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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

For this energy installment of our pre-election podcast series, I spoke once again to

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti and Andrea Thompson.

What's at stake in this election in terms of energy in this country?

So I think there's two things,

Steve. One is oil. On October 27th, the U.S. Department of Interior approved a huge oil development

project in Western Alaska by Conoco Phillips. So that's clearly where the current administration is happy to go.

And I think the other issue is electricity, you know, will it continue to be built on fossil fuels or more so on renewable energy?

And I think there's a lot of interesting state races that have some bearing on that, too.

That's a good point, because we're not just talking about the presidential election.

We're talking about the election in general.

It's an interesting area because the president and Congress can shape things to a large degree.

But then there are also market forces that come into play that can kind of counteract things he's trying to do. So we've

seen, you know, despite during the first four years of the Trump administration, this push towards

fossil fuels and to boost them, we've still seen renewables really surge in their use, and they've

become comparatively cheaper, especially compared

to coal. And that's really happened sort of in spite of any efforts the Trump administration

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