Decouple cover art

All Episodes

Decouple — 321 episodes

#
Title
1

The Gas Turbine: The Final Revelation in Humanity’s Pantheon of Prime Movers (w/ David Helmer)

2

Understanding the World's Most Unusual Commodity Cycle

3

The Absolute Best Water Reactor: What Happened to the World’s Fastest Constructed Reactor?

4

Nuclear Reprocessing: Promise vs Reality

5

Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics

6

The Luxury Beliefs That Broke Europe’s Energy System | Doomberg

7

What's happening with CANDU?

8

The Week LNG Became a Target

9

The Fuels Powering Nuclear's Biggest Promises

10

Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About

11

The Most Boring Path to 10 Gigawatts: Why Nuclear Uprates Matter Right Now

12

AI with Chinese Characteristics

13

A Case Study of Excellence from Canada’s Nuclear Golden Age

14

EPR: The Reactor That Tried to Please Everyone and Satisfied No One

15

Why Nuclear Shipping Is Inherently Niche

16

Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors

17

Why the First Nuclear Renaissance Failed: Can America Build Eight AP1000s Now?

18

The Real Stakes of a Saudi Nuclear Deal

19

Microreactors: A Mirage of American Nuclear Innovation?

20

The AP1000 Masterclass

21

The Great Nuclear Reshoring

22

Russia’s Maritime Nuclear Fleet: A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

23

How China Builds Reactors So Fast

24

Engineering State v. Lawyerly Society

25

Where Is Nature Going?

26

Handling the Heat

27

Nuclear Meme Stocks

28

Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Thermostat

29

To Bomb or Not to Bomb

30

Rare Earth Emergency

31

Battery Power

32

The Export Expert

33

#289 - Breaking the Ice

34

The State of the Atom (2025)

35

Sun, Silicon, and Xinjiang

36

Small Reactor, Big Price

37

Is Wright's Law Wrong?

38

Is America Making Itself Irrelevant?

39

Tim Cook, Nation-Builder

40

Trump's Nuclear Executive Orders

41

No Risk, All Reward

42

Hellbrise

43

The Iberian Blackout

44

Cycles of Life

45

Hard Lessons with Hot Helium

46

The Machines Behind The Machines

47

Respect the Rads

48

Pass the Salt

49

"Better Water Reactors"

50

The Industrialization Playbook

51

Fuel for Thought

52

China, the Electrostate

53

Mission: Recommission

54

Carbon Capture for Dummies

55

Electric Dreams

56

Oil: A Masterclass

57

A Civil Nuclear Debate

58

Reactors on Wheels

59

A Heterodox Economics Lesson

60

The End of an IRA?

61

The Forgotten Climate Debate

62

Defense in Depths

63

Microreactors, Macro Problems

64

Paper Reactors to Power Reactors

65

TMI: Too Much Intervention?

66

Small Reactors Are Bulking Up

67

321, Liftoff!

68

Lead the Way, TVA

69

The Energy Transition Will Not Happen

70

The Bottomless Well

71

The Three Mile Island Melt Up

72

A Westinghouse of Pain for Korea

73

The CANDU Story

74

Will EVs Deliver on Decarbonisation?

75

The Real Costs of Advanced Nuclear

76

The Geography of Oil

77

Australia’s Nuclear Debate

78

Is an AI Energy Crisis Looming?

79

We’ve Got to Talk About the Bomb Some More

80

Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

81

Climate Change and Mass Extinctions: A deep time perspective

82

Modularity: Lessons from chemical process engineering

83

We've Gotta Talk About the Bomb

84

Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet

85

The Chinese Atom

86

Renewable Nuclear: All about Breeder Reactors

87

Vogtle part 4: Can Positive Learning Happen Next?

88

A Chat with the Nuclear Barbarian

89

Californication of the Grid

90

Deep Sea Mining

91

Will Nuclear power AI?

92

The Fragilization of the Grid

93

Peak Cheap Oil?

94

LNG the Champagne of Energy

95

Ontario’s Nuclear Revival: Minister Todd Smith

96

Vogtle Part 3: Was the NRC to blame?

