Episode 512 Scott Adams: Pro-Nuclear Environmentalist and Expert Michael Shellenberger (Real Coffee with Scott Adams)

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Guest: Michael Shellenberger, nuclear power expert, environmentalist

France: 75% nuclear powered, less pollution created, lower costs

Germany: No nuclear, 50% higher energy costs, more pollution

Sunless, windless days make those alternative possibilities unreliable

  • Both require batteries, lots and lots of batteries
  • Environmental cost of batteries
  • Unreliable producers of energy

Michael Shellenberger: We should stick with and develop light water cooled nuclear solutions, not Gen IV

Bill Gates has embraced Gen IV research and development

  • 12 startups are pursuing Gen IV technology

Nuclear energy is promoted as safer, cleaner than coal

  • Congressional support for development is bipartisan

Climate change people fear that more than nuclear concerns

  • If you’re pro-science, nuclear power is the best known answer
  • Solar and wind will NEVER provide world’s power needs