Volts
A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 357
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
We're about to give billions of dollars to clean hydrogen. How should we define it?
What the midterm elections mean for climate & energy
What do the US 2022 midterm elections mean for climate and energy policy? To help go through the results, I contacted Whitney Stanco, a senior analyst at Washington Analysis LLC, an independent resea…
Putting more climate philanthropy toward economic and racial justice
BIPOC communities are most likely to bear the effects of climate change, but BIPOC-led environmental justice groups are severely underfunded in climate philanthropy. In this episode, Abdul Dosunmu of…
Clean energy's yearly report card
Every year, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy partners with BloombergNEF to produce the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, a compilation of charts, graphs, and statistics about the US …
Utilities are lobbying against the public interest. Here's how to stop it.
Me, talking about fusion and clean energy revolutions
In this episode, as a guest on Canadian daily news podcast The Big Story, I discuss a momentous fusion breakthrough, just how close we actually are to a future of unlimited clean energy (hint: not ve…
On writing an ambitious and terrifyingly realistic novel about climate change
In this episode, author Stephen Markley discusses his new novel, The Deluge, which describes a future affected by climate change that hits uncomfortably close to home.
An energy provider attempts to achieve 24/7 clean energy
In December 2021, Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE), a Bay Area community choice aggregator (CCA), issued a white paper on the need for 24/7 clean energy, its rationale for pursuing 24/7 by 2025, and the …