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Chris Keefer
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Chris Keefer writes Decouple, a personal blog at decouple.media about science and economics. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Gas Turbine: The final revelation in the pantheon of prime movers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Decouple podcast and its posts for interviews on nuclear power, microreactors, gas turbines and grid storage. Commenters cite episodes as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Gas Turbine: The final revelation in the pantheon of prime movers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-12
What Hacker News says?
The Decouple podcast has taught me more about the Canadian Nuclear industry than I ever wanted to know. https://www.decouple.media/
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on “Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years”Submitted Russia's Maritime Nuclear Fleet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAll the new EPR builds went terribly bad, long over planned time, over budget. Some argue thats because European Pressurised Reactor is design that merges German Konvoi reactors with French Framatome N4 design. A design that is trying to please both German and French regulators. https://www.decouple.media/p/epr-the-reactor-that-tried-to-p... https://www.decouple.media/p/state-of-the-atom-2025
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on “Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy”Submitted The Gas Turbine: The final revelation in the pantheon of prime movers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInterview with Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele on the Decouple Podcast , "Why the U.S. Military Wants Nuclear Reactors" or "Reactors on Wheels": > This week, Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele, joins me to discuss the impetus for the U.S. military microreactor project, the logistics and energy challenges at the heart of modern warfare, and the technical considerations of mobile microreacto…
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on “Army to Bring Nuclear Microreactors to Its Bases by 2028”Submitted The Absolute Best Water Reactor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthis interview also talked a bit about the reasons its hard for get turbines to be manufactured in China, but coming at it from the gas power generation side. https://www.decouple.media/p/the-gas-turbine-the-final-revel...
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on “Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China"”Submitted Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn my opinion, the "but" is still the "hellbrise" considerations brought up in the Decouple podcast. Renewable energy is fantastic but, at grid scale, has to be coupled with sufficient storage: https://www.decouple.media/p/hellbrise
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on “In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels”I recommend listening to: "Lignite Coal: A German Love Story" https://www.decouple.media/p/lignite-coal-a-german-love-stor...
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on “Germany considers ramping up coal power to avert energy crisis”