If you want to build a grid-scale battery project in Texas, be prepared to ride the free-market rodeo. On our second episode of this week's battery series, we visit the state that has the second-most battery storage capacity to understand whether large-scale batteries can help prevent blackouts.
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How batteries are already changing the grid (Apple / Spotify)
Texas' new power grid problem (Apple / Spotify)
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of our Ingenuity 2544: Face Recognition
Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Famine
One of the most devastating disasters that has afflicted humanity are famines.
Unlike other natural disasters, famines do not have a single cause. They have happened all over the world for a wide variety of reasons; some of them have natural causes, and others are man-made.
Famines are typically much worse than natural disasters and are rivaled only by pandemics and wars.
Learn more about famines, their causes, and how they devastated humanity throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Bookmonger - Episode 542: ‘Lawless’ by Ilya Shapiro
John J. Miller is joined by Ilya Shapiro to discuss his new book, 'Lawless.'
NPR's Book of the Day - Mark Lilla’s new book explores the psychology and consequences of willful ignorance
Author Mark Lilla is professor of humanities at Columbia University specializing in intellectual history. His new book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, examines the tendencies for willful ignorance in human nature and the correlations of those tendencies to education castes. In today's episode, Lilla speaks to NPR's Asma Khalid about curiosity and the role social media plays in choosing to engage with information and facts.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How batteries are already changing the grid
Renewable energy, when it comes to solar and wind power, has always had a caveat: it can only run when the wind blows or the sun shines. The idea of a battery was floated around to make renewables available 24/7. For years, it existed as an expensive, little-used technology. And then in 2021, it took off.
In California, there is now enough grid-scale battery storage to power millions of homes, at least for a few hours, and it's growing fast. How did that happen, and what does the newfound success mean for the grid?
This week, we dig into three stories about grid-scale battery storage. Today, we go on-the-ground to California, where batteries first took off in the U.S.
Related episodes:
Rooftop solar's dark side (Apple / Spotify)
How EV batteries tore apart Michigan (Update) (Apple / Spotify)
How China became solar royalty (Apple / Spotify)
Wind boom, wind bust (Two windicators) (Apple / Spotify)
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In California, there is now enough grid-scale battery storage to power millions of homes, at least for a few hours, and it's growing fast. How did that happen, and what does the newfound success mean for the grid?
This week, we dig into three stories about grid-scale battery storage. Today, we go on-the-ground to California, where batteries first took off in the U.S.
Related episodes:
Rooftop solar's dark side (Apple / Spotify)
How EV batteries tore apart Michigan (Update) (Apple / Spotify)
How China became solar royalty (Apple / Spotify)
Wind boom, wind bust (Two windicators) (Apple / Spotify)
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1313: Rotation
Episode: 1313 Rotation: of coins, racquetballs, ballet dancers, and more. Today, let's think about rotation.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Schlitz Mistake
In the early 20th century, the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the largest brewery in the world.
However, by 1980, the company had fallen on hard times and was purchased by a competitor in a hostile takeover. The company was so bad that it eventually killed the company that bought them.
However, the demise of Schlitz wasn’t one of changing tastes or bad luck. It was a series of self-inflicted wounds.
Learn more about the Schlitz Mistake and how a series of bad decisions killed the world’s largest brewery on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1312: McDouall Stuart Expedition
Episode: 1312 Crossing Australia -- from nine months to six minutes. Today, we cross Australia.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of the Tomato (Encore)
One of the most popular foods in the world is tomatoes.
Tomatoes are grown almost everywhere in the world today, and they have become the basis of several international cuisines.
However, just a few hundred years ago, very few people were eating tomatoes as we know them today.
In fact, even after they were cultivated, there were people terrified to actually eat them.
Learn more about tomatoes and tomatoes and their history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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