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A narrative news show about the trends shifting our carbon-based economy. Each week, host Stephen Lacey digs into the business and technology stories that explain the rise of clean energy, the challenge to fossil fuels, and how the energy system is transforming in dramatic ways. A co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media.
In the nine months since the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, $28 billion in new manufacturing investments have been unveiled. Credit Suisse expects the IRA to support $1.7 trillion in new US manufacturing in a decade.
Shalini Ramanathan of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is watching the space, excited about that industrial growth. She’s also eager to see a whole new category of customers – because this green industrial strategy needs new green electrons and molecules to run it.
The wave of planned build-outs in US manufacturing is setting the stage for a new class of renewables designed to run those plants. And it could shift how and where projects get built.
“This could really reshape our landscape,” explains Shalini. “We’re all asking the question: now that we have low-cost, green power, what other sectors can we decarbonize?
This week, a secondary impact of America’s green manufacturing strategy: a coming boom in projects to meet that new industrial demand. We’ll ask how renewables, batteries, and hydrogen could meet the moment.
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Show Transcripts
A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
Make Sunsets is sending balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. Is it performance art, or a new era for geoengineering?
Are oil & gas majors abandoning clean energy?
As supermajors lean into extraction and slow investments in renewables, we make sense of the market shift.
A surprising history of gas stove pollution
A half-century of research on gas stoves shows they are equivalent to living in a house with second-hand smoke.
A new catalyst for the smart home: electrify everything
The energy-smart home has failed to live up to futuristic visions. What model will finally emerge in the era of electrification?
The greasy truth behind sustainable aviation fuels
Can used cooking oil really decarbonize the aviation industry?
The autonomous car bubble has popped
The closure of Argo AI is the latest setback for driverless cars. What comes next?