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Stories, analysis, and big ideas on the shift to clean, local energy.
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How Atlanta and Georgia can become the energy tech capital of the world: Bill’s Atlanta Tech Week talk.
At Atlanta Tech Week I made the case that $4.6 trillion of energy tech investment is already contracted,…
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When will my robot fold my laundry? My RoboGeorgia 2026 keynote.
At the RoboGeorgia Summit I argued the bottleneck in physical AI is not compute, it is judgment and…
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To be written – Energy is following the path of computing
Centralized giants, disrupted by small, cheap, networked technology. Telephones, computers — and now electricity: the same story is…
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To be written – Edison, Insull, and Westinghouse: the war that built the grid
How a feud between Thomas Edison, his protege Sam Insull, and rival George Westinghouse created the electric utility…
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To be written – How the first, biggest hydropower plant at Niagara Falls enabled the Wright Brothers to fly
The world’s first large power plant at Niagara Falls solved a problem that, a few years later, helped…
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Harvard Business School interviews Bill Nussey on the real future of AI data centers
Harvard Business School asked me where the electricity to run the AI boom is going to come from.…
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Greg Robinson, host of the World Changing Podcast, interviews Bill about his journey into clean energy
In this remarkably candid and personal discussion, Bill shares several stories publicly for the first time.
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How the History of Computers Predicts the Future of Energy: Bill Shares Research from Freeing Energy at the Computer Museum of America
Freeing Energy dives deeply into the lessons from computer history and their application to energy.
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Podcast 99: Tom Jensen of FREYR Battery – From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas, the most capital and operationally efficient battery plant in Europe is headed for the US State of Georgia
FREYR may not be a household name in the US but their CEO is delivering on his vision…
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Freeing Energy wins the 2022 Best Indie Book Award for non-fiction
The Best Indie Book Award is an international contest open only to independently published authors. Freeing Energy took…
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Forbes Magazine interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and how local energy is reshaping the century-old grid
Forbes Magazine explores the role of innovation in the century-old electric power industry.
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Forbes’ Futures in Focus podcast host Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act and the unstoppable economics of local energy
Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about “Breaking the Gordian Knot of energy thinking by 2035”