Steve Kwast
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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One of the reasons they don't move forward is the bureaucratic and the statutory administrative state that thinks it knows better than you and is getting rich off the lobbyists and the companies and the money into the coffers of the election system to perpetuate the way things were.
The reason you are so important in this journey, meaning a place people can go and start learning the truth without falling victim to the sound bites that perpetuate a lie, but actually spend time listening to a deeper conversation where the brain learns through stories, is because if we do not innovate, other countries will. And technology does change fate.
Those that learned to harness the fire changed the fate of their own security, prosperity, and health. Those that learned to harness electricity changed their fate for better prosperity, security, and health. and they could secure that future against those that would use fire or electricity as a weapon against you.
And as we move into this electromagnetic spectrum domain, this future where the electromagnetic spectrum can do everything we've seen done over the last 30 years, we cut the cable on the phone, we cut the cable on the TV, and soon we'll cut the cable on electricity. that electromagnetic spectrum and what we know about it and how we know how to manipulate it is truly why we need to find truth.
Because if we don't find truth, we continue to be slaves to the people that want us to believe that plugging your phone into the wall is the only way electricity works. and taxation for incrementally innovating for an infrastructure that was built to win the last war, but not investing in things that will win the next war.
This is the trap of history and this is why no civilization has ever survived. They go on this sine wave of birth and vigor and critical thinking and aggressiveness at economic security and then military might to secure the peace. And then they get lazy and they lose it all and they're vanquished by another civilization.
And this is what the great hope of America is, is that we can turn the tide of human nature that has created that cyclical sine wave of civilizations, and we can start innovating again. Because if we don't, we're dead men walking.
Yeah, no, you're right. It can be a concern because the incentive structure for the current companies that are getting rich on the current technology set are not motivated to change. They're not motivated to take risk. But that can change.
And for example, when I was the commander of Joint Base San Antonio down in Texas, and we started something there called the Electromagnetic Defense Initiative. And the reason I started it is because The warfighting capability of a base is only as good as the feeder veins into that base of energy, transportation, food, water, you know, the essentials of life to fight from that location.
And the energy grid, as you pointed out, is a sieve and is vulnerable and can be taken out with one good marksman and knowing right where to shoot at the transformer. And so we started something to demonstrate to the power companies that one, they could affordably make their power grids resilient to electromagnetic pulse, whether it's manmade or from the sun.
But I also talked to him about what we were doing with the Air Force Research Lab and the X-37 to demonstrate this ability to take the sun's energy in space, convert it to radio waves, beam it down to Earth, and then convert it back into electricity at the point of the rectenna that receives it.
Just like you receive broadband from Elon Musk's Starlink, and now you have broadband anywhere on your camper in the middle of the Hindu Kush or the Colorado Rockies. The same is true with electricity. And they actually liked the idea. The CEO level is like, that's great. Saudi Arabia, the oil is eventually not gonna be there. What do they invest in? Solar power from space could be one of them.
Nuclear could be one of them. India, the last leadership team of India was about ready to go full bore into solar power from space. So it's not that they aren't willing to see the business case. And if they can see the business case, they'll start maneuvering so that they are going to where the money will be, not where the money was or the money is.
But we also have the fact that many of these CEOs will say, well, until the government gives me a contract to do this for the country, I'm getting rich in the current method and we're not going to take a lot of business risk. It's a two-edged sword. You need visionary leaders in these companies to also be willing to move forward.
Incrementally, to make our power good resilient now so it's not so vulnerable because we're all victims of vulnerability on the electricity. If we don't have it, chaos breaks out. And to start carving a path to new markets and new technologies to deliver things with greater capability at lower cost. And this is, again, going back to space, why space is so important.
If you don't have companies like Spacebuilt, the one that I started with Dennis Wingo as the key brain that knows how to build space technology for this infrastructure and the capability to build in space that doesn't just run out of gas and become space junk, but is a perpetual business case of construction and logistics in space, The reason we're doing this is because this helps usher in.
If you have leaders that are innovative and that understand the tapestry of politics, of lobbyists, and you can navigate a company like Elon Musk did, and now you can have satellites at a fraction of the cost. You can reduce the cost of satellites 10x and they're reusable. Just like Elon Musk made the cost of launch reduce 10x and they're reusable. It's like aviation to space.
This is how you break through. And it's generally in America, it's the private sector. This is how we can do it. And this is how you can start convincing companies, the big electric companies, to start moving into the future using all of these other... And space will bring us helium-3 energy. What is helium-3 energy? Yeah, so...
Helium-3 is an element that doesn't get to Earth very much because our atmosphere and our gravitational field prevent it from landing on the Earth. So an ounce of Helium-3 on the Earth is very, very expensive, and the business case doesn't really close. But on the Moon or on the asteroids, there's a ton of Helium-3.
And so to give you an example of what it means, if we were to mine the Moon for Helium-3, At the current level of electricity use in America, or not in America, in the globe, we could power the energy needs of the human race for thousands of years based on the helium-3 that's on the moon right now. And so the twist there is China is there on the moon, on the far side of the moon.
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