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Peak Prosperity

Nuclear Power To The Rescue!

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Business, Government, Investing

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Good news! Erik Townsend explains that the energy we get from fossil fuels can be completely delivered by small modular nuclear reactors, for about the cost of all the green energy projects to date. But will we? Can we rally in time to get this vital project for humanity done before energy scarcity makes it all but impossible? Our prosperity hangs in the balance.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Chris Martinson, at Peak Prosperity, back here with you. What an exciting episode we have today. Now, look, you know how I've been interviewing people, particularly Professor Simon Mischo. If you haven't seen that, take a look. But he says, look, to get to this green energy nirvana that everybody wants to get to, we have some issues, particularly how fast we can mine resources, and it looks fairly daunting.

0:23.0

Today, we're going to talk about the fact that solutions do exist.

0:27.4

They're not being pursued.

0:28.8

There's a subtext to that.

0:29.9

What does that mean?

0:30.7

Why not?

0:31.6

But small nuclear reactors are the way to go, and we could be doing this.

0:36.9

Other countries are doing this. The United States, Europe generally are not way to go. And we could be doing this. Other countries are doing this.

0:39.1

The United States, Europe generally are not. We have to talk about why that is, but first we're

0:43.4

going to get into technology with a good friend of mine. Eric Townsend of macro voices and energy.

0:50.3

What's that on your shirt? I can almost read it. Eric, Transitioncrisis.org is the new website for my docu-series.

0:58.2

Fantastic.

0:59.0

Really looking forward to that coming out.

1:01.3

And full disclosure, Eric was one of the very first people to notice the crash course

1:06.5

as I was putting it out in serial form in the spring and summer of 2008, got on a plane,

1:12.8

flew in, and helped me get that series up and out.

1:17.0

So, Eric, early to the game, I think you're early to this game, too.

1:21.1

You're an angel investor who sees things early, and I just, I'm fascinated to find out

1:25.5

what you're thinking is in this regard here today.

1:29.0

Well, I hope you won't be offended by my energy transition crisis docu-series

1:32.9

because half of it was unabashedly ripped off from the crash course, starting with

1:37.7

the law of abundant energy.

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