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What Isaiah Taylor thinks about energy

@isaiah-taylor · 18 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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7 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Isaiah Taylor has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingNuclear has never had its Ford moment: reactors have to be manufactured rather than constructed before fission can be cheap.

    Their wordsNuclear's never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to put it that way. And that's what Valor Atomics is working on doing. We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed and uh they're extremely safe and we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fision and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingNuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs.

    Their wordsNuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 6th of 18 in this recording

    solarnuclear power

    Interesting

  5. Our readingThe cheapest energy will come from a simple mass-produced reactor rather than the best design -- nuclear's problem is the Toyota Camry problem.

    Their wordsBut the problem of nuclear today is like the Toyota Camry problem, right? Like we don't want to make Lamborghinis. We want to make a very simple, very cheap, very safe reactor that we can make literally tens of thousands of. Um and actually that is going to make the cheapest energy in the world, right?

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 9th of 18 in this recording

    design

    Interesting

  7. Our readingEnergy demand is set by price: reduce the price and you create the demand, which makes the market for cheap energy effectively infinite.

    Their wordsenergy being a commodity, the demand is set by the price, right? So if you can reduce the price, you increase the demand.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 12th of 18 in this recording

    Interesting

  9. Our readingFission will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today; the only open question is whether that takes decades or centuries.

    Their wordsI know that nuclear fision will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. somebody will do that and it's really up to us as a team whether or not that's going to be in the future decades or the future centuries

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 16th of 18 in this recording

    Interesting

  11. Our readingEvery jump in the human standard of living has been unlocked by cheaper energy.

    Their wordsEnergy is the fundamental input to uh the quality of human life. U if you look backward into time and say how did humanity go from one standard of living to the next, it's always unlocked by cheaper energy, right?

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording

    Interesting

  13. Our readingOnce AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.

    Their wordsIf you keep asking this question, what you realize is energy is the fundamental input. When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-aututonomous manufacturing, energy will become the cost of all things, right? The cost of buying a thing will become the cost of energy used to make it.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 18th of 18 in this recording

    robotics

    Interesting