Podcast Episodes

Is Wright's Law Wrong?

Season 28 Episode 3

This week, we return to nuclear power. Specifically, nuclear construction and “learning curves.” It is intuitive that doing something over and over makes you better at it. In industry, this means dri…

Published on 3 months ago

Is America Making Itself Irrelevant?

Season 28 Episode 2

This week, I’m joined by Kyle Chan, author of the recent NYTimes Op-Ed titled "In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant." Exploring the intense competitive pressures of Chin…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Tim Cook, Nation-Builder

Season 28 Episode 1

This week, I’m joined by Patrick McGee, a journalist and author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. I recommended this book on LinkedIn as a MUST READ, and stand by it.

App…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump's Nuclear Executive Orders

Season 27 Episode 10

Last week, U.S. President Trump signed four executive orders to accelerate nuclear power deployment:

Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security

Reinvigorating the Nuclear Ind…

Published on 4 months ago

No Risk, All Reward

Season 27 Episode 9

This week, we look beyond the physical infrastructure supporting our lives to the owners taking over that infrastructure: asset managers. Brett Christophers, an author, professor, and economic geogra…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Hellbrise

Season 27 Episode 8

In the wake of Europe's largest blackout in decades, commodities investor Alexander Stahel helps us to understand the physics of power grids, and how Spain's celebrated renewable transition became it…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Iberian Blackout

Season 27 Episode 7

This week, we cover the recent blackout on the Iberian peninsula. Guillem Sanchis Ramirez, a Spanish nuclear engineer and advocate, walks us through the event that plunged over 50 million people into…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Cycles of Life

Season 27 Episode 6

This week, we take a break from nuclear power to talk about larger systems: those of Planet Earth. Professor Andy Knoll, renowned Harvard geologist and author of A Brief History of Earth, reveals how…

Published on 5 months ago

Hard Lessons with Hot Helium

Season 27 Episode 5

This week, we talk High Temperature Gas Reactors, or HTGRs, with a Decouple favorite: reactor designer and nuclear historian Nick Touran (What Is Nuclear | X). From the first conceptual sketch of an …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Machines Behind The Machines

Season 27 Episode 4

This week, we talk tools. With precision machinist Noah Rettberg, we explore a facet of modernity as important as energy, for it is the technology that energy powers and the technology that makes tha…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago