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Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Worst Case Scenario for Nuclear Power

My biggest concern is this, scaling nuclear power assumes an indefinite continuation of civilization complexity. If there's suddenly a civilization breakpoint and we have 450 or 1,450 nuclear plants that all run out of diesel for their generators as backup, that could be a really disastrous situation. In the world of trade-offs, what happens in a world where we are all vaporized, sort of Star Trek style, it's kind of a Pascal's Wager situation anyway because we won't be around to see it.

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