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How Energy Innovation Works: an interview with Matt Ridley by Alex Epstein
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1:04:27Now PlayingFrom Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour.
On this week's Power Hour (June 3, 2020) I interview one of my favorite writers and thinkers, Matt Ridley, on energy innovation.
Matt has just released a new book, How Innovation WorksAnd Why It Flourishes Under Freedom. You can get the book here
Energy is a central focus of the book, just as it is a central focus of one of Matt's previous books, The Rational Optimist.
This was a particularly fun discussion that, in addition to covering a lot about energy and innovation, also covered many elements of what it means to be a humanist who loves nature and is fascinated by nature.
Some topics we covered included:
- Why Ridley considers "the conversion of heat to work" to be perhaps the most important innovation.
- The true story of innovation in fracking and why the conventional narrative about it being a government-led innovation is false.
- Why there's so little innovation in nuclear--and what to do about it.
- Why freedom is crucial to innovation.
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