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Isaiah Taylor

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

I think nuclear is a cheat code.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

compared to energy generation in the past nuclear fission is a cheat code like it's free energy it's just abundant free energy everywhere so the concept of something like zero point existing wouldn't surprise me um that said i'm really focused on technology not science right so we're a technology company not a science company which means we're using engineering to take known scientific principles to make energy cheap throughout the world

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So my basic thought on that is, like, if somebody cracks zero point, they'll beat me.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

But I don't think they will.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

I don't think they will.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Yeah, 20 years of all kinds of nonsense, sometimes worse.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And that's mostly characteristic of nuclear in a very specific scenario, which is in the West in the last 30 years.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

If you look outside of those two parameters, you'll find much, much better performance.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So if you look outside the West, China, you'll find much more rapid building of nuclear power.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And if you look outside the last 30 years, you'll also find much more rapid building of nuclear power.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

But we're in this weird eddy of last 30 years in the West, we forgot how to build nuclear reactors properly.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And this was really what I figured out when I was 15.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

I kind of figured out a couple of things that I identified as here's how you would go about fixing nuclear power.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So the first one is, I realized that the reactors just need to be smaller.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

This sounds super basic, but I think it's true.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We're really good at building small things, and we're really bad at building big things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So especially now, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

In the 50s and 60s, we were building huge civil infrastructure projects, and we were super good at that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And we had massive...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

pools of labor that were really good at that, right?