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Today we are focusing on one of the biggest issues facing our planet's future and the innovative ways one company is looking to tackle it.

今天我們要聚焦在我們星球未來面臨的最大問題之一，以及一家公司如何創新地解決它。

It's a crucial part of our everyday lives.

這是我們日常生活裡非常重要的一部分。

But as the global population continues to grow, so does its toll on our planet.

但隨著全球人口不斷增長，對我們星球的影響也越來越大。

Pollution from our constantly increasing demand for energy has long been a key driver of the climatic and environmental disruption we're seeing.

我們對能源不斷增加的需求所造成的汙染，長期以來一直是我們看到的氣候變遷幹擾和環境變遷幹擾的主要驅動因素。

Greenhouse gases and other emissions are raising global temperatures, acidifying our oceans and fueling extreme weather events.

溫室氣體和其他排放物正在提高全球溫度，酸化我們的海洋，並助長極端天氣事件。

This has led scientists from around the world to focus on developing clean, sustainable ways to help fuel fuel the future.

這促使世界各地的科學家們專注於開發清潔、可持續的方式來為未來提供動力。

And one of the minds behind this movement, Dr.

而這股運動背後的一位重要人物，Dr.

Lonnie Johnson, right here in Atlanta, Georgia, we got an all access look at how he and his team at jtech Energy are developing ways to turn waste heat into clean, sustainable energy.

Lonnie Johnson，就在喬治亞州的亞特蘭大，我們獨家直擊了他和他的 jtech Energy 團隊，如何將廢熱轉化為清潔、可持續的能源。

Dr. Lonnie Johnson is a man who needs no introduction, and his story reads like a movie script.

Dr. Lonnie Johnson 的名號無人不知，他的故事就像電影劇本一樣精彩。

The engineer, inventor and entrepreneur rose from a childhood in a deeply segregated Alabama to become one of the brightest minds of his generation.

這位工程師、發明家和企業家，從阿拉巴馬州種族隔離嚴重的童年，成長為他這一代最傑出的頭腦之一。

He holds more than 100 patents and worked on nuclear powered deep space probes for NASA and stealth bombers for the U.S.

他擁有超過 100 項專利，並曾為 NASA 研發核動力深空探測器，也為美國

But he's also the mind behind one of the best selling toys of all time, the Super Soaker.

但他也是史上最暢銷玩具之一「超級泡泡槍」的幕後推手。

Super Soaker MDS gives water guns a whole new twist.

超級泡泡槍 MDS 讓水槍有了全新的玩法。

You know, the human beings, creativity, problem solving, it's what we're built to do.

人類啊，創造力、解決問題，這就是我們天生的使命。

These days, he's turned his focus to our planet's energy crisis and the jtech, which stands for Johnson thermoelectrochemical Converter.

這幾年，他將重心轉向我們星球的能源危機，以及 jtech，也就是 Johnson thermoelectrochemical Converter。

It creates energy using an incredibly unique technique that he hopes will help solve one of humanity's biggest issues.

它利用一種非常獨特的方法來產生能源，他希望這能幫助解決人類面臨的最大問題之一。

A lot of the conflicts that you see in the world are centered on energy, oil.

你看到世界上許多衝突都圍繞著能源、石油打轉。

So if we could reduce our dependence on oil, we'd not only improve the environment, but

所以如果我們能減少對石油的依賴，我們不僅能改善環境，

we'd also have one less thing to fight about.

So I think energy is very important, but he's not doing it alone.

所以我認為能源非常重要，但他不是一個人單打獨鬥。

He's got a whole team of bright minds helping make this a reality.

他有一整個團隊的聰明才智在協助實現這個目標。

And they're still pinching themselves that they've come this far.

他們到現在都還覺得不可思議，竟然能走到這一步。

Lonnie is a extraordinary scientist, engineer, inventor.

