167. Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals with Emmet Penney

<p><a href='https://twitter.com/dumbaristotle'>Emmet Penney</a> is a writer, editor, and educator and is co-host of <a href='https://www.patreon.com/exhaust'>Ex.haust Podcast</a> that plumbs the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. </p> <p>We center the conversation around Emmet’s article <a href='https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nuclear-power-plants-our-industrial-cathedrals/'>Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals</a>, which was recently published in the American Conservative.</p> <p>In this conversation, we discuss:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Emmet’s path to embracing nuclear energy;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">His article <a href='https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nuclear-power-plants-our-industrial-cathedrals/'>Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals</a>;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The left’s fixation on renewables as a symptom of its presentism;</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The premature closing of Indian Point along with 1,000 high-paying union jobs; and </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Where Emmet sees opportunity and hope.</li> </ul> <p>You can follow Emmet’s work and Ex.haust through the following links:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://twitter.com/dumbaristotle'>https://twitter.com/dumbaristotle</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.patreon.com/exhaust'>https://www.patreon.com/exhaust</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast'>https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://exhaust.fireside.fm/'>https://exhaust.fireside.fm/</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nuclear-power-plants-our-industrial-cathedrals/'>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nuclear-power-plants-our-industrial-cathedrals/</a> </li>