Isaiah Taylor
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which needed a very large base to hook into, right?
So you had a gigawatt scale reactor.
Reactors traditionally were not load following.
Now they are, but they traditionally were not load following.
And so you have to plug into a really, really broad base of demand.
And now that reactors are load following and that the reactors that we make are going to be smaller, you actually can just put a couple of these reactors onto a single grid or even 10 and you're only at 250 megawatts.
So smaller, more decentralized, much, much less vulnerable to centralized attack.
We're going to have to reinvent it.
Let's not kid ourselves.
Over the next 30 years, we're going to have to reinvent the entire grid no matter what.
Even if we decided that we're going to continue with centralization...
in order to triple our grid capacity, you're going to build a lot of infrastructure, right?
So I think this is not an option to not reinvent the grid.
The grid will be reinvented, and it's either going to be reinvented with more bigger centralized infrastructure, or it's going to be reinvented around dynamic, smaller, decentralized infrastructure.
And I think that second one is the right way to go.
Yeah, absolutely.
New power line infrastructure.
Again, I think one of the reasons that people are afraid of this issue is that we haven't properly brought private industry and capitalism into that solution set.
America is incredibly good at using its technologists to solve thorny problems, and we use the profit incentive to do that.