{"podcast":{"title":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","slug":"kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","podcast_index_feed_id":160680,"rss_url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://kunstler.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/9/d/dd9d3eb65b730270/KC-iTunes.jpg","author":"James Howard Kunstler","episode_count":452,"summary":"James Howard Kunstler, author of \"The Geography of Nowhere\" and \"The Long Emergency,\" takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T20:20:09.235437+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680"},"episode":{"title":"KunstlerCast 444 — Richard Lyon on The Energy Trap: Why the Renewable Energy Transition Can't Work — And What Can","slug":"kunstlercast-444-richard-lyon-on-the-energy-trap-why-the-renewable-energy-transition-can-t-work-and-what-can","published_at":"2026-06-10T14:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-444-richard-lyon-on-the-energy-trap-why-the-renewable-energy-transition-can-t-work-and-what-can","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-444-richard-lyon-on-the-energy-trap-why-the-renewable-energy-transition-cant-work-and-what-can","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_444.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Richard Lyon is an electrical engineer, petroleum engineer, and energy economist. He spent more than twenty-five years in the oil and gas industry in senior operational management roles in the UK, Norway, Azerbaijan, Congo, and Cameroon. He writes about the gap between energy policy and physical reality at his Substack, State of Britain ( richardlyon.substack.com) . His book, The Energy Trap: Why the Renewable Energy Transition Can't Work — And What Can, will be published by Swift Press this coming September, 2026, available in the US through Amazon. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger","meta_description":"Richard Lyon is an electrical engineer, petroleum engineer, and energy economist. He spent more than twenty-five years in the oil and gas industry in seni…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4514,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/episodes/kunstlercast-444-richard-lyon-on-the-energy-trap-why-the-renewable-energy-transition-can-t-work-and-what-can/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-444-richard-lyon-on-the-energy-trap-why-the-renewable-energy-transition-can-t-work-and-what-can.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}