There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that. Neel Dhanesha, Science and Recode fellow for Vox.com, explains. Read Neel’s reporting here: https://www.vox.com/recode/23016732/climate-change-buildings-insulation Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan. The mix is by Melissa Pons from Hemlock Creek Productions. Adam Clark Estes and Rani Molla are the hosts of Recode Daily. Thank you for listening! If you loved Recode Daily and would like to support future work from the Recode team, please consider making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts We are conducting a short audience survey to hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can make a passable copy of your own voice with AI in like 5 minutes?
0:07.0	And did you also know that there are people out there making maybe some of your favorite
0:10.7	songs using AI tools?
0:12.8	And after 60 years of research, we're finally getting to the point where AI virtual assistance
0:18.1	might be able to make your life a little bit better.
0:20.6	We're covering all that and much more all this month on the VergeCast.
0:24.2	You know, the Verge podcast, it's the VergeCast, available wherever you get podcasts.
0:31.0	Hey, it's Adam.
0:33.0	I'm here with Rico Daley co-host Ronnie.
0:36.0	Hey, everyone.
0:37.0	My voice is kind of gone today as you might be able to hear, but I would never miss the
0:41.2	last episode of the show nor talking about my favorite topic.
0:45.2	It definitely wouldn't feel right without you, but yes, for one final time, this is Rico Daley.
0:59.5	Take a look around, unless you're commuting or perhaps commuting, with nature, there's
1:04.6	a very good chance that you're listening to this podcast from a building somewhere.
1:10.5	That building is giving you shelter from the elements and hopefully helping you stay
1:13.7	cool all summer long.
1:15.8	But I'm sorry to say it's a big part of the climate change problem too.
1:19.6	Right, 40% of the total energy used by the United States is used to power our houses,
1:26.4	buildings, offices, stores.
1:28.4	And more than half of that is just to cool them down or heat them up.
1:33.1	So if we want to be serious about stopping climate change, we need to start cutting back
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