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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.
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David Roberts
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59:43
Assembling diverse resources into super-powered "energy parks"
Could supersized microgrids be the key to faster clean energy deployment? Eric Gimon explains the promise of "energy parks."
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David Roberts
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1:09:21
Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it
I speak with Maxine Bédat, a former fashion startup CEO and founder of the nonprofit New Standards Institute. We talk about the source of the fashion…
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58:17
Getting better at mining the minerals needed for clean energy
We're getting worse at finding key minerals, even as the clean-energy economy demands way, way more of them. I talk with Kurt House, CEO of KoBold…
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David Roberts
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59:29
What's going on with offshore wind?
The news is full of grim headlines for the US offshore wind industry -- costs are up, projects are getting canceled. What's going on? Is this a…
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1:16:55
Checking in on solar power
Jenny Chase has led a team analyzing the business of solar power for almost 20 years now; she's also the author of a fantastic introductory book on the…
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1:03:52
Voluntary carbon offsets are headed for a crash
Carbon offsets — whereby one party pays another party to reduce carbon emissions — have always been dodgy, but now they are threatening to undermine the…
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1:08:11
Making shipping fuel with off-grid renewables
ETFuels couples giant off-grid renewable energy installations with electrolyzers to make green hydrogen; it then uses the green hydrogen to make…
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David Roberts
5
1:01:24
The importance of upcoming EPA regulations on power plants
The Biden administration cannot reach its climate goals without strong executive action to supplement its legislative achievements. Among the most…
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David Roberts
4
1:00:09
What's going on with geothermal?
A conversation about the state of the geothermal industry -- the investment, the startups, the new consortia and initiatives -- with Jamie Beard…
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David Roberts
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1:06:40
Why electrifying industrial heat is such a big deal
A quarter of all energy humans use comes in the form of heat for high-temperature industrial processes. Industrial heat has long been considered…
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David Roberts
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1:25:41
Taking carbon out of the air and putting it into concrete
A newly announced project will combine two cutting-edge processes: one will pull CO2 out of the ambient air; the other will inject the CO2 into…
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