97

The Energy Returns of Unconventional Oil

98

Vogtle Part 2: Murphy’s Law

99

The Politics of a Canadian Nuclear Revival

100

Prospects for Process Heat & “Advanced” Nuclear

101

It's a Material World

102

Vogtle Part 1: the Nuclear Renaissance That Wasn't

103

Extreme Weather and Alberta’s AWOL Renewable Energy

104

From Microchips to Atom Splits

105

A Fireside chat with Sec. Ernie Moniz

106

Cracking the Nuclear Innovation Nut

107

COP28 & The Inconvenient Truth about Coal

108

How to Fuel a Tripling of Nuclear Energy

109

NuScale, New Problems

110

Ontario’s Green Energy Act

111

Enriching Uranium Understanding

112

US Offshore Wind Dead in the Water?

113

Small Misunderstood Reactors

114

Why is Western nuclear so expensive?

115

Are renewables jobs the “fast food” employment of the energy transition?

116

Just How Cheap are Wind & Solar?

117

How Ontario Decarbonized

118

The Geothermal Masterclass

119

Quebec reconsiders Nuclear. Waters up with that?

120

Jigar Shah: Breaking the Nuclear Stalemate

121

An Oppenheimer on Oppenheimer

122

American Nuclear: The Next Chapter

123

American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?

124

Gone With the Wind: Denmark’s Stalled Energy Transition

125

Embrace the Waste

126

The Case for CANDU

127

Bridging the Metabolic Rift

128

Stormy Waters Ahead for Offshore Wind

129

Can the Left be Saved From Itself?

130

Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

131

What About the Waste?

132

Non-Proliferation & the Antinuclear Mind

133

The Uranium Masterclass

134

What’s Nu-clear in Japan

135

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

136

The Great Canadian Nuclear Debate

137

A Eulogy for the German Atom

138

Peak Shale: Not so fast!

139

Barakah - A Nuclear Success Story

140

Limits to Growth for Precision Fermentation

141

Ontario’s Nuclear Advantage

142

The State of the Atom

143

Peak Shale

144

Much Ado About Tritium

145

How Big Things Get Done

146

Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading

147

The Climate Aristocracy

148

It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan

149

Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists w/ Charles C. Mann

150

Lignite Coal: A German Love Story

151

Peak Oil & the End of Growth

152

Natrium, Coal Gasification, and Synfuels, Oh My!

153

What’s All the Fuss About Fusion?

154

From Sierra Leone to Sweden: A Panel Discussion on Nuclear at COP27

155

Human Factors and Nuclear Reactors

156

Mining Our Way to Net Zero

157

Mark Nelson on Pyramids & COP27 Panels

158

Nuclear Energy at COP27

159

Nuclear Energy: Climate Friend or Foe?

160

An American Doctor’s Experience of the Chernobyl Accident

161

What is the nuclear secret sauce?

162

Diesel Powered Decoupling?

163

A Canada-Germany Hydrogen Scandal?

164

Nuclear Advocacy and Labour

165

A Physician's Perspective on Nuclear Waste

166

Nord Stream Sabotaged, Energiewende Over?

167

Germany: How to Fail An Energy Transition

168

A Cold Old World feat. Doomberg

169

Avoiding an Energy Blunder Down Under

170

Behind the Diablo Canyon Victory feat. Isabelle Boemeke

171

Diablo Canyon Lives feat. Michael Shellenberger

172

Decouple Reads: Fossil Future/Climate Change as Class War

173

The World's Largest Nuclear Refurbishment

174

The Inflation Reduction Act with Robert Bryce

175

The Story of Storage (Mark Nelson Masterclass)

176

Gold Standard or Standstill? Reflections on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization

177

This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass

178

Germany: The Canary in the Coal Mine

179

Ontario's Energy Conundrum

180

Is Russia’s War the End of Climate Policy as We Know It?

181

Something's Rotten with French Nuclear

182

Testing the Credibility of Linear No-Threshold

183

What Does a Just Transition Look Like?

184

Who Killed Nuclear Energy?

185

Sri Lanka's Fast Track to Agricultural Collapse

186

Getting Serious About Our Energy Future

187

Old Nuclear, New Ideas

188

Public Power Politics

189

Dr. Keefer Testifies on the “Just Transition”

190

From Consultant for Gazprom to Belgian Energy Minister

191

Electrification 2.0

192

Doomberg: Famine on the horizon?

