Power Hour with Alex Epstein

By Alex Epstein

Every week on Power Hour energy philosopher Alex Epstein breaks down today's top energy, environmental, and climate issues.... more

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June 24, 2020 Michael Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg, and the Pro-Human Environmental Movement
Alex Epstein discusses two soon-to-be released books: Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger and False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg.

He explains why these are crucial books in the broader project of a pro-human environmental movement that rejects climate catastrophism.
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58min
June 17, 2020 Alex Epstein interviews Naomi Seibt on her fight against the German government
On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews Naomi Seibt, the 19-year-old German teenager who has been called “the anti-Greta” for her articulate and outspoken challenges to climate catastrophism.

The focus of the discussion is the outrageous attempt of the German government to take down her videos challenging climate catastrophism and advocating what she calls “climate realism.”

Instead of trying to resolve the issue quietly, Naomi says “I’m going to go big this time. And I’m going to involve the press. I’m going to make this very public….people will see what’s going on and how they try to silence us. And I think that will make them question the issue a lot more.”

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59min
June 10, 2020 Q&A on 100% renewable policies, violating stay-at-home orders, and George Floyd
On this episode of Power, Alex Epstein answers listener questions about “100% renewable,” why he publicly violated Gavin Newsom’s stay at home order, and the George Floyd saga.
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1h 6min
June 03, 2020 How Energy Innovation Works: an interview with Matt Ridley by Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein interviews Matt Ridley on the topic of “how energy innovation works.” Drawing from Ridley’s new book, “How Innovation Works,” they discuss:
-Why Ridley considers “the conversion of heat to work” to be perhaps the most important innovation.
-The true story of innovation in fracking and why the conventional narrative about it being a government-led innovation is false.
-Why there’s so little innovation in nuclear–and what to do about it.
-Why freedom is crucial to innovation.
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1h 5min
May 28, 2020 The Power Liars: How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pretend to be 100% renewable
On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein and Steffen Henne discuss:
- Why no company is or can be 100% renewable for the foreseeable future.
- The three dishonest techniques companies use to claim that they are “100% renewable” or “carbon neutral.”
- How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon use these techniques to deceive the public.
- Why companies’ refusal to consider nuclear energy is cowardly.
- How 100% renewable propaganda pollutes the energy debate.
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1h 16min
May 20, 2020 Ray Niles on How a freer market can help us protect ourselves from COVID-19
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour

On this week’s Power Hour I interview economist Ray Niles on how a freer market can help us protect ourselves from COVID-19. We covered topics including:
- How price controls, in the form of anti-“price-gouging” laws, caused – shortages of vital medical supplies and other supplies.
- How we are in a critical moment for freedom in America.
- How “temporary” incursions on freedom rarely go away.
- How a freer market in hospitals would increase capacity.
- The long-term consequences of money-printing and “stimulus.”
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55min
May 13, 2020 A free-market response to oil price crashes
On this week’s Power Hour I interview Wayne Christian, Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission (the primary governing body over oil and gas in Texas), on why he decided against passing a government-controlled cap on oil production in Texas.
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1h 25min
May 07, 2020 “Safer Outside”: Alex Epstein interviews Daniil Gorbatenko
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour. In a bonus episode of Power Hour I interview one of my favorite COVID commentators, economist Daniil Gorbatenko, about the overwhelming evidence that the lockdown mantra “safer inside” is wrong.

Being inside increases our risk of a dangerous infection from COVID-19 by a) exposing millions to higher doses of the virus and b) decreasing immunity.

Being outside by contrast, exposes us to lower doses of the virus and increases our immunity.

So not only are the lockdowns catastrophically destructive to every aspect of life besides COVID-19, they also make many and likely most Americans more vulnerable to harm from COVID-19 itself.
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1h 22min
May 07, 2020 The Five Things Planet of the Humans Gets Totally Wrong
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour. On this week's Power Hour I discuss "The Five Things Planet of the Humans Gets Totally Wrong."

1. It evades how bad the “natural” planet was for human life.
2. It evades how good today’s humanized planet is for human life.
3. It evades our ability to create new value and grow indefinitely.
4. It evades our ability to produce more value with fewer side effects (e.g., nuclear).
5. It evaluates the state of the planet by an anti-human standard (unchanged nature), not a pro-human standard (human flourishing).
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47min
April 30, 2020 The Five Things Planet of the Humans Gets (Mostly) Right
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour. On this week's Power Hour I discuss "The Five Things Planet of the Humans Gets (Mostly) Right."

1. Green energy is a high-impact industrial process
2. Green energy has many undesirable environmental impacts
3. Green energy is hugely dependent on fossil fuels
4. "100% renewable" is energy accounting fraud
5. Leading green energy advocates are a terrifying combination of ignorant and dishonest

Next week I'll cover "The Five Things Planet of the Human Gets Totally Wrong."
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47min

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