38: Trigger Warnings - Talking about solar panel environmental impacts
Matt and Sean talk about solar panels, their useful life, how some people get triggered by them, and what stands in the way of people using them. Also: what is the deal with 1970s sex scenes?Episode: ...
4 Okt 202031min
37: What principles? Talking about Tesla Battery Day
Matt and Sean discuss the ways that Tesla’s recent announcements demonstrate a kind of thinking that breaks from the norm and how it puts them ahead—and what we sacrifice in the process. First princip...
28 Sep 202035min
36: Fuel Cells are Hard
https://youtu.be/g7O3LCYP0bA...to understand. For Sean. But Matt helps him through it! We talk through a lot of questions around efficiency, why they aren’t catching on in cars compared to battery ele...
20 Sep 202029min
35: It’s Virtually a Grid — Talking Tesla Powerwall and Home Batteries
https://youtu.be/QLjqjhqTZoMMatt and Sean talk about evolving approaches to renewable energy production on the local level, surprising impacts of house-based power storage like Tesla Powerwall and Son...
14 Sep 202034min
34: We Have Engaged … the Pork … well, Supercapacitors
https://youtu.be/U4V8Tv1S_J8Matt and Sean talk about supercapacitor technology (aka ultracapacitors), trade terrible puns, and wonder if advances in the future will make our bacon sentient. Special th...
7 Sep 202029min
33: To Hype or Not to Hype - Tesla Battery Day
https://youtu.be/UuQmoCMI5O4Matt and Sean discuss the possible paths that Tesla's battery day announcement might take, rank preferences, and talk about why a company doesn't want to build expectations...
30 Aug 202031min
32: You spin me right round - wind turbine viewer feedback
https://youtu.be/mW436OJ6ZNcMatt and Sean talk about recycling wind turbines or maybe just growing some--the debate over the environmental impact of new technologies, and how some people aren't lookin...
24 Aug 202043min
31: It’s all about context - talking Tesla solar panels and YouTube
https://youtu.be/GLG4iKGxERcIt’s all about context … and where you place your ads. Matt and Sean talk about the US solar installation costs versus other areas of the globe, Tesla solar panel prices, t...
16 Aug 202029min
