Isaiah Taylor

a small modular nuclear reactor in something like like a naval vessel yeah or or a car and and get rid of all this yeah so i think the short answer is like evs are going to continue to be a massive thing i have a tesla model 3. i love it it's amazing i never have to fill it up i also have a gas car as well and that's useful for for other use cases i think the answer is we're going to do a lot more of both we'll have a lot more battery powered things and we'll have a lot more hydrocarbons

And the reason is there's something very irreplaceable about a hydrocarbon.

And those things are energy density, right?

So energy density, meaning how much energy do you get per weight and per volume?

So if you have a container, right?

You have like a box that you're putting your either a battery in or you're putting a fuel tank in.

um hydrocarbons are about 40 times better than batteries right so you in the same amount of space you can carry 40 times sorry the same amount of weight 40 times the energy that's pretty irreplaceable for things like aircraft for example right a an f-35 lightning is never going to be powered by lithium-ion it's just not right you have to get the power density of a hydrocarbon to run that thing

There's a class of ships, right, which will always need something with the energy density of a hydrocarbon.

You just can't fit all those batteries, and they're going to be too heavy to run a long-range ship.

Short-range ships, for sure.

Smaller ships, for sure.

And then, absolutely, there will be some nuclear vessels as well.

But there's just this really broad set of use cases where you need energy density, and hydrocarbons just have such incredible irreplaceable energy density.

The other thing is there... And nuclear wouldn't fill that.

So for cars, for example, I don't think so.

I don't think that we'll have nuclear cars.

Or let me say it another way.

I think we will have nuclear cars, but it will be nuclear-generated diesel that then goes into a car.

Gotcha.

Or nuclear-generated electricity that powers a car.