Decouple

By Dr. Chris Keefer

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JC
 May 22, 2022
This is the environmental conversation that I've personally been looking for.

Steve
 Oct 25, 2021
highly intelligent

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There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.

Episode Date
A Civil Nuclear Debate
Dec 24, 2024
Reactors on Wheels
Dec 17, 2024
A Heterodox Economics Lesson
Dec 10, 2024
The End of an IRA?
Dec 03, 2024
The Forgotten Climate Debate
Nov 26, 2024
Defense in Depths
Nov 19, 2024
Microreactors, Macro Problems
Nov 12, 2024
Paper Reactors to Power Reactors
Nov 05, 2024
TMI: Too Much Intervention?
Oct 29, 2024
Small Reactors Are Bulking Up
Oct 22, 2024
321, Liftoff!
Oct 15, 2024
Lead the Way, TVA
Oct 09, 2024
The Energy Transition Will Not Happen
Oct 02, 2024
The Bottomless Well
Sep 25, 2024
The Three Mile Island Melt Up
Sep 20, 2024
A Westinghouse of Pain for Korea
Sep 10, 2024
The CANDU Story
Sep 05, 2024
Will EVs Deliver on Decarbonisation?
Aug 17, 2024
The Real Costs of Advanced Nuclear
Aug 08, 2024
The Geography of Oil
Aug 03, 2024
Australia’s Nuclear Debate
Jul 27, 2024
Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?
Jul 17, 2024
We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More
Jul 01, 2024
Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?
Jun 24, 2024
Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective
Jun 08, 2024
Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering
May 23, 2024
We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb
May 14, 2024
Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet
May 09, 2024
The Chinese Atom
May 08, 2024
Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors
Apr 22, 2024
Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?
Apr 16, 2024
A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian
Apr 09, 2024
Californication of the Grid
Mar 30, 2024
Deep Sea Mining
Mar 26, 2024
Will Nuclear power AI?
Mar 18, 2024
The Fragilization of the Grid
Mar 08, 2024
Peak Cheap Oil?
Mar 06, 2024
LNG the Champagne of Energy
Feb 27, 2024
Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith
Feb 23, 2024
Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?
Feb 20, 2024
The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil
Feb 16, 2024
Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law
Feb 12, 2024
The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival
Feb 09, 2024
Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear
Feb 07, 2024
It's a Material World
Jan 31, 2024
Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't
Jan 25, 2024
Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy
Jan 17, 2024
From Microchips to Atom Splits
Jan 08, 2024
A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz
Dec 28, 2023
Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut
Dec 22, 2023
COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal
Dec 17, 2023
How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy
Dec 12, 2023
NuScale, New Problems
Dec 02, 2023
Ontario’s Green Energy Act
Nov 28, 2023
Enriching Uranium Understanding
Nov 13, 2023
US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?
Nov 06, 2023
Small Misunderstood Reactors
Oct 18, 2023
Why is Western nuclear so expensive?
Oct 11, 2023
Are renewables jobs the “fast food” employment of the energy transition?
Oct 07, 2023
Just How Cheap are Wind & Solar?
Sep 29, 2023
How Ontario Decarbonized
Sep 15, 2023
The Geothermal Masterclass
Sep 06, 2023
Quebec reconsiders Nuclear. Waters up with that?
Aug 25, 2023
Jigar Shah: Breaking the Nuclear Stalemate
Aug 18, 2023
An Oppenheimer on Oppenheimer
Aug 11, 2023
American Nuclear: The Next Chapter
Aug 05, 2023
American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?
Jul 31, 2023
Gone With the Wind: Denmark’s Stalled Energy Transition
Jul 17, 2023
Embrace the Waste
Jul 10, 2023
The Case for CANDU
Jul 04, 2023
Bridging the Metabolic Rift
Jun 29, 2023
Stormy Waters Ahead for Offshore Wind
Jun 19, 2023
Can the Left be Saved From Itself?
Jun 12, 2023
Peak Oil and the End of Globalization
Jun 06, 2023
What About the Waste?
May 28, 2023
Non-Proliferation & the Antinuclear Mind
May 22, 2023
The Uranium Masterclass
May 16, 2023
What’s Nu-clear in Japan
May 08, 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
May 01, 2023
The Great Canadian Nuclear Debate
Apr 27, 2023
A Eulogy for the German Atom
Apr 24, 2023
Peak Shale: Not so fast!
