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The Future is Electric — 70 episodes

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TFIE068 ML09: Building conscious machines - What Kahneman and AI can teach us about ourselves

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TFIE067 ML08: The Mountain - A metaphor for aligning human perception and machine learning

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TFIE066 CT027: Hydroelectric dams have environmental challenges

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TFIE065 CT026: Indonesia suffered in 2018 but global warming is a greater issue

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TFIE064 CT025: Fixing climate change is much easier than the alternative

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TFIE063 CUL32: China is the only scaled manufacturer of many necessary technologies

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TFIE062 CUL31: Utilities and transit poorly positioned for transformation

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TFIE061 CUL30: Patchwork regulation slows low-carbon transformation

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TFIE060 CUL29: Low-carbon transformation faces headwinds in the United States and Canada

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TFIE059 CT024: The 21st Century Climate Connection for Diseases

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TFIE058 CUL28: Democratic campaigns should feature building pumped hydro with coal workers

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TFIE057 CT023: Machine learning isn't the carbon hog headlines suggested

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TFIE056 CUL27: How should billionaires spend their climate action dollars?

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TFIE055 CUL26: While the Right Fears Communism, Climate Change is the Real 21st Century Problem

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TFIE054 CT022: Leaning into the Green New Deal is a feature of Jacobson's new study

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TFIE053 CT021: Storage and transmission are critical to a renewable world but cheap per Jacobson

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TFIE052 CT020: Massive savings of money and CO2 with 100% renewables per Jacobson

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TFIE051 CT019: Peak oil is coming but of demand not supply

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TFIE050 CUL25: Climate change is an asteroid heading for Earth

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TFIE049 CUL24: New Urbanism: a bandaid on a failed urban form

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TFIE048 CUL23: The Culture series by Banks is a post-scarcity, post-politics tabula rasa

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TFIE047 CT018: Economics, not fear of radiation, is killing nuclear energy

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TFIE046 CT017: Fukushima’s final price tag will be $2 billion per reactor on Earth

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TFIE045 CT016: MIT study: Existing US nuclear could be better run for climate and profit

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TFIE044 CUL22: Climate change denial is not a conservative problem but a party problem

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TFIE043 CUL21: Republicans dropped Nixon yet support Trump, but why?

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TFIE042 CUL20: Jordan Peterson is a conservative in denial

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TFIE041 ML07: Machine learning + waste separation robots are a match made in Colorado

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TFIE040 CT015: There is no cheap solution for concrete’s carbon emissions yet

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TFIE039 CT014: Joi Scientific’s perpetual hydrogen scheme predictably falls apart

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TFIE038 CUL19: Why did the Conservative Party get a third of the vote in Canada?

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TFIE037 CUL18: The Yukon demonstrates how climate change is devastating Canada’s north

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TFIE036 CUL17: A fair and impartial scoring of Trump’s words on wind energy

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TFIE035 CUL16: When Alberta’s oil cleanup bill comes due Canada will end up paying

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TFIE034 CUL15: Empathy and boot camps are required for aging climate change deniers

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TFIE033 CUL14: Nothing climate change denialists do shocks me any more

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TFIE032 CUL13: Republicans will lose #Election2020 if they don't accept climate change

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TFIE031 CUL12: Why do liberals believe the things that they do?

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TFIE030 CUL11: Media coverage of climate change faces a perfect storm

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TFIE029 CT014: Pricing carbon is essential but inadequate

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TFIE027 CT012: Electricity is the future for all energy

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TFIE028 CT013: Next generation nuclear? Don’t buy the hype

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TFIE026 CT011: Autonomous cars won't lead to the disappearance of the private car

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TFIE025 CT010: Autonomous cars will increase urban road congestion

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TFIE024 ML06: An AI velociraptor learns how to turn off the lights

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TFIE023 CT009: Global warming is happening faster than it ever has before

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TFIE022 CT008: Global warming is settled science, but what does that mean?

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TFIE022 CUL10: Harley-Davidson's brand has a racism problem

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TFIE021 CT007: Real estate in the age of global warming

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TFIE020 CT006: Electric cars will disrupt more than the automotive industry

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TFIE014 CT004: Future of electricity transmission is HVDC

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TFIE019 CUL09: Climate change deniers are increasingly angry and hostile

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TFIE018 CT003: BMW’s electric car plans are broken

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TFIE017 CUL08: Conservatives are now the dominant anti-vaxxers

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TFIE016 CUL07: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will fail

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TFIE015 CUL06: Why Jordan B. Peterson is a favorite of the alt-right

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TFIE013 CUL05: Exploring the ‘Liberal Bias’ of Reality

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TFIE012 CUL04: Jordan Peterson: climate change denier and faux-science lover

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TFIE011 CUL03: How to Talk to Conservatives About Climate Change

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TFIE010 CUL02: Conservatives Hate Postmodernism, and Liberals don't understand why

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TFIE009 ML05: That scary moment when an AI velociraptor learns to open doors

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TFIE008 CT003: The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work

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TFIE007 CUL01: Jordan Peterson Is Divisive Because of His Weaknesses, not his strengths

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TFIE006 CT002: Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

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TFIE005 CT001: A manifesto for pragmatic techno-optimism

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TFIE003 ML03: Plastic Dinosaur plays ball

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TFIE002 ML02: A fictional robotic velociraptor’s AI brain and nervous system

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TFIE001 ML01: An architecture for a fictional, neural-net guided, learning robotic dinosaur

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TFIE004 ML04: What do you do with a bigoted AI velociraptor?

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