Shell: Designing our future energy system

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VIDEO: Highlights from Shell's Powering Progress Together summit last month

How do you predict the future of energy? What are the secrets to changing consumer behaviour? Are we really all going to be eating 3D-printed food and travelling in autonomous cars in 30 years' time? Experts from across the energy world gathered at Shell's Powering Progress Together summit last month to try and tackle some of the trickiest questions facing the energy industry. Here are some of the highlights. 

This video was provided by Shell. 

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