Volts
By David Roberts
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Subscribers: 321
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 241
Ian cable
Dec 12, 2022
really insightful and interesting podcasts if you like American politics and sustainable energy. great to spend more time listening to development of Solutions, Renewables and energy storage and thinking about the world falling apart.
Earthling1
Aug 3, 2022
On Top of IT
Description
Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest progress in the world's most important fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!)
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Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Why "transferable" tax credits are such a big deal
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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What's going on with China these days?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Now is the time for distributed energy
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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What's the deal with these methane satellites?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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What's the deal with "scope 3" emissions?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Getting ready for IRA 2
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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How's IRA doing?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Industrial policy: what it is, how Biden's doing it, and how it could be done better
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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So you want to electrify your home
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Nuclear? Perhaps!
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Democrats' new consensus bill would supercharge transmission
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The current state of unions in America
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Another hot rocks company gets in the storage game
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Electrifying battery recycling
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Michigan targets clean electricity and faster permitting
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Transitioning off of fossil gas in Australia
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Chevron Doctrine: what it is and why it matters that the Supreme Court might kill it
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Decarbonizing a sprawling university system
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Volts podcast: Will Toor on Colorado's burst of clean energy policy
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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We are closing in on zero-carbon cement
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Getting better at mining the minerals needed for clean energy
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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What's going on with offshore wind?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Getting local communities on board with renewable energy, Australia edition
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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The Farm Bill is the most important climate bill this Congress will pass
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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A note to subscribers on Volts' third anniversary
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Checking in on solar power
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Managing a distributed grid
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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FERC is about to make some very important decisions about transmission
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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An insider's view of the Biden years in clean energy policy
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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The cheapest way to permanently sequester carbon involves ... fizzy water
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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What rural people actually think about clean energy
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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The Volts/Catalyst pod crossover you didn't know you were waiting for
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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What? The sun isn't always shining?!
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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What's the deal with district energy?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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What's the deal with Iceland?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Reflecting on 20 years in political journalism
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Minnesota forces transportation planners to take climate change seriously
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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The campaign for public power in Maine
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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How climate activists can help get things built
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How to accelerate rooftop solar & household batteries in the US
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Getting more out of the grid we've already built
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Volts podcast: the immense promise of a federal green bank, with Reed Hundt
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Grid-scale batteries do not currently reduce emissions. Here's how they could.
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Discussing disinformation and media with Matt Sheffield
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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The progressive take on the permitting debate
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Me, on an Australian pod
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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A conversation with Saul Griffith
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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What's the deal with Australian climate politics?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Volts podcast: the challenges of building transmission in the US, and how to overcome them, with Liza Reed
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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What's the deal with interconnection queues?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Voluntary carbon offsets are headed for a crash
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Enhanced geothermal power is finally a reality
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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What's next for clean energy and climate mitigation
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The depthless stupidity of Republicans' anti-ESG campaign
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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How can AI help with climate change?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Making shipping fuel with off-grid renewables
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Steps toward a unified electricity market in the western US
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Will the US have the workforce it needs for a clean-energy transition?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Everyone agrees Democrats suck at messaging. How can they do it better?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Transcripts and a live event
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Maryland finds a more just & politically durable way to fund offshore wind
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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California's coming transit apocalypse
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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How to make small hydro more like solar
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May 31, 2023 |
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The trouble with net zero
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May 22, 2023 |
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It's up to states to implement IRA. Are they ready?
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May 17, 2023 |
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A clean energy transition that avoids environmentally sensitive land
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May 12, 2023 |
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Washington state Democrats are tackling the housing crisis
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May 10, 2023 |
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Getting rooftop solar onto low- and middle-income housing
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Building a movement that can take full advantage of the IRA
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The wonky but incredibly important changes Biden just made to regulatory policy
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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What's going on with hydropower?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The importance of upcoming EPA regulations on power plants
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The many social and psychological benefits of low-car cities
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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What's going on with biofuels?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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What's going on with geothermal?
