Building monuments to the end of oil: Imagine series
Monira Al Qadiri says she is pre-empting the end of oil and building monuments to it. As one of the most important contemporary artists of the Middle East, her work — spanning sculptures, films and pe...
18 Sep 202533min
Formula E shows the mind-boggling speed at which electric cars evolve
You’ve heard about Formula 1, right? But do you know about Formula E, its plucky all-electric sibling? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi talks with Sylvain Filippi, co-founder and chief technology offic...
11 Sep 202537min
Your questions answered: Is Donald Trump a climate warrior in disguise?
This week, we hear from you. Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi answers questions from Zero listeners: Can a decline in trade help fight climate change? How do we tell if corporations are greenwashing or ...
4 Sep 202532min
Big Take: How hot is too hot? The latest science on extreme heat
Nearly half a million people die every year as a result of extreme heat. That’s more than the total from hurricanes, earthquakes and floods combined. And as the planet warms, the risk of deadly heat i...
2 Sep 202514min
Best of: Kim Stanley Robinson imagines utopia in 2025
Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines the future for a living. And the future is very much upon us. Robinson’s seminal 2020 novel Ministry for the Future opens in the year 2025. Robinso...
28 Aug 202530min
The 100-ton device that can stop blackouts in the renewables era: Bottlenecks Series
In April, Spain suffered a nationwide blackout that lasted nearly a full day. It was a traumatic event for one of Europe’s fastest adopters of solar power, tripling capacity in just five years. The ou...
21 Aug 202529min
Build small, grow fast: Can small modular reactors live up to the hype?
Electricity demand is soaring, and some think the answer isn’t building bigger, but smaller. That’s the idea behind small modular reactors (SMRs): take a large-scale nuclear plant that’s hard to build...
14 Aug 202531min
How rich countries can build cheap nuclear power again
Electricity demand is booming, and it’s not just because of artificial intelligence. So much so that many are ready to revisit the idea of nuclear power. Microsoft signed a $16 billion deal to reopen ...
7 Aug 202526min
