The Angry Clean Energy Guy
Episodes
Episode 100
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hostages to the Barrel: Fossil Fuel Dependency is a National Security Suicide Note.We’ve reached Episode 100 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast, ...
Episode 99
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on "Sovereign AI" and the recipe with three ingredients each country needs to achieve it. Plus a special focus on...
Episode 98
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on data centers in space: the good, the bad and the ugly - and why they are inevitable by 2030
Episode 97
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2025
Episode 96
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Real climate action isn't happening at the UN Climate talks—it’s happening everywhere else. So, are the UN climate summits a waste of time? W...
Episode 95
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Achilles heel of AI and AGI is electricity. By 2030, new data centers require $6.7 trillion worldwide, based on current market data, to keep pace ...
Episode 94
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget "energy transition". We are in the midst of an energy TRANSFORMATION, completely upending how we live on a global basis. We are on ou...
Episode 93
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy reveals how the onslaught of attacks on clean energy in the United States is fueled by vindictiveness and greed, not facts,...
Episode 92
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the space race of this century: becoming a solar superpower. Humanity is moving into an unprecedented era of energy supe...
Episode 91
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, 28 April 2025, a major power blackout occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting Portugal and Spain. The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the...
Episode 90
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of an organised assault on climate action, climate science, the environment, diversity, equity and inclusion and more generally, o...
Episode 89
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, President Trump apparently sought to stop wind power expansion in the US and withdrew from the Paris agreement, in a barrage of orders aimed...
Episode 88
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2024
Episode 87
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday 2 December 2024, the mother of all climate lawsuits began at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Unprecedented, it's also ...
Episode 86
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard that a "nuclear renaissance" is gathering pace, driven most recently by something called “small modular reactors” or ...
Episode 85
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On 14 June 2024, a major oil spill blackened Singapore's coastline, after yet another shipping accident which punctured the oil tank of a fuel sh...
Episode 84
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the depravity at the heart of climate finance: those who set the house on fire (rich nations) are lining up outside to...
Episode 83
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese innovation on steroids: The Angry Clean Energy Guy on some pretty shockingly amazing announcements in the battery energy storage world from Ch...
Episode 82
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on two recent, and historic, renewable energy milestones many thought impossible. First, solar, wind and hydro power exceed...
Episode 81
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the fraud that is plastic recycling, perpetrated by Big Oil and their enablers; and on the emerging evidence that the ...
Episode 80
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2023"
Episode 79
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disinformation, misinformation, deception and propaganda by Big Oil is rife. The number of oil trolls on my social media feeds - and those of so many ...
Episode 78
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the need to tackle the fantastic quantities of waste and pollution from the healthcare sector - 5 to 7% of global emissi...
Episode 77
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the sheer quantity of drivel we're bring bombarded with about gas, (such as the world needing more affordable energ...
Episode 76
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why our fossil fuel addiction consumes at least 535 times more mining than the renewables economy displacing it - and ho...
Episode 75
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why South East Asia's clean energy future is here already, today: it's all happening, all one needs to see it ...
Episode 74
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why we have all the money in the world to pay for climate action right now (and where that money is), so why the hell ar...
Episode 73
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about COP28, the 28th installment of the United Nations Climate Talks, which will take place in Dubai, UAE at the end of this year. Fo...
Episode 72
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy’s third episode in a mini-series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, today feat...
Episode 71
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's second episode in a mini-series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, toda...
Episode 70
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's first episode in a series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, starting w...
Episode 69
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The noise from oil trolls, oil bots and Big Oil astroturfing has become deafening. Their aim is to overwhelm the climate movement - and thoroughly con...
Episode 68
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Positive Climate Actions of 2022"
Episode 67
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The global legal construct around climate change was born in 1992, when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated at the UN Confere...
Episode 66
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainable aviation fuels are a fraud. Study after study say that no matter how you look at the data, their production will fail to meet aviation nee...
Episode 65
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate optimism is in short supply, so this is a podcast about ten BIG, BIG reasons to be optimistic that we are pushing back against global warmin...
Episode 64
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of a global climate crisis touching everyone and everything, there are new, sophisticated and dangerous forms of greenwashing making th...
