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Decarbonizing the Grid Means Accepting Tradeoffs
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Decarbonizing the Grid Means Accepting Tradeoffs

A decarbonized grid will entail less reliable and more expensive energy
Cato Daily Podcast for December 6, 2024

In August, I joined Cato Daily Podcast (@CatoPodcast) host Caleb O. Brown (X: @cobrown) to record a discussion on the hidden costs of decarbonizing our electricity supply. Cato released that episode on December 6th.

This episode is also available via Apple Podcasts and Spotify and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

In the interview, we touched on several issues, including why I question the credibility of anyone who supports decarbonization and human health/well-being while also advocating against the increased use of nuclear.

From the Cato Daily Podcast’s web page for December 6, 2024.

It’s hard to take seriously a push for decarbonization that doesn’t involve nuclear power and yet might impose large personal costs on individual consumers. Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center details some of the tradeoffs involved in changing energy markets with an eye toward reducing carbon emissions.

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Jason Hayes |  Forests, Fuels, and Freedom
Jason Hayes | Clarifying Conversations on Free-Market Environmentalism
My name is Jason Hayes. I think, write, and speak about energy and natural resource management — free market environmentalism. This podcast is all about bringing you balancing information on the environmental challenges we face and reasons you can be optimistic about the future.