Hurricane Redux: Toxic Sludge, Climate Denial and Battery Storage

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🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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One year after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria crushed Texas and Puerto Rico, Florence became one of the ten costliest hurricanes in U.S. history.

North Carolina is still reeling from severe flooding. And like Houston last year, the damage was made worse because of coastal development policies — even while state scientists sounded the alarm about rising sea levels.

We’re going to recap where things stand.

Then, residential battery storage. All these storms are creating new demand for batteries. It’s changing solar. We’ll discuss how much.

And then the billion-dollar pickup for Lucid Motors. Weren’t the Saudis supposed to take Tesla private? How did they end up throwing a $1 billion into lesser-known electric car company?

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0:00.0	Before we are kick this thing off a quick shout out to our sponsor Mission Solar
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0:08.5	toughest most resilient high-powered solar panels around and those solar panels are made right here in the United States in San Antonio, Texas.
0:16.0	They're about to release a series of even higher-powered products at the end of the year.
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0:22.0	We're going to hear about the guy who helped invent those panels
0:24.7	by using the power of his dreams, literally.
0:27.7	Find out more about missions American-made solar modules
0:30.6	at mission sol Solar.com.
0:38.0	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on Energy, Clean Tech and the Environment.
0:41.0	I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome.
0:43.0	This is a tough hurricane.
0:50.0	One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water.
0:55.0	Rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good.
1:01.0	This week, a hurricane redux. One year after hurricanes Harvey and Maria
1:06.4	crushed Texas and Puerto Rico, Florence became one of the 10 costliest
1:10.4	hurricanes in US history. North Carolina is still reeling from severe flooding.
1:15.2	And like Houston last year, the damage was made worse
1:17.6	because of coastal development policies,
1:20.0	even while state scientists sounded the alarm about rising sea levels.
1:24.0	We're going to recap where things stand.
1:27.0	Then residential battery storage, all these storms are getting people to pick up the phone and ask
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