Daniel Woldorff is a podcast producer for Catalyst, Columbia Energy Exchange, and With Great Power. He previously worked on The Big Switch and the Webby-award-winning Where the Internet Lives. He helped to launch three of Latitude’s shows, including Catalyst, and previously worked on The Interchange, The Energy Gang, ModeShift, Illuminators, and Climate2020.
He has covered climate technology and business for five years and was the Latitude Media’s first employee. Before getting his start in audio at D.C.’s NPR station WAMU, he worked in sustainable food as the first employee of sustainable food company Seal the Seasons. He has a B.A. in public policy from Duke University and lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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VC Andy Lubershane said that certain sectors are trying for technical breakthroughs when they should be scaling existing technologies.
Pete Johnson says we are several years from definitive answers about geologic hydrogen’s future role in the energy system.
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Julio Friedmann talks the future of recycled carbon.
Columbia University's Dan Steingart talks about the shortage of end-of-life lithium-ion cells — and why battery recycling is hard right now.
Energy Impact Partners’ Andy Lubershane on how to address the grid's twin challenges of booming electricity demand and stalling supply