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Kevin Surace: Eco-friendly drywall
Kevin Surace inventeazǎ gipscartonul ecologic
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Kevin Surace sugereazǎ sǎ regândim materialele de construcţii -- precum eternul gipscarton -- pentru a reduce uriaşa amprentǎ CO2 generatǎ de producţia acestora şi construirea clǎdirilor. El ne prezintǎ EcoRock, un gipscarton curat, reciclabil şi eficient energetic, creat de echipa lui de la Serious Materials.
Kevin Surace - Engineer, executive
Kevin Surace is looking at the climate crisis from an engineer's perspective -- and creating products that prove there's no piece of our daily lives we can't redesign to be cleaner and greener. Full bio
Kevin Surace is looking at the climate crisis from an engineer's perspective -- and creating products that prove there's no piece of our daily lives we can't redesign to be cleaner and greener. Full bio
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What's happening to the climate?
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Ce se întâmplǎ cu clima?
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It is unbelievably bad.
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Este incredibil de rǎu.
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This is, obviously, that famous view now of the Arctic,
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Asta-i, evident, imaginea aceea faimoasǎ asupra Arcticii
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which is likely to be gone at this point
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ce va dispǎrea în curând
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in the next three or four or five years. Very, very, very scary.
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în urmǎtorii tre, sau patru, sau cinci ani. Foarte, foarte înfricoşǎtor
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So we all look at what we can do.
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Şi cu toţii ne gândim la ce-am putea face.
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And when you look at the worldwide sources of CO2,
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Şi când te uiţi la sursele globale de CO2
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52 percent are tied to buildings.
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52 la sutǎ sunt din construcţii.
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Only nine percent is passenger cars, interestingly enough.
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Doar nouǎ la sutǎ de la automobile, ca un fapt interesant.
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So we ran off to a sushi bar.
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Aşa cǎ a fugit la un sushi-bar
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And at that sushi bar we came up with a great idea.
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Şi la acel sushi-bar ne-a venit o idee minunatǎ.
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And it was something called EcoRock.
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Ceva numit EcoRock.
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And we said we could redesign the 115-year-old
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Şi am zis cǎ vom regândi, dupǎ 115 ani,
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gypsum drywall process that generates
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procesul de fabricare a gipscartonul, ce produce
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20 billion pounds of CO2 a year.
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9 miliarde de kilograme de CO2 anual.
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So it was a big idea. We wanted to reduce that by 80 percent,
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Era deci o idee mǎreaţǎ. Vroiam sǎ reducem asta cu 80 la sutǎ.
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which is exactly what we've done.
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Şi exact asta am şi fǎcut.
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We started R&D in 2006.
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Am început cercetǎrile şi dezvoltarea în 2006.
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Decided to use recycled content from cement
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Am hotǎrât sǎ folosim materiale rǎmase din procesul
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and steel manufacturing.
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de fabricare a cimentului şi oţelului.
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There is the inside of our lab. We haven't shown this before.
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Asta-i în laboratorul nostru. Nu v-am arǎtat asta pânǎ acum.
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But our people had to do some 5,000
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Personalul nostru a încercat peste 5000
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different mixes to get this right, to hit our targets.
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de combinaţii diferite s-o obţinem pe cea optimǎ.
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And they worked absolutely very, very, very hard.
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Şi au muncit extraordinar de mult.
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So then we went forward and built our production line in China.
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Apoi, pasul urmǎtor a fost sǎ construim o linie de producţie în China.
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We don't build this production equipment any longer in the U.S., unfortunately.
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Nu mai facem echipamente de producţie în Statele Unite, din pǎcate.
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We did the line install over the summer.
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Am instalat linia în timpul verii.
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We started right there, with absolutely nothing.
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Am început acolo, de la absolut nimic.
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You're seeing for the first time, a brand new drywall production line,
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Ce vedeţi în premierǎ, este o nouǎ linie de producţie a gipscartonului
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not made using gypsum at all.
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în care nu se foloseşte gips deloc.
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That's the finished production line there.
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Iatǎ şi linia de producţie terminatǎ.
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We got our first panel out on December third.
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Am scos primul panou pe 3 Decembrie.
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That is the slurry being poured onto paper, basically. That's the line running.
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În principiu, aceea este pasta ce se toarnǎ pe hârtie, pe linie.
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The exciting thing is, look at the faces of the people.
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Sunt minunate feţele oamenilor, uitaţi-vǎ şi voi.
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These are people who worked this project for two to three years.
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Sunt oamenii care au lucrat la acest proiect timp de doi-trei ani.
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And they are so excited. That's the first board off the line.
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Şi sunt entuziasmaţi. Acela e primul placaj fǎcut.
