Energy production is broken—and rebuilding it could unlock a new era of abundance. In this episode, we sit down with Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valor Atomics, to explore how cheap energy can reshape the world. Isaiah shares his family’s history with the Manhattan Project, why nuclear innovation stalled in the West, and how Valor is building modular giga-sites to produce cleaner, cheaper energy at scale. We discuss how robotics, AI, and manufacturing are shifting cost curves, the future of energy demand, and why decentralization is key to national resilience. Isaiah also shares his thoughts on bitcoin, the dangers of regulatory bloat, and how restoring antifragility to America’s legal system could unleash a new industrial boom.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Isaiah Taylor’s Manhattan Project family history
3:18 - Secrecy inside America’s Secret City
5:37 - Why America needs new Manhattan Projects today
7:39 - How Valor Atomics is rethinking nuclear reactors
10:01 - How a nuclear reactor really works
13:38 - Why building reactors became a legal and talent problem
16:59 - How AI is pushing investors toward hard tech
18:59 - The future of energy: exponential demand and production
21:46 - Why energy prices have been broken since the 1970s
26:06 - Valor’s giga-site model to transform energy markets
30:27 - Could machines create an infinite energy feedback loop?
33:57 - Humanity’s mission: garden the universe
36:19 - Will money still matter in a post-scarcity world?
40:34 - How regulatory bloat crushed American industry
48:10 - Why Isaiah Taylor is suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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