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Can Nuclear Compete with Renewables?

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Episode notes

James reviews the Dr Volts podcast episode on nuclear and tries to see a path to nuclear competitiveness in North America. How it might get to compete with solar and wind plus batteries next decade if we move now. Comedy in climate? Brian discusses a New York Times piece. Chat GPT might need several nuclear reactors worth of energy to run it. And carbon emissions in the airline industry. Is the future of air travel guilt-free?

  • Oil changes alone are enough to go buy an electric car that doesn't need them

  • Brian back from Toronto where he color-graded a film

  • Guilt free flying

  • Green hydrogen for flight

  • Out of Spec Reviews take on the Honda Prologue

  • Peak charging rates don't represent the true charging time of EVs

  • Climate and comedy - The Juice Media, Rollie Williams' Climate Town, Yellow Dot Studios and "Don't Look Up"

  • Nuclear discussion of David Robert's DrVolts nuclear episode with Jigar Shah, Dept of Energy Loans.

  • New Jersey school buses to power schools

  • Law News - Chicago sues big oil

  • Bigger offshore wind turbines abandoned in US

  • Data centre energy use

  • The Lightning Round!

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