Mark P Mills: Grand Nexus: Information, Materials, Energy | Tom Nelson Pod #141
Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021), and host of the new podcast The Last Optimist. He is also author of Digital Cathedrals (2020), and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). Mills earlier coauthored (with Peter Huber) The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005).
His articles have been published widely, including in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, and Real Clear. Mills has appeared as a guest on CNN, Fox, NBC, PBS, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2016, Mills was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. Earlier, Mills was a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities and coauthor of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a tech investment newsletter. He has testified before Congress numerous times, and briefed state public-service commissions and legislators.
Mills served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and subsequently provided science and technology policy counsel to a variety of private-sector firms, the Department of Energy, and U.S. research laboratories, and prior to that began his career as an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics.
Early in his career, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer at Bell Northern Research (Canada’s Bell Labs) and at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center on microprocessors, fiber optics, missile guidance, earning several patents for his work. He holds a degree in physics from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/grand-nexus-information-materials
https://twitter.com/MarkPMills
The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Revolution-Convergence-Technologies-Economic/dp/1641772301/
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Ralph Ellis: Climate and Energy Disinformation | Tom Nelson Podcast #140
Ralph trained in mineral surveying, but became a computer analyst. But after a change in profession he entered aviation as a flying instructor, and an airline captain. Thus he has studied and observed climate and weather for 40 years in the real world, as a part of his profession.
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/climate-and-energy-disinformation
“Modulation of ice ages via precession and dust-albedo feedbacks”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116300305
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Patrick Frank: Nobody understands climate | Tom Nelson Pod #139
Patrick Frank is a physical methods experimental chemist. BS, MS, San Francisco State University; PhD, Stanford University; Bergmann Postdoctoral Fellow, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Now Emeritus scientific staff of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University. He has 67 publications in bioinorganic chemistry including among others the unusual metal active site in blue copper electron transport proteins, the first X-ray spectroscopic evidence for through-sigma-bond electron transfer, falsification of rack-induced bonding theory, deriving the asymmetric solvation structure of dissolved cupric ion (which overturned 60 years of accepted wisdom), and resolving the highly unusual and ancient (Cambrian) biological chemistry of vanadium and sulfuric acid in blood cells of the sea squirt Ascidia ceratodes. He also has peer-reviewed publications on the intelligent design myth, the science is philosophy myth, the noble savage myth, the human-caused global warming myth, and the academic STEM culture of sexual harassment myth.
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/on-the-reliability-of-co2-climatology
Another Patrick Frank pod here: https://youtu.be/y39J8WbJoCM
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Nir Shaviv: Cosmic rays and climate | Tom Nelson Pod #138
According to PhysicaPlus: “… [Dr. Shaviv’s] research interests cover a wide range of topics in astrophysics. Most are related to the application of fluid dynamics, radiation transfer or high energy physics to a wide range of objects – from stars and compact objects to galaxies and the early universe. His studies on the possible relationships between cosmic rays’ intensity and the Earth’s climate, and the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms and Ice Age Epochs on Earth were widely echoed in the scientific literature, as well as in the general press.”
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Brilliant video: Nir Shaviv, ICCC13 (Panel 1: Scientific Observations): https://youtu.be/a--kc5dbvyQ
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Kelvin Kemm: South African electricity and climate realism | Tom Nelson Pod #137
Dr Kelvin Kemm is a Business Strategy Consultant and runs his own company, Stratek, based in Pretoria. He is a nuclear physicist and is a past Chairman of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa).
Dr Kemm started work as a research and development scientist but then moved into the management of technology and became involved in a wide variety of projects in many industrial sectors, giving him wide exposure to a technological and industrial base. He developed high technology systems and frequently went out ‘in the field’ to work on developments first hand. These activities took him into many factories, down mines, into power stations, riding in experimental aircraft and vehicles, and into banking, advertising and marketing systems.
Kelvin Kemm is a great believer in sound strategy development, and he points out that this is far more difficult than it appears on the surface. This includes understanding the psychology of the society within which a technology system must function.
Dr Kemm believes that a healthy economy needs a wide appreciation of the role of technology and how it fits into any strategic plan. Technology is not just the nuts and bolts; it is the entire basis on which any company stands. It is the proverbial concrete foundation of any enterprise.
He became interested in the public awareness of technology and has written over 1000 popular interest articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, internationally. He has written two books; a public interest book on South African technology: Techtrack - A Winding Path of South African Development and a coffee table book: At the Forefront of Weather.
