Isaiah Taylor
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I think nuclear is a cheat code.
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
So my basic thought on that is, like, if somebody cracks zero point, they'll beat me.
But I don't think they will.
I don't think they will.
Yeah, 20 years of all kinds of nonsense, sometimes worse.
And that's mostly characteristic of nuclear in a very specific scenario, which is in the West in the last 30 years.
If you look outside of those two parameters, you'll find much, much better performance.
So if you look outside the West, China, you'll find much more rapid building of nuclear power.
And if you look outside the last 30 years, you'll also find much more rapid building of nuclear power.
But we're in this weird eddy of last 30 years in the West, we forgot how to build nuclear reactors properly.
And this was really what I figured out when I was 15.
I kind of figured out a couple of things that I identified as here's how you would go about fixing nuclear power.
So the first one is, I realized that the reactors just need to be smaller.
This sounds super basic, but I think it's true.
We're really good at building small things, and we're really bad at building big things.
So especially now, right?
In the 50s and 60s, we were building huge civil infrastructure projects, and we were super good at that.
And we had massive...
pools of labor that were really good at that, right?