83 episodes
The Angry Clean Energy Guy Assaad W. Razzouk
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5.0 • 27 Ratings
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There is so much to be angry about, if you are a clean energy guy. Every day, so many things that happen around the world make me angry when I look at them with lenses colored by the climate change chaos unfolding everywhere around us. And I am especially angry because I know we can solve the climate change crisis if we were only trying.Each week, I will share with you a few topics that struck me and that I was very angry about – and this will generally have to do with climate change, solar or wind power, plastic pollution, deforestation and reforestation, environmental degradation, wildlife, the oceans and other related topics.
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Episode 83
Chinese innovation on steroids: The Angry Clean Energy Guy on some pretty shockingly amazing announcements in the battery energy storage world from China, and on decisive progress on recycling batteries from the United States. Together, these guarantee that oil is on its way out of the transportation sector; that oil and gas are on their way out of electricity generation, forever, much earlier than people think; and that we will shrink the environmental footprint of energy - by exiting oil and gas and coal - by somewhere between 90% and 99%.
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Episode 82
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on two recent, and historic, renewable energy milestones many thought impossible. First, solar, wind and hydro power exceeded 100% of California's electricity demand on an almost daily basis over a sustained period of several weeks. Second, also in California, battery storage became for the first time ever the largest source of supply in the California grid. The evidence is incontrovertible: not only can we power entire countries with almost 100% renewable energy, but we will also get there faster than most people think.
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Episode 81
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the fraud that is plastic recycling, perpetrated by Big Oil and their enablers; and on the emerging evidence that the health dangers of plastic - obfuscated for 50 years - could be life-threatening , including substantially raised risks of strokes, heart attacks and other nasty invasions of our bodies by Big Oil.
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Episode 79
Disinformation, misinformation, deception and propaganda by Big Oil is rife. The number of oil trolls on my social media feeds - and those of so many other climate activists - has seen a remarkable increase, some collecting 1,000+. The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the "Top 10 Disinformation Tag Lines" peddled by Big Oil trolls and bots, aided and abetted by some of the world's largest public relations firms and assorted politicians, lawyers and consultants on their payroll.
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Episode 78
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the need to tackle the fantastic quantities of waste and pollution from the healthcare sector - 5 to 7% of global emissions and 5th largest polluter if we thought of it as a country - and how the doctors, demigods everywhere, are in the process of being nudged to evolve to get to zero-waste and zero-emissions medicine.
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Mr. Razzouk has recently clarified for me, a long-time believer in cap-and-trade, why I’ve been increasingly questioning the voluntary carbon market. He takes the issues and gives high-level insight into everything from biodiversity to “mouthful” UN committees and world treaties to cutting edge technologies, including what works, what doesn’t, and what we should be doing about it.
Great podcast - gets to the heart of the problem. Cuts through the noise!
Well done Assaad.
Is it enough?
Thank you for this well-explained climate talk. Good points about oil and airline companies, bottles and plastics. There are companies now that deliver and pick up old bottles filled with new product. That’s a step in the right direction but you’ve still got the delivery issue. Eating more healthy, lower carbon diet...local, seasonal to avoid transportation costs. Eat only sustainable palm oil, less meat. “Palm oil and meat drive deforestation.” Don’t lecture people on their diet - they know. “You’re not going to turn 8 billion people vegetarian /vegan. This is where I disagree. Many people do not know the toll their meat/fish/eggs/dairy takes on the environment. What about the polluted land, water and air from animal/fish production? I had hoped you’d put more emphasis on the animal/fish farming debacle. I wonder if watching The Game Changers on Netflix or some videos on Earthling Ed’s YouTube channel would change your thinking...? But thanks for all the rest of the information.