Energi Talks

Markham Hislop
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Aug 2, 2024 • 41min

Canada's high-GHG chemical industries risk becoming uncompetitive

Markham interviews Oliver Sheldrick of Clean Energy Canada about his report, Catalyzing Change: Why Canada Needs a Roadmap to Net-zero Chemistry.
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Aug 1, 2024 • 29min

Robo-taxis, autonomous freight trucks not far off

Markham interviews Dr. James Jeffs of UK-based IDTechX about his new report, “Autonomous Trucks 2024-2044: Technologies, Trends, Forecasts.”
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Aug 1, 2024 • 32min

After Jasper: How AI can help reduce wildfires

Markham interviews Bryan Spear, the CEO of Technosylva, whose company works with fire agencies and some of America’s biggest utilities to better monitor and forecast weather and wildfire risk scenarios.
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Aug 1, 2024 • 41min

Nuclear is not the future

Markham interviews Dr. M.V. Ramana, the Simons Chair in Global Disarmament and Human Security at the school of public policy and global affairs at UBC about his new book, “Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.” 
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Jul 29, 2024 • 50min

Peak battery mineral mining in 10 years

Markham interviews Daan Walter of the Rocky Mountain Institute about a new report, The Battery Mineral Loop, which describes a strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.
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Jul 23, 2024 • 27min

New hope for US power grid expansion as bill lands in Senate

Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies in Washington, DC.
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Jul 22, 2024 • 58min

What if all the cars in the world are made in China? With Michael Dunne

Markham interviews Michael Dunne, automotive analyst and writer of the Dunne Insights Newsletter, and the main topic of the interview is the meteoric rise of China’s electric vehicle industry.
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Jul 16, 2024 • 27min

Bill Gates-backed thermal battery promises to boost wind, solar adoption

Markham interviews Arvin Ganesan, CEO of US firm Fourth Power, which makes a utility-scale thermal battery technology that provides short- and long-duration energy storage for intermittent renewables.
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Jul 2, 2024 • 37min

Can DERs like solar, batteries save the grid?

Markham interviews Dr. Nick Laws and his University of Texas at Austin co-authors' recently published a paper in the Science Direct journal argues that expanding distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and battery storage might reduce the strain on old power grids. 
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Jul 2, 2024 • 35min

Importance of battery storage depends upon the power grid

Markham interviews Dr. Tilo Buehler, global product manager for Hitachi Energy's Grid Edge Solutions.

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