Episode 63
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people struggle with climate anxiety - the feeling of distress, uncertainty and loss of control which is a natural reaction to the magnitude of...
Episode 62
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is something sordid taking place out there. Over the past few weeks, shareholders – that is, investors, asset management firms, banks and pe...
Episode 61
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While India was roasting under a record heatwave; the Amazon was recording record after record of deforestation destruction; dust storms were sending ...
Episode 60
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why your "luxury cruise" is just a floating garbage trash can; how the shipping industry in its entirety has g...
Episode 59
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the top 5 climate action myths busted by the Ukraine war: the different ways governments and big business had justifie...
Episode 58
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Greenwashing - drowning consumers with vague or false claims to deceive them into believing that a business' products or image are green - has ...
Episode 57
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why the blockchain is possibly one of the most powerful tools for citizen climate action, in particular for those angr...
Episode 56
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about corporate evil: companies knowingly doing harm. In this episode, the Angry Clean Energy Guy features a massive company many ar...
Episode 55
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a little known, secretive, stealthy tool undermining climate action, the innocuously called the Energy Charter Treaty,...
Episode 54
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"COP26," the 26th year pretty much all the countries in the world convened in an annual conference to talk about what to do about the clim...
Episode 53
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on pretty much everything you really need to know about nuclear energy. That's for example the fact that conventional ...
Episode 52
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The IPCC released a hugely important scientific report this week. However, in this episode, I would like to talk about biodiversity instead, and in ...
Episode 51
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve had it with the bashing of bitcoin, the blockchain and crypto miners for their energy usage. This is all, in one word, noise and should be ig...
Episode 50
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This Episode is a slightly longer version of a TEDx Talk I gave at Singapore's National Gallery on 28 April 2021 about ESG.What Bill Gates calls ...
Episode 49
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on pretty much everything you need to know about ESG, starting with the need to be very suspicious whenever you see an ESG ...
Episode 48
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to get elected, requirement number one is to come up with a meaningless tagline while pretending everything is going pear-shaped, e.g. “...
Episode 47
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, multiple oil and gas companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in planting trees, or threatening to do so, to offset...
Episode 46
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about lawyers and about law firms. One of the strongest weapons in the fight to do nothing at all about climate change is the anti-cl...
Episode 45
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With an estimated $30 trillion in assets under management, the insurance industry is a huge (but mostly invisible) force in influencing the directio...
Episode 44
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you listen to banks and their explanations of they are doing about climate change, you might get the impression that most "get it" and ar...
Episode 43
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Fresh air" is a myth. In reality, 90% of us (worldwide) are breathing dirty air on a permanent basis. Because we can't see the polluti...
Episode 42
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The latest, newest attacks against clean energy, namely “Oh my God, what are we going to do with all those solar panels and wind turbines and batter...
Episode 41
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
October, 2020 marked the end of an era: The world’s largest solar and wind power generator, the US utility NextEra, surpassed ExxonMobil - literally...
Episode 40
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesia, population 270m and basking in abundant sunshine most of the year while stretched across the Equator, has less installed solar power capaci...
Episode 39
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I am sharing good news on this podcast: Natural gas is done in 10 years. Certainly in Europe. Give it another 5 years on top and it will also be d...
Episode 38
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The plastic industry says it’s a "hero" of the coronavirus pandemic. What is driving this propaganda? Single-use plastic is a big chunk of...
Episode 37
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, an open letter from dozens of investors, business leaders, researchers and climate policy advocates accused the International Energy Agency,...
Episode 36
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the incredible resilience of renewable energy in the midst of a pandemic, and why that means its rise will accelerate fu...
Episode 35
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our arsenal of anti-virus weapons, a powerful force is emerging. It’s one of the most hygienic alternatives for the prevention of the virus and i...
Episode 34
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If you want a proper adaptation strategy to the Coronavirus, then you must finally properly tackle climate change. There. I said it."In thi...
Episode 33
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty five per cent of the western world could be unemployed by the end of March: COVID19 shows that society failed to provide, to most, secure jobs ...
