A video game demonstrates how energy choices affect our carbon footpr
'Mission Possible' combines scientific rigor and good fun to help us understand the carbon impact of our personal energy choices. The video game has just been previewed at the energy-themed International Exhibition in Astana, Kazakhstan. Can we reduce our CO2 emissions to half the 1990 level by 2030? This is the challenge Switzerland has set for itself and which was approved by the people in the recent referendum on the energy transition. It's a shared goal, but to achieve it we will each have to make a personal effort. To help us get there, researchers at EPFL's Energy Center have added scientific data from Swiss Energyscope, an information platform developed by several laboratories on campus, to an interactive video game about energy that was first presented at Umwelt Arena in Spreitenbach, Switzerland in 2014. In just a few minutes, the most Swiss of all heroines, Heidi, and her grandfather guide us along the road to energy redemption. Although we may think we're doing our fair share to achieve the country's energy targets, in reality we're not.
