Hi Dave and Team, I absolutely love this format! This podcast does a lot of things which I really appreciate.
1) It provides something of value to paying subscribers WITHOUT paywalling critical information about how to advance the energy transition. Truly, the main reason I pay for Volts is so that everyone has access to information to advance the clean energy transition. I pay not for myself, but so critical information gets out to those who do the work every day and can put it to use.
2) I found this episode super helpful personally! Of the 8 episodes previewed, I had listened to 2. I had meant to listen to 1 but forgot, and this was a good reminder. I thought the remaining 5 weren't that interesting to me, but listening to this convinced me to listen to 2 more!
Well done!
Two thoughts:
1) One thing to consider might be to list 3-5 high-level bullets of ~what else~ is discussed in each episode. It may be tricky with episode flow, but food for thought.
2) I'd still love for episodes like this to become available to everyone. Perhaps they could be released publicly on a delay of 1 month?
By the way, I saw this comment and after thinking about it agreed with you! The episodes are early access now for paid subs, but open after a month. Thanks for the great idea :)
By the way, I had sent a kinda chaotic message back in 2025 about not paywalling volts episodes after an earlier experiment and I apologize about that. Ultimately, I trust yall to run this the way you need to keep it going even if it’s not perfectly aligned with my personal preferences.
I pride myself on catching every Volts episode, but I have to admit I don't always keep up. Your "Best of July" compendium was genuinely valuable, especially for the three episodes I hadn't gotten to yet.
One of those I'll go back and listen to properly now. The snippet and your exchange with the guest gave me just enough context to know it's worth the time and renewed effort.
Two ways to use this. 1) Wait to get summary before chosing what to listen to. Current version works well for that. 2) Don’t wait and listen to look back to discover what I missed. This version is pretty cumbersome. Would be much better if I could visually see the segments and either fast forward between pod edisodes, or use my finger to scroll to next summary item. It is a pain to have to go back and forth to the page with the segment timing listed. Perhaps, though, this is a limitation of my podcast app (Overcast)
Agree a little recap, even an ai summary script of the rest of the episodes you recap would be useful. I enjoy the format because you got to the ‘thing’ in each recap, bravo. Also allows me to see connections, trends and high level similarities. E.g. how might better batteries with silicon anodes show up in a transparent dataset used for load forecasting? Best value subscription I have, keep up the good work.
Even though I had listened to every episode, I enjoyed this recap. It was an easy reminder and refresher. I don't know how much work it was, or how you chose the snippets to include, but if you keep doing this, I will keep listening.
Yes, helpful, please keep doing it if it is not a huge time investment. It was a good refresher for the ones I had listened to, and helped me pick the one that I had missed that I most want to listen to next.
Didn’t realize I missed so many episodes. So am motivated to go back to listen, but will I? Probably. Or I might treat it like a readers digest or cliffs notes and go back to find something only if I hear reference to it again in the future.
Loved it! Would appreciate this every month
Loved the pod. I heard all the full pods in July, but it was great to hear these snippets! Keep it going … both ful episodes and summaries
Cheers from NOLA
Hi Dave and Team, I absolutely love this format! This podcast does a lot of things which I really appreciate.
1) It provides something of value to paying subscribers WITHOUT paywalling critical information about how to advance the energy transition. Truly, the main reason I pay for Volts is so that everyone has access to information to advance the clean energy transition. I pay not for myself, but so critical information gets out to those who do the work every day and can put it to use.
2) I found this episode super helpful personally! Of the 8 episodes previewed, I had listened to 2. I had meant to listen to 1 but forgot, and this was a good reminder. I thought the remaining 5 weren't that interesting to me, but listening to this convinced me to listen to 2 more!
Well done!
Two thoughts:
1) One thing to consider might be to list 3-5 high-level bullets of ~what else~ is discussed in each episode. It may be tricky with episode flow, but food for thought.
2) I'd still love for episodes like this to become available to everyone. Perhaps they could be released publicly on a delay of 1 month?
By the way, I saw this comment and after thinking about it agreed with you! The episodes are early access now for paid subs, but open after a month. Thanks for the great idea :)
Thanks Nate! Glad it was helpful!
By the way, I had sent a kinda chaotic message back in 2025 about not paywalling volts episodes after an earlier experiment and I apologize about that. Ultimately, I trust yall to run this the way you need to keep it going even if it’s not perfectly aligned with my personal preferences.
This format is terrific. Keep it goin’!
really like summaries. lot of work and vacation travel so a quick way to see what I missed.
I pride myself on catching every Volts episode, but I have to admit I don't always keep up. Your "Best of July" compendium was genuinely valuable, especially for the three episodes I hadn't gotten to yet.
One of those I'll go back and listen to properly now. The snippet and your exchange with the guest gave me just enough context to know it's worth the time and renewed effort.
Two ways to use this. 1) Wait to get summary before chosing what to listen to. Current version works well for that. 2) Don’t wait and listen to look back to discover what I missed. This version is pretty cumbersome. Would be much better if I could visually see the segments and either fast forward between pod edisodes, or use my finger to scroll to next summary item. It is a pain to have to go back and forth to the page with the segment timing listed. Perhaps, though, this is a limitation of my podcast app (Overcast)
Agree a little recap, even an ai summary script of the rest of the episodes you recap would be useful. I enjoy the format because you got to the ‘thing’ in each recap, bravo. Also allows me to see connections, trends and high level similarities. E.g. how might better batteries with silicon anodes show up in a transparent dataset used for load forecasting? Best value subscription I have, keep up the good work.
Even though I had listened to every episode, I enjoyed this recap. It was an easy reminder and refresher. I don't know how much work it was, or how you chose the snippets to include, but if you keep doing this, I will keep listening.
Yes, helpful, please keep doing it if it is not a huge time investment. It was a good refresher for the ones I had listened to, and helped me pick the one that I had missed that I most want to listen to next.
Didn’t realize I missed so many episodes. So am motivated to go back to listen, but will I? Probably. Or I might treat it like a readers digest or cliffs notes and go back to find something only if I hear reference to it again in the future.