Cutting Carbon

While listening to the past season you might have some unanswered questions that popped into your head regarding the future of energy. Our hosts Jeff and Brian take time to answer listener questions from the past two seasons of Cutting Carbon.

It's easy to assume that releasing carbon into the atmosphere is similar to squeezing toothpaste out of the tube and not being able to put it back in. That there might not be an easy solution to suck it up and put it into a 'tube.' However, we discuss how this might be wrong. Today, our hosts Jeff and Brian will talk about the technologies that may have the ability to reverse climate change.

The energy storage you probably recognize is the batteries in your remote, which offer short term use of a technology. However, as we look into the future, long-duration energy storage is the game changer that you might not know about. We will discuss the diversity of these technologies today with Jason Burwen, the current CEO of the Energy Storage Association.

Nuclear energy will continue to play a critical role in the energy transition as the largest provider of carbon-free electricity in the world today. In this episode, we look at a facet of this technology's future - smaller, more modular nuclear reactors that can provide safer, more reliable, and cost-effective electricity.

When you flip on a light switch, do you ever wonder where the power comes from? Find out as we go into detail about the 'most complex machine ever built on the planet' with guests Colin Parris, Chief Technology Officer, GE Digital, and Linda Rae, General Manager for Power, GE Digital. During this conversation, we navigate the complex topic of the electricity grid, including how we keep it secure, reliable, and able to keep pace with powering our growing world.

Wind turbines, but on water? Wind turbines dot today's countryside at home or abroad, but the next area where renewable energy is set to grow exponentially is actually on the world's seas and oceans. Our guest John Lavelle, the CEO of GE's Offshore Wind business, helps us unpack the topic of offshore turbines and the technology's growing impact on the world.

The February 2021 winter storm in Texas that left millions of people without power was a tragedy.   Brian and Jeff discuss what happened to both electricity supply and demand in Texas leading up to, and during the crisis.

Have you ever wanted to hear about the decarbonization of power from the perspective of a company that develops both renewable and natural gas power projects?  Here's your opportunity.

The use of capture technologies to abate carbon emissions depends on our ability to use or store CO2.   The good news is that the geological storage of CO2 has been ongoing for decades.

Imagine  operating a power plant on traditional fuels, like natural gas or LNG,  but with reduced carbon emissions.  This is the potential impact of post-combustion carbon capture technologies.  These systems, when applied to power plants, can remove (or capture) large portions of the CO2 that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere.