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Decouple

Dr. Chris Keefer

There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.

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01:06:29

A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian

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2024/04/09

Emmet Penney joins me to shoot the breeze and catch up on the whirlwind developments of the last few months.

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01:22:01

Californication of the Grid

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2024/03/30

Fan favourite, Mark Nelson, joins me for an update on California’s soaring electricity prices and worsening grid dysfunction.

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00:50:01

Deep Sea Mining

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2024/03/26

Seaver Wang, oceanographer and co-director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute joins me to unravel controversies surrounding deep sea mining for the polymetallic nodules of the abyssal plains.

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01:20:40

Will Nuclear power AI?

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2024/03/18

James Krellenstein joins me to explore the extraordinary power requirements of the AI revolution and how this demand for vast amounts of baseload generation will impact the nuclear sector.

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01:07:14

The Fragilization of the Grid

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2024/03/08

David March CEO of Exergy/Energy joins me to discuss the sharp decline in power quality from increasing penetration of intermittent generation and the impact its having on mission critical industries and manufacturing.

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01:11:58

Peak Cheap Oil?

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2024/03/06

Art Berman joins me to discuss the likelihood and implications of cheap peak oil.

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01:12:43

LNG the Champagne of Energy

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2024/02/27

Stephen Stapczynski, Bloomberg Business senior reporter, joins me to discuss everything you always wanted to know about LNG but were afraid to ask.

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00:43:49

Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith

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2024/02/23

Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith joins me to discuss the phenomenon of Ontario’s centrality to the West’s nuclear energy aspirations.

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01:17:25

Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?

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2024/02/20

James Krellenstein returns to deeper dive the lessons of Vogtle and VC Summer

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01:09:49

The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil

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2024/02/16

Chris Popoff returns to talk unconventional oil with a focus on oil sands. What is it? What are its energy economics? How is it like a battery? What does it have to do with peak cheap oil and how does nuclear fit into the picture?

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00:52:38

Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law

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2024/02/12

James Krellenstein and I continue our deep dive analysis of what went wrong at Vogtle.

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01:18:43

The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival

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2024/02/09

As Canada embarks on a new nuclear build out of SMRs and large Reactors, Professor Duane Bratt joins me to provide a political scientists perspective on the history and future of the Canadian nuclear sector.

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00:57:13

Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear

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2024/02/07

Noah Rettberg walks us through an in depth exploration on the challenges of decarbonizing process heat.

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01:19:20

It's a Material World

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2024/01/31

Ed Conway author of “Material World” joins me to explore the material world underpinning the ethereal world of our perceived reality. He explains how sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium are transformed with technology and energy into the building blocks of our built world and how fragile, vulnerable and complex these processes have become.

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01:16:21

Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't

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2024/01/25

James Krellenstein returns to dig into what went wrong at Vogtle and why the nuclear “Renaissance” of the early 2000’s ended up a flop.

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01:03:01

Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy

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2024/01/17

Alberta, sitting on massive reserves of oil and gas, found itself teetering on the edge of blackout this week as temperatures in the negative 40 degree ranges led to multiple grid alerts. As a new record for peak demand was set at 12,384 MW, Alberta's 4481MW wind fleet went AWOL. This raises major concerns regarding electricity planning with a country wide federal mandate for Net Zero electricity by 2035 having already generated significant political controversy in Alberta which has imposed a

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00:37:42

From Microchips to Atom Splits

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2024/01/08

Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO at Microsoft and vice chairman of TerraPower joins me to discuss his experience bridging the world of software and nuclear power.

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00:23:29

A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz

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2023/12/28

Sec Ernie Moniz and I chat about best practices for “embarking” and “re-embarking” nations as 24 countries pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050.

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01:06:33

Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut

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2023/12/22

Humanity went from inducing the first fissions of heavy elements in 1938 to a nuclear powered submarine in just 16 years. Why has that tremendous pace of nuclear innovation seemingly slowed down to a crawl? Nuclear historian Nick Touran joins me for an in depth analysis of the historic preconditions of nuclear innovation and its opportunities and limits going into the future.

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00:59:36

COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal

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2023/12/17

Robert Bryce joins me for a COP28 “reactions” episode and drops some hard truths on the world’s ever increasing appetite for coal.

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