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Decouple
by Dr. Chris Keefer · English
There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.
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The Race to Build the World's Next Great Uranium Mine w/ Leigh R. Curyer
NextGen Energy’s Arrow uranium project in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan—why it’s a “contrarian” bet after Fukushima, the technical approach (crystalline basement rock vs sandstone), permitting…
12 Nov 2026 · 56m · 22 chaptersCan South Korea Rescue America's Nuclear Renaissance? w/ Dr. Eunjung Lim
Whether South Korea can help “rescue” America’s nuclear renaissance by exporting reactor technology and construction capacity, framed through Korea’s historical nuclear “odyssey” (Atoms for Peace to…
6 Nov 2026 · 1h 9m · 23 chaptersHow America Gave Away Its Industrial Superpower w/ Stefan Link
How Henry Ford’s mass-production system—built by sequencing work like Chicago stockyards and applying it comprehensively to Model T production—became a global industrial template, then a strategic…
23 Oct 2026 · 1h 15m · 22 chaptersThe Story of the Israeli Bomb w/ Avner Cohen
The origins and evolution of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, focusing on how leaders justified it as deterrence to prevent another Holocaust, and how secrecy/opacity were maintained while building…
15 Oct 2026 · 1h 30m · 35 chapters
The Canada-US Trade War: A Bridge Too Far? w/ Jesse Huebsch
The Canada–U.S. trade war and Canada’s strategic vulnerabilities, arguing the conflict is more than tariffs and could escalate via “ratchets” across U.S. administrations.
25 Sep 2026 · 1h 14m · 23 chapters
Megaprojects: Some Assembly Required w/ Ian MacGregor
Megaproject planning and delivery through Ian MacGregor’s experience building the Northwest Upgrading Sturgeon Refinery in Alberta, including bitumen upgrading, CO2 capture integration, hydrogen…
3 Sep 2026 · 54m · 20 chapters
The State of Fusion Energy w/ Gerrit Bruhaug
The state of fusion energy, comparing fission vs fusion, explaining why “ignition” (self-heating) is the key milestone, and outlining the main fusion approaches (inertial, magnetic, gravitational)…
13 Aug 2026 · 1h 24m · 28 chapters
Sunk Costs & Diminishing Returns of Iran's Nuclear Program w/ Farzan Sabet
The episode explains how Iran’s nuclear program evolved from a Shah-era, oil-price-driven energy and technology project into a post-1979, war- and isolation-driven “nuclear option,” including…
6 Aug 2026 · 1h 26m · 29 chapters
Biomass Masterclass w/ Mark Nelson
How wood shaped human evolution, economies, and empires—starting with tree biology (cellulose/hemicellulose/lignin), then fire-driven land use, wood as the dominant pre-industrial fuel, medieval…
31 Jul 2026 · 1h 11m · 21 chaptersWe use cookies.They keep VO running smoothly and help us improve it. Privacy policy