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Dr. Robert Zubrin is the founder and president of Pioneer Energy. Dr. Zubrin has a B.A. in applied mathematics from the University of Rochester, an M.S in aeronautics and astronautics and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, both from the University of Washington.
He has 26 years industry experience, more than 200 technical and non-technical publications in various areas of astronautical, aerospace, fossil fuel, and nuclear engineering, and 14 U.S. patents. He is also a best-selling author, with eight books to his credit, including The Case for Mars; Energy Victory, which lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that foreign oil has on North America; and Merchants of Despair, which exposes the history of the deeply anti-human ideology that underpins today’s environmental movement.
https://twitter.com/robert_zubrin
About Zubrin: https://www.planetary.org/profiles/robert-zubrin
A Zubrin book: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/ref=sr_1_1
I mentioned the nuclear energy videos of David Ruzic, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QmB5bW_WQ
00:00 Introduction
03:26 Primary problem in the world today:Poverty
06:10 Two kinds of environmentalism
09:28 Some history of nuclear power
11:38 Oil companies funded enviros to oppose nuclear power
12:00 Why the Sierra Club went anti-nuclear
14:21 Nuclear power unchallenged in its naval application
16:24 How long to build a nuclear plant?
17:11 Insane regulatory structure
21:26 Who is blocking U.S. nuclear power?
23:54 Malthusian global warming campaign has backfired
26:04 Carbon dioxide taxes are ultra-regressive
30:35 New nukes outside of the U.S.?
35:27 Chinese to build new power plants in two years?
36:48 Big or small nuclear plants?
42:01 Regulatory burden is the main obstacle to new designs
43:41 Using nuclear power to make liquid fuels
46:34 Enormous energy in a block of granite
51:25 Points made by anti-nukes
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html
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Dr. Robert Zubrin is the founder and president of Pioneer Energy. Dr. Zubrin has a B.A. in applied mathematics from the University of Rochester, an M.S in aeronautics and astronautics and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, both from the University of Washington.
He has 26 years industry experience, more than 200 technical and non-technical publications in various areas of astronautical, aerospace, fossil fuel, and nuclear engineering, and 14 U.S. patents. He is also a best-selling author, with eight books to his credit, including The Case for Mars; Energy Victory, which lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that foreign oil has on North America; and Merchants of Despair, which exposes the history of the deeply anti-human ideology that underpins today’s environmental movement.
https://twitter.com/robert_zubrin
About Zubrin: https://www.planetary.org/profiles/robert-zubrin
A Zubrin book: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/ref=sr_1_1
I mentioned the nuclear energy videos of David Ruzic, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QmB5bW_WQ
00:00 Introduction
03:26 Primary problem in the world today:Poverty
06:10 Two kinds of environmentalism
09:28 Some history of nuclear power
11:38 Oil companies funded enviros to oppose nuclear power
12:00 Why the Sierra Club went anti-nuclear
14:21 Nuclear power unchallenged in its naval application
16:24 How long to build a nuclear plant?
17:11 Insane regulatory structure
21:26 Who is blocking U.S. nuclear power?
23:54 Malthusian global warming campaign has backfired
26:04 Carbon dioxide taxes are ultra-regressive
30:35 New nukes outside of the U.S.?
35:27 Chinese to build new power plants in two years?
36:48 Big or small nuclear plants?
42:01 Regulatory burden is the main obstacle to new designs
43:41 Using nuclear power to make liquid fuels
46:34 Enormous energy in a block of granite
51:25 Points made by anti-nukes
——
https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html
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