Episodes 29
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Sporadic
Since Jan 2023
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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About This Podcast

How do we build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity?

 

That’s the question at the heart of Good Clean Energy, a podcast featuring interviews with scientists, innovators and energy experts working to transform the energy ecosystem and tackle climate change.


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Recent Episodes

Proving FRC fusion stability at scale, with Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald

Aug 27, 2025 27m

For decades, Field-Reversed Configurations (FRCs) have been one of the most attractive opportunities in fusion because of the large power output, but one of the biggest doubts was whether they scale…

The role of government policy in advancing fusion, with TAE Policy & Global Affairs’ Matthew Lipka

Jul 14, 2025 29m

In this episode, Matthew Lipka from TAE’s Policy & Global Affairs team explores how policy is shaping and accelerating the future of fusion energy in the United States. He shares his work…

Unlocking the fusion industry supply chain, with Kyoto Fusioneering’s Richard Pearson

Jun 04, 2025 26m

In this episode, Kyoto Fusioneering co-founder Dr. Richard Pearson shares how his company is supplying the essential technology components others need to succeed. Rather than building reactors, Kyoto…

S2E3 How digital simulations lead to real world fusion, with TAE's Director of Computational Science Sean Dettrick

May 21, 2025 23m

In this episode, TAE Director of Computational Science Sean Dettrick explores the groundbreaking role of simulation in advancing commercial fusion. Since joining TAE in 2002, Dettrick has led efforts…

S2E2 TAE fusion machine’s breakthrough design, with Director of Diagnostics Thomas Roche

Apr 15, 2025 11m

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. This season we’re going to…

S2E1 TAE's unique approach to fusion, with TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer

Apr 15, 2025 12m

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. This season we’re going to…

Why we need to electrify everything in our homes, with Rewiring America’s Stephen Pantano

Jan 08, 2024 33m

Roughly 42% of energy-related carbon emissions come from households—our cars, water heaters, furnaces, dryers, cooktops and where we get our energy. Stephen Pantano, head of Market Transformation for…

S1E22 U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry unveils an international fusion plan at COP28

Dec 08, 2023 16m

At COP28, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry announced a major fusion strategy for the world.  Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz joins Good Clean Energy from Dubai to break down this White…

S1E21 How to tackle cement's massive CO2 problem, with Sublime Systems' Leah Ellis

Nov 15, 2023 31m

Cement accounts for 8 percent of global CO2 emissions. The production of one ton of Portland cement — the kind most commonly used — results in one ton of CO2 released into the atmosphere. And since…

On a mission to eliminate legacy carbon emissions, with Carbon180’s Anu Khan

Oct 25, 2023 37m

Anu Khan, Deputy Director of Science and Innovation at the nonprofit Carbon180, joins Good Clean Energy to discuss the ins and outs of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Throughout the…

Solving today’s biggest challenges facing EVs, with TAE Power Solutions CEO Kedar Munipella

Oct 04, 2023 33m

What are the biggest challenges to widespread adoption of electric vehicles? Cost, range anxiety and charge time. Kedar Munipella, CEO of TAE Power Solutions,  joins the show to talk about how his…

How to decarbonize manufacturing using really hot bricks, with Rondo Energy's John O'Donnell

Sep 20, 2023 38m

Industrial heat accounts for 25% of global energy consumption to make products ranging from steel to cement to paper and so many other things you've probably never thought about. It’s a huge chunk of…

S1E17 How AI can make the U.S. power grid supersmart, with Climate Change AI's Priya Donti

Aug 29, 2023 41m

Priya Donti, co-founder and executive director of Climate Change AI, joins Good Clean Energy to talk about the role AI and machine learning can play in transforming America's power grid to optimize…

S1E16 Ernie Moniz on “Oppenheimer” and the dawn of the nuclear age

Aug 09, 2023 23m

Dr. Ernie Moniz, an acclaimed nuclear physicist and former U.S. Secretary of Energy,  joins Good Clean Energy again to discuss the film “Oppenheimer” and the dawn of the nuclear age through the lens…

S1E15 How reshoring American manufacturing will inspire climate tech innovation, with Harvard Business School's Willy Shih

Jul 27, 2023 32m

Willy Shih, Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, joins Good Clean Energy to talk about the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on reshoring…

S1E14 How to clean up the global shipping industry, with Canary Media's Maria Gallucci

Jul 11, 2023 23m

About 90 percent of the world's trade is transported by sea, on giant polluting cargo ships that burn particularly dirty oil. Last week, the International Maritime Organization, the UN body…

S1E13 The future of hydrogen-powered air travel, with Universal Hydrogen's Paul Eremenko

Jun 29, 2023 37m

Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen, believes that there is a relatively simple way to solve the aviation industry’s carbon emissions problem. Today’s sustainable fuels aren’t…

S1E12 Is nuclear energy making a comeback? Featuring former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Richard Meserve

Jun 14, 2023 28m

As a former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission with both a law background as well as a PhD in applied physics, Richard "Dick" Meserve is uniquely qualified to speak on the future of…

S1E11 How to convince companies to go net zero by 2030, with Project Drawdown’s Jamie Alexander

Jun 01, 2023 30m

Jamie Alexander is working to make capitalism compatible with a climate-safe world. Alexander is the director of Drawdown Labs, a branch of the nonprofit organization Project Drawdown that works…

S1E10 Building a voice for fusion energy, with Energy for the Common Good's Jane Hotchkiss

May 19, 2023 37m

Jane Hotchkiss, the president and cofounder of nonprofit Energy for the Common Good, is on a mission to educate the public about the promise of fusion and to support the buildout of a future fusion…

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