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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss:
- The Indian Point power plant shutdown
- Energy mix
- Subsidies leading to capital misallocation
- Bitcoin's value prop
- The externalities that come with wind turbines
- Land use and green energy
- much more
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0:00.0 | What is a freak sit your boy, Marty Bent, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt. |
0:08.7 | Yet another crosspost with the Great American Mining podcast. |
0:12.6 | I had the pleasure of sitting down with Robert Bryce. |
0:15.7 | He's the host of the Power Hungry podcast, Documentarian, Documentary called Juice, Prolific Author, |
0:26.5 | I just had to re-record this because I couldn't say author. |
0:29.8 | First time around. I messed it up again. He's an author. He's written many books on electricity, |
0:35.2 | Power Hungry being one of the books most recently. |
0:38.1 | He wrote a book that piggybacked on his documentary juice in the name of that book is |
0:47.2 | a question of power, electricity, and the wealth of nations. |
0:50.8 | I wanted to cross post this episode particularly because I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with Robert and I think this is a very important problem that many people |
1:01.2 | in the mainstream are not talking about specifically the fragility of our energy grids and the |
1:07.7 | nonsensical policies that are being forced upon Americans, particularly, that are, |
1:12.2 | that are pushing them away from reliable energy sources and towards unreliable sources, |
1:17.9 | making us more fragile, making electricity more expensive, and making us worse off. |
1:23.3 | As a result, we talked a lot about the Indian Point nuclear plant shutdown in this episode, |
1:28.7 | as well as how subsidies bastardize incentives in capital allocation in the energy sector. |
1:37.9 | We talked about getting back to objective truth. |
1:40.2 | I think you guys are going to like this one. |
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