Apr 17, 2023
Barakah - A Nuclear Success Story
Apr 10, 2023
Limits to Growth for Precision Fermentation
Apr 03, 2023
Ontario’s Nuclear Advantage
Mar 27, 2023
The State of the Atom
Mar 20, 2023
Peak Shale
Mar 13, 2023
Much Ado About Tritium
Mar 08, 2023
How Big Things Get Done
Feb 27, 2023
Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading
Feb 21, 2023
The Climate Aristocracy
Feb 13, 2023
It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan
Feb 06, 2023
Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists w/ Charles C. Mann
Jan 30, 2023
Lignite Coal: A German Love Story
Jan 23, 2023
Peak Oil & the End of Growth
Jan 16, 2023
Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!
Jan 09, 2023
What’s All the Fuss About Fusion?
Jan 03, 2023
From Sierra Leone to Sweden: A Panel Discussion on Nuclear at COP27
Dec 30, 2022
Human Factors and Nuclear Reactors
Dec 20, 2022
Mining Our Way to Net Zero
Dec 12, 2022
Mark Nelson on Pyramids & COP27 Panels
Dec 06, 2022
Nuclear Energy at COP27
Nov 29, 2022
Nuclear Energy: Climate Friend or Foe?
Nov 21, 2022
An American Doctor’s Experience of the Chernobyl Accident
Nov 15, 2022
What is the nuclear secret sauce?
Nov 07, 2022
Diesel Powered Decoupling?
Nov 01, 2022
A Canada-Germany Hydrogen Scandal?
Oct 21, 2022
Nuclear Advocacy and Labour
Oct 19, 2022
A Physician's Perspective on Nuclear Waste
Oct 10, 2022
Nord Stream Sabotaged, Energiewende Over?
Sep 27, 2022
Germany: How to Fail An Energy Transition
Sep 26, 2022
A Cold Old World feat. Doomberg
Sep 19, 2022
Avoiding an Energy Blunder Down Under
Sep 12, 2022
Behind the Diablo Canyon Victory feat. Isabelle Boemeke
Sep 08, 2022
Diablo Canyon Lives feat. Michael Shellenberger
Sep 02, 2022
Decouple Reads: Fossil Future/Climate Change as Class War
Aug 30, 2022
The World's Largest Nuclear Refurbishment
Aug 22, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act with Robert Bryce
Aug 16, 2022
The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)
Aug 09, 2022
Gold Standard or Standstill? Reflections on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization
Aug 02, 2022
This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass
Jul 19, 2022
Germany: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Jul 12, 2022
Ontario's Energy Conundrum
Jul 05, 2022
Is Russia’s War the End of Climate Policy as We Know It?
Jun 27, 2022
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
Jun 20, 2022
Testing the Credibility of Linear No-Threshold
Jun 13, 2022
What Does a Just Transition Look Like?
Jun 06, 2022
Who Killed Nuclear Energy?
May 31, 2022
Sri Lanka's Fast Track to Agricultural Collapse
May 24, 2022
Getting Serious About Our Energy Future
May 17, 2022
Old Nuclear, New Ideas
May 10, 2022
Public Power Politics
May 03, 2022
Dr. Keefer Testifies on the “Just Transition”
Apr 26, 2022
From Consultant for Gazprom to Belgian Energy Minister
Apr 19, 2022
Electrification 2.0
Apr 11, 2022
Doomberg: Famine on the horizon?
Apr 04, 2022
India's Nuclear Past and Future with Dr. Anil Kakodkar
Apr 01, 2022
The Energy Poverty Returns on Energy Malinvested
Mar 28, 2022
The Finns Know How to Green Party
Mar 21, 2022
The Canada Green Bond Framework Needs a Rework
Mar 14, 2022
The War on Energy
Mar 07, 2022
The Fog of Peace Lifts on the Energy Transition
Mar 02, 2022
So You're Telling Me There's a Chance: Germany's Nuclear Wobble
Feb 28, 2022
Russian Troops at Chernobyl
Feb 25, 2022
The Lazard People Are Taking Over
Feb 21, 2022
Romantic Agriculture
Feb 14, 2022
My Mother Explains Romanticism to Me
Feb 07, 2022
Keeping the Northern Lights On
Jan 31, 2022
A Hard Landing for Soft Energy
Jan 24, 2022
The Children of Chernobyl
Jan 20, 2022
An Indigenous Woman in Nuclear
Jan 17, 2022
Doomberg Lays Out the Global Pecking Order
Jan 10, 2022
Goodbye, Grohnde
Dec 31, 2021
The Wicked Problem With "Don't Look Up"
Dec 31, 2021
The Grim Fairy Tale of German Electricity
Dec 28, 2021
Into the Wild: Dr. Keefer Before the MD
Dec 24, 2021
Are Nuclear Plants Immortal?
