Episode 13 - The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, part 2
Time for more details about the bipartisan carbon fee bill that everybody (everybody = Hope and Ana) is talking about! Note: in the time bet...
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Episode 13 - The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, part 1
In this episode, we talk climate policy! Specifically, we talk about a bipartisan carbon fee and dividend bill that was introduced in the Ho...
Episode 12 - Laura Bassi, part 3
She's back at it again! Tune in as Laura studies lots and lots of water, clarifies some exceptions to Boyle's Law, lends out her laboratory...
Episode 11 - Laura Bassi, part 2
Italy. The mid-eighteenth century. A ragtag band of adventurers - a physicist, the Pope, and his secretary - set out to reform science. Sour...
Episode 10 - Laura Bassi, part 1
Have you been waiting for an episode where we don't even pretend to talk about batteries? This is that episode. Welcome to 1730s Italy, wher...
Episode 9 - Listener Questions 1 feat. Spencer Johnson
In this episode, we answer some listener questions! Tune in for our favorite potatoes, batteries in literature (by which we mean TV) ((by wh...
Episode 8 - Hydrogen Storage feat. Gloria Wilson & Dana Wilson
In this episode, Hope talks hydrogen storage with her mom (Gloria) and her sister (Dana)! (Ana isn't in this one because it was the holidays...
Episode 7 - Series vs. Parallel
In this episode we discuss series vs. parallel battery configurations! You'll learn why a series configuration increases voltage, while a pa...
Episode 6 - Aqueous Electrolytes and Electrolyte Restrictions
Alternate episode title: Wat(t)ery Battery Sorry about the wait for this episode! Our editor Hope was busy dropping out of grad school and t...
Episode 5 - Battery Ch-ch-ch-chattery: A Halloween Episode feat. Doug Laustsen
Is blood useful as an electrolyte material? Can Ana's husband Doug help us understand art? Is art even worth understanding? We didn't answer...
Episode 4 - Potatoes and Voltage
Today we're going to teach you a little something about voltage! We're also going to delve into all the ways we've been misled (by yours tru...
Episode 3 - Basic Electrochemistry (with guests Spencer Johnson and Andrew Smith)
We start off this episode with a little bit of embarrassment and entropy, and then, with a little help from the humble potato, we answer tha...
Episode 2, part 2 - Battery Basics
What is an anode? What is a cathode? Do we have mnemonics for remembering which is which? The answer to all three of these questions is YES...
Episode 2, part 1 - Corrections Corner
Welcome to Corrections (and Clarifications) Corner, where we focus on topics from previous episodes! Today it's definitely more of a clarifi...
Episode 1 - Battery Mattery
We talk about batteries and why they mattery. Sources: utilities survey - http://www.utilitydive.com/news/the-next-generation-utility-busine...