Emily Kwong

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4,795 appearances 100 recordings 11 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 5d ago

Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 98 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 26.

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Short Wave · When batteries get a facelift, so does renewable energy · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Oh yeah, the cube battery that debuted in the nineties with the Sony camcorder. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Energy dense meaning voice-verified

I've always wondered this, is there anything specific to lithium that makes this possible? voice-verified

Like why is this so special? voice-verified

I've made enough lemon batteries to know this. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Um the the negative electrode is the anode. voice-verified

And it releases electrons. voice-verified

And the positive electrode is the cathode. voice-verified

And that absorbs the electrons and when they are recharged, the electrons move back. voice-verified

It's like a cycle. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So you're saying lithium ion batteries are easily allowing this like electron voice-verified

transfer to happen. voice-verified

Okay, so that's where we're at today. voice-verified

Um these voice-verified

Cabinets of lithium, iron, phosphate batteries, LFPs, have become the standard for grid scale battery storage. voice-verified

And it sounds like that technology is growing quickly. voice-verified

Is there any reason for this momentum behind battery sales to ever stop? voice-verified

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