Alaska, every mention
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every year anyone Liz Dennett 5Katherine Hamilton 4Dr. Sue Natale 3Tamar Haspel 1Stephen Lacey 1Shalini Ramanathan 1Jigar Shah 1Dr. Melissa Lott 1Cindy Taff 1Christopher Preston 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Alaska comes up
The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall
- ▶ 6:36 Liz Dennett That's not counting places where the grid needs to be modernized, like Alaska, where I grew up, or even in Houston, Texas, where I lived, and electrification of developing nations, whereas you move from small-scale microgrids or not having…
- ▶ 16:17 Liz Dennett I grew up in Alaska, where my dad was an oil and gas geologist on the North Slope, and most of my friends' parents worked at Red Dog Mine, or at other mining places. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 Liz Dennett We've also brought a minor amount of non-dilutive money along the way, including most recently being named a co-PI on an NSF engine in Alaska. 2 times in the scene
Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- ▶ 31:21 Cindy Taff You know, a lot of it's in the western U.S., you have it in Hawaii, you have it in Alaska, and of course you have it overseas.
LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- ▶ 15:30 Bill McKibben He might be able to begin to recoup some of the goodwill that he lost when he, especially with young voters, approved that willow oil complex in Alaska.
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 19:04 Shalini Ramanathan If, if you can do solar projects in Alaska, you can do them anywhere, and I think that, that's a beautiful ubiquity.
The Big Switch: California’s climate czar on banning gas cars
- ▶ 2:18 Dr. Melissa Lott Last fall, we did a whole series that was dedicated to decarbonizing our transportation sector, and you might remember the story about Tim Truer's road trip, where he drove his electric vehicle across the country and up into Alaska,…
Are oil & gas majors abandoning clean energy?
- ▶ 32:25 Jigar Shah Um, we are more challenged in places like graphite, where we don't have a lot of naturally occurring graphite that's a little bit in Alaska,
Should we eat bugs, farmed fish, or soy?
- ▶ 26:13 Tamar Haspel Most of it comes from Alaska, and it's the lesser known salmons.
America is finally doing something big on climate
- ▶ 11:23 Katherine Hamilton There are a lot of provisions on oil and gas that could have negative impacts on greenhouse gases and on communities that are on the front line, so this allows oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Alaska Cook Inlet,… 2 times in the scene
The climate wild card: permafrost
- ▶ 4:00 Dr. Sue Natale Large areas of Russia, large areas of Canada, much of Alaska, then of Scandinavia, and yeah, so there's a lot of permafrost out there.
- ▶ 11:07 Dr. Sue Natale There are many areas that are gaps, and so much more research done, say, in Alaska than in the Canadian High Arctic and some areas of, of Siberia, say. 2 times in the scene
Will truck lovers go electric?
- ▶ 9:04 Christopher Preston I used to work on a fishing boat up in Alaska, and I think about, I'm not much of a gearhead, but I think about the relationship I had to that big diesel engine, you know, when that diesel engine fired up.
Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
- ▶ 13:16 Katherine Hamilton Interestingly, when he and Lisa Murkowski were co-chairing, basically, the Energy Committee in the last Congress, and she's Republican from Alaska, she took him to Alaska on a field trip. 2 times in the scene
Your ‘carbon footprint’ is a marketing ruse
- ▶ 12:00 Stephen Lacey Not to mention causing one of Alaska's largest oil spills ever in 2006, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest marine oil spill in history in 2011.