Passion and Academic Views of everything from oil refineries to veganism with Auke Hoestra
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Robert talks with Dutch academic Auke Hoestra about most things - from Oil production to veganism. Robert tends to talk about things in a passionate way and Auke will always see things from a different angle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast out. There's |
| 0:24.0 | one or two people that I've come across in the last 10 years that I have one in |
| 0:29.7 | almost respect for two just you know I just use them as reference points I |
| 0:35.5 | use them to keep me grounded so that if I hear of some amazing new technology |
| 0:39.8 | or a breakthrough in battery design or some new brilliant piece of social |
| 0:44.3 | engineering that allows further integration of renewables into a city or a |
| 0:48.5 | town escape I always want to check with a few people just to see how much I'm |
| 0:54.4 | being swept along by the hype or how much of that is real and this next guest of |
| 0:58.9 | this week who will be on the Fully Charged Show more than once believe me is |
| 1:03.8 | from Eindhoven in the Netherlands which is where he teaches his name is Alka |
| 1:08.5 | Hookstra probably got that slightly wrong but it's along those lines and when |
| 1:15.2 | I'm so amusing the day that I recorded the interview with him my wife was |
| 1:21.4 | discussing my lockdown beard because this is the longest I've ever grown a |
| 1:26.0 | beard and it's not terribly impressive not going to lie it is getting a bit |
| 1:30.7 | longer I'm probably going to get rid of it soon but you know that's she and she |
| 1:34.0 | quite likes it she wasn't being critical when you see a picture of Oka you will |
| 1:39.8 | see why this is relevant because he has some considerable beard not only that |
| 1:47.5 | he has a much more considerable brain and an insight and a knowledge and an |
| 1:51.9 | academic analysis of the transition the energy transition we're going through |
| 1:57.1 | the transportation transition we're going through a really good well-founded |
| 2:02.3 | optimistic but realistic appraisal of the struggles challenges and massive |
| 2:10.2 | massive optimistic opportunities that we have ahead of us in the next few years |
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