Ep. 76 - Eric Ingersoll, Energy Options Network

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