Isaiah Taylor

Nuclear reactors don't like being small.

There's sort of a minimum size that you want to build a nuclear reactor.

And trying to get it smaller than that is a very, very difficult engineering challenge.

It's a safety challenge.

It's a weight challenge.

It's an exotic materials challenge.

So there's sort of a good form factor for a nuclear reactor.

And then what it does is make really cheap energy and you can transfer that energy to other forms.

You can turn it into electrons, power a battery.

You can turn it into jet fuel, power a jet.

But hydrocarbon is such a beautiful thing.

It's a liquid, right?

I think we take hydrocarbons for granted.

The fact that hydrocarbons are a liquid

is this insane unlock.

Think about the fact that you can pour energy into a container.

That's irreplaceable.

If you need to go and take fuel to somebody in a remote location, you're not taking a battery.

You're taking a canister of fuel, unless you're prepared to carry 40 more containers for the same amount of energy.

There's all of these places where hydrocarbons are