WTH Is America Bracing for Blackouts? Robert Bryce On How the Green Energy Movement Is Putting Our Power at Risk
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This summer is predicted to hold the worst blackouts that America has seen in recent memory – stories of individuals dying from heat grace the headlines of the same news outlets that report John Kerry’s statement that the US will be coal-free in 8 short years. Indeed, the logical inconsistency in the argument pushed by the green energy movement has never been so stark: if we don’t have a better energy alternative right now, why are we shuttering coal plants and discounting the benefit of nuclear plants? If we are truly experiencing more variable weather due to climate change, why are we focusing on solar and wind technology reliant on particular weather conditions? And, all that not to mention the predicted 233% increase in electricity prices this summer to complement prices at the pump.
Robert Bryce joins us to talk through these questions, offer policy solutions, and more. He's the Austin, Texas-based host of the Power Hungry podcast, as well as executive producer of a documentary called Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the author of six books. The most recent one is called A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what |
| 0:22.4 | it's all about. Hi, I'm Daniel Pettler. And I'm Mark Dyson. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? Mark, what is going on? |
| 0:49.2 | Well, you know, we are now in the midst of a litany of worst in this country. |
| 0:55.8 | We have the worst inflation in 40 years, the worst border crisis in American history, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, all of which we've covered on this podcast, record high gas prices. |
| 1:01.2 | But now we're going to get a new worst. |
| 1:03.0 | We're going to have the worst blackouts that America's had in recent memory. |
| 1:07.2 | This summer, Washington Post reported that the U.S. won't have enough power to get |
| 1:11.7 | through the summer heat wave, leaving us with risk of widespread power outages, particularly |
| 1:16.2 | across the Midwest region stretching from Minnesota to Louisiana, which has enjoyed stable |
| 1:20.8 | energy for decades. This is a national disgrace, Danny. You know, you and I are both foreign policy |
| 1:26.9 | walks. And one of the hallmarks of a free society, as you and I You know, you and I are both foreign policy wanks. And one of the |
| 1:28.9 | hallmarks of a free society, as you and I both know, is access to cheap abundant energy. |
| 1:33.9 | Air conditioning. Yeah, that's true, yes. But it's access to cheap abundant energy. When I work for |
| 1:39.3 | Secretary Rumsfeld, I know you love my Rumsfeld references, He kept under his desk a photograph of the Korean |
| 1:46.3 | Peninsula at night. And if you looked at that, at the bottom was the free and democratic south, |
| 1:52.4 | a wash and light while the north was in almost complete darkness except for a pinprick of light |
| 1:58.0 | in Pyongyang. And there's actually, he had like a black and white picture. You can now go online and see a full color picture of this. |
| 2:03.8 | The two countries have the same natural resources, the same people, but one is glowing in |
| 2:10.2 | the light of freedom and the other ones enveloped in darkness of human misery. |
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