The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)
Mark Nelson, managing director of the Radiant Energy Group, joins us for the third installation of our masterclass series, this time all about energy storage. We take a first principles approach focus...
9 Aug 20221h 11min
Gold Standard or Standstill? Reflections on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization
Dr. Keefer and Decouple producer Dylan Moon reflect on their visit to Ontario's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). The NWMO is tasked with designing, siting, and building a Deep Geological ...
2 Aug 202228min
This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass
Mark Nelson, managing director of the Radiant Energy Group, joins us for his second masterclass, this time all about coal. Much maligned by environmentalists, and a significant source of air pollution...
19 Jul 20221h 6min
Germany: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Noah Rettberg returns to update us on how Germany is faring amid its ongoing energy crisis. How and why is the crisis unfolding, how have key industries been affected, will Germany capitulate to Russi...
12 Jul 20221h 10min
Ontario's Energy Conundrum
Ontario can't seem to make up its mind about energy. Partway through a historic nuclear-powered coal phaseout, the province adopted the Green Energy Act (GEA), which established costly feed-in-tariffs...
5 Jul 20221h 6min
Is Russia’s War the End of Climate Policy as We Know It?
Ted Nordhaus, executive director of The Breakthrough Institute, discusses his recent article in Foreign Policy: "Russia's War Is the End of Climate Policy as We Know It." The current energy crisis and...
27 Jun 202246min
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
With Europe held hostage due to its dependence on Russian oil and gas, France had the potential with its gargantuan nuclear fleet to defend Europe’s energy independence. Instead, in its moment to shin...
20 Jun 20221h 11min
Testing the Credibility of Linear No-Threshold
Kilometers below the Canadian shield, in a laboratory painstakingly designed to eliminate nearly all sources of background radiation, radiobiologists Douglas Boreham and Chris Thome study the impacts ...
13 Jun 202236min
