Ep. 76 - Eric Ingersoll, Energy Options Network

Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 10:30 a.m.

In this episode we discuss...

  • Eric’s personal evolution in the nuclear industry and his entrepreneurial endeavors including General Compression
  • Eric’s work as one of the world’s leading climate change analysts and advisors
  • A deep dive into natural gas cavern storage
  • How a combination of cheap gas and lack of demand for electricity nearly eliminated the wind development industry
  • Why compressed air storage and wind energy can’t solve the global carbon emission problem
  • System constraints Eric established while determining how to bring carbon-free electricity to the entire world and how advanced nuclear fits within those constraints
  • Commercialization development and deployment challenges with advanced reactors and how we can overcome them
  • The Nuclear Cost Driver Study
  • Ways in which we can reduce the cost and time required in the construction process to increase nuclear’s scalability