Powering the Future | People Behind Progress with Brian Matthews

At what point did you realize that energy is going to be a big issue for us in the future? At what point did that light bulb turn on?

Well, for me, it just seems intuitively obvious that, again, it's wanting to get down to the fundamental truths of everything.

And I think, in my opinion, the universe is just an intelligence.

It's information.

And that requires energy.

So energy is fundamental to everything.

All roads will lead there.

And it was obvious to me as civilization, if you look back in time, you can go all the way back to, say, the Egyptians, the Greece period, Roman Empire, all these different civilizations over time.

If you look at what caused what was behind the prosperity or what fueled that, it was energy abundance.

What was when there was a breakthrough? In the case of the Roman Empire, the breakthrough was the energy assets and the understanding to bring water into cities with these aqueducts and these other technologies.

And that was enabled by energy.

So energy is an index for prosperity.

And so we're entering now, we're already in this digital age, but there's a very steep ramp

now.

And that's going to require not an incremental change in energy, but like it's a logarithmic scale.

So when you understand that, you can't think in terms of like a 2%, 3% increase year over year.

It's going to be logarithmic, like orders of magnitude increase.

So, I mean, that's just my view, but I'm very confident in that view.

So you can't think of energy as just adding more assets on the grid.

You've got to think of it in a restructured kind of way.

And nuclear energy is the only way to do that, in my opinion.

So let's talk about IMPEAR, right? There's probably a lot of people watching this show that don't know what IMPEAR is.

How would you describe what IMPEAR does?

So, well, I mean, I'll start with the name.

So AMP in the name is, you know, AMP, which is a unit occurrence.

At what point did you realize that energy is going to be a big issue for us in the future? At what point did that light bulb turn on?

Well, for me, it just seems intuitively obvious that, again, it's wanting to get down to the fundamental truths of everything.

And I think, in my opinion, the universe is just an intelligence.

It's information.

And that requires energy.

So energy is fundamental to everything.

All roads will lead there.

And it was obvious to me as civilization, if you look back in time, you can go all the way back to, say, the Egyptians, the Greece period, Roman Empire, all these different civilizations over time.

If you look at what caused what was behind the prosperity or what fueled that, it was energy abundance.

What was when there was a breakthrough? In the case of the Roman Empire, the breakthrough was the energy assets and the understanding to bring water into cities with these aqueducts and these other technologies.

And that was enabled by energy.

So energy is an index for prosperity.

And so we're entering now, we're already in this digital age, but there's a very steep ramp

now.

And that's going to require not an incremental change in energy, but like it's a logarithmic scale.

So when you understand that, you can't think in terms of like a 2%, 3% increase year over year.

It's going to be logarithmic, like orders of magnitude increase.

So, I mean, that's just my view, but I'm very confident in that view.

So you can't think of energy as just adding more assets on the grid.

You've got to think of it in a restructured kind of way.

And nuclear energy is the only way to do that, in my opinion.

So let's talk about IMPEAR, right? There's probably a lot of people watching this show that don't know what IMPEAR is.

How would you describe what IMPEAR does?

So, well, I mean, I'll start with the name.

So AMP in the name is, you know, AMP, which is a unit occurrence.