Jun 28, 2026
Bambang Susantono has had three careers that would each be a full life's work — Vice Minister of Transportation for Indonesia, Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, and then the founding head of Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital city.
In this conversation he explains why Nusantara studied three other...
Jun 23, 2026
Patrick Strom has spent 25 years in the wind industry, from prospecting sites to predictive maintenance on turbines the size of skyscrapers. His message is simple: renewables don't need subsidies anymore. They're winning on cost, full stop.
In this conversation: why offshore wind's real bottleneck isn't catching the...
Jun 17, 2026
Bruce Nordman spent nearly 40 years at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory asking one question: what if we ran electricity
the way we run the internet?
His answer reframes everything. A notebook computer is already a
nanogrid — it can run on battery or grid power, and it distributes
electricity to every USB device...
Jun 15, 2026
John Lin grew up Dutch-Chinese, worked strategy at the Netherlands' biggest e-commerce company, and spent years telling his McKinsey colleagues that everything they called "the future of commerce" had already happened in China. Nobody listened. He was right.
He now does 50 keynotes a year telling European boardrooms...
Jun 10, 2026
Originally published as Episode 230 — this conversation has only
become more relevant since.
Michael Barnard is a climate futurist who builds decade-by-decade
projections of the energy transition through 2100. He doesn't claim
to be right. He claims to be less wrong than most.
In this episode: why hydrogen demand will...