How Big Things Get Done
Decouple correspondent, Angelica Oung, joins me for a review of Bent Flyvbjerg’s new book which examines the lessons that can be learned from the failures and successes of mega projects. https://twitt...
27 Feb 202342min
Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading
Mark Nelson, managing director of the Radiant Energy Group, joins me for a deep dive of the uses and abuses of energy modelling. Intro and outro music: Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona performed by Mark ...
21 Feb 20231h 5min
The Climate Aristocracy
Robert Bryce, author, film producer, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, discusses his recent article "The Billionaires Behind the Gas Bans", and gives insight into the funding of massive NGOs such ...
13 Feb 202346min
It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan
Dr. Simon Michaux, Associate Professor at Geometallurgy at Geological Survey of Finland, discusses the minimum requirements for a net zero future, as well as the restraints on our renewables going for...
6 Feb 20231h 7min
Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists w/ Charles C. Mann
Just as the political spectrum is divided between left and right, thinking on environmental problem solving is similarly split into two rival camps exemplified by the archetypes of the Wizard and the ...
30 Jan 20231h 18min
Lignite Coal: A German Love Story
Noah Rettberg, physics lab technician in training and popular Decouple guest, sheds some light on the protests regarding the expansion of the Garzweiler mine into Lützerath and unearths the deeps root...
23 Jan 202345min
Peak Oil & the End of Growth
Nate Hagens, host of the podcast “The Great Simplification,” discusses the implications of fossil fuel/material depletion and the ways that our financial system is accelerating consumption under the s...
16 Jan 202357min
Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!
Cal Abel, CTO of Signal Power and Light, discusses the engineering behind the sodium-cooled fast reactor Natrium, and argues for their centrality in the U.S. coal to nuclear transition, as their high ...
9 Jan 20231h 5min