He has been a Plenary Guest Speaker at the World Nuclear Association in London, and at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. He Chaired the opening ceremony of ATOMEXPO in Moscow in 2016, and was a guest speaker at the African Union Economic Summit in Mauritius in 2017. He has been a Guest Speaker in places as diverse as Hanoi, Windhoek and Stockholm. He has also been a speaker at tribal events in the bush, in Venda, Sekhukhuneland and southern Angola. In contrast he has given both Senate and Congressional briefings in Washington DC.
00:00 Introduction
56:29 On climate
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Paul Burgess: Climate Realism | Tom Nelson Pod #136
Paul Burgess B.Sc, MS.C, a retired Chartered Water Resources Engineer was in charge of water resource planning for large sections of the UK and sat on national UK committees. Before he retired he represented the whole of the country of Wales where he was responsible for planning water supply, flood protection, reservoirs, hydrological and weather monitoring. He built the first mathematical model of the climate back in 1971. Retiring early from the water industry, Paul set up his own business. In the early 2000’s, Paul became aware of the growing corruption of science by the climate alarmists and then started making videos to counter the alarmism. He now has over 80 videos on the subject. He gives talks all over the UK all at his own expense in order to further the cause he feels so passionate about.
Paul Burgess’ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateRealism
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/paul-burgess-podcast-slides
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Andy West: The Climate Change Doomsday Cult | Tom Nelson Pod #135
Andrew Montford article about the book: “Climate Change’ is a Doomsday Cult That Threatens Us All”:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/09/climate-change-is-a-doomsday-cult-that-threatens-us-all/
Andy West’s posts on Climate Etc: https://judithcurry.com/?s=%22andy+west%22
https://twitter.com/AndyWest_tweets
“The Grip of Culture” book: https://www.thegwpf.org/publications/culture/
Free PDF download: https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2023/07/West-Catastrophe-Culture6by9-v28.pdf
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Wade Allison: Radiation and Reason | Tom Nelson Pod #134
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford, UK
Hon. Sec. Supporters Of Nuclear Energy (SONE) www.sone.org.uk
"The Flight of a Relativistic Charge in Matter" 2023 Springer; "Nuclear is for Life" 2015;
"Radiation and Reason" 2009; "Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging" 2006 OUP.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/radiationreason
Nuclear energy is abundant and available 24×7 – if society wants it https://sone.org.uk/nuclear-energy-is-abundant-and-available-24x7/
Wade’s appearances on Hugo Kruger’s podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@hugo_kruger/search?query=wade%20allison
Download “Radiation and Reason…”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234037551_Radiation_and_Reason_The_Impact_of_Science_on_a_Culture_of_Fear
Download “Nuclear is for Life..”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285420212_Nuclear_is_for_Life_A_Cultural_Revolution
“Radiation and Reason” podcast: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/radiation-and-reason
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Kenneth P. Green: The Plague of Models | Tom Nelson Pod #133
About Kenneth P. Green:
I received my doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an M.S. in Molecular Genetics from San Diego State University, and a B.S. in Biology from UCLA. I have used my expertise for 25 years at public policy research institutions across North America. My list of publications includes policy studies, magazine articles, opinion columns, book and encyclopedia chapters, and two supplementary textbooks on climate change and energy policy intended for middle-school and collegiate audiences respectively. My writing has appeared in major newspapers across the US and Canada, and I appeared regularly on both Canadian and American radio and television. I testified before several state legislatures and regulatory agencies, as well as giving testimony to a variety of committees of the US House, US Senate and the Canadian House of Commons.
A large body of my work (over 800 op-eds, papers, etc.) can be found at Authory.com, here.
https://authory.com/KennethPGreen
Ken’s 2023 book, The Plague of Models:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Kenneth_P_Green_The_Plague_of_Models?id=RMu8EAAAQBAJ&pli=1
https://twitter.com/EnvirodocKG
https://kennethpgreen.com/
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/
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Tilak Doshi: “Rubicon Crossed: Energy World Turned Upside Down After Ukraine War | Tom Nelson #132
Dr Tilak K. Doshi is managing director at Doshi Consulting. Dr Doshi is an industry expert, with over 30 years of international work experience in leading oil and gas companies and think tanks. He has been a visiting senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore; Chief Economist at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore; a senior fellow and Program Director at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); Executive Director for Energy at the Dubai Multicommodities Centre (UAE); a specialist consultant for Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); the Chief Asia Economist for Unocal Corporation (Singapore); and Director for Economic and Industry Analysis at Atlantic Richfield Corporation (Los Angeles, USA).
