Isaiah Taylor

We can run that water and that CO2 through the same systems that we use on Earth to generate hydrocarbons.

And we can do it on Mars.

This is super exciting and also very counterintuitive.

We talked a little bit before about how amazing fissile material is in this rock that has so much power in it.

An interesting thought experiment is to think about, let's say you have a starship that takes off from Earth and gets to Mars, and then it needs to make its own fuel to get back.

The question is, how much uranium do you need to take with you on that starship to get back from the surface of Mars to Earth?

So you've taken off, you've got a bunch of fuel, and then you have a chunk of uranium to power our nuclear reactors to make the fuel to get you back.

How much uranium do you have to take?

You know, a starship is a huge, huge thing.

It's the largest flying object.

It's basically like a flying skyscraper, right?

So you would imagine you're gonna need a lot of uranium.

The answer is actually a cube about this big.

You need a cube of uranium about this large to generate all of the fuel to get that starship back to the surface of Earth again.

So it's an unbelievably energetic and powerful format for space exploration and for terraforming on Mars.

They'll be above ground.

They'll be very simple.

We've already got one unit sitting in LA that we've been testing.

We've taken it up to pressure, up to heat, and been testing all the mechanical components.

And essentially, they'll just look like a bunch of those next to each other out in the desert.