Isaiah Taylor
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The Keystone Pipeline moves about 50 gigawatts of continuous power.
So about two, three gorgeous dams.
We can call it a six gorgeous dam if you want.
Two to three times the three gorgeous dam worth of power in a pipeline that's this big.
So hydrocarbons are civilizational level technology.
They are required to move energy between nations to power high energy density formats to get to Mars, right?
If we want to go to Mars, we're doing that with hydrocarbons, right?
Starship is powered by methane, right?
Which is a hydrocarbon.
So there's all of these use cases, which I think are very underappreciated.
And we'll continue to use hydrocarbons for a very long time.
Yeah, no, that's absolutely right.
The freeze in Texas was very related to gas.
Yeah, absolutely.
There's temperature profiles where gas doesn't work as well, especially if you don't build it for that.
And this was a very uncharacteristic event for Texas, and it hadn't really been built for that, yeah.
hinder your business?
I think that industries will always sort of jockey against each other and PR firms will always try to find ways to shift blame.
I do think that in the 80s, there's good evidence that the oil and gas industry, you know, funded some of the narratives against nuclear.
I put this in sort of like, I don't call it fair game.