of that to keep people up to date with policy, activism and technical changes in the space (https://forgethefuture.substack.com/ https://forgethefuture.substack.com/ if you want to sample it :)). I want to make it easier for people to understand where the biggest problem areas are and how they can be tackled. I'm also a part of https://techimpactmakers.com/ https://techimpactmakers.com/ - a community which brings together technologists concerned about the environment.
As others have said, we have almost all of the technological tools to fix this problem, but government policy moves to slowly to rely on. We need a combination of physical solutions (think the Tesla of energy/agriculture/etc - make a solution that's better than the competition _and_ greener) and activism - showing governments that we care.