Africa, every mention
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every year anyone Kate Steele 15Sheldon Kimber 2Shayle Kann 2Pete Johnson 2Ernest Scheyder 2Tom Moerenhout 1Scott Moskowitz 1Michael Dunne 1Leah Ellis 1Kurt Kelty 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Africa comes up
How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 8:11 Michael Dunne So Mexico, Europe, South Africa, Thailand, Middle East, Africa, they're going everywhere all at once.
Inside the global fertilizer crunch
- ▶ 9:09 Josh Linville The longer this continues, now it starts to manifest itself in places like Africa, like in South America, because they'll be the next ones up to start buying this product.
Scaling America's domestic solar supply chain
- ▶ 39:34 Scott Moskowitz Yeah, I mean, that also explains sort of the whack-a-mole that you see on this, on these global trade, uh, fights that occur when you have, you know, factories that start in China, then they go to Taiwan, then Southeast Asia, then other…
Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
- ▶ 1:04:24 David Roberts Same, it's happening in Africa, it's happening in Vietnam, so I'm just curious, like, what is the spontaneous, unplanned profusion of solar at the ground level do?
GM's big new battery tech push
- ▶ 9:09 Kurt Kelty Um, so that comes from Africa.
The case for colocating data centers and generation
- ▶ 42:24 Sheldon Kimber Um, and, you know, when Africa gets access to the internet, it's gonna be bonkers, right? 2 times in the scene
Lithium’s wild ride
- ▶ 4:39 Ernest Scheyder Both of them can be found in, and this is very abundant in parts of Australia, parts of the western, parts of the eastern United States, excuse me, uh, and parts of Africa, and that production process is more akin to what you would think…
- ▶ 26:15 Ernest Scheyder It also has some of its mining companies operating in parts of Africa where they are mining hard rock and increasing supply there as well.
The complex path to market for low-carbon cement
- ▶ 37:26 Leah Ellis CO₂ has no, doesn't recognize country boundaries, and so we take this technology and move it to India and Africa as fast as possible so that we can avoid those 50 to a hundred years of emissions that come from greenfield cement plants.
Hunting for geologic hydrogen
- ▶ 33:14 Pete Johnson There was a well drilled in 1987 in Mali, Africa, that was a water well that struck hydrogen and has been producing high purity hydrogen ever since. 2 times in the scene
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 16:32 Colin Grabow So we have this bizarre situation where, um, the Gulf Coast is exporting their oil to, say, Latin America, uh, and the refined products, um, uh, internationally, and instead of other parts of the United States, and then those other parts…
The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?
- ▶ 32:20 Tom Moerenhout Uh, several African countries, uh, for example, Zambia and DRC with respect to cobalt.
- ▶ 42:59 Jason Bordoff We need to build stronger partnerships with lots and lots of other countries in Africa and Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market
- ▶ 24:15 Shayle Kann Um, in fact, the Vera CEO stepped down earlier this year, and, and it's been sort of tied up with, there's like a bunch of avoided deforestation projects, largely in Africa, that have been, you know, had credits issued from some of the…
The Volts crossover episode
- ▶ 51:42 Shayle Kann Okay, so what's happening right now is that there is a series of extraordinarily painful exposés about all the follies of the voluntary carbon market, particularly forestry-related carbon credits in, in Africa especially.
Climatetech for developing economies
- ▶ 5:12 Kate Steele By 2030, 90% of people who don't have access to electricity will be living in Africa. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:16 Kate Steele You see that in, you know, half of the power generated in, in Africa is from South Africa.
- ▶ 15:48 Kate Steele Um, you know, a lot of, of developing Asia or in Africa has large-scale hydro. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Kate Steele So of the population, um, let's take just Africa, because as I said, that's where the majority of people who are going to be off-grid for the next 10 years are.
- ▶ 27:30 Kate Steele Then you get into a transmission issue and, like, developing better transmission infrastructure, and that's a big, um, question across Africa is power pooling and an ability to transfer power better between, uh, countries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:44 Kate Steele And that's where we see up to half the people in Africa could currently afford that solution, as it is.
- ▶ 39:31 Kate Steele One, just motorbikes are commonly used, even for taxi services, uh, across large parts of Africa.
- ▶ 45:45 Kate Steele I'll use the U.S. because I think Europe is more connected to Africa. 2 times in the scene
Making sense of solar engineering
- ▶ 19:00 Dan Visioni So for instance, over India, the monsoon, monsoons over Africa.