We're back with another geek out episode.

Richard Campbell, a developer and podcaster who dives deep into science and tech topics,

is back for our third geek out episode.

This time around, we're diving deep into renewable energy, energy storage,

and just what do we do to keep the lights on without frying our beloved Earth?

I think you're really going to enjoy this deep dive into the science of renewable energy

and energy storage.

This is Talk Python to me, episode 329 recorded August 4th, 2021.

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and the transcripts are brought to you by Assembly AI. Richard, welcome back to Talk Python and

me. Hey, great to be back, man. It's been a year, quite a year, as I recall.

We're living in like dog years or something like that, right? Every year is like seven years.

I don't know if we spoke about it, but I have definitely joked that, you know, historians, when they

come back and study this time frame, they won't be able to say, you know, what decade or what era they study? It'll be like, well, what part of 2020 did you study? What part of 2021 did you study? Did you study

the summer or was it the spring? Because that's a different specialty. Oh, yeah. No. And it is how much

it's changed. And we're still living with a certain level of uncertainty, you know, at the time that

we're recording this, the delta variance

having an impact. And I think everyone's sort of leaning back again going, uh-oh, how bad is this

going to get? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. A month from now, things could be very different. Either way.

Yeah, it could go either way. That's absolutely right. Yeah. So I'm cautiously optimistic,

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