The Power Hour – Details, episodes & analysis

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Jack invites Peter Okrasa, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pioneer Nuclear Energy Group to the Power Hour today.  Peter is an investor and entrepreneur who is applying his decades of investment experience to forge a new path for commercial nuclear energy.  What makes Peter exceptional is that he’s not just talking about the promise of nuclear energy, but he founded a company, Pioneer Nuclear, to make it happen.  Peter explains why nuclear presents such a unique financial opportunity and what makes his company unique in its approach to developing commercial nuclear projects.  Jack and Peter cover a lot of ground in this conversation from why nuclear energy is the energy of the future to what challenges remain in it reaching its full potential.  rse, nuclear energy.    

You can learn more about Peter and Pioneer Nuclear  here and you can reach out to Peter via email at po@pioneernuclear.com

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Ted Ellis of the America First Policy Institute joins Jack this week for a wide-ranging discussion on energy policy.  Ted, who bring experience from Capital Hill, is Campaign Director, Power America and Deputy Director, Energy and Environment at AFPI, but more important, the man knows energy policy.   But Ted is not just some energy guy.  He brings a fresh look at the issues and understands that innovation and entrepreneurship will be what ultimately solves our energy problems.   It is in that context that Jack and Ted discuss why energy prices are so high and what can be done about it, how AI’s demand for power could drive the next energy revolution, and, of course, nuclear energy.    

You can learn more about Ted here and his organization, America First Policy Institute here. 

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Join Jack today for a wide-ranging and topical discussion with Heritage Foundation Executive Vice President, Derrick Morgan.   Jack invited Derrick on to the Power Hour to discuss a recent article he wrote in the Wall Street Journal on the ethanol mandate and why it is time to end the Renewable Fuel Standard.  But given Derrick’s deep expertise in gas and oil policy, Jack couldn’t help to use the opportunity to dive into what’s happening in Iran and the impact of oil markets.   Informed by years of working in all branches of government and in the private sector, and ground by principle, Derrick brings a unique perspective on all these issues.      

You can read Derrick’s recent article ⁠here⁠ and the rest of his great work ⁠here⁠.      

As always, you can join the conversation at  ⁠thepowerhour@heritage.org⁠!  Get Jack’s book, ⁠Nuclear Revolution⁠, and don’t forget to check out our nuclear energy documentary, ⁠Powering America⁠.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental (and Second Amendment)policy issues with top national experts.  Join Jack today for something a little different—a discussion about how Virginia politicians are working overtime to undermine our right to bear arms.  Jack’s guest this week is lawyer, Second Amendment attorney and educator, and all around awesome guy, William K. Kirk.  You may know William from his successful YouTube channel, Washington Gun Law.  Mr. Kirk publishes videos almost every day to keep viewers up to date on the latest legislative and policy proposals and what they mean for your gun rights.  Jack and William cover the full spectrum of issues from why we have gun rights and why they matter to a free society and the specifics of what is happening in Virginia.   

You can check out William’s website here and his YouTube channel here.     The Power Hour sincerely recommends William’s videos if you care at all about any of your Constitutional rights.  His videos are the best.  Check him out.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and don’t forget to check out our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Jack is going nuclear this week once again with his guest, Michael Lee Anderson, who specializes in thorium fueled molten salt reactors.  Mike is an author and innovator with decades of experience in the private sector.  Mike and Jack cover the horizon on molten salt technology. They discuss everything from how the technology works to why it makes sense in the marketplace to the types of regulatory changes that are necessary for nuclear to reach its potential.  

You can learn more about Mike and his work at his website Inov8r.org and definitely check out his book, Thorium Powered Abundance. 

After listening to this, you will definitely want to check out Kevin’s new book, which can be purchased here.  

You will also hear us reference our mutual friend and thorium God, Kirk Sorenson.  You can check out one his videos here. 

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and don’t forget to check out our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Jack is joined this week by top energy expert, Tim Lines, CEO of Geothermal Wells, LLC for a fascinating discussion about the latest technological innovations around geothermal energy and how the technology can help solve the world’s energy problems.  Tim describes how the technology works and why it can be applied to supply power for nearly any energy need.  Not just a tech talk, Jack and Tim cover other issues as well, such as the economics of geothermal and the challenges to its broad deployment.  

You can learn more about Tim’s impressive background here and his company, Geothermal Wells, LLC here. 

After listening to this, you will definitely want to check out Kevin’s new book, which can be purchased here.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and don’t forget to check out our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Jack is joined this week by journalist and author, Kevin Mooney, to discuss his hot off the presses book, Climate Porn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence.   Kevin brings a whole new perspective to the climate change debate, delving into how policies are used to impact far more than climate.  His background in journalism is clearly on display as uncovers many truths that you won’t want to miss.   

After listening to this, you will definitely want to check out Kevin’s new book, which can be purchased here.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  And while you are picking up Kevin’s book, you might as well check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Author Steve Goreham joins the Power Hour this week for a wide ranging conversation about all the ways that green energy policies are hurting America.  Jack and Steve talk about the state of the climate change, powering AI, electric vehicles, and more.   Having written multiple books on the subject, Steve brings unmatched insight into this important conversation. 

You can learn more about Steve here, you can check out his latest book here, and when you are done reading that, you can get the rest of his books here. 

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America .  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Join Jack for a wide-ranging discussion with one of the nations top nuclear energy experts, Lake Barrett.  Whether it was as the on-site Director for the clean up of the Three Mile Island incident, overseeing the Department of Energy’s nuclear waste office, or advising the private sector on critical nuclear energy issues, Lake Barrett has done it all.  Most recently he gathered, along with former NRC Chair Allison MacFarlane,  a group of experts to develop a path forward for finally fixing the nation’s decades old nuclear waste conundrum.  Lake discusses the new report, which can be found here, along with a bunch of other stories and insights that you don’t want to miss.

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America , which interestingly features Lake Barrett.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts.  Jack is joined this week by Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.    Anchored by a discussion of his recent article describing how green energy subsidies artificially increase demand for Rare Earth Minerals, Ben and Jack cover a variety of issues including how government efficiency standard hurt American consumers and  why made up, leftist “holidays” like “World Car-Free Day” are ridiculous.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America .  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.