245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;)

Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the year of AI, we let ChatGPT create a Year in Review episode structure and ask us questions about energy and environmental matters in 2025. The whole thing goes off the rails pretty quickly, descending into what Cymene calls "technocratic Mad Libs". And then compounding that error, we also invited an AI voice editor program to help edit the episode. That program obviously didn't like our laughter or our banter or the critical things we kept saying about AI. So, prepare yourselves for a weird episode, dear listeners. But what better way is there to honor the disaster that was 2025, right? Peace and love and see you in 2026!! PS and if you want a do-over and experience our Plan B instead, then YouTube has covered:

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245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;) is an episode from Cultures of Energy by Dominic Boyer.

This episode is 43:35 long.

This episode was published on Dec 27, 2025.

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