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Isaiah Taylor

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

which needed a very large base to hook into, right?

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

So you had a gigawatt scale reactor.

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

Reactors traditionally were not load following.

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

Now they are, but they traditionally were not load following.

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

And so you have to plug into a really, really broad base of demand.

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

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.

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

So smaller, more decentralized, much, much less vulnerable to centralized attack.

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

We're going to have to reinvent it.

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

Let's not kid ourselves.

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

Over the next 30 years, we're going to have to reinvent the entire grid no matter what.

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

Even if we decided that we're going to continue with centralization...

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

in order to triple our grid capacity, you're going to build a lot of infrastructure, right?

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

So I think this is not an option to not reinvent the grid.

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

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.

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

And I think that second one is the right way to go.

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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

New power line infrastructure.

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

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.

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

America is incredibly good at using its technologists to solve thorny problems, and we use the profit incentive to do that.

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

Right.