A global climate meeting in Colombia brings together mostly Global South nations, Europe, and Canada to talk seriously about ending fossil fuels—without binding agreements, but with real momentum. France goes further than anyone else, announcing a full phase-out by 2050.

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CATL signs a massive 60 GWh deal and says sodium-ion batteries are ready for prime time—cheaper, longer-lasting, and ideal for grid-scale use.

Hospitals are a bigger climate problem than you think. One Australian doctor is tackling single-use waste and high-emission anesthetic gases like nitrous oxide, which can be hundreds of times more potent than CO₂.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/the-doctor-fighting-medicine-s-addiction-to-plastic-waste

"Guerrilla solar" is booming in the Philippines as frustrated customers bypass slow permitting to install rooftop systems—raising both safety concerns and questions about red tape.

Listener Mail: EV charging from street lamps is coming to Washington, DC.

Lightning Round highlights:
• BYD sales shift globally
• Alberta adds a solar panel tax
• EVs saving Canadian households hundreds per month
• Wind + solar beating nuclear on cost
https://www.theenergymix.com/renewables-mix-beats-nuclear-on-price-in-future-energy-systems/
• UK solar installs surge
• Texas hits nearly 2/3 solar power at peak

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Episode 309 starts with cracks forming inside OPEC as clean energy and EV adoption begin to reshape global oil demand. We look at why producers may rush to sell while they still can, then shift to fusion power timelines that are still far off, a transit upgrade that paid for itself in months—not years—and Spain's grid proving renewables weren't to blame for its massive blackout. Plus, how LEDs quietly crushed one of the biggest sources of household electricity use.

• Commonwealth Fusion Systems applying to connect a 400 MW plant
• Planned for Virginia's "Data Center Alley"
• Would serve part of the PJM grid (65M+ people)
• Timeline: not anytime soon

• $90M upgrade to new fare gates
• Expected 9-year payback → actually 6 months

Story: https://growsf.org/news/2026-02-12-bart-fare-gates-10-million/

• 2025 blackout initially blamed on solar

• Lithium supply more than sufficient
• EV buses: 56% of EU sales
• Oslo road deaths ~1/year after redesign
• India skipping coal boom thanks to cheap renewables

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A major shift in the global energy transition: clean power is now growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand, while EVs are hitting price parity (and even beating gas cars) in key markets. Add in CATL's new breakthrough battery tech and cold-climate innovations, and the transition is clearly accelerating.

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Highlights:

• Clean energy met 100% of new electricity demand in 2025, with solar doing most of the heavy lifting
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/clean-energy-generation-exceeded-rise-global-electricity-demand-2025
• EV milestone: in the UK, electric cars are now cheaper than gas vehicles upfront, with strong sales growth
• University of Saskatchewan researchers develop a frost-resistant heat pump with big efficiency gains
  https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2026/young-innovators-usask-researcher-discovering-frost-free-heating-solutions.php
• Battery wars heat up: BYD's ultra-fast charging vs CATL's lighter, longer-range next-gen batteries
• Humanoid robot beats human half-marathon record (we're fine… probably)

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