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@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Today I'm excited to unveil Valar Atomics! Valar is my master plan to make energy 10x cheaper in 10 years by pulling oil and gas out of thin air with nuclear fission. This will untether energy from climate and politics, fuel American industry, and unlock a new era of growth https://t.co/MbIIldhkuP

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

All of our greatest ambitions — interplanetary life, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotech — need energy that is orders of magnitude cheaper and more abundant than we have now. In 1970 we stopped our century-long march of making energy cheaper. I'm here to restart it. https://t.co/tS8Mvi49B4

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Today, the vast majority of our energy comes from oil and gas. So if you want cheaper energy, the most direct way to get that is to make oil and gas much cheaper! ⛽️ And the cheapest way that I know to get oil and gas is to pull it out of thin air. 💨

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

The atmosphere contains all the ingredients you need to make oil and gas. There are actually only two: hydrogen (from water) and carbon (from CO2). But you need a cheap power source to extract those elements and make them into oil and gas. That power source is nuclear fission.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

This also happens to solve the oldest problem with nuclear energy! Nuclear has a distribution problem: since the product is electricity, grid power fission reactors must be installed near the end user. And proximity to civilians means reactors are over-regulated and expensive.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

But since oil and gas can be piped, trucked, and shipped anywhere in the world, synthesizing hydrocarbons as the medium of energy allows us to place reactors at a distance. Placing them away from from civilians allows us to build reactors cheaply, unlocking their true economics. https://t.co/c3fBZtob6Q

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

But wait, aren't oil and gas bad? No, they're incredible! Hydrocarbons are the best way that we have to transport energy through space and time, anywhere in the world that they're needed. https://t.co/tNhOoQpIDg

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

The only real problem with hydrocarbons is that, before Valar Atomics, they've always been linked with unintentional geo-engineering (releasing CO2 into the atmosphere) and international politics.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Valar fixes both problems. Since their only inputs are air and uranium, our units can be deployed anywhere in the world. And of course, since we make gas from CO2, we have turned hydrocarbons into a carbon-neutral fuel.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

My answer to Thiel's famous contrarian question, "what important truth do most people disagree with you on," is this: Hydrocarbons are not going anywhere. Instead, I believe they are going to *come from* somewhere else. Instead of the ground, we will get them from the air.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Why do I care about this? Because I believe that God created the world to be abundant. Because cheap energy is the best lever I have to unleash the inflection of technological blessings which have been held back from us since the 70's. And because it's in my blood.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Growing up and hearing stories of my great grandfather's contributions as a physicist on the Manhattan project gave me an obsession with energy, and a deep frustration with what nuclear could have been.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

But after years of research, I've found a way to Unlock the Rocks and give the USA 🇺🇸 the benefits of nuclear power, while at the same time building a trillion dollar energy company.

@isaiah_p_taylor - Isaiah Taylor — (✞ • ⚛︎ • 🇺🇸)/acc

Are you deeply contrarian investor, or a top .001% engineer? Come work with me. This is the beginning of a decades long challenge. Valar is your chance to be part of the inflection and to birth the dawn of the Atomic Age.