Power Hour with Alex Epstein

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How to liberate nuclear ene...

03.19.2022

Alex Epstein is joined by futurist, nuclear engineering PhD, and energy expert Robert Zubrin to talk about how to liberate nuclear energy’s limitless potential. Drawing from Zubrin’s new manuscript “The Case for Nukes,” they cover: 1. Nuclear’s track record of ...

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03.19.2022 How to liberate nuclear energy, with Robert Zubrin Alex Epstein is joined by futurist, nuclear engineering PhD, and energy expert Robert Zubrin to talk about how to liberate nuclear energy’s limitless potential. Drawing from Zubrin’s new manuscript “The Case for Nukes,” they cover: 1. Nuclear’s track record of ...
03.14.2022 Joe Craft, America’s leading coal CEO, on America’s strangled coal potential Alex Epstein interviews Joe Craft, CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, America’s most successful coal company, on the causes of and solutions to America’s and the world’s energy crisis. They cover: - Why and how most of today’s global energy crisis ...
01.01.2022 A discussion with Doomberg about the European Energy Crisis and solar’s scalability problems On the latest Power Hour, Alex Epstein is joined by Doomberg, a rising pseudonymous star in the energy humanist movement. They discuss: Doomberg’s background and mission, the price and scalability challenges of solar, and the unfolding European energy crisis. You ...
11.29.2021 The threat of declining American oil with Michael Lynch On this week’s Power Hour, Alex Epstein has a wide-ranging conversation with oil expert Michael Lynch about Lynch’s latest paper on how political and social forces threaten to drive oil production away from the US and toward the Middle East.
11.13.2021 Bjorn Lomborg on the bad climate thinking of COP 26 As COP 26 wrapped up, Bjorn Lomborg joined Alex Epstein to discuss the many examples of bad thinking that have shaped the conference, including: - The false portrayal of today’s world as bad and getting worse. - The failure to ...
11.06.2021 The rise of Michael Shellenberger and the energy humanist movement On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein is joined by Michael Shellenberger, author of the bestselling Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, to discuss Shellenberger's rising influence and, more broadly, the growing influence of "energy humanists." Some of the topics covered ...
10.29.2021 A wide-ranging discussion with leading climate economist Richard Tol When leading climate economist Richard Tol publicly criticized a Twitter thread of Alex Epstein’s blaming anti-fossil fuel policies for the current energy crisis, Epstein invited Tal on Power Hour to discuss the issue as well as Tol’s work in climate ...
10.22.2021 Best-of Power Hour: The Future of Oil With Michael Lynch From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour: This week's Power Hour is a best-of episode, featuring a now prophetic interview with energy economist Michael Lynch. In February of this year, there were many prominent claims that post-pandemic demand for oil ...
10.09.2021 Toby Rice, the CEO of America's largest natural gas producer, on America's strangled natural gas potential On this week's Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Toby Rice, the CEO of EQT, America's largest natural gas producer, about the causes of and solutions to the world's natural gas crisis. The takeaway: The US could alleviate most of this ...
09.24.2021 The Pseudoscientific Smearing of Steve Koonin On April 27th, physicist Steve Koonin, who worked in the Obama Administration’s Department of Energy, published a challenge to climate catastrophism called “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, what It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” While the climate catastrophe movement ...
09.09.2021 Best-of Power Hour: Steve Koonin This week’s “Best-of Power Hour” features Alex Epstein’s interview with physicist Steve Koonin, author of the blockbuster book Unsettled, with a new introduction in anticipation of their forthcoming interview on the next episode of Power Hour.
08.28.2021 How to create concise, retainable energy messaging On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein shares what he's learned over the 18 months working with elected officials on how to create concise, retainable messaging, including: - How to link concise, retainable messages together. - What are the ...
08.13.2021 Alaska's Governor Mike Dunleavy stands up for Alaska's right to develop On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Mike Dunleavy, the outspoken governor of Alaska, about his state's fight to develop fossil fuels and other valuable resources. They cover a wide range of topics, including: - Alaska's virtually limitless potential ...
07.30.2021 Best-of Power Hour: Power Hungry with Robert Bryce On this Best-of Power Hour, Alex Epstein takes us back to the first ever episode of Power Hour, featuring energy expert Robert Bryce. Alex will be appearing on Robert’s Power Hungry podcast the week of August 2nd. Listen to this ...
07.15.2021 Economist Saifedean Ammous on "fiat science," "fiat education," and "fiat fuels" On this week's Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews economist Dr. Saifedean Ammous, about how systematic government control--"fiat"--wreaks havoc in the realms, not just of currency, but of science, education, and energy. They cover: - How government control in the realm ...
