The Power Hour

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  On this episode, Jack learns from Jonathan Lesser, PhD,  how renewable portfolio standards and other energy mandates cause higher electricity prices and less reliable energy systems.  Dr. Lesser’s decades of experience studying how power is generated,...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack is joined this week by his Heritage Foundation colleague, Sarah Wagoner.  Sarah is an environmental policy scholar who recently wrote about Virginia’s move to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  Among other issues, Sarah and Jack talk about h...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Joining Jack this week is energy and environment policy legend and Power Hour alum, Myron Ebell.  As you might have guessed, Jack and Myron, who is now with the  American Lands Council , spend a lot of time discussing why a decentralized, free enterprise appr...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack invites the real AOC,  Amy O. Cooke ,   Always On Energy’s  President and Chairman of the Board.  Amy is also a Visiting Energy Fellow at the State Policy Network where she chairs SPN’s  Energy Policy Working Group .  Of particular interest, Jack and Amy...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack has a fascinating conversation with  Everstar AI  CEO,  Kevin Kong  on today’s episode.  Kevin makes a compelling argument that radical shifts in nuclear power’s underlying economics will be made possible with AI technology.  Whether during the regulator...

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...

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,...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  The Power Hour expands its horizon with this discussion.  Jack talks with Terri Hall of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF) about how our freedom to drive where we want, when we want is being threatened.  Terri is an activist who got sick and tir...

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 Chris Mowry of Type One Energy to the Power Hour this week to continue our discussion on fusion energy.  Chris explains in detail how fusion works and why it is such a promising energy source.  From the fuel to the economics to the technology...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  This week Jack invites Jackie Siebens of Helion, one of the nation’s leading fusion energy companies, to the Power Hour for a fascinating conversation about this exciting technology.  They discuss how the technology works, how close it is to deployment, w...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts, or sometimes future top national experts.  In fact,  Jack invited three more young professionals to with three very different perspectives to continue the discussion.  Don’t worry.  It is a different conversation.  This time Jack is joined by Laura Escher,...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts, or sometimes future top national experts.  In fact,  Jack is having a bit of a different conversation today.  To switch things up a bit, he invited 3 of Heritage’s best interns to join the program to find out what young adults are thinking about energy and...

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 Tom Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, to the Power Hour this week for a timely and informative discussion about energy prices.  Are data centers driving up energy prices? Why does conflict in other parts of the world impac...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Jack sits down this week for a fascinating discission with long-time Washington policy practitioner and guru Jarrett Blanc.  Jarrett works for one of the world’s leading nuclear companies, Cameco, which, alone, is impressive. But what makes his perspectiv...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  With the conflict in the Middle East, is now really a good idea for the United States to be cooperating with Saudi Arabia on new commercial nuclear projects?  Jack invites  Ted Jones —The Nuclear Energy Institute’s Senior Director for National Security an...

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...

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...

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...

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.  Ti...

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 bring...

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.   H...

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...

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...