Robert Bryce: “Electrify Everything” is crazy town | Tom Nelson Pod #91
Robert Bryce is an author, film producer, and podcaster. He’s the author of six books including his latest, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, the producer of a feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the host of the Power Hungry Podcast.
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00:00 Introduction
00:55 2019 documentary film: Juice
02:35 Congressional testimony
03:31 Texas 2021 blackout
04:26 Electrify Everything is dangerous policy
06:49 Rube Goldberg grid
07:39 Deregulation not good for consumers?
08:17 Electricity is a service. We don't want random Uber
09:26 $240 billion for wind and solar
11:24 TikTok video about Ford losing $34k per EV
12:23 Exciting time to be an independent journalist
13:32 Electric grids reflect the society they power
13:55 Generator mafia
14:38 Perverse incentives
17:33 Stealing electricity
18:49 Three grid imperatives: Integrity, capital, and fuel
20:35 Importance of electric elevators in city development
24:02 Transformer shortage
27:17 The hyped green transition takes a lot of diesel fuel
29:02 Worry about EMP/solar events destroying our grid?
31:23 Strategic transformer reserve?
32:26 Rejecting renewable energy locally
34:22 Massive subsidies lead to malinvestment
35:54 Shutting down bitcoin?
38:03 Why so many podcasters in Austin?
39:04 Who else do you recommend?
41:28 Know your units
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