Tom McKinnon interviews, via phone, Peter Asmus of Pike Research about Virtual Power Plants. This emerging information technology may help to integrate more renewable power onto the gird. And even save money for customers who are willing to turn down their energy demand when the grid is stressed.
At the recent Conference on World Affairs, Susan Moran sat down with Peter Hildeband, the director of the Earth Sciences Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He talked about how climate change will impact wildfires in the West.
Producer: Tom McKinnon
Co-Hosts: Tom McKinnon and Susan Moran
Engineer: Ted Burnham
Listen to the show:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:02 — 21.1MB)
Subscribe: RSS
We discuss the environmental and human costs of natural gas drilling practices, and then the human toll of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico one year after the disaster.
Ted Burnham interviews Liesel Ritchie, assistant director for research at the 
Welcome to a special edition of How on Earth, done in conjunction with the 
In this Spring Pledge Drive Show, we share an update on the crisis in Japan from Kathleen Tierney of 
Ted Burnham inteviews CU PhD student Christine Fanchiang on her role in helping the BioServe program prepare experiments for a ride on the Space Shuttle.