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b'In this week\\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Resources for the Future (RFF) Fellow Daniel Shawhan about a new working paper that he and several RFF coauthors recently published, about the value of advanced energy funding. The study assesses how government funding for research, development, and demonstration of emerging clean energy technologies can reduce the costs of deploying those technologies in the future. The authors include in their analysis advanced nuclear energy, geothermal energy, carbon capture and storage, electricity storage, and direct air capture of carbon dioxide. Shawhan and his team also estimate how bringing down these costs can benefit society by reducing air pollution, electricity bills, and more.\\n\\nReferences and recommendations:\\n\\n\\u201cThe Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Projected Effects of Proposed US Funding for Advanced Energy Technologies\\u201d working paper by Daniel Shawhan, Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin; https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/projected-effects-proposed-us-funding-advanced-energy-technologies/\\n\\n\\u201cThe Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Projected Effects of Proposed US Funding for Advanced Energy Technologies\\u201d issue brief by Daniel Shawhan, Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin; https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/projected-effects-of-proposed-funding-for-advanced-energy-technologies/\\n\\n\\u201cBenefits of Energy Technology Innovation Part 2: Economy-Wide Direct Air Capture Modeling Results\\u201d by Marc Hafstead; https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/benefits-energy-technology-innovation-economy-wide-direct-air-capture/\\n\\n\\u201cWhy Does Disaster Aid Often Favor White People?\\u201d by Christopher Flavelle; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/climate/FEMA-race-climate.html\\n\\nTextAloud text-to-speech software; https://nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html'