Emmet is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation.

He has written on energy and industrial history for outlets like The American Conservative, American Affairs, The Spectator World among others. He currently serves as a contributing editor for Compact Magazine. He also hosts the Nuclear Barbarians podcast/Substack.

Emmet has been invited to speak on energy issues in both America and Europe. In 2022 and 2023, he won Emergent Ventures fellowships for his work on energy issues. In 2024, he received a Novak Journalism Fellowship for investigating America’s coming electricity crisis.

He grew up in Elmhurst, Illinois and attended undergrad at Bennington College in Vermont. Emmet received his Master’s from St. John’s College in Santa Fe. He lives in Chicago.