One of the more fascinating storylines of the coronavirus pandemic surrounds energy and power. Like, electrical grid energy, fuel, that kind of thing. We saw some crazy things happen last year, like oil going negative back in early quarantine. Then demand fell off a cliff and oil cartel shenanigans brought the price back up, and throughout it all one of the constants in the energy industry has been continued investment and buzz and market demand for cleaner and greener power. It's become pretty clear that the clean energy 'revolution' is not only here, it has eclipsed its activist roots and is now firmly being propelled by economics. So what happened to get us to the point where clean energy just makes more economic sense, even for companies who have historically trafficked in oil and petroleum and other traditional sources of energy? And what does the playing field actually look like right now for clean and renewable energy at scale? Dr. Scott Jackson, Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering at Villanova University joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about how renewable energy defied the odds and a pretty substantial amount of political pressure to take on a life of its own, and why in the end it's really just all about the money.

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