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What I find fascinating, is where companies are moving across,
different industries to solve problems, in an innovative way.
Let me look at British Sugar for a moment.
British Sugar, makes sugar,
out of sugarcane. So they decided to become a power generator.
They used so much power, they bought
a huge gas turbine, exactly the same
technology as on a plane. And,
generated power to drive their factory
and at the same time, they collect the heat, to cook the sugar,
which is neat. And then
someone had another idea. Here is a jet of air
which is coming out at maybe several hundred kilometres per hour.
Fuller of water. It's warm.
And it contains carbon dioxide. So, British Gas
decided to build a huge pipe on the back
of the gas turbine, and they ran this pipe
two and a half kilometres down the road
to the largest greenhouse
in Europe. In that greenhouse
grow 35 million tomatoes
every single year. The day after they
connected this pipe to the greenhouse there was an explosion of growth
in the tomato factory. And now the number of tomatoes they produce has increased
from 35 million
to 70 million. Every one if you here
has probably eaten a tomato built
from carbon dioxide, from the waste
of a gas turbine, used to produce electricity
to cook sugar for British Sugar. Why I like that
idea is because it's an example, of tens
of thousands of companies that are moving
from one sector to another. So a food company
becomes an electricity manufacturer. We get a car company
that becomes a power generator, and so on.