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Small, Modular and North of 60 Feat: Jay Harris
Season 7 Episode 3
A special crosspost from the WeCANDUIt podcast. Jay Harris, an indigenous energy consultant and proponent of small modular reactor (SMR) for remote locations talks about the energy, nutrition and wat…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Energy Democracy and Its Discontents feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Season 7 Episode 2
Edgardo Sepulveda, a telecoms regulatory economist, returns to the Decouple podcast to discuss energy equity and how it relates to discussions of energy poverty and energy democracy with a deep dive …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Uranium mining past, present and future feat. Jerry Grandey
Season 7 Episode 1
Its a basic truism but every material object that we use as humans that we did not farm or harvest from the land was mined. In the developed world we have offshored much of this mining activity and i…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Climate Crystal Ball feat. Zeke Hausfather
Season 6 Episode 9
Humanity has emitted over 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, raising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from 280 to 417ppm. Every year, we add another 50 bil…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
How to Win Friends and Influence feat. Isabelle Boemeke
Season 6 Episode 8
Isabelle Boemeke, the nuclear influencer behind Isodope, joins me again to talk about Diablo Canyon, her experience as an unconventional advocate, staying positive, being honest about nuclear power, …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Saving our clean energy cathedrals in Illinois feat. Madi Czerwinski
Season 6 Episode 8
The Byron and Dresden nuclear plants, which supply 30% of Illinois CO2-free energy will power down in 4 months without government intervention. These plants, which are licensed to operate well into t…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Carbon Abatement Cost and the Social Cost of Carbon feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Season 6 Episode 6
In New England it has been calculated by Reiner Khur that the carbon abatement cost of rooftop solar is 800$/ton, utility wind and solar ~300$/ton and keeping existing nuclear on line ~25$/ton. In th…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Poland’s Pragmatic Environmentalists feat. Adam Blazowski
Season 6 Episode 5
Adam Blazowski is a co-founder of the Polish pragmatic environmentalist group FOTA4Climate. FOTA came together in 2018 out of frustration with the limits of the mainstream environmental movement. The…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Reverse Geo-Engineering with Carbon Capture and Sequestration feat. Sean Wagner
Season 6 Episode 4
Carbon capture and storage. Loved by some, hated by others, essential to many an energy transition modeller for achieving net zero emissions. On today's show we explore some of the science and engine…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne
Season 6 Episode 3
On May 1st at 11am in a matter of minutes New York State lost more clean energy than all of it’s solar and wind energy fleet combined. This act of climate vandalism occurred in the context of the Cli…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago