wind and solar

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2022 by Julia Atwood · across every show →

Everything said about wind and solar, oldest first

Aug 31, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Atwood: Electric arc furnaces can easily run on intermittent renewables
“Electric arc furnaces can use intermittent power, so they're great if you just plug them into wind and solar, because you're making the steel in batches.”
Julia Atwood Aug 31, 2022 ▶ 7:35 The Big Switch: The Race to Green Steel
Jun 1, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Tomlinson: Wind and solar saved Texans $31B over the last decade
“Well, you know, the Texas Consumer Association says that we saved about thirty-one billion dollars on our electricity bills over the last decade, thanks to wind and solar.”
Chris Tomlinson Jun 1, 2023 ▶ 8:32 Why Texas Republicans are trying to crush wind and solar
Feb 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Ramanathan: Commercializing new energy technologies is as hard as wind and solar
“Commercializing technology, implementing projects to, you know, to get it out there, that's going to be As hard for any new technology as it has been for wind and solar. So, you know, might as well try to solve it for wind and solar.”
Shalini Ramanathan Feb 1, 2024 ▶ 10:10 US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
Feb 22, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramanathan: Wind and solar returns cannot match oil and gas returns
“Wind and solar are becoming commodities where the returns are not anything like what you get in oil and gas.”
Shalini Ramanathan Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 9:49 A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
May 21, 2025
Insight
Jewett: Geothermal development requires subsurface data unlike wind and solar
“Geothermal, unlike wind and solar, where you can measure it by observing surface conditions, you have to know about the subsurface resource in order to have high confidence that you can go build a geothermal facility in a place.”
Sarah Jewett May 21, 2025 ▶ 22:28 Building Fervo's geothermal giant
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