ReVolt
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -ReVolt is about the history and future of how we generate, distribute, and consume electricity. Take a deep dive into the river of electrons and travel through time to find out how energy got so complicated.
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The Green Neighbor Challenge with Andrew Butts, Founder & Director
August 21, 2020 14:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MBToday's episode is about The Green Neighbor Challenge, a web-tool and social media campaign to help anyone in the U.S. find and sign up for a green energy program. But it's also a whole lot more, and to explain the impact green pricing can have on our carbon footprint, Andrew Butts joined me to discuss the endeavor. We also discuss why these programs are better and separate the distinctions between Renewable Energy Certificates vs. Carbon Offsets. The Green Neighbor Challenge is a fiscal...
Green Tech Will Not Save Us? On 'Planet of The Humans' by Jeff Gibbs & Michael Moore
August 07, 2020 18:00 - 5 minutes - 7.55 MBGreen Tech Will Not Save Us. Have you seen Planet of The Humans yet? Oh boy, I was late to the party on this Planet of the Humans, but it really got me going. I'm trying to get Mr. Gibbs on the show this season, so ask your questions: The email for this show is [email protected] and the phone number to leave a message is: (914) 575-2782. Here are some quick tips for conserving energy at home. We did an episode on this last season, but hey, it’s actually the easiest thing you can be do...
Season 2 Trailer - Release Your Inner Child Pirate
July 31, 2020 18:00 - 5 minutes - 7.35 MBWelcome to Season 2 of ReVolt, a podcast on the history and future of energy generation, distribution, and consumption. So, what’s on the menu for season 2? Let me answer your question with a question… Do you remember the food fight scene from the movie Hook with the child pirates? By using their imaginations, they created ammunition for a food fight and bonded with one another… Well, this season is the podcast on energy equivalent of that caloric kerfuffle - I want you to dream up your que...
Silence in Time Square - Jonah deploys to NYC for COVID response
April 10, 2020 01:00 - 7 minutes - 9.85 MBJonah, the host of ReVolt, is deployed in New York City to help respond to the COVID outbreak as a Logistics Officer for International Medical Corps. This episode is a like an audio diary of his experience. Columns of stainless steel catering carts wheeling corpses covered in seran wrap destined for cold storage line the alleyways of hospitals around "the city that never sleeps." In two weeks another episode about the first solar-powered COVID clinic will drop. It's happening in Matamoros...
Batteries, Storage, The Grid, Oh My! (SimpliPhi Power) with CEO Catherine Von Burg
March 26, 2020 15:00 - 46 minutes - 64 MBThe CEO of SimpliPhi Power, Inc. Catherine Von Burg joined Footprint Project's Manager of Dev and Comms, Jonah Sargent for the latest episode of ReVolt, a podcast on the history and future of energy generation, distribution, and consumption. She offers insights into her journey as a female founder and CEO while scaling up and transforming a company into a global leader in providing safe, non-toxic, cobalt-free #lithiumionbatteries Take a deep dive into Catherine's life as she illuminates t...
Power of Place (The Nature Conservancy & Land Use Planning For Clean Energy) with Erica Brand, Director of California Energy Strategy for The Nature Conservancy
March 12, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBIn 2018, California lawmakers set an ambitious climate goal to this effect: 100-percent clean electricity by 2045…. but what does 100% clean energy really look like on the ground? While this is a great sign for climate change mitigation, it could also result in major impacts to natural habitat. For example, if we met the growth of demand for electricity in California with a combination of solar and wind - we would need 1.6-3.6 million acres of land (roughly the size of Delaware to the size ...
Beer Buddies (Brewery Waste Streams Fueling Indoor Pot Growth) with Patrick Crawford of Denver Beer Co and Kaitlin Urso with CO Dept of Public Health and Environment
February 28, 2020 03:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBDuring the beer fermentation process yeast eats sugar and creates two byproducts: alcohol and carbon dioxide. Most CO2 from fermentation is vented into the atmosphere. How much? Around 150,000 lbs of CO2 per small brewery per year. What's worse is that breweries often purchase artificially made CO2 for other parts of the brewing process - to help with carbonation, pressurizing lines, and so on. Until now, most breweries couldn't afford to capture their own CO2. This episode is about Eart...