07.07.2021 How to Bring About a Renaissance in Puerto Rico Recorded in advance of Alex Epstein’s headline-making Congressional testimony about Puerto Rico, Alex Epstein interviews Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a Puerto Rico resident, about how to bring about a renaissance in Puerto Rico. Brook explains: ...
07.02.2021 Chris Wright, proud Oil & Gas CEO From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour: On this week’s Power Hour I have a wide-ranging discussion with Chris Wright, the proud and outspoken CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services. I first met Chris when we tag-teamed in a debate against ...
06.19.2021 How "the experts" can be totally wrong about energy From Alex Epstein: An understandable reaction to my view that the world should be using more fossil fuels in the coming decades, not less, is "This is the exact opposite of what 'the experts' say. Almost every institution I trust ...
06.10.2021 Announcement: New Power Hour schedule Power Hour will now be every two weeks. We've got some great guests coming up!
06.03.2021 Climate Scientocracy Alex Epstein interviews Dr. Patrick Michaels, climate scientist and policy expert, on how today’s climate “scientocracy”—the heavily government-funded and government-influenced field of climate science—works. While those outside the field of climate science tend to think of it as consisting of ...
05.27.2021 The many myths of "energy transition" On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Terry Etam, an energy industry veteran who is one of the savviest energy analysts today. They debunk the claim that the world is going through a rapid "energy transition" away from fossil ...
05.21.2021 Alex Epstein Congressional testimony and Q&A, May 19, 2021 On May 19, 2021, Alex Epstein testified in front of the House Natural Resources committee and answered numerous questions. This video features his testimony and Q&A;, plus the backstory of the hearing and Alex’s answers to follow-up questions by Representative ...
05.14.2021 Best-of Power Hour: Onkar Ghate on Earth Day From Alex Epstein: “10 years ago, I recorded what is still my favorite Earth Day Power Hour with philosopher Onkar Ghate, a long-time mentor of mine. Before we recorded the episode, Onkar suggested to me that we take a positive ...
05.05.2021 How Climate Science Gets Distorted On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews economist Ross McKitrick, famous for debunking Michael Mann's once-ubiquitous "hockey stick," about how climate science gets distorted--so that what the public hears about climate science is a wild exaggeration of what most ...
04.29.2021 Brent Bennett on the physics of energy progress and the politics of Texas electricity On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Brent Bennett, a materials scientist by training and Policy Director of Life:Powered. In the first half of the interview, Brent shares how his background in physics and materials science has informed his ...
04.22.2021 Obama administration physicist explains why climate catastrophism is unscientific On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Steve Koonin, a highly accomplished physicist and author of the new bestselling book "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't and Why It Matters" In 2014, Koonin, who had worked ...
04.15.2021 China’s Power Play On this week’s Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus, about how the green energy movement is weakening free countries like the United States and increasing Communist China’s odds of achieving its goal of being the ...
04.07.2021 Why "the armchair economist" is "not an environmentalist" On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews economist Steven Landsburg, professor of economics at The University of Rochester, about how economics can help us understand many realms--including today's "religion of environmentalism." They discuss: - How Landsburg's popular book The ...
04.01.2021 The Roots of the Green New Deal On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein discusses the policy platform known as the Green New Deal with Marc Morano, author of the new book "Green Fraud: Why The Green New Deal is Worse Than You Think." They focus on ...
03.25.2021 How Defunding Reliable Energy Caused the Texas Blackouts On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein joins philosopher Gregory Salmieri and statistician Carlos Carvalho to discuss what caused Texas electricity to be so unreliable when it was desperately needed during a recent winter storm. In this wide-ranging discussion Alex ...
03.18.2021 Fake Invisible Catastrophes--and why we fall for them--with Patrick Moore On this week's Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews ecologist Patrick Moore, cofounder of Greenpeace and author of "Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom." In his book Moore thoroughly debunks 11 alleged current or imminent catastrophes, from mass species extinction ...
03.12.2021 "Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear" with Robert Hargraves On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Robert Hargraves on the topic of how to decriminalize nuclear energy so it can provide low-cost, reliable, ultra-clean energy for billions of people. Hargraves is cofounder of ThorCon and author of "Thorium: ...
03.05.2021 The fallacious "Social Cost of Carbon" with David Kreutzer The Biden Administration has just announced $51/ton "Social Cost of Carbon." On this week's Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews David Kreutzer, Senior Economist at the Institute for Energy Research, about the many methodological and moral problems with this metric, including: ...
