Scott Nolan
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That's not going to really put a big load on the grid.
So the grid in that case could say pretty much the same.
If we are trying to quadruple nuclear production, though, and maybe double the grid overall to keep up with China or do something like what they did, then, yeah, the grid's going to have to expand quite a bit.
Have a major overhaul, huh?
I think so, yeah.
I think you could do it.
Could you do it all with nuclear?
Yes.
Yeah.
And then even the automobiles, maybe they run on fuel.
There's nuclear companies that have an explicit plan of saying, we're going to build a reactor who is relatively large and so low cost.
that we can actually do the sustainable aviation fuel production there, or other forms of fuel.
We'll do carbon capture, which costs energy, takes energy, adds cost, but our nuclear energy is gonna be so cheap, we can afford to do the carbon capture, or we'll co-locate with some industrial process, we'll grab that carbon.
And we're going to turn that into a fuel, and that fuel could be used by cars, by airplanes.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a couple approaches.
One is pull it out of the air.
People are working on technologies for that.
One is sit right next to an industrial facility that just would normally spit out carbon, and we're just going to grab that carbon and use it in our process.
So those are the two general categories that I've seen of people that want to do carbon capture for fuel production.