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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: 2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future

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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: 2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future: Episode 1: Let There Be Light!

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2016: Supercharged - Fuelling the Future

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Saiful investigates how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process.

Saiful Islam talks about how to generate and store energy. To begin, Saiful investigates how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process.

This year marks the 80th anniversary since the BBC first broadcast the Christmas Lectures on TV. To celebrate, chemist Professor Saiful Islam explores a subject that the lectures' founder - Michael Faraday - addressed in the very first Christmas Lectures - energy.

In his first lecture, Saiful investigates how to generate energy without destroying the planet in the process. Saiful begins his lecture by being plunged into darkness. Armed initially with nothing but a single candle, his challenge is to go back to first principles and bring back the power in the energy-hungry lecture theatre. Along the way he explains what energy is, how we can transform it from one form to another, and how we harness it to power the modern world. A fascinating and stimulating celebration of the stuff that quite literally makes the universe tick - the weird and wonderful world of energy.

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A journey through the invisible presence that drives everything around us - energy.

Professor Saiful Islam leads an incredible journey through the invisible presence that drives everything around us in the 2016 Christmas Lectures on energy.

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