When I think of sustainability I think of ways that we can tackle the climate problem in a way that is both environmentally friendly but also economically sustainable. Some things that I think of:
- Off shore wind energy
- Optimizing the energy grid using machine learning
- Battery batteries
- Electric vehicles
- Also better buildings, ex using HVAC
- Figuring out ways that we can better approach carbon capture and utilization, so that there is an incentive for companies to participate in it
- 45Q, a government tax credit encouraging companies to partake in carbon capture.
Inspirational examples:
- Tesla
- Paris Climate Agreement
- Form Energy (working on long term energy storage)
- Cool paper that i read which indicates different ways to tackle climate change with AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05433