Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.

Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General.  

He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years.  He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development.  

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Furfari’s April 2023 book, “Energy insecurity: The organised destruction of the EU’s competitiveness”: https://a.co/d/gKcfbqt

Furfari’s Oct 2020 book “The hydrogen illusion” https://a.co/d/ef4eIrD

00:00 Introduction

01:44 Author of 18 books

02:33 Working with European Commission

09:22 Poland

10:43 Germany

15:53 When will the EU return to energy sanity?

19:33 Green peak: Peak climate hysteria?

20:57 Exxon throws in the towel on algae biofuel

24:36 Next book: Energy security

26:05 Israel is a gas producer

26:55 Qatar is investing in Texas to produce more gas.

27:31 Energy in 2050?

29:45 Urgency to electrify Africa

32:52 Future of COP junkets?

34:33 Richer people are more resilient

37:21 If you control carbon, you control life

38:42 Only four flights per lifetime?

39:23 What % of voters want their flights to be limited?

43:32 Kill cows to save the planet?

44:14 Seizing farms?

45:28 Are Europeans buying the climate scam?

47:39 Invited by monks to talk about energy realism

49:44 Keep learning

50:28 Speak up

52:28 Many of today's climate realists were once believers

54:57 It's not really about climate

59:58 Hydrogen

01:04:28 Making liquid fuels?

01:06:47 Greens don't like nuclear energy because it works too well

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