Lonnie 是一位傑出的科學家、工程師、發明家。

He puts on his lab coat, he wants to be in the lab, he's running experiments, he's trying to figure out the next big thing.

他穿上實驗袍，想待在實驗室裡，進行實驗，努力找出下一個偉大的發明。

His mind just works on a different plane.

The idea of taking waste heat, geothermal heat, all this heat that comes out of your car exhaust, comes out of your chimney of the factory.

將廢熱、地熱，所有從汽車排氣管、工廠煙囪冒出來的熱能。

If we could capture that and convert that directly into electricity at high efficiency, it truly could be a big solution to the world's energy needs.

如果我們能捕捉這些熱能，並以高效率直接轉換成電力，這真的能成為解決世界能源需求的重大方案。

You may be wondering how exactly this process works.

你可能會想知道這個過程到底是如何運作的。

這時候 Julian Bell 就派上用場了。

He's the VP of engineering at jtech and he gave us an up close look at the process in real time.

他是 jtech 的工程副總，他讓我們近距離、即時地瞭解這個過程。

What the J Tech device does at its simplest level is it takes waste heat, basically the heat that's produced by industrial processes and converts it into electricity at much higher efficiencies than competing technologies, at potentially much lower temperatures than competing technologies.

J Tech 裝置最簡單的作用，就是將廢熱，也就是工業製程產生的熱能，以比現有技術高得多的效率，而且可能比現有技術在更低的溫度下，轉換成電力。

You put waste heat in one side, electrical power comes out the other side.

你把廢熱從一邊放進去，電力就從另一邊出來。

Do you want to see how we actually do that?

你想看看我們是怎麼做到的嗎？

So like I said, we're feeding waste heat into the jtech through, through this line here.

就像我說的，我們正透過這條線把廢熱送進 jtech。

The waste heat can be sent to one of the 1, 2, 3, 4 reactors that we have on this particular device.

廢熱可以送到我們這個裝置上的 1、2、3、4 個反應器中的一個。

So what's happening right now actually is we are feeding waste heat into reactor number three here.

所以現在我們正在把廢熱送進第三號反應器。

You can see this light is on this reactor here, which is full of hydrogen and is increasing in pressure, is pumping hydrogen out.

你可以看到這個反應器上的燈亮著，它充滿了氫氣，壓力正在增加，正在輸出氫氣。

This reactor over here, which is kept being kept cold and is sucking hydrogen and is pulling that hydrogen back in.

這個反應器則保持低溫，正在吸入氫氣，並將氫氣抽回。

And that's how we close this hydrogen cycle to produce power.

這就是我們如何完成這個氫氣循環來產生電力。

So you're kind of using the same hydrogen all the time.

所以你們其實一直在重複使用相同的氫氣。

That's how we manage to make this system work without having to add any fuel.

這就是我們如何在不添加任何燃料的情況下，讓這個系統運作的。

All we're doing is pumping the hydrogen from one place to another place and then back again.

我們所做的，只是把氫氣從一個地方抽到另一個地方，然後再抽回來。

So if the reactors are one of the two kind of core things that make a jtec, a jtec, the stacks are the other ones.

所以，如果說反應器是 jtec 的兩個核心要素之一，那麼堆疊（stacks）就是另一個。

Inside the stacks are the magic component, the membranes that make hydrogen fuel cells work.

在堆疊裡面，有著讓氫燃料電池運作的關鍵組件：膜。

The hydrogen can't sneak its way through that membrane.

So it has to do this really cool trick where the hydrogen separates into two hydrogen atoms.

所以它必須做一個很酷的操作，把氫氣分離成兩個氫原子。

The hydrogen atoms release their electrons to become protons, and

氫原子釋放電子變成質子，然後

then at that point, those protons can wiggle through the membrane.

接著，這些質子就可以穿過薄膜了。

The electrons meanwhile, though, have to find their way back to the those protons.

而電子呢，就必須繞路回到那些質子身邊。

And we make them go through a specific path to do that.

