Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119

Irina has written about oil, gas, and all things energy since 2016. Her main focus is the reality of energy security and the many fantastical facets of the energy transition. Her work appears on Oilprice.com and Substack at Irina Slav on energy. Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrinaSlav1 Substack: https://irinaslav.substack.com Irina’s Oilprice.com articles: https://oilprice.com/search/tab/articles/irina_slav Ice throw from wind turbines: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-186X/4/1/4 00:00 Introduction 01:51 Evil subsidies 05:13 Intermittent power: Not enough or too much 08:18 China producing solar panels using cheap coal power 09:33 Many climate cultists are young people looking for meaning 12:09 China's energy mix 14:13 Don't forget the grid connections 17:25 Hacking renewable energy 19:43 Green jobs? 23:35 Dysfunctional solar panels 25:10 Fire danger 27:45 Ask questions when things don't add up 29:34 Green delusions 32:26 Children mining in Africa 33:52 Rube Goldberg power 37:00 Animal fat-powered jets? 38:48 Putting wind turbines and solar panels in landfills? 41:20 Ghost wind and solar facilities? 43:07 Current oil supply 45:52 Energy transition hype 48:36 Big oil exiting wind and solar 53:15 People ask more questions if you hit them in the wallet 54:18 Rise and Fall of ESG 55:40 Looming totalitarianism? —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html