Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Robert Bryce discuss the topics from his latest book, 'A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations,' the current audacity of the zero-emissions agenda, its effects on the developing world, the feasibility of coal and nuclear power, the catastrophic problems related to wind and solar power, and the positive vision for the future we can all share, should our institutions finally drop the doomsday narrative.
Robert Bryce is an author, podcaster, and film producer. He has been writing about energy, power, politics, and innovation for more than three decades. He is the acclaimed author of six books on energy and innovation, including most recently, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. Bryce has given more than 400 invited or keynote lectures to groups ranging from the Marines Corps War College to the Sydney Institute as well as to a wide variety of associations, universities, and corporations. His articles have been published in dozens of publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Real Clear Energy, The Hill, and Guardian. Bryce has also appeared on a panoply of media outlets ranging from Fox News to Al Jazeera.
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(0:00) Coming up
(0:32) Intro
(1:42) Let them eat solar panels, Angola
(5:12) Why write about energy?
(7:04) The German power catastrophe
(10:40) Zero victory, California
(14:44) Drive the cost down, the stark truth
(16:29) How electricity affects women and girls
(21:34) Will we run out of fossil fuels?
(24:06) The world has greened 15 percent
(25:24) Nuclear now
(32:45) Standardizing reactors
(36:45) Trivial emissions from the West
(38:30) The iron law of electricity
(40:37) On the threshold of poverty
(42:58) Where religion overlaps the climate narrative
(48:14) On the alter of Gaia
(49:02) The progression of power across wealth class
(52:49) The reality of 'clean' coal
(56:44) The zero emissions narrative is losing steam
(57:46) Wind power is insanely unreliable
(59:59) How power density works
(1:01:40) Land area needed to power America with wind
(1:03:30) Tax credits for producing renewables
(1:06:30) No accountability for animal death toll
(1:09:16) The environmental betrayal
(1:13:09) How we got to the 'Just Stop Oil' form of protest
(1:15:35) 47 percent of the world lives in electricity poverty
(1:18:08) Changing the narrative
(1:21:21) Energy developers push out rural farmers
(1:23:47) Are solar and wind really renewable?
(1:26:37) Supply chain issues being overlooked
(1:30:11) Who builds our renewable tech?
(1:32:17) Why we can't just replace an industry, grid issues
(1:36:44) Striving toward affordability and reliability
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People are making a reactor that fits in a pickup truck. Yes
@petermalmgren1207 Says:
Our cars are helping green the earth. Keep Driving around
@petermalmgren1207 Says:
Green up
@petermalmgren1207 Says:
I have no problem with this one
@wp912 Says:
Jumping from one extreme to the other is not always wise. Nuclear is not a good idea for a variety of reasons, just like renewable. The best forms of energy production are hydroelectric and gas or fossil fuel electricity generation. They are the safest and most cost effective. Renewable is inferior due to low and unreliable power output. Nuclear is a bad idea due to high start up costs, complexity of technology and toxic waste production. Not to mention that the more popular nuclear became so too would the risk of meltdowns etc. increase as well.
@nordictrekkie6447 Says:
Are you gentlemen truly surprised that these anti-social billionaires running the WEF/UN/COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS/TRILATERAL COMMISSION/INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL BANKS, etc. who are clearly sponsoring and promoting these policies via their nearly irresistible economic power, aren't intentionally targeting humanity for near- extinction (a stated goal population reduction to 4%-6% of current levels) when these same folks have been openly calling for such a mass extinction since Paul Erlich and the late 1960's? This is clearly a counter revolution of the Western Plutocrats against the popular liberal Revolutions of the 18th and 19th Centuries: a return to a technological feudalism; much as Freidrich Hayek predicted after WWII. .
@ruidadgmailcanada8508 Says:
I ❤ long format discussions.
Thank you for excellent guests.
❤️ from neo-feudal 🇨🇦
@Whatever...376 Says:
Solar panels degrade rapidly compared to the usefulness and demand society will put on them. They're neither cost effective and they are resource gobblers. Not worth it in my opinion. Keep the nuclear power going until we can replace it with fusion or fission or whatever that new one is.
@Faldang Says:
This is an excellent video.
@williamgreen4757 Says:
This is the continuaion of ww2 by other means.
@83licata Says:
Making people poorer is a byproduct of what the establishment/uniparty is doing; which is taking total control of every industry and all human movements!
@kennethroe4321 Says:
Solar panels generate electricity. So the idea that solar panels deny Angolans electricity is nonsense. Biden wants to give Angola electricity. There are two methods: fossil fuels or renewable. He chose renewable.
@beniceffs Says:
Perhaps part of this is as a result of not employing on a principle of a meritocracy and dumbing down in schools. So basically the people running the show are incompetent cretins.
