Zero Carbon Future 2: How to Store Renewable Energy For a Rainy Day

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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One of the challenges of clean energy like wind or solar is that they fluctuate. And they're unreliable. So finding a better way to store this energy for dark seasons and doldrum days is the next hurdle to reaching goals for decarbonization. In this episode, we explore options that are already being used, and some new methods still in beta. WSJ Senior Energy Correspondent Sarah McFarlane joins host Janet Babin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Bingman Freed, the founder of CryptoGiant FTX,
0:03.0	promised to give away his fortune.
0:04.8	But then, everything fell apart.
0:06.6	Sam, are you an ethical person?
0:08.8	I think I've tried as hard as I can to be one.
0:11.9	He's been accused of stealing billions of dollars from customers and investors.
0:16.0	Is there anything you would want to say to Sam if you could?
0:19.0	Give me my f***ing money back.
0:20.8	Now he faces the jury.
0:23.2	From the journal, this is the trial of Crypto's Golden Boy.
0:26.4	Find it in the journal feed-on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.8	Many nations have set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
0:38.1	and to dress climate change.
0:40.0	President Joe Biden wants to reach zero emissions in the electricity sector
0:44.8	by 2035 and the full economy by 2050.
0:49.5	A big part of achieving that goal will likely happen by reducing fossil fuels and
0:54.5	increasing production of renewable energy.
0:58.1	As we talked about in our last episode,
1:00.0	the Orkney Islands have done this.
1:02.4	The Scottish archipelago went from importing fossil fuel energy
1:05.9	to exporting its own wind and tidal energy.
1:09.9	Orkney is also experimenting with storing that extra green energy
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