Isaiah Taylor

Maddox Industrial Transformer is a great American company that's working on making domestic transformers.

Super, super awesome.

I hope that they can scale fast enough to what we need to do over the next few years.

But the other thing I'd point out is I think technology over time becomes more decentralized.

This is a common thing that happens as technologies mature is that you figure out how to do them in different ways.

One of the big issues with our grid is how centralized it is, which creates vulnerabilities across a large spectrum.

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.