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Volts podcast: Lauren Melodia and Kristina Karlsson on energy inflation and how to tame it
Energy prices are a big part of inflation, but none of the traditional inflation remedies help solve it. In fact, only one thing can: a transition from…
David Roberts
May 23
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Volts podcast: Jesse Morris on building an operating system for distributed energy
Distributed energy resources like solar panels & home batteries can make grids more reliable & resilient, but only if they can be tracked -- if everyone…
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May 18
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Volts podcast: Jesse Morris on building an operating system for distributed energy
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Volts podcast: Doug Thompson defends the deep state
Why is the conservative movement is so consumed with, in Steve Bannon's words, "deconstructing the administrative state"? What exactly is the…
David Roberts
May 13
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Volts podcast: Andy Frank on how to sell whole-home retrofits to skeptical consumers
What motivates a homeowner to retrofit a home? A NY-based company called Sealed thinks it has cracked the code, offering zero upfront costs & a focus on…
David Roberts
May 9
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Volts podcast: Andy Frank on how to sell whole-home retrofits to skeptical consumers
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Volts podcast: Fran Moore on how to represent social change in climate models
Policy and social change are treated as "exogenous" in climate models. Modelers determine the values & feed them in; they do not interact dynamically…
David Roberts
May 4
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Volts podcast: Fran Moore on how to represent social change in climate models
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Volts podcast: Nan Ransohoff on how (and why) Stripe is kick-starting the carbon-removal market
The payments company Stripe recently unveiled a nearly billion dollar pot of money to fund carbon dioxide removal (CDR). I talk with Nan Ransohoff…
David Roberts
Apr 29
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Volts podcast: Nan Ransohoff on how (and why) Stripe is kick-starting the carbon-removal market
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Volts podcast: Michael Terrell on Google's pursuit of 24/7 clean energy
Google wants to power all its facilities around the world with clean energy, every hour of every day, 24/7. I talk with the company's director of energy…
David Roberts
Apr 27
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Volts podcast: Horace Luke on decarbonizing the world's two-wheelers
More than 50% of the world's commute miles are done on dirty, polluting two-wheelers, which are ubiquitous in emerging economies. I talk with the guy…
David Roberts
Apr 22
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At long last, I have an EV
I finally got an electric vehicle! Here's the story of which one I picked, how I bought it, and what I think of it.
David Roberts
Apr 18
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Volts podcast: Elizabeth Popp Berman on the "economic style of thinking" that consumed US policy
Ever get the sense that everyone in center-left policy discussions is auditioning for the approval of some imagined economist? A sociologist traces the…
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Apr 15
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Volts podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC's new climate-solutions report
The latest from the IPCC is a deep dive into solutions: policies & technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I chat with one of the co-authors…
David Roberts
Apr 13
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Volts podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC's new climate-solutions report
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Me, on the Some More News podcast
I joined the folks from Some More News to record an episode of their podcast, Even More News. We talked IPCC, right-wing media, Elon Musk buying…
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Apr 11
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