Michael Barnard
2 min readSep 24, 2023

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Hey CJ . . .

Oddly, you aren't the first person to ask that recently. As I noted to them, TED is a community and process that you have to apply to, typically through local TEDX things and then you get invited to the big leagues maybe. Can't be arsed.

I'm getting invited to talk regularly these days, with an Australian clean energy webinar, an NZ multi-city talk series to geologists and mining engineers, a Chinese business executives talk on geopolitics of decarbonization and a Glasgow shipping debate being top of mind for the past few months, and a global institutional investors grid education, a California university student talk about radical electrification and what it means for their careers, and a green building conference keynote upcoming. Better than generic TED audiences in a lot of ways due to focus, although typically smaller numbers.

If TED reaches out and invites me at some point, I'll say yes, but I'm not holding my breath or working the system. ;)

Shipping articles on Medium... err... I guess I've published more articles on this than I'd realized.

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/shipping-has-lots-of-room-for-greater-efficiency-bef1e1611337

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/shipping-hydrogen-5x-as-expensive-as-lng-in-best-case-scenario-42f036c7500b

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/maritime-shipping-will-decarbonize-with-electricity-and-biodiesel-99c783fb07d1

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/more-money-spent-to-move-freight-ship-into-the-past-by-adding-sails-a4a78114c571

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/china-launches-1-000-km-route-electric-container-ship-1987d8898752

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships-remain-uneconomical-unnecessary-1d3181ac4c43

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/bulk-shipping-to-plummet-with-peak-fossil-fuels-89c5a42bb9b7

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/australians-question-maritime-and-aviation-electrification-37393715ce3

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/oil-tankers-are-a-dying-breed-6fa59f78b127

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/channel-for-maritime-decarbonization-is-getting-wider-deeper-bab6cf69ce11

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/norwegian-cryogenic-hydrogen-shipping-fuel-effort-fails-predictably-91fcbf35a61b

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/un-aviation-maritime-agenciesapproach-climate-change-differently-88e8cd3364da

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/methanol-industry-doesnt-like-having-methanol-shipping-push-challenged-bf25cd49065b

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/battery-improvements-equal-more-travel-electrification-c729b195c6f8

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/methanex-atlantic-crossing-with-methanol-was-egregious-greenwashing-8e28705f3fe

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/rotating-sails-for-freight-ships-are-spin-more-than-push-d1b72514e1a2

https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/co2-cant-be-shipped-in-lng-ships-so-it-s-not-a-circular-economy-possibility-90bb68b070d1

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Michael Barnard
Michael Barnard

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Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.

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