Isaiah Taylor
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But where does it come from, right?
So right now it comes from underground, which is fine.
It's served humanity very, very well.
We've propelled ourselves to the civilization that we are today, essentially through drilling oil and burning it.
And that's awesome.
But I think we can do even better.
The way that we do even better is that we are eventually going to get hydrocarbons from the air.
What do I mean by that?
Well, the air already has all the ingredients for hydrocarbon.
It has carbon and hydrogen, right?
So the carbon is in CO2, which is everywhere in the atmosphere.
The hydrogen is from water, which is also everywhere in the atmosphere.
And all you need to do is energize CO2 and water.
So it's sort of, think about this like reversing combustion, right?
So when you have combustion, you start with a hydrocarbon and you mix it with oxygen and you get energy out of that and you get CO2 and water, right?
So that's combustion in a normal engine.
We kind of do the opposite.
We start with those combustion ingredients, the CO2 and the water.
We put energy back into them and we get a hydrocarbon, right?
So I believe that that process will be driven by nuclear.