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A list of essential episodes & a tool to search the Volts library
Aug 15 • 
Samuel R (Volts team)
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What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries?
Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.
Sep 3 • 
David Roberts
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Climate philanthropy in a time of Trump
I get frustrated at liberals' refusal to fight, and take it out on Giving Green's Dan Stein of all people.
Aug 27 • 
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Embedding intelligence at the edge of the grid
May 16 • David Roberts
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What the F is happening?
Feb 28 • David Roberts
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A few pictures & stories from Iceland
Oct 23, 2023 • David Roberts
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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think
Jul 16 • David Roberts
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Dr. Volts and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad Germany trip
Sep 23, 2024 • David Roberts
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Dan Savage on blue America in the age of Trump
Nov 20, 2024 • David Roberts
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What does clean energy activism look like?
Bill McKibben and Jamie Henn join me to discuss a new vision for climate activism focused on celebrating and accelerating the global solar boom.
Aug 20 • 
David Roberts
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Volts community thread #21
Open to all free & paid subscribers.
Aug 18 • 
David Roberts
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Samuel R (Volts team)
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Trump's latest attempt to save coal
Frank Rambo joins me to discuss the multi-billion-dollar utility practice of running expensive coal plants and the Trump administration's efforts to…
Aug 13 • 
David Roberts
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What the FEOC?
A conversation about "foreign entity of concern" rules with Jake Higdon and Isabel Munilla -- why they are needed and how Republicans are botching them.
Aug 6 • 
David Roberts
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A fireside chat with Jigar Shah
A diagnosis of the "sheer laziness" holding back the clean-energy movement.
Aug 1 • 
David Roberts
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US transit costs and how to tame them
Alon Levy explains how the US can build cheaper, better public transit by learning from the rest of the world.
Jul 30 • 
David Roberts
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Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
Missy Stults explains Ann Arbor's novel plan to build a second, clean-energy utility alongside its incumbent.
Jul 23 • 
David Roberts
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