B.F. Randall: Fission nuclear energy: By far the best way to meet our energy needs | Pod #104

Nuclear Power = the single best solution for humanity’s extensional and inter-related geopolitical, economic, and environmental problems. Mining Energy = Life. John Moses Browning is one of my heroes. 00:00 Introduction 02:36 David Ruzic’s excellent videos 04:23 Nuclear plants last a long time; fuel costs are low 05:45 Generation 3 reactors 06:32 Re: nuclear power, we’re not even scratching the surface 07:57 Natrium and Cal Abel 16:37 No place for wind and solar on the grid 17:35 Electricity is less than 20% of total energy consumption 20:04 Diesel and jet fuel do most of the work 22:23 “Antis“ cause slow nuclear power builds 23:15 Astronomical new energy needs 24:46 Stuck in combustion 26:08 48k tons of uranium could have produced 5X 2020 world energy use 28:40 Nuclear success in France 34:16 No such thing as a nuclear energy lobby, except us 42:41 Clinton/Gore administration killed important nuclear program 45:23 Russia schooling us 48:17 Everyone should be anti- wind, solar, and batteries for grid power 49:15 Facebook/Google etc pretending that their data centers are wind-powered 54:06 Imagine a car with a random accelerator 55:51 Random Uber 01:01:18 Environmental groups being manipulated 01:02:10 Advocating for humanity 01:04:09 There are always tradeoffs —— Summaries of all of my podcasts: Tom Nelson’s Twitter: Substack: About Tom: Notes for climate skeptics: ClimateGate emails: