Heartland Daily Podcast

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Linnea Lueken present episode 448 of the In The Tank Podcast. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was featured at a recent World Economic Forum event where he spoke on the subject of future investments. Toward the end of the panel, Fink trashed wind and solar as viable options to meet our economy's growing appetite for cheap, reliable energy. Are these statements by Fink just an anomaly in the larger climate alarmist movement or do they signal a potential shift in global energy trends?

OPENING CHIT CHAT

Monmouth Poll - Younger adults express less urgency than in prior polls
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_050624/


PRIMARY TOPIC - BLACKROCK CEO BURIES WIND AND SOLAR AT WEF EVENT?
 
(video) Larry Link at WEF Event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRVYFHNc6k&t=2787s
(Time stamp: 46:27 - 47:54)
 
(video) Zuckerberg: Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-o5YbNfmh0
(Time stamp: 0:00 - 1:00ish)
 
Bloomberg - Data Centers Now Need a Reactor's World of Power, Dominion Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/data-centers-now-need-a-reactor-s-worth-of-power-dominion-says?leadSource=reddit_wall
 
Reuters - OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-ceo-altman-says-davos-future-ai-depends-energy-breakthrough-2024-01-16/
 
NBC News - The AI industry is pushing a nuclear power revival — partly to fuel itself
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nuclear-power-oklo-sam-altman-ai-energy-rcna139094
 
CNN - New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/climate/nuclear-small-modular-reactors-us-russia-china-climate-solution-intl/index.html

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Creators and Guests

Host
Chris Talgo
Chris Talgo is the Editorial Director at The Heartland Institute and a research fellow for Heartland’s Socialism Research Center.
Host
Donald Kendal
Donald Kendal hosts podcasts In The Tank and Stopping Socialism for The Heartland Institute.
Guest
Jim Lakely
VP @HeartlandInst, EP @InTheTankPod. GET GOV'T OFF OUR BACK! Love liberty, Pens, Steelers, & #H2P. Ex-DC Journo. Amateur baker, garage tinkerer.

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