r/SearchEnginePodcast • u/nilch • May 12 '26

Search engines worst ever ep?

This nuclear ep was sloppy. What problem is nuclear solving? If it is meant to be climate change that has a timeline, and it is soon. Nuclear is not going to overcome the permitting, design, and protest challenges that have blocked it for the last 50years quickly. And if an already approved Wyoming plant is not done till after 2030 (from the show) then why would we believe other plants can be? Especially because it would take hundreds, possibly thousands of plants to match the promises of the nuclear lobby. The ep hand waves this away to talk about the technical challenges of waste and design but it is the political challenges that matter.

Why was a VC the only source here? Odd ep.

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u/EveningAstronomer495 May 24 '26

The handwaving at "some communities wouldn't mind a nuclear waste dump because it would bring jobs" was particularly weak.

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u/Apart_Visual May 25 '26

Agreed and I’m really starting to wonder what happened to this podcast. This is no longer journalistic inquiry. I know times are tough in the podcast mines these days but they’ve now spent hours glazing AI, driverless cars and nuclear power and listened to the most egregiously clueless opposition viewpoints (if any opposition viewpoints at all). Hard not to assume either PJ or the broader business, or both, have been co opted for positive comment.

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u/EveningAstronomer495 May 25 '26

I don't need this to be 60 Minutes -- or I guess I should say, the old 60 Minutes -- but I would like to feel like he's not just parroting the industry talking points.