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