And then reduce electricity by enough and survive the storm. Find the fossil fuels they need, since they don’t haven’t built an alternative to what fossil fuels provide. difference here is not all of them are gonna succeed necessarily, like not all of them are going to jerk back into shape. He’s iron law of climate, but I’m calling it Bryce’s iron law of electricity, which is people will end countries will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need. Well, it’s interesting you say that, because when I was in Louisiana a couple weeks ago, seeing people queue up for gasoline to run their small generators, and I’m paraphrasing Roger pilc. And we’re going to run things really close to the metal this year across Europe. And we don’t need a joke if the electricity is the oxygen is the respiration process of society. You know, the old joke about sex being like oxygen, no big deal, so you don’t get any of it? Well, it turns out electricity is very close to oxygen. You know, organic agriculture, there’s a number of things that just were more important than energy. And if heads of state know, it’s just until they’ve run out of energy, it’s been a much smaller issue than any other thing that might be pressing, immigration, climate change conferences. That’s not popularly known, certainly the press doesn’t really know. So the fact that, you know, countries around Europe are, especially the ones that are anti nuclear are barely building, say wind turbines anymore. Yeah, but the folks who know that don’t even seem to be heads of state, it’s lower level ministry officials in charge of, quote, unquote, energy transition. And in fact, it appears in Germany to be stopped in its tracks. But from everything that I see, this whole idea of building renewables in Europe is in is encountering huge amounts of friction. Well, let me hit on that center point, the one you hit in the middle there was Oh, build renewables.
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And the only problem was how to turn off the nuclear, build the renewables and coast on the existing fossil fuel infrastructure. That made while the power was coming in, and made it seem like energy was easy. Nuclear was already built, people weren’t building much more than nuclear plants are getting better and better in operation every year. The gas flowed cheap, the coal flowed easy only shut off by a need to decarbonize at the national level for for many countries around the world. By expanding production too fast and too hard. A new energy producers were getting up to speed energy investors were losing their shirt all around the world. Well, sir, you said that 30 or 40 years of complacency what explain that. It was one of the first drops of water coming from the sky as the hurricane approaches. And since petrol is an important precursor to all manner of services in the UK. It’s going to be hitting in a few months whenever the cold weather hits in the UK, but it was a sign that something is going wrong. In the UK, that itself is not the same thing as the energy crisis. For one, they started running out of gas, gasoline diesel petrol. Now there’s been there have been a few very big Wake Up Calls since I’ve been home. And people were just I think they’re just sleepwalking at the moment.
So first of all, there was almost nothing to see, because at least when I was there two weeks ago, almost nobody had any awareness of what was coming. What did you see what’s going on? I mean, the this energy crisis, and it is a crisis, it seems to be sweeping across Europe, what’s happening and why. So you’ve just come back from Europe, you were there for several weeks. And I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure people know what the best energy sources and how to save it and how to build it.
I work to save nuclear plants and to expand them around the world. But if you don’t mind, give us 30 or 45 seconds of an intro, even though you’ve been on the podcast before. So I could say you’re the managing director at the radiant energy fund. You know, I have my guests introduce themselves. Mark, welcome to the power hungry podcast for the second time. And we’re gonna hit on a lot of those today with my guest, Mark Nelson, he’s a return guest on the power hungry podcast. I’m Robert rice on this podcast, we talk about energy, power, innovation and politics. Hi, and welcome to the power hungry podcast.