Dec 22, 2021
Precision Agriculture and Angry Optimism
Dec 19, 2021
One Billion Tons
Dec 14, 2021
What's A Wind Drought? Europe's Lust for the Gust
Dec 11, 2021
The James Hansen Interview
Dec 06, 2021
Colonialism in Green
Dec 03, 2021
Let The Market Decide? A History of Government Intervention in Energy
Nov 28, 2021
Darth Vader On Geoengineering
Nov 25, 2021
Can You Dig It? Should You Dig It? All About Mining
Nov 22, 2021
Indigenous Climate Action
Nov 18, 2021
Is African Poverty a Climate Solution?
Nov 15, 2021
A Sober Sitdown with the German Climate Negotiators
Nov 11, 2021
France’s Second Nuclear Renaissance?
Nov 10, 2021
Will the Revolution be Funded?
Nov 08, 2021
Michael Shellenberger: A Heretic Among Heretics
Nov 04, 2021
Its Gas or Nuclear, you Pickering
Nov 01, 2021
Sayonara Nuclear? Japan’s Energy Transitions
Oct 26, 2021
Ted Nordhaus Deconstructs Degrowth
Oct 21, 2021
Emmet Penney and the Nuclear Barbarians
Oct 18, 2021
How to Feed a Warming Planet
Oct 12, 2021
Europe's Winter of Discontent
Oct 09, 2021
Illinois' Nuclear Near-Death Experience
Oct 04, 2021
The EU Green Taxonomy Soap Opera feat. Myrto Tripathi
Sep 27, 2021
What’s up with the “Modernism” in Ecomodernism? feat. Alex Trembath
Sep 20, 2021
The Preconditions of France's Nuclear Buildout feat. François Perchet
Sep 13, 2021
The Belgian Green’s Climate Own Goal feat. Rob De Schutter
Sep 10, 2021
Taiwan's Energy Gamble feat. Angelica Oung
Sep 06, 2021
A Natural Gas Masterclass feat. Mark Nelson
Aug 30, 2021
Ontario’s Climate Retreat feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Aug 23, 2021
The coming European blackouts and SMR opportunities feat. Kalev Kallemets
Aug 19, 2021
Assessing the Sixth IPCC report feat. Zeke Hausfather
Aug 14, 2021
Medical Isotopes? We CANDU that!: Feat James Scongack
Aug 09, 2021
SMR Economics and the Nuclear Secret Sauce feat. Tony Roulstone
Aug 03, 2021
How Radiation Affects Us feat. Dr. Douglas Boreham
Jul 26, 2021
Batteries, Energy Lysenkoism, and Geopolitics feat. Mark P. Mills
Jul 19, 2021
What Went Wrong at Vogtle? feat. Mark Nelson
Jul 12, 2021
Nuclear Energy is Union Energy feat. Bob Walker
Jul 07, 2021
A Good War feat. Seth Klein
Jul 02, 2021
Fragilizing South Africa’s Grid feat. Gaopalelwe Santswere
Jun 28, 2021
Emergency Reactor feat. Zion Lights
Jun 21, 2021
Why Nuclear Energy Has Been a Flop feat. Jack Devanney
Jun 17, 2021
What's happening at Taishan? feat. Mark Nelson
Jun 14, 2021
Small, Modular and North of 60 Feat: Jay Harris
Jun 11, 2021
Energy Democracy and Its Discontents feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Jun 06, 2021
Uranium mining past, present and future feat. Jerry Grandey
May 30, 2021
The Climate Crystal Ball feat. Zeke Hausfather
May 25, 2021
How to Win Friends and Influence feat. Isabelle Boemeke
May 22, 2021
Saving our clean energy cathedrals in Illinois feat. Madi Czerwinski
May 18, 2021
Carbon Abatement Cost and the Social Cost of Carbon feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
May 15, 2021
Poland’s Pragmatic Environmentalists feat. Adam Blazowski
May 12, 2021
Reverse Geo-Engineering with Carbon Capture and Sequestration feat. Sean Wagner
May 08, 2021
Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne
May 04, 2021
Mothers for Nuclear. feat Heather Hoff
May 01, 2021
Deregulation and deep decarbonisation feat. Edgardo Sepulveda
Apr 26, 2021
Nuclear the ultimate ESG investment feat. Arthur Hyde
Apr 23, 2021
The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson
Apr 20, 2021
Fukushima & Much Ado About Tritium feat. Dr Geraldine Thomas
Apr 15, 2021
Hydrogen Hope and/or Hype feat. James Fleay
Apr 14, 2021
