Doug Bernauer
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511 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Doug Bernauer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it's like a salt dome.
This is where defense waste already goes.
And they just said they were going to build it, and they built it.
And meanwhile, we struggle still on the DOE side to build a repository for big nuclear plants.
And because of that, these gigawatt-scale plants are operating, generating nuclear waste, and they have to store it at the same site where they're making power.
And in California, this is, like, coastal regions that, like, are risky, where, like, you can have a tsunami or something.
Instead of taking it and putting it in a salt dump structure in the high desert where there's no water, no risk of, like, certain natural disasters.
So it's just a smarter, safer, better idea, and we don't do it.
Yeah.
And actually, it was a huge cost.
It's a commitment as well.
Like, you've got to demonstrate that commitment.
The a16z Show · How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery · 31 Mar 2026
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The grid itself is civilization, right?
Electric power is civilization.
You can metamorphosize the entire grid.
Civilization can regrow off of a new architecture of moving power, right?
And use all of the free energy that's out there.
The sunlight is free.
You put up a panel, you're getting it.
It's very cool, but also your aim is free.
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