02.25.2021 Maxwell Goldberg on Our Dangerous Material Dependence on China Alex Epstein interviews Maxwell Goldberg, an entrepreneur and industrial analyst, about our little-known dependence on China for dozens of materials that modern life requires. They cover topics including: - How Maxwell got interested in this issue at such a young ...
02.18.2021 The Future of Oil with Michael Lynch Alex interviews Michael Lynch, the renowned debunker of “peak oil,” to discuss Lynch’s new essay on “peak oil demand”—the idea that the post-pandemic world will mean “the end of oil.” https://eprinc.org/2021/02/the-pandemic-and-the-end-of-oil-the-pandemic-peak-oil-demand-and-the-oil-industry-by-michael-lynch-and-ivan-sandrea/ In this interview they cover: false past predictions of ...
02.18.2021 The Failure of Unreliable Energy in Texas and Around the World with Steve Milloy Alex brings on Steve Milloy, a fellow green energy whistleblower and creator of JunkScience.com, to discuss the massive power outages in Texas and how they were brought about by “green energy” policies. They also discuss the failure of green energy ...
02.11.2021 Alex Epstein on the world of energy in early 2021 On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein shares a recent interview of him by Heidi McKillop, a Candian filmmaker who went from an opponent of the Candian oil and gas industry to a champion of it. This is his first ...
02.04.2021 The Destructive Power of ESG with Yaron Brook Alex Epstein interviews Yaron Brook about the origins, rise, and unprecedented power of today’s anti-fossil fuel ESG movement in investing. They cover: - Larry Fink’s latest influential letter - The shareholder value theory of the purpose of a corporation - ...
01.28.2021 Our precarious electric grid with Meredith Angwin On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid, on the precariousness of today’s electric grid. They discuss: - Why the so-called competition of today’s electric grid is a myth. - The strengths and ...
01.21.2021 Pierre Desrochers on the history of environmental catastrophism On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Professor Pierre Desrochers of the University of Toronto, about the history of environmental catastrophism, including but not limited to climate catastrophism. Today we are told that our use of fossil fuels is ...
01.14.2021 Rupert Darwall on The Unscientific and Suicidal Corporate Net-Zero Movement On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews energy/environment researcher Rupert Darwall, author of The Age of Global Warming and Green Tyranny, on why the corporate “net-zero” movement is unscientific and suicidal. Here’s some of what they cover: - ...
01.07.2021 How the fossil fuel industry can stand up for itself On this week’s Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews one of his mentors, philosopher Onkar Ghate, on how the fossil fuel industry can fight for its freedom (far) more effectively by standing up for itself as a matter of justice. Some ...
12.30.2020 Anas Alhajji on the future of energy and energy security On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews international energy economist Anas Alhajji about the future of energy and energy security. They cover: - What factors affect energy security - How overreliance on electricity is a threat to energy security ...
12.23.2020 The CEO who took on The North Face Alex Epstein interviews Adam Anderson, author of a widely-circulated open letter to The North Face when the company refused to sell Anderson’s oilfield services company, Innovex, 400 jackets. They discuss: - How Adam got into the oil and gas industry ...
12.17.2020 The Physics of Freedom with Professor Adrian Bejan On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein continues his discussion with physicist Adrian Bejan, of “constructal law” fame, to discuss the central ideas of Bejan’s book Freedom and Evolution. They cover: - Professor Bejan’s broad-ranging conception of freedom, including ...
12.09.2020 The physics of life, energy, and environmental impact with Adrian Bejan On this week’s Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Adrian Bejan, a Duke Professor and Benjamin Franklin Medal recipient renowned for identifying “constructal law.” The topic is how physics, specifically thermodynamics, can help us better understand life, including our use of ...
12.02.2020 Threats to Energy Freedom with Congressman Keith Rothfus On this week’s Power Hour, Alex Epstein is joined by former Congressman Keith Rothfus, to talk about threats to energy freedom under the new administration--and how to fight back. Alex asks Congressman Rothfus: - What prompted you to run for ...
11.26.2020 Best of Power Hour: Greenpeace cofounder Dr. Patrick Moore eviscerates climate catastrophism In the “Best-Of” episode, originally titled “Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore eviscerates climate catastrophism,” Moore does just that by looking at rising CO2 levels from a scientific and pro-human perspective--not the pseudoscientific and anti-human perspective that dominates today. Topics include: - ...
11.18.2020 “Where is My Flying Car?” with J. Storrs Hall On this week’s Power Hour Alex interviews futurist J. Storrs Hall, author of the mind-blowing book Where’s My Flying Car? which gives a brilliant analysis of what has held back many forms of progress, including flying cars, over the last ...
11.11.2020 Fossil fuels in India: an insider’s perspective with Vijay Jayaraj On this week’s Power Hour, I interview Vijay Jayaraj, an up and coming energy/environment researcher based in India. Vijay has experienced the reality of poverty, including energy poverty, firsthand--as well as India’s rapid rise from poverty using fossil fuels. Some ...

