{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"What happened to alternative energy investments from the 1970s?","slug":"what-happened-to-alternative-energy-investments-from-the-1970s","published_at":"2026-06-01T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/what-happened-to-alternative-energy-investments-from-the-1970s","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/06/01/what-happened-to-1970s-alternative-energy-investments","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/06/01/tech_20260601_0601_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KST6T3TWA9W7M7ZESFKJRGKG","summary":"The price of oil has gone up significantly since late February, when the US invaded Iran. And when oil prices see a crazy rise, it makes other sources of energy look more attractive. But we’ve been here before - back in the 1970s, oil prices skyrocketed, and people started to turn to alternative or renewable energy sources. But, for a few reasons, it didn’t stick. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes explores why.","meta_description":"The price of oil has gone up significantly since late February, when the US invaded Iran. And when oil prices see a crazy rise, it makes other sources of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":242,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/what-happened-to-alternative-energy-investments-from-the-1970s/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/what-happened-to-alternative-energy-investments-from-the-1970s.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}