Mythbusting
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We all fall victim to myths. But when they're deeply tied to our belief systems, they can be nearly impossible to break.
On this week's show, we're busting some of the most common myths in clean energy:
- No, storage doesn't necessarily increase emissions. It depends on how it's used.
- No, solar isn't just for rich Democrats. In California, Republicans are buying solar more often.
- No, renewable energy doesn't inherently raise electric rates. In fact, U.S. electricity prices have fallen.
In the second half of the program, we'll revisit the swampy politics of solar in Alabama, South Carolina and Florida. A battle over net metering wages in South Carolina; a dispute over solar leasing continues in Florida; and a legal fight over solar fees in Alabama escalates.
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| 0:15.0 | To find out more, visit sense.com slash energy gang. |
| 0:19.0 | That's sense like common sense. |
| 0:22.0 | Sense.com. |
| 0:23.0 | Energy Gang. |
| 0:25.0 | From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, |
| 0:30.0 | a weekly digest on energy, Tech, and the Environment. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Stephen Lacy. Welcome. |
| 0:35.0 | I've fallen victim to a lot of myths in my day. |
| 0:42.0 | I thought if you dropped a penny off a big building you could kill someone. |
| 0:45.6 | Nope, they don't fall fast enough. I always thought Napoleon was extremely short. He was five foot seven, not that short. |
| 0:52.0 | I always thought if you wake a sleep walker something horrible will happen. They'd actually be fine, most likely. |
| 0:58.0 | It's easy to just think something is true after you've heard it enough, and when those myths are deeply tied to our belief |
| 1:04.0 | systems, they can be extremely difficult to break. Anyone who's been following US climate |
| 1:08.7 | politics knows that. So today we're going to dissect a few energy myths that keep rearing their ugly little heads. |
| 1:15.0 | We'll each bring one to the table that's caught our attention recently. |
| 1:18.0 | And then in the second half of the program we're going to revisit the swampy politics of solar in Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida. |
| 1:24.8 | Catherine Hamilton and Jigger Shaw are with us from Washington, D.C. |
| 1:28.9 | My fellow Mythbusters. |
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