INTERVIEW: Scott Tinker on the future of energy
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Scott Tinker is an energy expert, geologist, and documentary filmmaker trying to carve out the "radical middle" on the future of energy. In today's podcast, he discusses both the reasons we need to move away from oil (or make it cleaner) while also diving into the myths of "renewable" energy, which he says simply is not a thing. Tinker breaks down the pros and cons of fossil fuels, solar, electric vehicles, nuclear energy and much more.
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| 0:38.9 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:45.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:04.2 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, I'm thrilled to be sitting down with Scott Tinker. |
| 1:09.9 | Scott is an American geologist, an energy expert, currently serves as the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology in Texas. |
| 1:17.0 | He's the chairman of Switch Energy Alliance and the CEO of Tinker Energy Associates. |
| 1:22.0 | Scott, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:25.2 | Isaac, it's great to be here with you. |
| 1:27.3 | So this is a wild time. We're recording |
| 1:30.4 | this right now Friday, March 18th. And just today I published, I was just telling you this 5,000 plus |
| 1:36.8 | word piece on why gas prices are going up. It feels like we're in this moment where, you know, |
| 1:43.5 | the ground is kind of shifting beneath our feet on energy. |
| 1:46.7 | And I'm really excited to chat with you about that. |
| 1:48.7 | But, you know, before we jump in, I'd love to just hear a little bit about how you came to be here sitting in front of me. |
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