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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We're about to give billions of dollars to clean hydrogen. How should we define it?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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What the midterm elections mean for climate & energy
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Why electrifying industrial heat is such a big deal
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Putting more climate philanthropy toward economic and racial justice
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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How big business sold America the myth of the free market
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Clean energy's yearly report card
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Taking carbon out of the air and putting it into concrete
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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How to think about solar radiation management
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Meet the author of Biden's industrial strategy
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The digital circuit breaker and why it matters
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Minnesota sets out for zero-carbon electricity by 2040
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Utilities are lobbying against the public interest. Here's how to stop it.
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Decarbonizing US transportation with an eye toward global justice
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Getting electric school buses in the hands of school districts
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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What's the deal with electrolyzers?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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On the abuse (and proper use) of climate models
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Fine, we're doing gas stoves
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Me, talking about fusion and clean energy revolutions
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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On writing an ambitious and terrifyingly realistic novel about climate change
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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An energy provider attempts to achieve 24/7 clean energy
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Which technologies get cheaper over time, and why?
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Cute pictures of my pets! (And also a fundraiser)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Reflecting on the work of the soon-to-retire House climate committee
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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The right-wing groups behind renewable energy misinformation
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Induction stoves with batteries built in, and why they matter
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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The state of the lithium-ion battery recycling market
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Working on the cheapest possible lithium-ion battery
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Life as a traveling musician in the 21st century
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Me, interviewed by Brits
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Lessons from a life in progressive PR
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Germany's current energy situation & its past energy choices
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Coal plants are still getting financed, despite pledges otherwise
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Making sure electric vehicles help rather than hurt electricity grids
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Making it easier to build distributed energy in the places where it's most needed
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Me, talking about my story and my takes on perennial climate debates
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Learning curves will lead to extremely cheap clean energy
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Erin Mayfield on the massive consequences of Build Back Better
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Jack Lienke & Kirti Datla on the ridiculous (but extremely important) EPA case before the Supreme Court
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: David Hsu on the grassroots policy that lets communities control own energy supply
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Focusing on the climate actions that can make a real difference
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The long, sordid (ongoing) tale of California's biggest utility
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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What's up with Manchin's plan to reform energy permitting?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Talking through the Inflation Reduction Act with Don't Look Up director Adam McKay
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Diving further into the Inflation Reduction Act: Part Two
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Diving further into the Inflation Reduction Act: Part One
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Some thoughts on the Inflation Reduction Act
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: how to get urban improvements done quickly
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: when transmission planning actually goes well
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: what to make of the Democrats' last-minute climate bill
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: a music festival that treads lightly on the earth
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: how Biden can address climate change through executive action
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: David Wallace-Wells on the ravages of air pollution
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Lori Lodes on climate activism and the path forward
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Jay Duffy on the Supreme Court's EPA decision
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Charles Marohn on unsustainable suburbs
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Another note to readers
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Kimberly Nicholas on the best ways to get cars out of cities
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Dan Pfeiffer on the Democratic Party's megaphone problem
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Johannes Ackva on effective climate altruism
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Dr. Ye Tao on a grand scheme to cool the Earth
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Chris Hayes on how his politics have changed since 2015
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Danny Cullenward on California's shaky climate plans
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Abigail Hopper on the trade case that is crushing the US solar industry
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May 25, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Lauren Melodia and Kristina Karlsson on energy inflation and how to tame it
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May 23, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Jesse Morris on building an operating system for distributed energy
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May 18, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Doug Thompson defends the deep state
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May 13, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Andy Frank on how to sell whole-home retrofits to skeptical consumers
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May 09, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Fran Moore on how to represent social change in climate models
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May 04, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Nan Ransohoff on how (and why) Stripe is kick-starting the carbon-removal market
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Michael Terrell on Google's pursuit of 24/7 clean energy
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Horace Luke on decarbonizing the world's two-wheelers
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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At long last, I have an EV
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Elizabeth Popp Berman on the "economic style of thinking" that consumed US policy
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC's new climate-solutions report
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Me, on the Some More News podcast
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Me, interviewed by Noah Smith
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Matthew Metz & Janelle London on gasoline superusers & smarter EV subsidies
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Audrey Schulman and Zeyneb Magavi on how to replace natural gas with renewable heat
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Rob Harmon on how to scale up energy efficiency
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The lovely Ford Mustang Mach-E and the danger of electric cars
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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A note to readers
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Gerald Butts and Catherine McKenna on Canada's carbon tax
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Rebecca Dell on decarbonizing heavy industry
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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The minerals used by clean-energy technologies
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: using DOE loan guarantees to accelerate clean energy, with Jigar Shah
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Panama Bartholomy on decarbonizing America's buildings
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Do dividends make carbon taxes more popular? Apparently not.