Dr Doshi is the author of many articles, as well as three books on energy economics, the most recent of which was Singapore Chronicles: Energy (Straits Times Press, 2016). He is a Forbes contributor. He has published op-eds in the Straits Times (Singapore), Asia Times, The Spectator, South China Morning Post, Jerusalem Post, Business Standard (India), RealClearEnergy and elsewhere.
He received his PhD in economics from the University of Hawaii on a scholarship provided by the East-West Centre. He was granted the 1984 Robert S. McNamara Research Fellow award by World Bank, Washington, DC, and received a distinction for his MA in economics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/the-rubicon-crossed-the-energy-world
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Tilak’s Forbes articles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/?sh=4d099e3a2844
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Hügo Krüger: The Nuclear Narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #131
Hügo Krüger is a writer, podcaster, and structural engineer with working experience in the nuclear, concrete, and oil and gas industry.
He has a master’s degree in the design of nuclear structures, and has also worked on renewable energy.
Hugo's podcast guests have included Richard Lindzen, Will Happer, Judith Curry, Tony Heller, Patrick Moore, and Noam Chomsky.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hkrugertjie
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Wesley Massumbukolt: Students Against Tyranny | Tom Nelson Pod #130
Wesley lives in Milton Keynes, U.K., studies automotive engineering at the University of Sheffield, and is also a music producer.
https://twitter.com/SATOfficial_1
Students Against Tyranny: https://www.studentsagainsttyranny.com/ (You can donate near the bottom of the page)
Telegram: Students Against Tyranny https://t.me/studentsagainsttyrannyofficial
Good ol' outreach at Leeds: https://twitter.com/SATOfficial_1/status/1676648785542258694
Some people fighting back against Net Zero etc insanity:
https://twitter.com/DebbieTHicks
https://twitter.com/JamesHarvey2503/
https://twitter.com/sandiadams2030
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Frank G Lasee: The Truth of Energy & Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #129
Frank Lasee is an expert in energy, climate, and environmental issues. His articles have appeared in Real Clear Energy, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Town Hall, and The Daily Caller. In addition, he has been a guest on TV, and radio news and has spoken to more than 15,000 people in large and small groups.
He is the president of Truth in Energy and Climate. Which is dedicated to exactly that, providing unbiased truth of energy and climate.
Frank Lasee served as a Wisconsin State Senator and in Governor Scott Walker’s administration. The senate district he represented had a coal plant, natural gas plant, 2 nuclear plants, biogas plant, biodigesters, wind towers, now an industrial solar plant and many miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. He visited them all.
You can see more of Frank’s information at www.truthinenergyandclimate.com.
You can sign up for the weekly energy and climate newsletter than now reaches more than 20,000.
Frank urges you to talk about energy and climate with the unconvinced.
https://twitter.com/lasee_frank
https://truthinenergyandclimate.com/
7-page PDF: “A Strong Case: Refuting the Myth of Manmade Climate Change” https://tomn.substack.com/p/a-strong-case-refuting-the-myth-of
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Cal Abel: Nuclear Power for Human Flourishing | Tom Nelson Pod #128
Cal is the co-founder and CTO of an energy and governance company, Signal Power and Light, with coal mining operations in Northern Alabama and a special governmental zone, ZEDE, in Honduras, ZEDE Orquídea. Cal’s work in governance and energy as a means of addressing global poverty stemmed from his early economic work connecting statistical physics to economics, which has been completed with The Quantum Foundations of Utility and Value. Cal is an accidental engineer, choosing nuclear engineering on a whim because it was hard and seemed interesting. He served 10-years in the nuclear Navy driving submarines, finishing his last tour as the Engineer Officer on the USS Florida (SSGN-728).
Before leaving the Navy, Cal became interested in climate change after watching An Inconvenient Truth. Confused as to why nuclear was not featured prominently, he modeled a nuclear buildout using Small Modular Reactors to repower existing coal stations and then using the nuclear heat to drive Coal to Liquid synthetic fuels. He presented this to the American Nuclear Society in 2010, The Impact of Small Modular Reactors in a Carbon Constrained Economy, and attempted to patent the technology, but later found that there were already many similar patents from the 1970’s. He even tried to pitch the idea to the coal industry in 2012, but it fell on deaf ears.
