4.7 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | You're listening to shortwave from NPR. |
0:04.8 | Hey everybody, Emily Quang here with NPR's Food and Agriculture Correspondent Dan Charles. |
0:12.5 | Hello Dan. |
0:13.5 | Hi Emily. |
0:14.5 | Hey, so what do you have for us today? |
0:16.5 | Emily, I was thinking the other day about these massive changes that people were talking |
0:21.2 | about to stop climate change. |
0:23.8 | Like all of us driving electric cars and stuff. |
0:26.6 | Yeah, and homes going all electric too, like we talked about the last time I was on your |
0:30.5 | show. |
0:31.5 | And then to generate all this clean electricity, a truly gigantic expansion in wind and |
0:37.2 | solar power. |
0:38.2 | I like your ambition Dan. |
0:39.8 | Like I'm imagining solar panels covering suburban parking lots, giant wind turbines in the |
0:45.7 | ocean, off the coast, that kind of stuff. |
0:48.3 | Right. |
0:49.3 | And I was thinking the places where you hear about this happening often are places with |
0:53.7 | money. |
0:54.7 | Like, you know, where are the most electric cars getting sold? |
0:58.6 | Silicon Valley, Seattle. |
0:59.9 | Yeah, they can get kind of pricey. |
1:03.4 | And that is why a lot of people are worried that this energy revolution won't be fair. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.