Electric Vehicles | Reality Roundtable #1
With Arthur Berman, Pedro Prieto, and Simon Michaux
This is the inaugural episode for “Reality Roundtable” a new segment under The Great Simplification podcast umbrella that brings together several experts to convene and have a deep discussion on one topic. Currently, these will release on the 2nd Sunday of every month.
Joining me today are geologist and oil expert, Arthur Berman, mining and mechanical engineer Simon Michaux of GTK of Government of Finland, and my longtime Spanish polymath friend, the telecommunications/solar/energy systems expert Pedro Prieto. Environmental peacemaker/mediator Olivia Lazard was also scheduled but couldn’t make it due to travel snafus.
Today’s topic is – broadly – the viability of scaling Electric Vehicles. In this conversation, each guest has 5 minutes to give a statement on some aspects of EVs, after which the rest will ask questions, and then it will open up to a group conversation. In this first episode, I expect it will be apparent that we are all friends and colleagues and have mutual respect and history together.
I hope this format is educational, interesting and helpful to viewers trying to make sense of our complex situation in hopes of making better personal – and cultural decisions.
~Nate
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Had the time this evening to watch the round table and it certainly fulfilled your intended purpose of having a forum for highly informed individuals to discuss a given topic rather than the interview format that you have mastered. For someone like me who is attempting to become better informed about the plethora of factors that are likely to influence both the national and international issues effecting the great simplification, this was definitely a surfeit of information. Consequently, it will require a second and possibly a third viewing for me to process it more fully. Producing round tables once or twice a month is a GREAT addition to your YouTube channel. I’m sorry that Olivia had travel complications. Her understanding of how “the global south” in many ways is at the forefront of grappling with many of the biophysical issues discussed was missed. Hopefully she’ll be able to participate when you reconvene these folks to continue their discussion.
Excellent plan! It’ll be a great way to have all of your brilliant minds talking to one another and, thereby, expanding the dialogue.