Thinking that he was on to something and seeing policy as a major hurdle in preventing a nuclear buildout, he went to Georgia Tech to learn more about public policy and to see if he could find a solution, which he managed to do. His doctoral work created the conceptual design of a sodium fast reactor with thermal energy storage replacing the intermediate loop. He showed that by marrying the two technologies, we separate the kinetics of the energy demand from the reactor kinetics (reactor safety) and can confine the regulator’s warrant to just the nuclear island. 7-months after defending his dissertation, TerraPower took the concept and in October 2018 began detailed engineering of what was to become Natrium. While at Georgia Tech, and in response to Fukushima, Cal suggested to the world that we use concrete pump trucks to refill the spent fuel pools instead of helicopters.
Cal’s current work is revitalizing and adapting the Karrick Process to the swelling coals of the Eastern United States, his company has finished the conceptual design of the pilot facility and will start construction in the near future and hopes that one day he will be able to marry this technology with a nuclear reactor. He has also extended his theoretical economic work and shown the relationship of energy and value with Bitcoin (soon to be published) and for the entire US economy (unpublished). Having developed actual technologies that increase energy access and reduce carbon intensity, he sees the entire global warming policy complex as a scam to give away tax dollars and create fake assets for traders to manipulate.
Coal is not the enemy, bad policy and insufficient energy access are.
https://twitter.com/cal_abel
https://www.signalpowerandlight.com/en/
https://www.signalpowerandlight.com/team/cal-abel/
Cal Abel on the Decouple Media podcast: https://youtu.be/fwacuS1Dy3I
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Jusper Machogu: Hard reality of a low-CO2 lifestyle | Tom Nelson Pod #127
Agricultural Engineer, energy freedom/availability advocate in Africa and climate skeptic. What is it like farming without Fossil Fuels/energy/machines? Is it 'Sustainable'? I will show you.
https://juspermachogu.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/JusperMachogu
Wonderful thread—What it’s like to live without fossil fuels: https://twitter.com/JusperMachogu/status/1642391693075836928
Buy Jusper a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JusperMachogu/
Jusper mentioned this Wall Street Silver clip about protests in Kenya: https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1679454106602094594
I mentioned Iain Davis and “Sustainable Debt Slavery”: https://youtu.be/lxkkC4IOLwg
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Nicola Scafetta: Understanding Climate Change | Tom Nelson Pod #126
Nicola Scafetta is a research scientist and at the University of Napoli Federico II. He was formerly at the ACRIM Lab group and an adjunct assistant professor in the physics department at Duke University. His research interests are in theoretical and applied statistics and nonlinear models of complex processes
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/understanding-climate-change
2023 paper: “Empirical assessment of the role of the Sun in climate change using balanced multi-proxy solar records”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987123001172?via%3Dihub
Summary: https://climate-science.press/2023/06/22/empirical-proof-sun-driving-climate-scafetta-2023/
Understanding the role of the sun in climate change: https://phys.org/news/2023-07-role-sun-climate.html
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Meredith Angwin: Shorting the Grid | Tom Nelson Pod #125
As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines, and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems.
She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. She led projects in renewable and nuclear energy.
In the past ten years, she began to study and take part in grid oversight and governance. For four years, she served on the Coordinating Committee for the Consumer Liaison Group associated with ISO-NE, her local grid operator. She teaches courses and presents workshops on the electric grid.
Meredith's newest book release - Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. Shorting the Grid shows the hidden problems caused by lack of accountability on the grid. Americans need to pay attention to how the grid is managed. Hopeful speeches will not keep the lights on. If you assume that the lights will go on when you flip a switch, you need to read this book.
Meredith has been keynote or featured speaker at several nuclear events, including keynote at the worldwide Nuclear Science Week in 2018.
She and her husband George live in Vermont. They have two children and four grandchildren who live in the New York City area.
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/shorting-the-grid
“Shorting the Grid” and “Campaigning for Clean Air” at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric/dp/1735358002/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Campaigning-Clean-Air-Strategies-Pro-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B01MA5GU9Q?ref_=ast_author_dp
Website: https://www.meredithangwin.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeredithAngwin
Email: meredithangwin@gmail.com
On Robert Bryce’ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOBIwPHwg2o
With Jim Meigs: https://shows.acast.com/howdowefixit/episodes/our-electricity-grid-is-surprisingly-fragile-meredith-angwin
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Ivor Cummins: This is the battle of our lives | Tom Nelson Pod #124
Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions. His career specialty has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity. His uniquely powerful ability has been to rapidly resolve complex multifactorial issues, involving all branches of science and technology – there has been no field which he could not integrate into successful and rapid resolution. In 2015 he was shortlisted in the top six of around 500 applicants for Chartered Engineer status that year, and also completed a Stanford certificate in technical innovation and entrepreneurial management.
Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has presented on heart disease primary root causes at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) in London. He has also debated Irish Professors of Medicine on stage, at the annual conference of the Irish National Institute of Preventative Cardiology (NIPC). Over the past decade he has captivated audiences all over the world – in USA, UK, Ireland, Estonia, Israel, Switzerland etc.
Ivor’s 2018 book “Eat Rich, Live Long” (co-authored with preventative medicine expert Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP), details the conclusions of their shared research: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Live-Long-Mastering/dp/1628602732/
His public lectures and interviews are available on YouTube, where he has 230,000+ subscribers and 26 million views have been recorded to date: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn4FsiQP15nudug9FDhluA
Ivor’s most recent project has been to further democratize health and longevity information via the www.metabolicduo.com platform.
Ivor lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and five children.
https://covidchroniclesmovie.com/
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor
https://thefatemperor.com/about-ivor-cummins/
www.metabolicduo.com
The mentioned CBDC cartoon: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1676125225187000320
Jacob Nordangard’s site, and his interview with Ivor:
https://blog.jacobnordangard.se/
https://youtu.be/c5w0znxE0f0
Ivor’s interview with Mattias Desmet. https://youtu.be/dPisp_VgEO8
The mentioned “Liars Compilation” video: https://youtu.be/wL6MId9_T88
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Ralph Schoellhammer: Popular Uprising Against the Elites | Tom Nelson Pod #123
Assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University.
My main field of research is political theory and international relations, with a particular emphasis on how culture, values, and ideologies influence state behaviour. I have written and published about the interplay of culture and identity and how it affects social capital formation and social cohesion.
Besides my academic work I am always happy and honored to provide my expertise on contemporary US politics and world affairs for national and international broadcasters, including Sky News Australia and The Hill TV.
https://www.ralphschoellhammer.net/
Podcast, etc: https://linktr.ee/The1020
https://twitter.com/Raphfel
“Climate Activism—Not Climate Change—Is the Real Racist Force. Africans Deserve Electricity”: https://www.newsweek.com/climate-activismnot-climate-change-real-racist-force-africans-deserve-electricity-opinion-1806115
"Climate Activism Isn't About the Planet. It's About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie" https://www.newsweek.com/climate-activism-isnt-about-planet-its-about-boredom-bourgeoisie-opinion-1773846
“A Popular Uprising Against the Elites Has Gone Global” https://www.newsweek.com/popular-uprising-against-elites-has-gone-global-opinion-1722653
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James E. Kamis: Geological Impacts on Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #121
James Edward Kamis is a retired Geologist with forty-two years of experience. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Northern Illinois University and a Master of Science degree in Geology from Idaho State University. More than forty-six years of research has convinced him that geological forces significantly influence, or in some cases, completely control climate, and climate-related events as per his Plate Climatology Theory.
June 2023 book by James E. Kamis: “Geological Impacts on Climate” https://a.co/d/2x9bJeL
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/geological-impacts-on-climate
Kamis’ website: https://www.plateclimatology.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@plateclimatology4845
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Gordon Tomb: “Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Grid Reliability – and More” | Tom Nelson Pod #120
Gordon Tomb is a Senior Advisor at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia, whose membership of approximately 120 world-class scientists and researchers are committed to educating the public and policymakers on the benefits of carbon dioxide. He is the primary editor of the best-selling “Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know.” Gordon is also a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s premier free-market think tank. He has spoken on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency on lessons of the Fukushima and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents and has presented testimony to legislative committees on the fallacies of carbon taxes and the ESG movement. Gordon led communications teams in the recovery from the Three Mile Island accident, the development of an electric transmission project and the reorganization of a FORTUNE 500 company. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a consultant with an international management consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and attended Grove City College.
PDF doc for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/net-zero-an-existential-threat-to
CO2 Coalition: https://co2coalition.org/
Inconvenient Facts: https://inconvenientfacts.xyz/
Commonwealth Foundation: https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwtomb
00:00 Introduction
02:14 Modern warming not unusual
03:54 Climate religion
06:59 Got 1 quadrillion dollars to waste?
08:06 Messing with the power grid to prevent bad weather?
