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The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Like fantasy sports? Listen to our deep decarbonization draft.

The Energy Gang is break this week for the July 4 holiday. We'll be back next week.

In the meantime, we're offering up a re-run from The Interchange.

In this episode, Shayle and Stephen choose their rosters of nine technologies to decarbonize the global economy. The goal: find the best resource mix to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.

The draft has nine rounds. The “team” resulting from each person’s picks will need to stand on its own.
Each pick must be a unique technology. For example, “energy efficiency” is not a pick, but “LED lighting” is.
Technologies with major subsets must be picked separately. For example, rooftop solar and centralized solar are two different picks.
The existing technology mix will stand. (We don’t need to pick “transmission & distribution" in order to have electricity.)
The time horizon will be through 2050.
The winner will be chosen by listeners.

If you like what you hear, subscribe to The Interchange anywhere you get your podcasts!

The Energy Gang will be back next week.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks Stephen here happy independence week to our American and Canadian listeners and happy summer to all our Northern Hemisphere listeners
0:08.2	Chances are good you're listening to me while driving to a vacation spot. Maybe you're taking a break between World Cup games.
0:15.1	The gang itself is on a break this week. We'll be back next week with a look at the spectacular
0:19.5	failure of Electric Car Company Better Place. We're going to have the author of a new book on the company.
0:25.6	It's going to be great. In the meantime, I've got a super fun episode for you. I think you're
0:29.5	really going to enjoy this. It's our deep decarbonization draft that Shale Khan and I recorded for the
0:34.8	interchange a little while ago. It's basically fantasy sports for energy nerds. We got a
0:40.6	ton of reaction to it via email and Twitter,
0:43.0	and we've since revised our picks on the interchange
0:46.0	in the wake of this initial episode.
0:48.0	So it's crazy hot outside right now.
0:50.0	What better way to celebrate the dog days of summer
0:52.0	than with a fantasy draft for decarbonization
0:54.8	technologies?
0:56.2	And while you're at it, make sure to subscribe to the interchange anywhere you get your podcasts
1:01.2	to hear more about the evolution of our draft picks and to hear an
1:04.2	interview this week about the history of energy independence in America and
1:08.4	where Trump's view of energy dominance fits into that historical perspective.
1:13.6	Oh, one other thing.
1:14.6	GTM has a Wind and Storage Forum coming up on July 19th in Chicago.
1:18.8	Batteries are going to get added to a lot of power plants, including wind.
1:22.4	I know there are a ton of you out there in the wind
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