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Our Vice President of Operation kissing the board. Obviously very, very excited.
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Vicepreşedintele secţiei de producţie sǎrutǎ placajul. Evident, foarte bucuros.
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But this has a huge, huge impact on the environment.
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Şi asta va avea un impact imens asupra mediului.
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We signed the first panel just a few weeks after that, had a great signing ceremony,
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Am semnat primul placaj la câteva sǎptǎmâni dupǎ aia, în cadrul unei ceremonii.
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leading to people hopefully using these products across the world.
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Sperǎm ca oamenii din întreaga lume sǎ ajungǎ sǎ foloseascǎ acest produs.
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And we've got Cradle-to-Cradle Gold on this thing.
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Am primit Cradle to Cradle Gold pe acest produs.
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We happened to win, just recently, the Green Product of the Year
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Am câştigat, de curând, premiul "Produsul Verde al Anului"
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for "The Re-Invention of Drywall," from Popular Science.
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pentru "Re-Inventarea Gipscartonului", oferit de Popular Science
02:09
Thank you. Thank you.
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Vǎ mulţumesc. Vǎ mulţumesc
02:11
So here is what we learned: 8,000 gallons of gas
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Şi iatǎ ce am învǎţat. 30.000 de litrii de benzinǎ
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equivalent to build one house.
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echivaleazǎ cu a construi o casǎ.
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You probably had no idea. It's like driving around the world six times.
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Probabil habar n-aveaţi. Destul cât sǎ conduci în jurul lumii de şase ori.
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We must change everything.
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Trebuie sǎ schimbǎm tot.
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Look around the room: chairs, wood,
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Uitaţi-vǎ prin încǎpere, scaune, lemn.
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everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem.
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Totul din jurul nostru trebuie sǎ se schimbe sau nu vom rezolva aceastǎ problemǎ.
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Don't listen to the people who say you can't do this, because anyone can.
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Nu-i ascultaţi pe cei ce zic cǎ nu se poate face, pentru cǎ oricine poate.
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And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs.
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Iar şomajul , se poate rezolva prin locurile de muncǎ din sectorul verde.
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We've got four plants. We're building this stuff around the country.
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Avem patru întreprinderi. Construim prin toatǎ ţara.
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We're going as fast as we can.
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Ne mişcǎm cât de repede putem.
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Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum,
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Gips în valoare a douǎ milioane şi jumǎtate de maşini,
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you know, CO2 generated. Right?
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vǎzut ca CO2 generat. Înţelegeţi?
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So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.
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Aşa cǎ voi ce veţi face? Vǎ zic ce am fǎcut eu şi de ce. Şi ştiu cǎ am rǎmas fǎrǎ timp.
02:44
Those are my kids, Natalie and David.
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Aceia sunt copii mei, Natalie şi David.
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When they have their kids, 2050,
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Când vor avea şi ei copii, în 2050,
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they'd better look back at Grandpa and say,
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aş vrea ca atunci când se gândesc la Bunicul sǎ zicǎ:
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"Hey, you gave it a good shot. You did the best you could
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"Ai fǎcut şi tu un lucru bun. Cât de mult ai putut"
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with the team that you had."
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"cu echipa pe care ai avut-o."
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So my hope is that when you leave TED,
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Aşa cǎ sper ca atunci când plecaţi de la TED,
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you will look at reducing your carbon footprint
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vǎ veţi gândi cum sǎ vǎ reduceţi amprenta de carbon
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in however you can do it.
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în orice mod posibil vouǎ.
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And if you don't know how, please find me -- I will help you.
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Şi dacǎ nu ştiţi cum, cǎutaţi-mǎ. Vǎ voi ajuta.
03:04
Last but not least, Bill Gates, I know you invented Windows.
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Şi nu în ultimul rând, Bill Gates, ştim cǎ ai inventat Windows.
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Wait till you see, maybe next year, what kind of windows we've invented.
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Poate anul viitor, o sǎ vezi ce ferestre am inventat şi noi.
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Thank you so much.
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Vǎ mulţumesc mult.
03:12
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kevin Surace - Engineer, executiveKevin Surace is looking at the climate crisis from an engineer's perspective -- and creating products that prove there's no piece of our daily lives we can't redesign to be cleaner and greener.
Why you should listen
Kevin Surace wants to reduce the use of fossil fuels and their effect on the environment by greening manufacturing processes that create the basic components of our everyday life. As CEO of Serious Materials, he's helping to reduce the energy usage (and CO2 emissions) generated by the world's largest contributor -- buildings.
Before Serious Materials, Surace worked with Perfect Commerce, General Magic, Air Communications, National Semiconductor and Seiko-Epson.
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