11:14 Voters care about affordability and reliability
22:18 Discussion
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Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119
Irina has written about oil, gas, and all things energy since 2016. Her main focus is the reality of energy security and the many fantastical facets of the energy transition. Her work appears on Oilprice.com and Substack at Irina Slav on energy.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrinaSlav1
Substack: https://irinaslav.substack.com
Irina’s Oilprice.com articles: https://oilprice.com/search/tab/articles/irina_slav
Ice throw from wind turbines: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-186X/4/1/4
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Evil subsidies
05:13 Intermittent power: Not enough or too much
08:18 China producing solar panels using cheap coal power
09:33 Many climate cultists are young people looking for meaning
12:09 China's energy mix
14:13 Don't forget the grid connections
17:25 Hacking renewable energy
19:43 Green jobs?
23:35 Dysfunctional solar panels
25:10 Fire danger
27:45 Ask questions when things don't add up
29:34 Green delusions
32:26 Children mining in Africa
33:52 Rube Goldberg power
37:00 Animal fat-powered jets?
38:48 Putting wind turbines and solar panels in landfills?
41:20 Ghost wind and solar facilities?
43:07 Current oil supply
45:52 Energy transition hype
48:36 Big oil exiting wind and solar
53:15 People ask more questions if you hit them in the wallet
54:18 Rise and Fall of ESG
55:40 Looming totalitarianism?
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Lois Perry: Fighting for energy/climate realism in the U.K. | Tom Nelson Pod #118
For 18 years, Lois has been a regular commentator on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show. She has appeared on Channel 5 as a panelist on the Jeremy Vine Show on numerous occasions and also on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Essex, LBC, etc.
Lois regularly provides her commentary and appears regularly on GB News and Talk Radio.
CAR26 campaigns for informed rational analysis of climate matters with an irreverent satirical spin – poking fun and calling out hypocrisy.
CAR26: https://car26.org/
https://twitter.com/CAR26_ORG
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoisPerry26
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoisPerry-CAR26
Here’s the mentioned clip of Boris Johnson’s dad suggesting you won’t be allowed to “go on a plane”: https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1591766939436986368
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Straight talk
01:49 Collaboration with Heartland Institute
05:32 Just Stop Oil fears Lois
06:38 Jim Dale
07:55 Viral Stanley Johnson clip
10:37 Net Zero polling poorly
12:16 Irritating drivers on purpose
12:57 80% reduction in car ownership in 15 years?
16:03 Kids are fighting back
21:31 Need more climate skeptic collaboration
24:27 15-minute cities
27:16 ULEZ
31:12 Lois Goes North
34:37 Anti-fracking nonsense
39:35 Talking directly to politicians
44:06 Removing Liz Truss
46:57 Wrap-up
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Samuel Furfari: “I denounce energy insecurity” | Tom Nelson Pod #117
Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.
Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General.
He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years. He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development.
https://twitter.com/FurfariSamuele
Furfari’s April 2023 book, “Energy insecurity: The organised destruction of the EU’s competitiveness”: https://a.co/d/gKcfbqt
Furfari’s Oct 2020 book “The hydrogen illusion” https://a.co/d/ef4eIrD
00:00 Introduction
01:44 Author of 18 books
02:33 Working with European Commission
09:22 Poland
10:43 Germany
15:53 When will the EU return to energy sanity?
19:33 Green peak: Peak climate hysteria?
20:57 Exxon throws in the towel on algae biofuel
24:36 Next book: Energy security
26:05 Israel is a gas producer
26:55 Qatar is investing in Texas to produce more gas.
27:31 Energy in 2050?
29:45 Urgency to electrify Africa
32:52 Future of COP junkets?
34:33 Richer people are more resilient
37:21 If you control carbon, you control life
38:42 Only four flights per lifetime?
39:23 What % of voters want their flights to be limited?
43:32 Kill cows to save the planet?
44:14 Seizing farms?
45:28 Are Europeans buying the climate scam?
47:39 Invited by monks to talk about energy realism
49:44 Keep learning
50:28 Speak up
52:28 Many of today's climate realists were once believers
54:57 It's not really about climate
59:58 Hydrogen
01:04:28 Making liquid fuels?
01:06:47 Greens don't like nuclear energy because it works too well
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Simon Elmer Uncensored: The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism | Tom Nelson Pod #116
Note: This version of the presentation contains some vaccine truth that might be censored on YouTube.
Simon Elmer was born and lives in London. In 2002, he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 (2023); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and, with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).
Simon’s “The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism” article: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-politics-of-environmental-fundamentalism
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonElmer2022
Website: https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/
Books:
The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2022/09/28/the-road-to-fascism-for-a-critique-of-the-global-biosecurity-state/
Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/virtue-and-terror-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-1/
The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/the-new-normal-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-2/
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