Lars Schernikau: “The Unpopular Truth..about Electricity & Future of Energy” | Tom Nelson Pod #102

Dr. Lars Schernikau is energy economist, entrepreneur, commodity trader, and author. Educated at New York University in the US, INSEAD in France, and TU Berlin in Germany, he has worked with commodities for 2 decades in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. Previously, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in the US and Germany.

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His recent book “The Unpopular Truth…about Electricity and the Future of Energy” is available at https://a.co/d/8x8WVdP

Website inc graphs http://www.unpopular-truth.com/

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/the-unpopular-truthabout-electricity

Further content from Lars is available at

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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsschernikau/

00:00 Introduction

00:19 Presentation starts

09:02 Jevon's paradox

17:44 Germany:Highest power prices

23:28 Unrealistic assumptions

39:29 LCOE misleading

46:40 Vehement against carbon dioxide tax

51:07 Positive news

56:09 Q and A

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