我們讓它們走一條特定的路徑來達成這件事。

We make them actually come out still confused.

我們讓它們出來的時候，其實還是有點困惑。

Let's break this down even further and science teachers feel free to jump in and back me up here.

我們再把這個概念講得更仔細一點，各位科學老師們，隨時可以加入並支持我喔。

Think of it like going through the security line at an airport.

想像一下，就像在機場過安檢一樣。

The electrons are your bags, and the checkpoint is the membrane.

電子就是你的行李，而檢查哨就是那層薄膜。

As your electrons detach and pass through a load, they create electricity.

當你的電子分離並通過負載時，它們就會產生電力。

You, you become a proton and pass through the checkpoint, meeting back up on the other side to reform hydrogen gas.

你，你就變成一個質子，通過檢查哨，在另一邊重新與電子結合，形成氫氣。

The process is repeated over and over, and the more heat you add, the faster it becomes.

這個過程會不斷重複，你加入的熱量越多，速度就越快。

So would you like to see this thing do something useful with the power producer?

所以，你想不想看看這個東西利用發電機能做些有用的事？

Yeah, I want to see how waste heat was turned into something we can actually see.

對啊，我想看看廢熱是怎麼變成我們實際看得到東西的。

This device here is what's called a boost converter.

It's going to take the power that's coming from the J Tech and boost it into a range that's useful to us.

它會接收來自 J Tech 的電力，然後將其提升到我們能使用的範圍。

With a mic in my hand and we have a tribe called Quest.

我手裡拿著麥克風，我們有個叫 Tribe Called Quest 的團體。

All this water that's not even hot enough to make a cup of coffee.

這些水其實不夠熱到能泡一杯咖啡。

Using that to generate electricity and throw a party.

用這些水來發電，然後辦個派對。

Okay, so now that we have an idea of how this all works, where could we see jtech help create power in the real world?

好的，現在我們對這一切的運作方式有個概念了，jtech 在現實世界中，有哪些地方可以幫助創造電力呢？

Turns out one potential application involves something we've been talking about a lot lately.

原來其中一個潛在的應用，跟我們最近常討論到的東西有關。

Tech giants are in a heated race to dominate the AI landscape and building thousands of data centers to do it.

科技巨頭們正在激烈競爭，爭奪人工智慧領域的主導權，並為此建造了數千個資料中心。

The Department of Energy has estimated data centers could consume up to 12% of U.S.

能源部估計，到 2028 年，資料中心可能會消耗高達美國 12% 的電力。

But our aging power grid may not be ready for the massive demand increase increase.

但我們老舊的電網可能無法應付巨大的需求增加。

And many households could end up footing the bill for power increases.

而許多家庭最終可能得為電費上漲買單。

Plus, not only do data centers consume a lot of power, they generate a lot of heat.

而且，資料中心不僅耗電量大，還會產生大量熱能。

Jtech CEO Mike McQuarrie or McQ, says it's the perfect environment for a JTEC to thrive.

jtech 執行長 Mike McQuarrie 或稱 McQ 表示，這是 JTEC 生長的絕佳環境。

The proliferation of data centers is almost unimaginable.

資料中心的擴散幾乎是難以想像的。

當然，AI 驅動了其中很大一部分，但。

而且它們都會散發出大量的熱氣。

So the heat isn't high, but the amount of heat is spectacular.

所以熱度不高，但熱量的總量非常驚人。

So what we're doing is we're starting to work with data centers to figure out how can we put a JTEC in the stream of that waste heat to create your own electricity.

所以我們正在做的是，我們開始與資料中心合作，找出如何將 JTEC 放置在廢熱的流動中，來創造自己的電力。

So you take some of the burden off of the grid so the local community doesn't have to worry about our power bills are going to go up because we're competing with that.

這樣可以減輕電網的負擔，讓當地社區不必擔心我們的電費會上漲，因為我們正在與之競爭。

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