Samuel Furfari: “I denounce energy insecurity” | Tom Nelson Pod #117

Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.

Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General. 

He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years.  He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development. 

https://twitter.com/FurfariSamuele
Furfari’s April 2023 book, “Energy insecurity: The organised destruction of the EU’s competitiveness”: https://a.co/d/gKcfbqt
Furfari’s Oct 2020 book “The hydrogen illusion” https://a.co/d/ef4eIrD

00:00 Introduction
01:44 Author of 18 books
02:33 Working with European Commission
09:22 Poland
10:43 Germany
15:53 When will the EU return to energy sanity?
19:33 Green peak: Peak climate hysteria?
20:57 Exxon throws in the towel on algae biofuel
24:36 Next book: Energy security
26:05 Israel is a gas producer
26:55 Qatar is investing in Texas to produce more gas.
27:31 Energy in 2050?
29:45 Urgency to electrify Africa
32:52 Future of COP junkets?
34:33 Richer people are more resilient
37:21 If you control carbon, you control life
38:42 Only four flights per lifetime?
39:23 What % of voters want their flights to be limited?
43:32 Kill cows to save the planet?
44:14 Seizing farms?
45:28 Are Europeans buying the climate scam?
47:39 Invited by monks to talk about energy realism
49:44 Keep learning
50:28 Speak up
52:28 Many of today's climate realists were once believers
54:57 It's not really about climate
59:58 Hydrogen
01:04:28 Making liquid fuels?
01:06:47 Greens don't like nuclear energy because it works too well
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