#238: Green energy jobs fraud, unreliable renewables, climate catastrophe, and controllable electricity with Alex Epstein
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss:
- Green energy jobs v. oil jobs
- Subsidies driving energy prices higher
- Using fraud as a heuristic to question the anti-energy movement
- Developing our environment to protect from climate
- "Climate catastrophe"
- Why not nuclear?
- Moralizing energy conversion
- Bitcoin and energy
- much more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, freaks? |
| 0:00.8 | It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt, |
| 0:04.6 | which is a crosspost from Gamcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Another Gamcast crosspost. |
| 0:12.3 | If you freaks aren't aware of Gamcast, it's a podcast that we've put together at Great |
| 0:16.4 | American Mining to help bridge the gap between the Bitcoin mining industry and the oil and gas industry. |
| 0:23.0 | This crosspost is meant to draw attention to Gamcast. If you're interested in that particular |
| 0:27.6 | section, excuse me, intersection of Bitcoin and the energy industry, highly recommend you go |
| 0:33.7 | subscribe to that. Just search Gamcast, G-A-M-C-A-S-T, one word, |
| 0:39.0 | on your local platform and podcasting platform. |
| 0:42.6 | And hit subscribe. |
| 0:44.0 | And also, if you're not subscribed to Tales from the Crypt yet, |
| 0:45.9 | hit subscribe as well. |
| 0:47.7 | Uncle Marty's going to be bringing you that hot content. |
| 0:50.1 | And it's all got something to do with Bitcoin. |
| 0:52.1 | If you're looking to learn about Bitcoin |
| 0:53.6 | and how it affects our world, how it works, |
| 0:58.7 | this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:00.1 | And Gamcast is a more focused podcast on Bitcoin and energy, particularly how it affects |
| 1:06.6 | the oil and gas industry. |
| 1:08.7 | And this week I sat down with Alex Epstein, the author of the moral |
| 1:14.0 | case for fossil fuels, incredible, dense one-hour episode that really comes at the green energy |
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