Podcast Episodes

The Geography of Oil

Season 24 Episode 3

Jimmy Fortuna of Enverus takes me on a world tour of oil production by region illuminating the unique geopolitical, technological and political challenges to accessing our most important form of ener…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Australia’s Nuclear Debate

Season 24 Episode 2

Aidan Morrison, Director of Energy Research at the Centre for Independent Studies joins me for an update on the Australian nuclear debate which is shaping up to be a core issue in the approaching fed…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?

Season 24 Episode 1

Mark Mills is the executive director of the National Centre for Energy Analytics and author of “The Cloud Revolution” How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More

Season 23 Episode 10

Professor Alex Wellerstein returns for a part two answering questions about the bomb, near misses, command and control and more.

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

Season 23 Episode 9

Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in t…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective

Season 23 Episode 8

Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss the kill mechanisms of Earth’s five mass extinctions. Humanity has developed the god like power’s to mimic all of them. From altering the carbon c…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering

Season 23 Episode 7

How should we think about modularity in the nuclear space? Jesse Hubesch joins me to disentangle the much hyped concept of modularity from his perspective as a chemical process engineer.

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb

Season 23 Episode 6

Historian of science Professor Alex Wellerstein joins me to talk about the sword haunting the ploughshare of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet

Season 23 Episode 5

Marcel Boiteux, a shy economist who escaped occupied France to fight the Nazis before working out the theory of electricity pricing for newly-nationalized Electricite de France, rose to become the gr…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago