Energy Basics: Advanced Manufacturing (Text Version)

This is the text version of the video NREL Energy Basics: Advanced Manufacturing.

[Animated, colored lines move across the screen to form the sun, ocean waves, and wind blowing near clouds before the words "Energy Basics Advanced Manufacturing" appear.]

>>Person 1 (walking through a building): Oh, hello! I suppose you're here to learn about the basics of advanced manufacturing. Well, let's go.

Advanced manufacturing uses new technologies to improve products and processes.

>>Person 2 (appears alongside Person 1): So what do you call an adequate manufacturing plant?

>>Person 1: I have no idea.

>>Person 2: A satis-factory!

>>Person 3 (seated in a rolling chair in laboratory space, wearing protective head gear and eyewear): Manufacturing jobs account for about 9% of the U.S. workforce, with nearly 13 million jobs across a variety of industries.

>>Person 4 (in protective gear, shown in various postures): Advanced manufacturing processes can improve manufacturing technologies such as increasing product recyclability, powering processes with renewable energy, and improving supply chains.

[Person 5 appears on screen and, with Person 4, gives the camera a thumbs-up.]

>>Person 5 (shown near mechanical equipment): People may think robots will take over the world, but robotics can create new and better jobs for people while enabling domestic manufacturing.

[In the laboratory space, Person 5 and Person 3 laugh and stand beside Person 4, who dances the robot.]

>>Person 6 (seen outside a building near recycling bins and, later, looking through a plastic object): Bio-optimized technologies is one approach in advanced manufacturing and breaks down plastics via chemical and natural processes, making it possible to recycle and upcycle plastic goods.

>>Person 7 (speaking through the pane of a piece of mechanical equipment): NREL conducts advanced manufacturing research to help people use less energy and reduce carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gas emissions.

>>Person 2 (speaking to Person 7): I was asked about my jobs manufacturing nuts and bolts.

>>Person 7: Yeah?

>>Person 2: I told them it was riveting.

[Person 7 looks knowingly at the camera while Person 2 laughs.]

[Various icons cycle on the screen followed by the NREL logo and "Transforming Energy."]

[Text on screen: nrel.gov/research/learning.html
Thank you to the researchers who participated in this video.]