Hello, this is Todd Royal.

I'm your host of Geo Power Energy and Real Politics.

Welcome to another edition.

We got some good stuff for you today.

Yeah, I mean, there's really nothing going on in the world. So, you know, we'll talk about our favorite recipes and where we're traveling for the summer.

But otherwise, let's get into a couple things.

A couple big studies that come out about climate change.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to really build off of what I talked to you last week about nuclear power.

Because, you know, nuclear power has been demonized now for 40 years, maybe 50 years.

The scare mongering, et cetera, et cetera, that goes on with it.

Full disclosure, I work in the nuclear power industry. I was an analyst on it for four years. Now I work on the finance side of it. So

I am all in on nuclear power. A big fan of fossil fuels, but I could also solve what's going on right now in the Strait

of Hormuz if nuclear power were the number one source for electricity, process heat,

and steam in the world.

Honestly, you really wouldn't care a lot about the Strait of Hormuz.

You wouldn't have the loss, is it 8 million barrels a day? Is it 13 million?

It's being mitigated with pipelines. You really wouldn't, you wouldn't care. It's,

when you think about nuclear power as well, you have to think about it being a soft power.

Soft power comes from Joseph Nye from the Clinton administration where you're not

firing shots, you're using things like economics or you're using your culture to influence your

geopolitical rivals. But one of the reasons of the nuclear power came back in vogue is because

the Biden administration was obsessed with climate change, which is, let's talk about that for a minute.

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