My interview on Chris Nelder’s Energy Transition show
Episode 52 of Chris Nelder’s Energy Transition show was posted September 20, 2017, and it features yours truly talking frankly about nuclear power economics, the role of storage, 100% renewable energy scenarios, and limits of economic models, among other things. I’m pleased to say we achieved a “geek rating” of 8.
Here’s Chris’s description of the show:
It’s the two-year anniversary of the Energy Transition Show, so we thought we’d take a break from the deep dives and just have a little fun skiing around on the surface for a change. Dr. Jonathan Koomey returns to the show for a freewheeling discussion about some of the interesting questions and debates swirling around the energy transition today, and hopefully help us glue together many of the themes that have emerged from our first 51 shows.
How do you go about an energy revolution? Is 100% renewables the right goal? How much seasonal storage will a high-renewables grid need? What will it cost? Is there a future for nuclear power? Or CCS? What should get the credit for declining U.S. emissions? How do we model the best pathways to a future of clean and sustainable energy? Can the IPCC modeling framework be fixed? What kind of carbon mitigation pathways should we be projecting? And how should we communicate the important messages on climate and energy transition? We tackle all these questions in one big omnibus episode.
The Energy Transition show is a paid subscriber podcast (so not a freebie), but if you are really interested in digging into issues about making a rapid transition to a zero emissions world, you owe it to yourself to subscribe.
