Isaiah Taylor

Will you get a little more, what do you mean by a centralized grid?

Yeah, so the grid is so interconnected with itself and so interdependent on itself that if you hit one piece of grid in one state, you might be taking out a piece of infrastructure in other states.

A grid is a very balanced, tricky thing, right?

You're trying to keep perfect, perfect synchronism between many, many, many moving parts.

It's physical machinery, it's the load side, it's transformers.

All of these are highly sensitive pieces of equipment which are syncing up around this 60 Hertz, right?

So 60 times per second, switching the polarity of an electrical field.

and many very complicated pieces of equipment plugging into that.

And the larger you make that system, I would argue the more fragile you make the system, right?

Because a failure in one area can cause a failure in the entire thing.

And there's lots of protections and safeguards that we try to add to make sure that doesn't happen.

But there's a fundamental principle here, which is that a centralized system is a vulnerable system, right?

If you can take out one piece of it, the rest of it goes down.

We saw this in Spain, right, a couple months ago.

And so I think other than the very obvious things to do, which is secure our infrastructure, apply cybersecurity, companies like Galvanic working on that, and trying to manufacture things here and making sure that we actually are building new grid infrastructure,

I also think that we move toward a concept called micro grids.

So micro grids are exactly what they sound like.

They are smaller grids.

And rather than trying to have a perfectly in sync, extremely large system, you have more smaller systems so that no matter what, if you take down this piece of infrastructure, you've taken down like one town or maybe two, but you haven't taken down an entire state.

That would be decentralized.