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Volts Jump-Start guide
A list of essential episodes & a tool to search the Volts library
 • Samuel R (Volts team)
1:02:07
The high-stakes battle over energy affordability in New York
Pete Sikora and I puzzle over why New York's governor is fighting with her party again.
 • David Roberts
1:16:32
A Tesla vet tries to master the VPP market
Kunal Girotra and I explore the massive potential of combining plug-and-play home batteries with smart enterprise software to stabilize the grid
 • David Roberts
1:12:21
How to design a brand-new city
Jan Sramek of California Forever discusses urbanism, affordability, sustainability, & governance.
 • David Roberts
1:03:21
Is the brand new city in California for real?
Jan Sramek joins me to discuss the controversy, funding, and master plan behind the massive California Forever project.
 • David Roberts
1:14:39
The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition"
I talk with Emily Grubert about the hidden dangers of letting the free market manage the decline of our legacy energy infrastructure.
 • David Roberts
1:03:13
Volts/Catalyst pod crossover: the biggest questions in clean energy
I chat with Shayle Kann about whether autonomous vehicles will destroy urban density and if geoengineering is inevitably in our future.
 • David Roberts
Volts community thread #27
Open to all free & paid subscribers.
 • David Roberts and Samuel R (Volts team)
1:15:28
What is PJM and why is everyone so mad about it?
Clara Summers & I discuss rising prices & growing political discontent in PJM, the country's largest power market.
 • David Roberts
1:27:50
Can fake meat help solve climate change?
Bruce Friedrich on why we need to change the meat, not the consumer, to solve the climate crisis.
 • David Roberts
1:15:39
Are utilities making too much money?
Joe Daniel on why trimming utility profits is good governance.
 • David Roberts
1:04:51
So, how's the climate doing?
Dr. Sarah Kapnick on the "fuzzy crystal ball" of modern climate science and the reality of a hotter world.
 • David Roberts
1:09:45
Taiwan's energy dilemma
Yeh-Tang "Ricky" Huang and I discuss the struggle to build renewables, the nuclear debate, and the promise of geothermal power.
 • David Roberts
1:48:12
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
 • David Roberts
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