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.

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 Joel Spangenberg of CORE Power to discuss the promise of using nuclear energy to power commercial ships and to provide floating nuclear power plants for emergency power or even to bring electricity to regions that lack modern energy infrastructure. Could nuclear energy be the key to reestablishing American shipbuilding leadership? Will the nations that master maritime nuclear energy be those that dominate the future? What do Russia and China think about that? Check out this conversation to find out!

You can learn more about CORE Power and sign up for their very informative newsletter 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. Jack welcomes Power Hour alum, Nick Loris, Executive Vice President for Policy at C3 Solutions, to the program this week for a wide-ranging discussion on climate, how the U.S. can win in a commercial nuclear energy competition with Russia and China, and loan guarantees. Stay until the end for a heated, but good-natured debate on government loan guarantees for energy projects. Guess what side Jack takes? Loris puts up a good fight, but you decide who wins. Email us and let us know!

You can learn more about C3 Solutions and Nick’s great work here and check out C3’s online News Magazine here, where you can also sign up for their weekly newsletter.

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.