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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.

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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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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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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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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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Everything Everywhere Daily - Gnosticism

In the first and second centuries, a Christian sect found a wide following throughout the Roman world. 

They weren’t your normal run-of-the-mill Christians. They had beliefs that were nothing like those of any Christian sect today, and they drew the ire of many Christian leaders at the time. 

What we knew about them was limited to the writings of their critics until a stunning find in the mid-20th century shed new light on them.

Learn more about Gnosticism and the Gnostics, their beliefs, and the reaction to them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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