How To Kill Energy Vampires (Efficiency & Idle Loads) With Eric Youngren - Director of Strategic Partnerships at Boxpower
February 13, 2020 18:00 - 14 minutes - 20.6 MBWhat's an energy vampire? It's the always-on television, fridge, or video game console in your home. Even though it's "off," it's still sucking the grid's blood. How bad are they? Idle loads account for 15% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Our electronics in standby use more energy per year than the entire country of Italy. This episode is about energy consumption. We'll talk about how to measure our usage, what each of us can do to increase efficiency of our devices at home, and r...
Grid In A Box (Solar + Battery Microgrids) with Angelo Campus (Forbes 30 Under 30), Co-Founder and CEO of Boxpower
January 29, 2020 22:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBWhat do hippies, finance bros, electric cars, and shipping containers have in common? They're all key to understanding the history and future of how we generate and distribute electricity. I was joined this week by Angelo Campus, named among Forbes 30 Under 30 for co-founding Boxpower, which manufactures plug and play containerized solar + battery solutions. "The Ikea of microgrids," Boxpower provides pre-wired, color-coded, turnkey systems that can be set up in just hours. Angelo and I di...
WTF is Grid Resiliency? (Puerto Rico's Earthquakes Vs. Grid Resilience) with Gilberto Guevara, Program Director, Responsive Innovation Lab at Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust
January 16, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBThere have been more than 1,500 earthquakes in Puerto Rico since I arrived on January 3rd 2020. One 6.4 magnitude quake destroyed the island’s largest power plant and caused the grid to go down - and now Puerto Rico's energy supply is more vulnerable than ever. Grid resiliency is the ability of the grid to avoid or withstand stresses without suffering outages. Puerto Rico is still recovering from infrastructural damages wrought by Hurricane Maria, and the recent earthquakes have brought ba...
Puerto Rico's Earthquakes & Grid Resilience with Gilberto Guevara, Program Director, Responsive Innovation Lab at Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust
January 16, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBThere have been more than 1,500 earthquakes in Puerto Rico since I arrived on January 3rd 2020. One 6.4 magnitude quake destroyed the island’s largest power plant and caused the grid to go down - and now Puerto Rico's energy supply is more vulnerable than ever. Grid resiliency is the ability of the grid to avoid or withstand stresses without suffering outages. Puerto Rico is still recovering from infrastructural damages wrought by Hurricane Maria, and the recent earthquakes have brought ba...
Everyone Wants To Help And It's Killing Us (Disaster Relief & Clean Energy) with Will Heegaard of FootprintProject.org
January 02, 2020 19:00 - 15 minutes - 21 MBThe vast majority of humanitarian emergency assistance is diesel powered. In this episode ReVolt is joined by Will Heegaard from Footprint Project, a nonprofit that designs, deploys, and advocates for sustainable disaster relief. Examining Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico and its electrical grid, we explore the nexus of disaster relief and sustainable development. To support ReVolt please go to Patreon.com/revoltcast and/or rate it on Apple Podcasts. Instagram: @jonah__sargent #hum...
High Energy (Cannabis & Electricity) with Rob Trotter of Pot Zero & Kaitlin Urso with CO Dept of Public Health and Environment
December 17, 2019 18:00 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBCannabis growers in the U.S. use more electricity than Rhode Island, and as about 20 states are voting to legalize marijuana in 2020, the consumption of energy is projected to grow considerably. This episode focuses on what we can do to mitigate the waste from the industry as cannabis consumers and citizens. We speak with Rob Trotter of Pot Zero, and Kaitlin Urso with the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. To support ReVolt please go to Patreon.com/revoltcast and/or rate it on ...
0 - Episode 0 - What's My Deal? Why ReVolt?
December 08, 2019 22:00 - 4 minutes - 6.1 MBTake a deep dive into the river of electrons and travel through time to find out how energy got so complicated. Humorist and electricity fanboy Jonah Sargent asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change our planet. IG: @jonah__sargent Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ReVoltCast Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ReVoltCast)