Back to episode — Episode 2516 CWSA 06/25/24
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rs decided to close. Now that causes sort of a problem for me because you know I live in the Bay Area and one of the things my friends are always asking, they're saying when I go from my vacation in Oakland what's the best place to stay? And I would always say well you want to go to the Hilton, it's the best hotel in Oakland. But now when my friends want a vacation in Oakland I don't know what to…
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Well there was a Korean air flight that had a scare, dropped 27,000 feet in 15 minutes, injured 17 people. Let's see what kind of airplane type is that. It's a Boeing 737 Max 8. Now I have a suggestion. I'm not like an engineer or anything so I can't really help Boeing in their engineering and their safety but I do know a little bit about marketing. And here's what I'd do because they got a bad reputation. They should make their airplanes entirely out of rubber. That way if an airplane ever goes down it will remind you of the company. Boing. That's called marketing people. I can't help you with the engineering but that would be great marketing. Well another plane went down and made this sound: boing. All right that's all I had on that.
There's some legislation that looks like it's going to Joe Biden's desk. So it got through the Congress that will substantially improve how easy it is to make a nuclear power plant in America. As you all know we have screwed ourselves for generations by having burdensome regulations to get approval. But this aims to cut through a bunch of that stuff. This is maybe one of the biggest deals in the world. You know there'll be one every time when nuclear becomes the thing or not becomes a thing but is required beyond any doubt. So we've reached the point where it is no longer a left versus a right problem. It's an engineering problem. It's an economic problem. It's a little bit of a public relations problem. But it doesn't seem to be so much a government problem now and maybe that will make a big difference. We'll see. You know if I had to bet, my bet would be that nuclear will be like other things where it's slow slow slow until it isn't. So kind of what I expect is 10 years of nothing, you know a lot of planning and talking and engineering followed by 20 years of oh my god look how quickly they're building these smaller nuclear plants.
Bill Gates also said recently nuclear is the only way to get where we need to go whether it's fission or fusion but it's the only way. I think we all agree.
All right here's what I think would be how I would create a new city. Here's what I'd do. I'd find a big bunch of land that's owned by the government, the federal government, and I'd wait for Trump to be president and then I'd say hey I've identified this big chunk of land that the government doesn't seem to be using, doesn't look like they'll ever use it but it'd be a great place to build a new city. Now remember this is Trump's idea to build cities from scratch using federal land so you can really do it right. Here's how I would start. I would start by saying we're going to build a nuclear power plant or two, meaning that they're modular. So basically it's one power plant but it might have more than one reactor later. So you get a mini reactor that is sufficient to do all of the power for the city you plan to build. And then you say that everybody who lives in the city gets a part of the profits of that. So if there's extra the t
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own benefits by selling their extra capacity and indeed they might actually put a second power plant there if they had connection to the grid of course and then they would sell the excess capacity. So what you would do is start with a city where the people living there had already bought into the idea that they would be in the general area of a nuclear power plant but in return their electricity…
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