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Emmet Penney - The Looming Energy Crisis

Sep 28, 2022

01:21:09

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Environmentalism and the Green New Deal

02:54

Are There Any Serious Arguments Against Nuclear?

03:17

Is There a Zero Sum Balance Between Abundance and Comfort and Entropy?

02:02

Introduction

4min

The Future of Nuclear Power

2min

What's the Most Important Blind Spot for the Electric Grid?

3min

What Does That Have to Do With Blackouts?

5min

The Problem Isn't Eliminate Monopoly, Is It?

2min

The American Grid Is in Decline

2min

Environmentalism and the Green New Deal

3min

What Does It Look Like if It Were to Work?

5min

Is There Really Any Power in the System?

5min

10.

What's the Next Phase of the Energy Crisis?

5min

11.

We Should Have More Respect for the Material Backbone of Our Societies

3min

12.

I've Been Thinking About This a Lot Lately, and I'm Thinking About the Idea When Assumptions Become Optional

4min

13.

You Know, I've Stockpiled Wood Mab Thas

4min

14.

I Loveet My Creature Comforts

2min

15.

The Retreat to Yeomanism

3min

16.

The Grid Is Getting Frayed, Right?

3min

17.

The Industrial Revolution Isn't Progress, You Know?

5min

18.

Is There a Zero Sum Balance Between Abundance and Comfort and Entropy?

2min

19.

Is Russia a Nuclear Powerhouse?

2min

20.

Germany's Nuclear Crisis Is a Black Mark on Anywhere in the World

2min

21.

Are There Any Serious Arguments Against Nuclear?

3min

22.

Nuclear Power

4min

23.

The Rise of Nuclear Fear

4min

24.

What a Fantastic Man He Was

4min

I speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more.

Emmet Penney of the Ex-haust podcast, editor in chief at Gridbrief, contributing editor at Compact, and a well-known nuclear barbarian.

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