Silicon carbide

I was there for a couple of days for a little bit of a family gathering.

But the reason she moved us out was because she realized that the chemical companies for which my dad worked, Union Carbide, Carborundum, some of the other big hooker chemical there, were destroying the place.

We had the indications.

I had my aunt, Katie's two kids, age four and six, died of leukemia.

So they started closing.

And the first one to be redeveloped was Carborundum's site.

And it became known in history as Love Canal.

Adding phrases like super fun to count and Al Gore to our lexicon for it.

Because if you have a material that can move megawatts of energy in a tiny package that doesn't like break the roof of your data center, that's pretty darn cool as we go to higher and higher energy needs in a very small for each data center rack.

Silicon carbide comes to mind when you said that as the specific material science advance, which I think is really going to have a big impact on nuclear energy and the nuclear energy industry.

Do you agree? And if so, how do you see this? What are the reasons that silicon carbide and what things do you see silicon carbide getting used for? And I guess you should start by telling our listeners who are not familiar, what is silicon carbide and why should they care?

Silicon carbide, okay, wow.

It's a solid material that you can use for a ton of things.

It's gotten really cheap because of the electric vehicle industry.

It's amazing because you can switch it back and forth at high voltages so you can make your devices really small and it has very good thermal tolerance so you can use it in systems that are hot that's why we like it for other things it's also great as a as an insulator for fuel but we're going to see even other materials coming out in the next couple of years you know these they're sometimes called wide band gap semiconductors you know big mouthful of stuff that means materials that can make electronics smaller, cheaper, more thermally tolerant.

And we're looking at a couple of plays in that space that we think are just totally going to revolutionize power management.