@vladimirpastukhov7538 Says:
We can get to 0 carbon output in the case of a nuclear war :D.
@vladimirpastukhov7538 Says:
How can we help developing and poor countries? vs How do we impoverish control and reduce the world population while multiplying our wealth?
@mobsurfnut2616 Says:
The 'United Nations' appears able to enforce the garbage messaging (as per the ad above). "Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures...mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels." Does it really? This the derisorily unscientific messaging that we parents are allowing our young people to be mind-washed with, and part of the message of activism that is fundamentally altering, rapidly, the final fate of our civilization. Do we realize why? We need to know this. And by the way, a few more of us should do this and object to the NONSENSE. I speak as a BSc (Hons) applied biology and marine biology graduate from the 1980s who was very concerned with genuine environmental pollution, studying toxicology and how the oceans are used as an all too convenient dump. Things such as the plastic pollution of the oceans has a possibly cure and is far more attainable, but interestingly, the climate activists have gone quiet on it. This appears to be because the political messaging is more powerful when the catastrophism they push has a more unpleasant message. Apparently, or at least according to Mr ANTÓNIO Guterres (United Nations Secretary-General), we now have "global boiling" - a most curious concept, barely concealing the urging of panic and alarm that has no basis whatsoever in scientific study. Sea temperature averages have climbed a little during the past 100 years, but, even if we accept that the world has had about a 1C rise (which is very hard to quantify where no two places have the same temperature), fluctuations up and down are not only temporary but they are also historic. This fact is never discussed by climate alarmists. It weakens their message, if not destroying all of it. But then the UN is also tone deaf to fact: It states on its website there has been “a clear and dramatic warming decade on decade since the 1970s." This is untrue. There have been periods when there has been no overall warming. Misinformation works both ways. The truth must be told about this abuse of science. If it is not, and we are all too cowardly to speak up then Woke has won. Error has triumphed. It must not do so.
@OllyJSM Says:
There is no evidence of a "climate crisis" and there are no such things as "renewables". Both wind and solar installations degrade over time and require huge investment in reworking the transmission system, to say nothing of the storage systems needed to balance out the supply. We will need fossil fuels far into the forseeable future.
@mariadaidone1645 Says:
I too am disgusted with our government but how can an individual help
@michaelszczys8316 Says:
" you have tons of food right under your feet to feed your starving people, but we can't let you use it. Instead eat these imported Tofu cakes."
@Sam_Ah8 Says:
The greens narrow moralising assertions reminds me of an atray preisthood. If they make the right declarations and and say the right things at the pulpit or the picket they get a free morl pass to shelter any excesses and deviancy. The greens seem to provide cover for their love of their own status and their willingness to stand on the poor to keep it. I guess they are acting out a We are the chosen and everyone else can go to hell kind of narrative, limited to material world of wealth and convineance.
@jaradshaw4723 Says:
Climate Change plan, is absolutely a lie. It merely kicks the "problem" can down the road, for maybe 20 to 30 years thats it. The real agenda is to reduce the population of earth. There's only so many resources The Elites have given up, their plan is allow their familys to survive by eliminating the majority of the the earths population ecp those they'll need for servants.
Hence the attack on children, getting sex changes, AKA BEING PREVENTED FROM BREEDING
@DundalkTV Says:
The Green New Deal is about greenbacks and power JP!
@DundalkTV Says:
IT WAS A BIO ATTACK JP!
@DundalkTV Says:
It is because of greed and power JP!
@lucifercrow7050 Says:
zero of that electricity will go to the Angolans
@BBFCCO733 Says:
Canada is prime example
@rallyerudi1678 Says:
After getting some insight into Austrian company’s doing business with African countries, I can tell you that more than 50% of the money ends up in the hands of very few people in charge. But, at the same time, I have to admit, it is the same here in “civilised” Europe.
@TheOfficialCultureWars Says:
Amen
@drilijapilija Says:
This is the first time I've been deeply disappointed by Jordan's podcast. Without concrete arguments and data, ideologically charged with the mantra "for the poor". I guess it's much better that the poor die from wars aimed at controlling the supply of oil than that energy is somewhat more expensive without war. Although, today energy from the sun and wind is the cheapest energy and battery technology for network drive "grid level storage" has been developed and contains no traces of valuable metals - liquid metal battery (AMBRI). I agree that nuclear plants should be developed and built to cover basic consumption, but investing in coal, oil and gas is simply disastrous. The future is nuclear in combination with the sun and batteries like LMB Ambri or storage lakes - hydro. Insisting that you depend on others for the supply of energy while you can produce your own is a direct undermining of the democracy of those countries. To think that it is better to extract energy from the earth instead of from the sun is incomprehensible. To have no confidence in the engineering abilities to make energy from the sun reliable, i.e. to solve all the technological problems of renewable energy sources, is to have no confidence in the power of the human spirit...