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Power Hour with Alex Epstein

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Power Hour with Alex Epstein episodes:

How to liberate nuclear energy, with Robert Zubrin

Joe Craft, America’s leading coal CEO, on America’s strangled coal potential

A discussion with Doomberg about the European Energy Crisis and solar’s scalability problems

The threat of declining American oil with Michael Lynch

Bjorn Lomborg on the bad climate thinking of COP 26

The rise of Michael Shellenberger and the energy humanist movement

A wide-ranging discussion with leading climate economist Richard Tol

Best-of Power Hour: The Future of Oil With Michael Lynch

Toby Rice, the CEO of America's largest natural gas producer, on America's strangled natural gas potential

The Pseudoscientific Smearing of Steve Koonin

Best-of Power Hour: Steve Koonin

How to create concise, retainable energy messaging

Alaska's Governor Mike Dunleavy stands up for Alaska's right to develop

Best-of Power Hour: Power Hungry with Robert Bryce

Economist Saifedean Ammous on "fiat science," "fiat education," and "fiat fuels"

How to Bring About a Renaissance in Puerto Rico

Chris Wright, proud Oil & Gas CEO

How "the experts" can be totally wrong about energy

Announcement: New Power Hour schedule

Climate Scientocracy

The many myths of "energy transition"

Alex Epstein Congressional testimony and Q&A, May 19, 2021

Best-of Power Hour: Onkar Ghate on Earth Day

How Climate Science Gets Distorted

Brent Bennett on the physics of energy progress and the politics of Texas electricity

Obama administration physicist explains why climate catastrophism is unscientific

China’s Power Play

Why "the armchair economist" is "not an environmentalist"

The Roots of the Green New Deal

How Defunding Reliable Energy Caused the Texas Blackouts

Fake Invisible Catastrophes--and why we fall for them--with Patrick Moore

"Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear" with Robert Hargraves

The fallacious "Social Cost of Carbon" with David Kreutzer

Maxwell Goldberg on Our Dangerous Material Dependence on China

The Future of Oil with Michael Lynch

The Failure of Unreliable Energy in Texas and Around the World with Steve Milloy

Alex Epstein on the world of energy in early 2021

The Destructive Power of ESG with Yaron Brook

Our precarious electric grid with Meredith Angwin

Pierre Desrochers on the history of environmental catastrophism

Rupert Darwall on The Unscientific and Suicidal Corporate Net-Zero Movement

How the fossil fuel industry can stand up for itself

Anas Alhajji on the future of energy and energy security

The CEO who took on The North Face

The Physics of Freedom with Professor Adrian Bejan

The physics of life, energy, and environmental impact with Adrian Bejan

Threats to Energy Freedom with Congressman Keith Rothfus

Best of Power Hour: Greenpeace cofounder Dr. Patrick Moore eviscerates climate catastrophism

“Where is My Flying Car?” with J. Storrs Hall

Fossil fuels in India: an insider’s perspective with Vijay Jayaraj