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Minerals and the clean-energy transition: the basics
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: me and Adam McKay in an exciting podcast crossover event
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: Jason Bordoff & Meghan O’Sullivan on the geopolitics of clean energy
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: "Don't Look Up" director Adam McKay on the challenges of making movies about climate change
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Climate legislation and Congress: the current state of play
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Volts podcast: how the left can suck less at messaging, with Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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The year in federal climate politics and what lies ahead
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Don't Look Up: the first good movie about climate change
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Volts one-year anniversary: a letter to readers
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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24/7 carbon-free energy: everything in one place
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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The long-term promise of 24/7 carbon-free electricity
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Is 24/7 carbon-free energy the right goal?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Don't get too bummed out about COP26
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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An introduction to energy's hottest new trend: 24/7 carbon-free electricity
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Amy Westervelt on disinformation and propaganda
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Can the US reach Biden’s climate goal without the CEPP?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: the good news about clean energy, with Kingsmill Bond
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly economist pundits
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: all about methane, with Sarah Smith of the Clean Air Task Force
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Taking an Uber or Lyft just makes everything worse
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Illinois' brilliant new climate, jobs, and justice bill
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: 20 years of solar advocacy, with Adam Browning of Vote Solar
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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A close look at the clean energy legislation offered by House Democrats
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Volts (guest) podcast: an episode of Know Your Enemy on living with climate change
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Sen. Tina Smith on the promise of a Clean Electricity Payment Program
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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West Virginia needs the Biden energy agenda
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Economists have quantified the economic risks of climate "tipping points." It's grim.
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Crunch time: this is America's last chance at serious climate policy for a decade
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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There's real long-duration energy storage now. Can it find a market?
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Subsidies really do matter to the US oil & gas industry -- one in particular
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Rep. Sean Casten on Hot FERC Summer
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: rampant environmental rule-breaking and how to fix it, with Cynthia Giles
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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On climate policy, there's one main thing and then there's everything else
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: treating fossil fuels like nuclear weapons, with Tzeporah Berman
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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There is no "moderate" position on climate change
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Saul Griffith and Arch Rao on electrifying your house
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Long-duration storage can help clean up the electricity grid, but only if it's super cheap
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Adam Jentleson on how to make the US Senate work
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable
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May 28, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Will Wilkinson on libertarianism, pluralism, and America's political crisis
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May 26, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich on the promise of electrification
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May 21, 2021 |
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Battery Week: everything in one place
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May 19, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: battery analyst Chloe Holzinger on the possible futures for lithium-ion
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May 17, 2021 |
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Competitors to lithium-ion batteries in the grid storage market
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May 14, 2021 |
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Volts podcast: Washington Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon on the Evergreen State's excellent new climate laws
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May 10, 2021 |
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Washington state now has the nation's most ambitious climate policy
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May 05, 2021 |
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US electricity emissions are halfway to zero
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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The many varieties of lithium-ion batteries battling for market share
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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A primer on lithium-ion batteries: how they work and how they are changing
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Why lithium-ion batteries are so important
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Biden's tax plan goes after the little fossil fuel subsidies, but not the big ones
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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The coolest parts of Biden's expansive infrastructure plan
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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The most important job ahead for Democrats
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Voltscast: Jesse Jenkins on energy modeling
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Lessons from the Texas mess
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Transmission month: everything in one place
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Transmission month: two more ideas to quickly boost the transmission grid
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Transmission month: how to make the existing grid work better
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Transmission fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Transmission week: how to start building more big power lines
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Transmission week: why we need more big power lines
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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A few interesting bits of news
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Voltscast: How to decarbonize the electricity sector through budget reconciliation
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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What the Georgia Senate wins do (and don't) mean for climate policy
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Why I am a progressive
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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The first Volts podcast!
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Dec 24, 2020 |