B.F. Randall: Fission nuclear energy: By far the best way to meet our energy needs | Pod #104

Nuclear Power = the single best solution for humanity's extensional and inter-related geopolitical, economic, and environmental problems. Mining + Energy = Life. John Moses Browning is one of my heroes.

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00:00 Introduction

02:36 David Ruzic's excellent videos

04:23 Nuclear plants last a long time; fuel costs are low

05:45 Generation 3 reactors

06:32 Re: nuclear power, we're not even scratching the surface

07:57 Natrium and Cal Abel

16:37 No place for wind and solar on the grid

17:35 Electricity is less than 20% of total energy consumption

20:04 Diesel and jet fuel do most of the work

22:23 "Antis" cause slow nuclear power builds

23:15 Astronomical new energy needs

24:46 Stuck in combustion

26:08 48k tons of uranium could have produced 5X 2020 world energy use

28:40 Nuclear success in France

34:16 No such thing as a nuclear energy lobby, except us

42:41 Clinton/Gore administration killed important nuclear program

45:23 Russia schooling us

48:17 Everyone should be anti- wind, solar, and batteries for grid power

49:15 Facebook/Google etc pretending that their data centers are wind-powered

54:06 Imagine a car with a random accelerator

55:51 Random Uber

01:01:18 Environmental groups being manipulated

01:02:10 Advocating for humanity

01:04:09 There are always tradeoffs

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