Energy (Audio) Podcast
1) Bringing Low-Power O-Band Coherent Optics to the Data Center with Clint Schow
UC Santa Barbara's Clint Schow discusses how to bring low-power O-band coherent optics to data centers. Schow received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. After positi...Show More
Bringing Low-Power O-Band Coherent Optics to the Data Center with Clint Schow
20:29 | Dec 12th, 2022
2) Meta Data Centers Heterogenous Integration Driven by AI/ML and Network Applications with Ravi Agarwal
Ravi Agarwal is a technical sourcing manager at the Facebook Infrastructure group. In this role, he is responsible for driving advanced packaging architectures and foundry for both networking and AI/M...Show More
3) Plants Lines and Pipes: Energy Development and the American Public
The American energy system is in transition away from coal and toward less carbon intensive fuels, such as natural gas and wind. Energy produced by renewables and gas is projected to grow by 10 quadri...Show More
4) California Accomplishments in Addressing Climate Change featuring Robert Epstein
California reached its goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels four years ahead of the 2020 target date. Robert Epstein, co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs, takes a look at what is and is not...Show More
California Accomplishments in Addressing Climate Change featuring Robert Epstein
1:22:57 | Feb 13th, 2019
5) Unfracking the Future through Developing Civic Technoscience
Premature births, unexplained human and livestock sicknesses, flammable water faucets, toxic wells and the onset of hundreds of earthquakes: the impacts of fracking are far-reaching and deeply felt. P...Show More
6) Planetary Management: Sol Hsiang
Today, we need to make intelligent management decisions about how we are going to manage our planet. Fortunately, powerful computing technologies now allows us to see with clarity what lies ahead, and...Show More
7) Social Cost of Carbon: Max Auffhammer
Bending the threatening trajectory of global climate change surely seems daunting. Max Auffhammer argues that a single powerful tool can generate major change worldwide: price incentives. His focus is...Show More
8) Responsive Low-Carbon Buildings: Mary Ann Piette
Our homes and buildings consume huge amounts of energy – up to 40 percent of all energy use in the US. Research at Berkeley Lab has greatly boosted energy efficiency in buildings but the challenge now...Show More
9) Down the Climate Change Escalator: Bill Collins
We are on a straight-line trajectory that connects increased emissions to a much warmer and much stranger climate. Are there pathways for escaping from the up-escalator of climate change? UC Berkeley...Show More
10) Sustainable Energy Science and Policy: Dan Kammen
Dan Kammen’s Berkeley research group has revealed the need for a dramatic shift to electricity and away from both fossil and biofuels. Meanwhile, 1.3 billion people – 15 percent of the world populatio...Show More