Podcast Episodes

Trouble in Texas feat. Mark Nelson

Season 4 Episode 3

The Texan grid AKA the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is a house of cards. It is an energy only, deregulated market which does not reward keeping spare generation capacity on board and…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

The Other Energy Transition feat. Dr. Scott Tinker

Season 4 Episode 2

While wealthy countries in the West are engaged in an energy transition obstensibly away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy the developing world is emerging from energy poverty largely throug…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists feat. Charles C Mann

Season 4 Episode 1

Just as the political spectrum is divided between left and right, thinking on environmental problem solving is similarly split into two rival camps exemplified by the archetypes of the Wizard and the…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Greenpeace selling Vegan natural gas? feat. Simon Wakter

Season 3 Episode 11

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. When environmental NGO's morph into fossil fuel companies something is very wrong with environmentalism. The company Greenpeace NRG sells a product they …

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

The Rise of Nuclear Fear feat. Spencer Weart

Season 3 Episode 10

Is part of our rejection of expertise, distrust of science and weaponization of the precautionary principle tied to how suicidally close we came to mutually assured destruction during the cold war? W…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Means, Motive, Opportunity: Fossil Fueled Radiophobia feat. Rod Adams

Season 3 Episode 9

There is money to be made in Nuclear Fear. Consider this. In Japan over the last 10 years since the Fukushima accident, approximately 50 billion USD a year in additional fossil fuels have been traded…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

The Politics of Energy Transition feat. Robert Bryce

Season 3 Episode 8

I am joined by Robert Bryce, an American author, journalist, filmmaker and podcaster in a wide ranging discussion of the politics of the world's unfolding energy transitions. 

Energy illiteracy is ep…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

The Nuclear Fusion Energy Delusion? feat. Gerrit Bruhaug

Season 3 Episode 7

Fusion is supposed to be even more powerful than fission but without the baggage. It resonates with the appeal to nature fallacy with notions of bringing the power of the sun down to earth. 39 years …

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell

Season 3 Episode 6

Decouple is a show which is fundamentally about attitudes to technology and the role that decoupling technologies, so called technofixes, can play in mitigating and solving our environmental challeng…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Hope, Hype, Hubris, and Deep Decarbonisation feat. Nick Touran

Season 3 Episode 5

Nick Touran is a Ph.D. nuclear engineer and advanced reactor designer who runs the science education website whatisnuclear.com. Advanced and Small Modular Reactors have become the only politically sa…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago