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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So I guess the big question is, why now? Like, what is the scale of the US energy problem?
A Yeah, it's, uh, the, the why now to us is, is, is quite clear. The, if you look over the last few decades, um, if you just look at kind of the electricity sector, load growth is what's called in the industry or basically like the demand for electricity has been kind of ticking up very marginally, a percent or two a year, um, as there's been more population and as, you know, people have computers in their homes that didn't before they were using electricity. But you had this sort of offsetting efficiency gains of, you know, incandescent light bulbs changed to LED light bulbs, and now you're using actually less electricity than before. And only over the last two to three years and, uh, what we believe of over the next few decades that there's a knee in the curve, right? There's a, there's a, there's a much higher slope on electricity load growth. And the reason for that is honestly, it's maybe self-explanatory and relatively simple is that the, End use of energy is moving from fossil fuels from natural gas to heat your home to electricity via heat pump. People are getting heat pumps installed. The end use of energy in the form of gasoline or diesel is now going into electricity for EVs. Um, and then of course, uh, data centers and, and, you know, fueled by AI are also driving this, this load growth phenomenon. And so electricity demand is, is at this sort of turning point Uh, in …
AI assessment note: “only over the last two to three years... there's a knee in the curve”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So I guess the big question is, why now? Like, what is the scale of the US energy problem?
A Yeah, it's, uh, the, the why now to us is, is, is quite clear. The, if you look over the last few decades, um, if you just look at kind of the electricity sector, load growth is what's called in the industry or basically like the demand for electricity has been kind of ticking up very marginally, a percent or two a year, um, as there's been more population and as, you know, people have computers in their homes that didn't before they were using electricity. But you had this sort of offsetting efficiency gains of, you know, incandescent light bulbs changed to LED light bulbs, and now you're using actually less electricity than before. And only over the last two to three years and, uh, what we believe of over the next few decades that there's a knee in the curve, right? There's a, there's a, there's a much higher slope on electricity load growth. And the reason for that is honestly, it's maybe self-explanatory and relatively simple is that the, End use of energy is moving from fossil fuels from natural gas to heat your home to electricity via heat pump. People are getting heat pumps installed. The end use of energy in the form of gasoline or diesel is now going into electricity for EVs. Um, and then of course, uh, data centers and, and, you know, fueled by AI are also driving this, this load growth phenomenon. And so electricity demand is, is at this sort of turning point Uh, in …
AI assessment note: “the why now to us is, is, is quite clear.”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q Justin, your background is more in manufacturing. So you were at SpaceX and you were at Anduril. Could you explain more about your roles there and how they apply to this business and how you're helping map out the manufacturing vertically integrated system for base?
A Yeah, certainly. So I'd say the, um, interest from early on in my career has been kind of where technology slash engineering and operations, uh, meet, which happened to be in the case of SpaceX and Andrel, mostly in the manufacturing realm, uh, study mechanical engineering at, at, at Michigan. And so had always had this passion for, um, cars and then rockets and, uh, And, uh, sort of just like all mechanical, mechanical things. And, um, out of school, went to SpaceX, as you're mentioning, and had basically kind of two, two roles there in my time. The first part was on, uh, the Falcon nine was, was, uh, the new design for the, they called block five at the time. That's kind of the latest iteration of the vehicle that was carrying humans to the space station and was, uh, Basically becoming the, also the, the version of the Falcon Heavy. There was this like big, uh, assembly that we had to go stand up a whole supply chain for. There was a big metal supply chain, casting, forging, uh, machining, uh, and a bunch of like metals processing. And so learned a ton about how sort of the U S aerospace industry and, uh, and, and global supply chain is just so interconnected and so, uh, operationally intensive. Um, and even if you have the exact right technology for a given manufacturing process, if you don't have the execution to back it up, uh, as a supplier, uh, you're, you're, you're not…
AI assessment note: “went to SpaceX, as you're mentioning, and had basically kind of two, two roles there”
