PESD Associate Director Mark Thurber will appear on Season 7 of the PBS program Energy Switch. Mark will discuss the use of coal as a source of electricity worldwide alongside Dr. Rahul Tongia from the Centre for Social and Economic Progress and host Dr. Scott Tinker.

Energy Switch will be released on the PBS Passport app and on PBS.org on October 1. Watch the episode here! You can find out about local broadcast dates by check with your PBS station(s).

Episode 710: King Coal
Coal is still the dominant source of electricity worldwide. That’s because it’s available domestically in many countries, and is cheap and easy to mine, transport and burn. But those benefits come with serious downsides: local air pollution and global CO2 emissions. We discuss with Dr. Rahul Tongia from the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, and Dr. Mark Thurber from Stanford University.