Episode 32
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do Amazon, Microsoft, Finnair, Teck Frontier, Llyods Bank, Equinor and Singapore have in common? Buried in the news so far in 2020, there's ...
Episode 31
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is so much anti-electric vehicles propaganda around, I’ve started hearing kids repeating it recently: “Oh, EVs aren’t clean because of how...
Episode 30
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on all you need to know (sort of) about Hydrogen: Green vs. Black vs. Grey vs. Blue, the myths peddled by Big Oil and wheth...
Episode 29
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's definitive guide (sort of) of what works, and what doesn’t, in fighting climate change: How much can you fly? Shou...
Episode 28
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Big Data, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are being harnessed by Big Tech in an unholy alliance with Big Oil aimed at increasing oil &...
Episode 27
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy's Top 10 Reasons to be a Climate OptimistAnytime you get depressed by the climate catastrophe all around us, come back...
Episode 26
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A cataclysmic event (well, sort of) happened recently: The largest multi-lateral lender in the world, the European Investment Bank, said no to lending...
Episode 25
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on insects, what they do for us, why we should love them and how new shock findings confirm that we are in the middle of ...
Episode 24
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On how in 1982, Exxon Mobil published a beautiful 46 page report and estimated with stunning accuracy that the atmosphere would contain 415 parts per ...
Episode 23
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On (almost) everything you need to know about the dangerous global boom taking place in the petrochemicals industry, the plastic myths and cons it ped...
Episode 22
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the Saudi Aramco IPO, what it is, its risks, valuation, flawed rationale and why the IPO of the third largest polluter in history, in the era of fi...
Episode 21
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a major recent development and a precursor of what’s coming for Big Oil everywhere, namely Shell and Exxon having thei...
Episode 20
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the other planetary emergency coming to us via Brazil, the decimation of 500,000,000 bees through the use of pesticides ...
Episode 19
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the climate change lawsuits tsunami spreading around the world to hold polluters to account; and on plastic particles fa...
Episode 18
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on amazing reforestation initiatives in Pakistan, India, China, Ethiopia, Europe as well as the Great Green Wall from Seneg...
Episode 17
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the inexorable and intolerable continuing rise of emissions 27 years after the Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro; a...
Episode 16
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a virus infecting sustainability: Big Oil are deliberately poisoning what sustainability means, diluting its impact and ...
Episode 15
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the weirdest, strangest and most violent climate chaos apparent everywhere in June in China, India, Pakistan, the United...
Episode 14
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy names and shames top fashion brands and describes why the fashion and garments industry is a horror show from a climate cha...
Episode 13
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the (very) dirty secret of luxury cruises which are in fact just punctured garbage bins on water; on New York State&apos...
Episode 12
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the impact of climate change so far in June (and just June) on India, Pakistan, China, Finland, Russia, Australia and th...
Episode 11
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on what the climate movement must learn (but hasn't, yet) from the fight against HIV /AIDS: The battle against Big Pha...
Episode 10
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on electric bicycles; palm oil, deforestation, haze and climate change; “natural” gas and why the re-branding of methan...
Episode 9
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on dolphins dying en masse in Peru because of offshore oil & gas exploration techniques and in France because of indust...
Episode 8
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the human race reaching the highest levels of planet-warming gases in our atmosphere in human history; on an Exxon scien...
Episode 7
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On a super-important report on our biodiversity from IPBES, Amsterdam and cars, Beijing and electric scooters, Michael O'Leary, Ryanair as the ne...
Episode 6
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on China's Belt and Road Initiative; Fund managers and oil companies; Jakarta; Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique; Deforest...
Episode 5
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On microplastics, geoengineering, chevron, occidental, BHP, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Unilever, generating electricity from wood and climate change ...
Episode 4
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the Bank of England, the world's capital markets; plant-based diets; stopping flying; overthrowing capitalism; main...
Episode 3
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On nuclear power, the Great Barrier Reef, Sky News Australia, Dolphins and Overfishing, and Shell Oil.
Episode 2
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On wind power, electric cars, the "Impossible Burger," beef and some of the corporations wrecking the planet.
Episode 1
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, I will share with you a few topics that struck me and that I was very angry about. This week, it's about plastic pollution, cyclones, ...