193

India's Nuclear Past and Future with Dr. Anil Kakodkar

194

The Energy Poverty Returns on Energy Malinvested

195

The Finns Know How to Green Party

196

The Canada Green Bond Framework Needs a Rework

197

The War on Energy

198

The Fog of Peace Lifts on the Energy Transition

199

So You're Telling Me There's a Chance: Germany's Nuclear Wobble

200

Russian Troops at Chernobyl

201

The Lazard People Are Taking Over

202

Romantic Agriculture

203

My Mother Explains Romanticism to Me

204

Keeping the Northern Lights On

205

A Hard Landing for Soft Energy

206

The Children of Chernobyl

207

An Indigenous Woman in Nuclear

208

Doomberg Lays Out the Global Pecking Order

209

Goodbye, Grohnde

210

The Wicked Problem With "Don't Look Up"

211

The Grim Fairy Tale of German Electricity

212

Into the Wild: Dr. Keefer Before the MD

213

Are Nuclear Plants Immortal?

214

Precision Agriculture and Angry Optimism

215

One Billion Tons

216

What's A Wind Drought? Europe's Lust for the Gust

217

The James Hansen Interview

218

Colonialism in Green

219

Let The Market Decide? A History of Government Intervention in Energy

220

Darth Vader On Geoengineering

221

Can You Dig It? Should You Dig It? All About Mining

222

Indigenous Climate Action

223

Is African Poverty a Climate Solution?

224

A Sober Sitdown with the German Climate Negotiators

225

France’s Second Nuclear Renaissance?

226

Will the Revolution be Funded?

