Juice now on Roku, Todd Moss on the podcast
It's frigid here in 78704 and it's going to get frigider this weekend. Two short items today:
Juice is now available on Roku, Curiosity Stream, Amazon Prime
Todd Moss on the Power Hungry Podcast
Juice available on three new platforms
There’s plenty of friction involved in making a documentary. There’s plenty more friction in getting it distributed so that it can reach the widest audience. The good news is that Juice recently became available, for free, or nearly free, on several new outlets. My colleague, (and the director of Juice) Tyson Culver, and I recently learned that our film is now on Roku, Curiosity Stream, and Amazon Prime. The film has over 300 ratings on Curiosity Stream and about 60 on Amazon Prime. So if you haven’t seen Juice yet, watch it and give it a 5-star rating on your favorite platform. And do me and Tyson a favor: tell everyone you know to do the same!
Todd Moss, executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub, on the Power Hungry Podcast
Amateurs borrow, professional steal. That line (and variations on it) has been attributed to John Lennon, T.S. Eliot, and Pablo Picasso.
I bring up that line because a few years ago, I stole an idea from Todd Moss. He was the first to use his refrigerator’s electricity use as metric to compare his energy consumption with that of people in other countries. I stole that concept, used it in A Question of Power and Juice, and I have been using it ever since. (I did tell him about my theft beforehand, and acknowledged him in AQOP.)
For that reason, and several others, I was pleased to have Moss on the Power Hungry Podcast. Moss is the executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub, a non-profit group that aims to help “All countries achieve the high-energy future they need to become prosperous, competitive, and climate resilient.” Moss, who calls himself an “Africa policy junkie” has worked at the World Bank, Center for Global Development, and the State Department. We talked about the challenges facing electrification in Africa, the fuels that will likely play the biggest roles in that effort, and the “modern energy minimum.” Last month, Moss and about a dozen co-authors published a report which said that global targets for “electricity access” should be raised from 50 kilowatt-hours per capita per year to 1,000 kilowatt-hours per year. They said, “This new metric raises the bar on global targets for ending energy poverty and is better aligned with the way that energy drives living standards, livelihoods, and the expansion of industry, commerce, and agriculture.”
We also talked about how corruption limits electrification, renewables, and the role that natural gas could play in Africa’s electrification. Moss made another point on the podcast which demonstrates how little electricity is being used in Africa today: "If we triple the electricity in Africa on average, and we did it entirely with natural gas...the additional CO2 emissions is less than 1% of the global total." It was an interesting discussion. Give it a listen.
Have a good weekend and stay warm!
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