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A Bit of Holiday (Energy) Viewing

As all of us come down off our holiday hangovers and begin to countdown the days until the start of 2017, we thought we would pass along some energy videos that caught our collective eyes throughout the year.

The first is a bit of a long one, but very interesting nonetheless, about the reality of energy transitions from Vaclav Smil:

Next up we have a few TED talks, the first being from Joe Lassiter of Harvard Business School, concerning the importance of nuclear power to fight climate change, especially in the developing world:

https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_lassiter_we_need_nuclear_power_to_solve_climate_change?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread

Along similar lines, Michael Shellenberger discusses how the fear of nuclear power is holding their development back and harming the ‘renewable energy revolution’:

Hans and Ola Rosling, show us in this interesting (and funny) lecture how the developed world’s biases shroud objective facts from decision making. Something that rings true in opposition against pipelines like Constitution Pipeline, Dakota Access Pipeline, and surely the coming, intensifying, battles against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Mountain Valley Pipeline:

Finally, on a more lighter and musical note, let’s end with Yellowboy’s rap about DCP Midstream:

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Mr. Matthew Hoza is the Head of European Energy Markets at FactSet. In this position, he spearheads the expansion of FactSet’s data and analytical offerings in the European natural gas and power sectors. Prior to his current role he managed the U.S. Power Markets and U.S. Natural Gas teams, focusing on developing and marketing comprehensive data sets and analyses for each commodity. He earned an MS in Finance from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and a BS in physics from Florida State University.

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