web02.fireside.fm Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:20:54 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Nuclear Energy” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/nuclear%20energy Sun, 24 Jul 2022 15:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 86: California Uber Alles ft. Robert. Bryce https://exhaust.fireside.fm/86 120b2ee9-b8ae-4a72-8f43-f0ddda4ec620 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 15:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney 6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California and its war on the poor, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more! 58:50 yes 6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more! "California's Energy War on the Poor (https://quillette.com/2022/07/11/californias-energy-war-on-the-poor/)" by Robert Bryce (Quillette) The Power Hungry Podcast (https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/) Juice: How Electricity Explains the World (http://juicethemovie.com/) A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (https://www.amazon.com/Question-Power-Electricity-Wealth-Nations/dp/1610397495) by Robert Bryce Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys california, gavin newsom, nuclear energy, homelessness, electricity, energy crisis, climate change 6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more!

"California's Energy War on the Poor" by Robert Bryce (Quillette)
The Power Hungry Podcast
Juice: How Electricity Explains the World
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Bryce

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Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys

]]> 6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more!

"California's Energy War on the Poor" by Robert Bryce (Quillette)
The Power Hungry Podcast
Juice: How Electricity Explains the World
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Bryce

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Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys

]]> Episode 41: A Brief History of the American Electricity Grid From the 1920s to Closure of Indian Point ft. Edgardo Sepulveda https://exhaust.fireside.fm/41 5ac385ed-eddc-4b03-b427-ec8be1dd0fee Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America and why certain infrastructure projects no longer feel possible anymore. 1:07:13 yes Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda (https://twitter.com/E_R_Sepulveda) to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep41bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)! Closing Song: "OK FM DOA (https://dillingerfour.bandcamp.com/album/midwestern-songs-of-the-americas)" by the Dillinger Four neoliberalism, monetarism, electricity markets, new deal, nuclear energy, indian point, electricity grid, infrastructure, american history Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.

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Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four

]]> Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.

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Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four

]]> Episode 39: Energiewendon't and the Nordstream Connection ft. Mark Nelson https://exhaust.fireside.fm/39 da6db78c-23e6-4eb1-969e-775409ff4c60 Tue, 18 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. 1:04:45 yes Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark talk about American green Malthusianism's influence on the Energiwende, Germany vs. American traditions of government-market relations, how the rest of Europe should respond to the pipeline, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/episoe39bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Sniper Song" by Naked Raygun Special Guest: Mark Nelson. germany, angela merkel, fukushima, nuclear energy, carbon emissions, IPCC, climate change, renewable energy, nordstream, biden, france, european union, eu, russia, cold war Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark talk about American green Malthusianism's influence on the Energiwende, Germany vs. American traditions of government-market relations, how the rest of Europe should respond to the pipeline, and more!

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Closing Song: "Sniper Song" by Naked Raygun

Special Guest: Mark Nelson.

]]> Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark talk about American green Malthusianism's influence on the Energiwende, Germany vs. American traditions of government-market relations, how the rest of Europe should respond to the pipeline, and more!

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Closing Song: "Sniper Song" by Naked Raygun

Special Guest: Mark Nelson.

]]> Episode 37: Based and Nukepilled ft. Madison Czerwinski https://exhaust.fireside.fm/37 33a1c1c3-eed2-45f4-8f32-815b53a2aaaa Tue, 04 May 2021 19:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Founder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, Madison Czerwinski, sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, the status of the US nuclear fleet, and what a nuclear future could look like. 54:13 yes Founder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, Madison Czerwinski (@Madi_Czerwinski), sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, the status of the US nuclear fleet, and what a nuclear future could look like. Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal (https://gndcampaign.org/). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep37bib). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Saint Pepsi - Mac Tonight x Mannie Fresh - Real Big (KEIFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music)" electrical grid, texas, indian point, nrdc, sierra club, environmentalism, nuclear energy, climate change, diablo canyon, byron, dresden, indisutrial policy, green nuclear deal, aoc, green new deal, bernie sanders, renewable energy Founder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, [Madison Czerwinski](@Madi_Czerwinski), sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, the status of the US nuclear fleet, and what a nuclear future could look like.

Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal.

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Closing Song: "Saint Pepsi - Mac Tonight x Mannie Fresh - Real Big (KEIFERGR33N Remix)"

]]> Founder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, [Madison Czerwinski](@Madi_Czerwinski), sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, the status of the US nuclear fleet, and what a nuclear future could look like.

Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal.

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Saint Pepsi - Mac Tonight x Mannie Fresh - Real Big (KEIFERGR33N Remix)"

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