227

Michael Shellenberger: A Heretic Among Heretics

228

Its Gas or Nuclear, you Pickering

229

Sayonara Nuclear? Japan’s Energy Transitions

230

Ted Nordhaus Deconstructs Degrowth

231

Emmet Penney and the Nuclear Barbarians

232

How to Feed a Warming Planet

233

Europe's Winter of Discontent

234

Illinois' Nuclear Near-Death Experience

235

The EU Green Taxonomy Soap Opera feat. Myrto Tripathi

236

What’s up with the “Modernism” in Ecomodernism? feat. Alex Trembath

237

The Preconditions of France's Nuclear Buildout feat. François Perchet

238

The Belgian Green’s Climate Own Goal feat. Rob De Schutter

239

Taiwan's Energy Gamble feat. Angelica Oung

240

A Natural Gas Masterclass feat. Mark Nelson

241

Ontario’s Climate Retreat feat. Edgardo Sepulveda

242

The coming European blackouts and SMR opportunities feat. Kalev Kallemets

243

Assessing the Sixth IPCC report feat. Zeke Hausfather

244

Medical Isotopes? We CANDU that!: Feat James Scongack

245

SMR Economics and the Nuclear Secret Sauce feat. Tony Roulstone

246

How Radiation Affects Us feat. Dr. Douglas Boreham

247

Batteries, Energy Lysenkoism, and Geopolitics feat. Mark P. Mills

248

What Went Wrong at Vogtle? feat. Mark Nelson

249

Nuclear Energy is Union Energy feat. Bob Walker

250

A Good War feat. Seth Klein

251

Fragilizing South Africa’s Grid feat. Gaopalelwe Santswere

252

Emergency Reactor feat. Zion Lights

253

Why Nuclear Energy Has Been a Flop feat. Jack Devanney

254

What's happening at Taishan? feat. Mark Nelson

255

Small, Modular and North of 60 Feat: Jay Harris

256

Energy Democracy and Its Discontents feat. Edgardo Sepulveda

257

Uranium mining past, present and future feat. Jerry Grandey

258

The Climate Crystal Ball feat. Zeke Hausfather

259

How to Win Friends and Influence feat. Isabelle Boemeke

260

Saving our clean energy cathedrals in Illinois feat. Madi Czerwinski

261

Carbon Abatement Cost and the Social Cost of Carbon feat. Edgardo Sepulveda

262

Poland’s Pragmatic Environmentalists feat. Adam Blazowski

263

Reverse Geo-Engineering with Carbon Capture and Sequestration feat. Sean Wagner

264

Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne

265

Mothers for Nuclear. feat Heather Hoff

266

Deregulation and deep decarbonisation feat. Edgardo Sepulveda

267

Nuclear the ultimate ESG investment feat. Arthur Hyde

268

The Russian Atom feat. Mark Nelson

269

Fukushima & Much Ado About Tritium feat. Dr Geraldine Thomas

270

Hydrogen Hope and/or Hype feat. James Fleay

271

Magical Thinking, Moore's Law, and Energy feat. Mark P Mills

272

Mark Z Jacobson's Roadmap to Nowhere feat. Mike Conley

273

Decoupling from the Naturalistic Fallacy feat. Alan Levinovitz

274

Thoughtscaping at Chernobyl feat. Iida Ruishalme

275

Is China the Future of Nuclear Energy? feat. Francois Morin

276

Avocado Politics feat. Nils Gilman

277

Can the Left & Right Come Together to Decouple? feat. Emmet Penney and James Fleay

278

Hazards, Risks and Science Communication feat. Iida Ruishalme

279

10 Years Since Tohoku & Fukushima feat. Paul Blustein

280

At COP26 Net Zero Needs Nuclear feat. Arun Khuttan

281

Bill Gates vs Climate Change feat. Leigh Phillips

282

UK Decarbonisation: Legally Binding But Precarious feat. David Watson

283

The Case for Nuclear Energy in Philippines feat. Mark Cojuangco

284

Canada, Climate, CANDU & Canoes feat. Jeremy Whitlock

285

Trouble in Texas feat. Mark Nelson

286

The Other Energy Transition feat. Dr. Scott Tinker

287

Wizards and Prophets, Ecomodernists and Environmentalists feat. Charles C Mann

288

Greenpeace selling Vegan natural gas? feat. Simon Wakter

289

The Rise of Nuclear Fear feat. Spencer Weart

290

Means, Motive, Opportunity: Fossil Fueled Radiophobia feat. Rod Adams

291

The Politics of Energy Transition feat. Robert Bryce

292

The Nuclear Fusion Energy Delusion? feat. Gerrit Bruhaug

293

Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell

294

Hope, Hype, Hubris, and Deep Decarbonisation feat. Nick Touran

295

China’s Great Climate Leap Forward? feat. Seaver Wang

296

The Heterodox Anthropologist of Nuclear feat. Bret Kugelmass

297

Doctors for Nuclear Energy feat. Dr. Anton Van Der Merwe

298

Reflections on the Decouple Journey feat. Jesse Freeston

299

Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal feat. Madi Czerwinski

300

Ecomodernism's Arch Pragmatist feat. Ted Nordhaus

301

The Malthusian Spectre Haunting Environmentalism feat. Michael Shellenberger

302

Russian Gas & Germany's War on Nuclear: EU Energy Realpolitik feat. Mark Nelson

303

The Nuclear New Deal feat. Emmet Penney

304

French Nuclear Energy & Social Solidarity feat. Myrto Tripathi

305

Shorting the Grid feat. Meredith Angwin

306

Sunset on Greenpeace's Solar Village feat. Gayatri Vaidyanathan

307

Stand Up for Nuclear feat. Paris Ortiz Wines

308

Isodope: Isabelle Boemeke the Nuclear Influencer

309

Existing Nuclear and Imaginary Nuclear feat. Mark Nelson

310

Swords Into Plowshares: How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons feat. James Conca

311

Karnkraft: Sweden's Social Democratic Nuclear Climate Fix feat. John Ahlberg

312

Apocalypse Never Review feat. Leigh Phillips

313

Solutions for the "Impossible" Problem of Nuclear "Waste" feat. Dr. James Conca

314

Six Degrees of Climate Emergency feat. Mark Lynas

315

Coming out as pro-nuclear feat. Zion Lights

316

Nuclear Accidents & the Scientific Consensus feat. Gerry Thomas

317

Confucius Smiled: COVID-19 Lessons from the East feat. Nils Gilman

318

The Death of Neo-Liberal Ecomodernism? feat. Jon Symons

319

The Windmill and the Atom: Energiewende Germany's Energy Transition feat. Thijs Beckers

320

Climate Cage Fight: Nuclear vs Coal in Ontario feat. Steve Aplin

321

What is to be done? feat. Jesse Freeston