Emily Kwong
speaker
4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4d ago
Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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From NPR.
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Hey short waivers, Emily Kong here with Cooper Katz McKim, a producer at The Indicator from Planet Money, as he is
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Wait, what are you doing, Cooper?
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Interesting.
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But in California, I'd expect energy to be coming from places like natural gas or hydro.
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You're telling me batteries are in the mix?
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I didn't know that battery storage could be used at that level.
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Right.
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And those companies historically have been using technologies at the whim of the weather.
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If the sun doesn't shine, solar energy isn't so great.
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Right, because you can store energy inside a battery somehow.
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Oh, wow.
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Oh, that's kind of small.
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How much power is this site creating?
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Oh, that's a lot.
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Right.
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I mean so much more electricity is needed these days with so many electric vehicles on the road and new data centers for artificial intelligence.
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Let's go on a battery-powered magic carpet ride.
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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
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