Volts
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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!) www.volts.wtf
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Episodes (448)
Another note to readers
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Volts podcast: Kimberly Nicholas on the best ways to get cars out of cities
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Volts podcast: Dan Pfeiffer on the Democratic Party's megaphone problem
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Jun 17, 20221:13:11pending
Volts podcast: Johannes Ackva on effective climate altruism
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Jun 15, 20221:02:15pending
Volts podcast: Dr. Ye Tao on a grand scheme to cool the Earth
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Volts podcast: Chris Hayes on how his politics have changed since 2015
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Volts podcast: Danny Cullenward on California's shaky climate plans
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Volts podcast: Abigail Hopper on the trade case that is crushing the US solar in...
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Volts podcast: Lauren Melodia and Kristina Karlsson on energy inflation and how...
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Volts podcast: Jesse Morris on building an operating system for distributed ener...
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May 18, 20221:10:38pending
Volts podcast: Doug Thompson defends the deep state
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Volts podcast: Andy Frank on how to sell whole-home retrofits to skeptical consu...
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May 9, 20221:00:02pending
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...
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Apr 29, 202243:02pending
Volts podcast: Michael Terrell on Google's pursuit of 24/7 clean energy
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Apr 27, 202252:03pending
Volts podcast: Horace Luke on decarbonizing the world's two-wheelers
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Apr 22, 20221:05:19pending
At long last, I have an EV
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Volts podcast: Elizabeth Popp Berman on the "economic style of thinking" that co...
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Apr 15, 20221:02:50pending
Volts podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC's new climate-solutions report
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Me, on the Some More News podcast
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Me, interviewed by Noah Smith
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Volts podcast: Matthew Metz & Janelle London on gasoline superusers & smarter EV...
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Volts podcast: Audrey Schulman and Zeyneb Magavi on how to replace natural gas w...
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Volts podcast: Rob Harmon on how to scale up energy efficiency
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Mar 28, 20221:14:50pending
The lovely Ford Mustang Mach-E and the danger of electric cars
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A note to readers
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Volts podcast: Gerald Butts and Catherine McKenna on Canada's carbon tax
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Feb 16, 20221:05:00pending
Volts podcast: Rebecca Dell on decarbonizing heavy industry
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Feb 11, 20221:32:11pending
The minerals used by clean-energy technologies
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Feb 7, 202218:46pending
Volts podcast: using DOE loan guarantees to accelerate clean energy, with Jigar...
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Feb 2, 202250:05pending
Volts podcast: Panama Bartholomy on decarbonizing America's buildings
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Jan 28, 20221:22:21pending
Do dividends make carbon taxes more popular? Apparently not.
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Jan 24, 202216:01pending
Minerals and the clean-energy transition: the basics
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Jan 21, 202219:38pending
Volts podcast: me and Adam McKay in an exciting podcast crossover event
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Jan 20, 202233:10pending
Volts podcast: Jason Bordoff & Meghan O’Sullivan on the geopolitics of clean ene...
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Jan 19, 20221:05:18pending
Volts podcast: "Don't Look Up" director Adam McKay on the challenges of making m...
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Jan 12, 20221:25:24pending
Climate legislation and Congress: the current state of play
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Jan 7, 20229:07pending
Volts podcast: how the left can suck less at messaging, with Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Dec 20, 20211:24:02pending
The year in federal climate politics and what lies ahead
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Dec 17, 202116:59pending
Don't Look Up: the first good movie about climate change
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Dec 10, 202112:21pending
Volts one-year anniversary: a letter to readers
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Dec 7, 20217:28pending
24/7 carbon-free energy: everything in one place
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Nov 29, 20211:06:10pending
The long-term promise of 24/7 carbon-free electricity
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Nov 24, 202117:47pending
Is 24/7 carbon-free energy the right goal?
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Nov 19, 202124:40pending
Don't get too bummed out about COP26
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Nov 15, 20219:01pending
An introduction to energy's hottest new trend: 24/7 carbon-free electricity
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Nov 12, 202126:13pending
Volts podcast: Amy Westervelt on disinformation and propaganda
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Oct 27, 20211:14:55pending
Can the US reach Biden’s climate goal without the CEPP?
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Oct 20, 202115:30pending
Volts podcast: the good news about clean energy, with Kingsmill Bond
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Oct 11, 20211:03:21pending
A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly economist pundits
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Oct 8, 202116:00pending
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