Power Hour with Alex Epstein

Power Hour with Alex Epstein episodes:

• 06.29.2023

  Peter Thiel challenges Alex Epstein on Fossil Future

  From Alex Epstein: "Recently I was having dinner with Peter Thiel (the billionaire investor/entrepreneur who founded PayPal and Palantir) and he raised some interesting challenges to my book Fossil Future (which he has enthusiastically endorsed). I suggested, 'Let’s record a...

  
• 03.27.2023

  How to become an Energy Freedom Policy Architect

  On the latest episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein explains in detail how to create Energy Freedom Talking Points, and announces new opportunities to work for or contribute to the Energy Talking Points project. Also: How Alex and Energy Talking...

  
• 11.02.2022

  Senator Tom Cotton on "Only the Strong"

  On the latest episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviews Senator Tom Cotton about his important new book, Only the Strong. https://www.amazon.com/Only-Strong-Reversing-Sabotage-American/dp/1538726793 They discuss: Why America should have a foreign policy of self-interest What a principled and thoughtful policy of self-interest looks...

  
• 07.27.2022

  Jusper Machogu, emerging African Energy Champion

  On this special episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Jusper Machogu, a Kenyan farmer who, thanks to the influence of Alex and others, has started to become a champion of fossil fuels in Africa. Jusper discusses his aspirations in agriculture...

  
• 05.26.2022

  Wrestling legend Ben Askren on how Fossil Future impacted his thinking

  On this special episode of Power Hour to celebrate Fossil Future's launch week, I'm joined by wrestling legend and former MMA superstar Ben Askren. When Ben expressed interest in Fossil future on Twitter, I sent him an advance copy—which he...

  
• 05.26.2022

  CA candidate for governor Michael Shellenberger on the governor's race, energy, and Fossil Future

  On this special episode of Power Hour to celebrate Fossil Future's launch week, I'm joined by California candidate for governor Michael Shellenberger--whom I am enthusiastically supporting, intellectually and financially. We ended up spending most of the time talking about the...

  
• 05.26.2022

  Vivek Ramaswamy's positive alternative to "ESG" investing

  On the latest episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein is joined by Vivek Ramaswamy, author of Woke, Inc. and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Strive Asset Management to talk about the impact of the ESG movement on investments, its root...

  
• 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 providing...

  
• 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 could have...

  
• 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 consider the...

  
• 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 in...

  
• 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 would quickly...

  
• 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 crisis--if...

  
• 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 usually...

  
• 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 most important...

  
• 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 for resource...

  
• 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 of ideas...

  
• 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: - Why...

  
• 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 climate...

  
• 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 says...

  
• 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 independent...

  
• 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 views...

  
• 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 in...

  
• 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 Armchair Economist...

  
• 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 the...

  
• 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 emphasizes...

  
• 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 to...

  
• 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: Energy...

  
• 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 age. - Just...

  
• 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 a green...

  
• 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 wide-ranging...

  
• 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 - What’s wrong with the...

  
• 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 weaknesses of the...

  
• 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 causing...

  
• 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: - Where the...

  
• 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 of...

  
• 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 - The future...