Magical Thinking, Moore's Law, and Energy feat. Mark P Mills
Apr 11, 2021
Mark Z Jacobson's Roadmap to Nowhere feat. Mike Conley
Apr 06, 2021
Decoupling from the Naturalistic Fallacy feat. Alan Levinovitz
Mar 30, 2021
Thoughtscaping at Chernobyl feat. Iida Ruishalme
Mar 24, 2021
Is China the Future of Nuclear Energy? feat. Francois Morin
Mar 20, 2021
Avocado Politics feat. Nils Gilman
Mar 16, 2021
Can the Left & Right Come Together to Decouple? feat. Emmet Penney and James Fleay
Mar 13, 2021
Hazards, Risks and Science Communication feat. Iida Ruishalme
Mar 11, 2021
10 Years Since Tohoku & Fukushima feat. Paul Blustein
Mar 05, 2021
At COP26 Net Zero Needs Nuclear feat. Arun Khuttan
Mar 02, 2021
Bill Gates vs Climate Change feat. Leigh Phillips
Feb 27, 2021
UK Decarbonisation: Legally Binding But Precarious feat. David Watson
Feb 26, 2021
The Case for Nuclear Energy in Philippines feat. Mark Cojuangco
Feb 23, 2021
Canada, Climate, CANDU & Canoes feat. Jeremy Whitlock
Feb 17, 2021
Trouble in Texas feat. Mark Nelson
Feb 16, 2021
The Other Energy Transition feat. Dr. Scott Tinker
Feb 10, 2021
Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists feat. Charles C Mann
Feb 06, 2021
Greenpeace selling Vegan natural gas? feat. Simon Wakter
Feb 01, 2021
The Rise of Nuclear Fear feat. Spencer Weart
Jan 30, 2021
Means, Motive, Opportunity: Fossil Fueled Radiophobia feat. Rod Adams
Jan 26, 2021
The Politics of Energy Transition feat. Robert Bryce
Jan 20, 2021
The Nuclear Fusion Energy Delusion? feat. Gerrit Bruhaug
Jan 06, 2021
Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell
Dec 29, 2020
Hope, Hype, Hubris, and Deep Decarbonisation feat. Nick Touran
Dec 20, 2020
China’s Great Climate Leap Forward? feat. Seaver Wang
Dec 15, 2020
The Heterodox Anthropologist of Nuclear feat. Bret Kugelmass
Dec 08, 2020
Doctors for Nuclear Energy feat. Dr. Anton Van Der Merwe
Dec 01, 2020
Reflections on the Decouple Journey feat. Jesse Freeston
Nov 26, 2020
Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal feat. Madi Czerwinski
Nov 20, 2020
Ecomodernism's Arch Pragmatist feat. Ted Nordhaus
Nov 16, 2020
The Malthusian Spectre Haunting Environmentalism feat. Michael Shellenberger
Nov 05, 2020
Russian Gas & Germany's War on Nuclear: EU Energy Realpolitik feat. Mark Nelson
Oct 31, 2020
The Nuclear New Deal feat. Emmet Penney
Oct 22, 2020
French Nuclear Energy & Social Solidarity feat. Myrto Tripathi
Oct 16, 2020
Shorting the Grid feat. Meredith Angwin
Sep 18, 2020
Sunset on Greenpeace's Solar Village feat. Gayatri Vaidyanathan
Sep 12, 2020
Stand Up for Nuclear feat. Paris Ortiz Wines
Sep 04, 2020
Isodope: Isabelle Boemeke the Nuclear Influencer
Aug 29, 2020
Existing Nuclear and Imaginary Nuclear feat. Mark Nelson
Aug 19, 2020
Swords Into Plowshares: How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons feat. James Conca
Aug 10, 2020
Karnkraft: Sweden's Social Democratic Nuclear Climate Fix feat. John Ahlberg
Aug 03, 2020
Apocalypse Never Review feat. Leigh Phillips
Jul 27, 2020
Solutions for the "Impossible" Problem of Nuclear "Waste" feat. Dr. James Conca
Jul 22, 2020
Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas
Jul 16, 2020
Coming out as pro-nuclear feat. Zion Lights
Jul 06, 2020
Nuclear Accidents & the Scientific Consensus feat. Gerry Thomas
Jun 30, 2020
Confucius Smiled: COVID-19 Lessons from the East feat. Nils Gilman
Jun 21, 2020
The Death of Neo-Liberal Ecomodernism? feat. Jon Symons
Jun 16, 2020
The Windmill and the Atom: Energiewende Germany's Energy Transition feat. Thijs Beckers
Jun 12, 2020
Climate Cage Fight: Nuclear vs Coal in Ontario feat. Steve Aplin
Jun 04, 2020
What is to be done? feat. Jesse Freeston
May 27, 2020