"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
On this inaugural episode of Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by Art Berman, Simon Michaux, and Pedro Prieto to discuss the viability of scaling electric vehicles and what role they could play in the future. Electric vehicles have become increasingly more popular in recent years, and in tandem more polarizing and controversial. Art, Simon, Pedro, and Nate join together for a multi-faceted conversation jam packed with expertise and insight about the reality of EVs. Are plans for dramatically increasing the production of electric vehicles as a replacement for internal combustion vehicles materially, economically, or even infrastructurally possible? Are current EV initiatives taking a science-based systems approach towards this massive economic, environmental, and cultural shift or are they rooted in energy blindness?
About Arthur Berman:
Arthur E. Berman is a petroleum geologist with 36 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector.
About Pedro Prieto:
Pedro is the vice president of the Asociación para el Estudio de los Recursos Energéticos (AEREN). AEREN is an open space for debate and communications on energy issues and their role in demography, development, economy and ecology. Pedro was a member of the board at ASPO International with AEREN representing ASPO in Spain. Since 2004, Pedro has led several solar photovoltaic projects in Spain, a leading world country in solar PV penetration. Pedro co-authored Spain's Photovoltaic Revolution. The Energy Return on Investment, that challenged the conventional energy boundaries considered up to the moment for calculations.
About Simon Michaux:
Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux's long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.
For Show Notes and More visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/rr01-berman-michaux-prieto
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Welcome to the inaugural episode of Reality Roundtable, which is going to be a monthly |
| 0:09.4 | discussion with mostly former guests on the Great Simplification, maybe some new people. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to run these the second Sunday of every month. |
| 0:34.1 | This first episode is with my colleagues, Simon Mischot, Pedro Prieto, and Arthur Berman on the topic of electric vehicles. |
| 0:40.6 | We've got many of these scheduled in upcoming months with lots of former guests. |
| 0:47.2 | And I think there's a different dynamic when three or four or five people who have different perspectives on the same issue interrelate, cross-pollinate their ideas. This was a great discussion on the opportunities and |
| 0:56.8 | constraints of electric vehicles as it pertains to our upcoming energy, economic, cultural transition. |
| 1:05.2 | I hope you enjoy the show. Greetings, my biophysical colleagues and good friends. |
| 1:24.2 | Hi, Nate. |
| 1:24.7 | Hello. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello. |
| 1:26.4 | With us today is Art Berman, Pedro Prieto, and Simon Michaud. Missou. |
| 1:33.7 | Missing this inaugural reality roundtable is Olivia Lazard, who is one of six of my friends, who in the the last couple days had their flights canceled or delayed |
| 1:45.3 | to and from Europe. She couldn't make it. I will briefly speak in her stead on what I expect |
| 1:52.7 | she would have presented here. We have a lot of repeat guests on the Great Simplification. |
| 2:00.7 | This is a deep and complex story. I would like to start |
| 2:05.1 | doing these group conversations more often. This is the first one. And there's many topics that |
| 2:12.9 | these three gentlemen could speak to. The one we've chosen for today is what's the real biophysical story, |
| 2:21.4 | the limits, constraints, opportunities, challenges, and eventual roadmap for electric vehicles. |
| 2:31.7 | So I think the format that we'd like to do is each of the three of you will have like |
| 2:38.5 | five minutes to present a slide or tell a story of something that is perhaps misunderstood by |
| 2:44.6 | the general public about scaling EVs to replace internal combustion engines. |
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