Isaiah Taylor

If you go outside the studio right now and you find a rock that's the same size and you ask how much energy is in that nuclear energy, the answer is about 100 times more energy than the chunk of coal.

Are you serious?

Every single rock that you pick up outside of the studio is as if you're holding a 100x chunk of coal in terms of energy.

If you take those trace amounts of uranium and thorium and you were to fully fission those in a fast reactor,

you would get a hundred times more energy, which is to take our original example, enough to propel you about 30 kilometers, your body off of the earth.

So about a third of the way to space, every single rock that you find out in the garden on the side of the road.

So nuclear is, it is the future, right?

You can look at that and say, okay, when we discovered nuclear energy, we essentially discovered that the entire planet

is as valuable as a coal mine, which is very valuable and very energetic.

So I think people underestimate radically how much nuclear fuel there is.

It's under our feet at all times.

We could be using it.

We should be using it.

So this is really, really exciting.

We talked a little bit before about

I think before we started the cameras here about what does the future of energy look like?

Do we use all nuclear?

Do we continue using oil and gas?

A very contrarian thing that I believe is that I think that humanity continues to use hydrocarbons, right?

So we're talking about diesel, jet fuel, gasoline.