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Another bipartisan housing miracle, this time in Idaho
Last year I did a pod on Montana’s surprising burst of bipartisan housing legislation. Turns out Idaho was watching. This year its legislature passed six housing bills of its own (two others failed). Republican state Sen. Ben Toews and Demo...
Grid cybersecurity: how big is the threat & what should we do about it?
Could the US grid be brought down by Chinese hackers? To find out, I talked with Patrick Miller, who helped write the cybersecurity rules for the bulk power system and became the first person with federal authority to enforce them. We get i...
What should state policymakers do about data centers?
State legislatures are writing data center rules faster than they can verify the demand forecasts underneath them. Fifteen states accounted for 80 percent of data center electricity demand in 2023, a single hyperscale campus can arrive as 1...
Best of July 2026
Highlights from the eight conversations released last month.
Volts published eight conversations in July — with two Minnesota utility regulators, a Spokane city council member, a Hawaii state senator, a co-founder of a battery materials co...
Silicon anodes for batteries unlock greater energy density and faster charging times
Materials in lithium-ion battery cathodes have continuously evolved since the 1990s, but anodes have stubbornly remained graphite. Now, finally, there’s some innovation on that side: silicon anodes, which engineers have struggled to master...
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