Jordan, you will continue to be my role model on all the other issues you talk about, and I hope you realize how wrong you are when you advocate using oil, coal, and natural gas instead of nuclear+solar+batteries.
@kenrankin3277 Says:
Who profits the most from the huge solar project? Thats where youll find the answer to why the project. Its always about the money.
@angelagonimavalero7700 Says:
I wish Jordan would allow his guest to speak more.
This is one of the most important current issues and the discussions should be out in the open.
@angelagonimavalero7700 Says:
It is inmoral to dictate to the developing countries what kind of energy they should have.
@New_Age_Teachings Says:
@forumvoordemocratie
@New_Age_Teachings Says:
Make sure to leave a like for jordan peterson
@onegreenev Says:
They want the anti carbon policy because it gives them validation to take our money for their pet projects we know nothing about under the guise of saving the planet which is totally bogus. Follow the money.
@ernie5229 Says:
I know why they went on and on about women carrying water and washing clothes by hand (it polls well with feminists & simps) but guess what the men are doing is those countries? HUNTING LIONS WITH HAND-THROWN SPEARS! No one ever died washing clothes by hand! Please, let's be realistic!
@danielnln Says:
James Lindsay provides a wealth of knowledge about the causes that led to our current predicament.
Jordon Peterson interview with James Lindsay is a fascinating dialog.
To simplify the dichotomy ~
We are experiencing advanced stage Marxism.
I will caveat that statement. Larger forces are engaged.
the WEF is one sorce of the ideology that drive many policies.
This interview with Robwrt Bryce exposes that the agenda is anti human
@danielnln Says:
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We are United
@putteslaintxtbks5166 Says:
UN agenda 2030. We need to stop funding them and their anti human agendas. Satanic.
@danielspain7231 Says:
I don’t believe greening statistics. I wish I was a chimp, with chimps it’s pretty much a handful of choices - become top chimp and get a hareem of hot bitch chimpettes, or wander the (remaining) jungle alone after having failed, or be a chimp runt, and get his brain torn from his skull by top chimps. Very simple, well within attainable bounds if you’re a chimp. No existential worries bar what’s in front of you on any given morning.
@tobiasb9645 Says:
The plan is to destroy the middleclass the Group of big consumers and make us poor and powerless,well if i end Up on the street i know the Doors to kick in and take whatever i Want and it Will be the doors of politicans.
@danielspain7231 Says:
For solar panels, read weaponry under the table
@danielspain7231 Says:
Angola probably supplies some kind of rare mineral, something, to make the US loan them currency.
@suedouglas5455 Says:
Helping humanity is not the agenda though is it? It makes perfect sense when you realise the agenda is genocide, they say there are too many people on the Earth! Why would the elites want to prolong the lives/benefit the lives of humans in third world countries? They wouldn’t. The plan is to make all first world countries, third world countries and lower the worlds population. Of course there will be two classes - the elites will be living in first world luxury and the rest of the population who survive the depopulation agenda, will be their third world slaves.
@eagledetection4451 Says:
The only answer I can think of as to why Germany, Canada, California, etc. are moving forward with these policies despite the obvious negative impacts on their citizens and the environment, is that they are being directed to by something like the WEF or other globalist cabal. And the politicians are highly paid pawns sworn to secrecy. It's either that or they've developed some sort of disassociation block in the brain that won't let them see their error.
@allanschulz2008 Says:
Jorden I would love for you to interviewTony Seba- He has an interesting history of predicting the expedential growth of different technologies a the S curve growth throughout the last century. He also has interesting predictions on renewable energy - He has a compelling argument which flies in the face of a lot of other opinions regarding energy. I’m sure you would find him very interesting
@mastermatt37 Says:
What about being Energy Independence? There's so many people that want to be energy Independence from the US Government to where that they don't want to depend on the Government that just want to increase the price?
@trevorkent4749 Says:
People in Africa are starving due tobthe inflation caused directly by fuel price rises. If you were on the bread line just coping 3 years ago what do you think you will be eating now.
@ryanforgo3500 Says:
I don't mean this offensively but man americans accent and words of choice seem so casual it sounds unfit for educated people 😂 i find it interesting how cultures develop but i did hear many americanpolitical figures and journalists speak like this good guy and i am too used to jordan peterson articulated use of "words" then i hear this guy saying "pound the table" and i am like
Oh yeah, that'a what i used to say before i get into a fight with someone in highschool 😂😂
That said, very enlightening data and information there.
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