

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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Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 12min
Peak Cheap Oil?
Art Berman joins me to discuss the likelihood and implications of cheap peak oil.

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 13min
LNG the Champagne of Energy
Stephen Stapczynski, Bloomberg Business senior reporter, joins me to discuss everything you always wanted to know about LNG but were afraid to ask.

Feb 23, 2024 • 44min
Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith
Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith joins me to discuss the phenomenon of Ontario’s centrality to the West’s nuclear energy aspirations.

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 17min
Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?
James Krellenstein returns to deeper dive the lessons of Vogtle and VC Summer

Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 10min
The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil
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?

Feb 12, 2024 • 53min
Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law
James Krellenstein and I continue our deep dive analysis of what went wrong at Vogtle.

Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 19min
The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival
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.

Feb 7, 2024 • 57min
Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear
Noah Rettberg walks us through an in depth exploration on the challenges of decarbonizing process heat.

Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 19min
It's a Material World
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.

Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 16min
Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't
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.


