Ep. 261: There's No Free Lunch with Renewable Energy

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Nels Johnson, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: How the name Phil means lover of horses; the crossbow arms race and slippery slopes; a war against lucky people and children; The MeatEater Podcast saves yet another life; outing your grandpa for unsportsman-like conduct; when bad people mess with good beaver trappers; a solar and wind footprint the size of Texas; acid rain of days past; what does "clean coal" actually mean?; the problem of runaway climate change; mining the sun and siting the wind; the sad irony of having a dozen stainless steel thermoses in your cupboard; Cal as uniquely conscientious about waste and reuse; how much land The Nature Conservancy has transferred that you've probably hunted and fished on; car companies pledging to go all electric and the trade in value of Cal's Tundra by the time they do; one farmer's marginal is another farmer's best place; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear list.
0:15.8	You can't predict anything.
0:20.4	Presented by ONX Hunt creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping system for
0:25.1	hunters download the hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play store nor you stand with ONX.
0:32.1	Okay, I have to bring people up to speed on what we were just talking about before Phil
0:39.8	hit the power button.
0:42.2	What button do you hit over there Phil?
0:43.8	Well, there are several.
0:45.3	I do have to hit power first.
0:46.9	That's the first step, step one.
0:48.6	And then I arm the board for recording.
0:50.4	It turns on a red light and then I hit a play button that actually starts the recording.
0:58.0	Before you did all that, Spencer pointed out that Phil means like the name Phil.
1:03.6	So all the Phil's in the world.
1:05.2	Phil up.
1:06.2	Means horse lover?
1:07.2	Yeah, well, Phil tonically or like, you know, equis.
1:13.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:14.0	Phil and I were having a deep conversation about Phil the name over here because my brother
1:19.5	was the fifth Phil in our family.
1:22.0	My dad was the fourth.
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