Ep 76: Eric Ingersoll, Energy Options Network

In this episode we discuss... Eric's personal evolution in the nuclear industry and his entrepreneurial endeavors including General Compression Eric's work as one of the world's leading climate change analysts and advisors A deep dive into natural gas cavern storage How a combination of cheap gas and lack of demand for electricity nearly eliminated the wind development industry Why compressed air storage and wind energy can't solve the global carbon emission problem System constraints Eric established while determining how to bring carbon-free electricity to the entire world and how advanced nuclear fits within those constraints Commercialization development and deployment challenges with advanced reactors and how we can overcome them The Nuclear Cost Driver Study Ways in which we can reduce the cost and time required in the construction process to increase nuclear's scalability