"Getting Blasted in the Nuclear Sense"
Skylar Lysaker of Isa Industries & Jackson talk Arizona's Energetic Activity
On a crisp evening golden hour, Jackson had the opportunity to have a conversation with Skylar Lysaker. Skylar is currently VP at ISA Industries, where they are essentially “Changing the way we power the world.” Skylar shed insight on his personal development, explained what ISA Industries is doing, and provided his thoughts on the current AZ tech scene.
After refining his promotional and networking skills in the music industry, one of Skylar’s first business ventures was Greenz, a brand that handcrafted hemp clothing. He shared insight on the benefits of wearing hemp and also explained the great industrial benefits that the material provides. After their time with Greenz, Skylar and his co-founders transitioned focus to ISA. The mission of ISA Industries is to, “solve the world’s energy problem.” They are a “collective of entrepreneurs and engineers who believe that all energy should be inherently sustainable, affordable, and decentralized. We develop new sources of power that enable users to become energy independent.”
Skylar explains the illogical origin story of how this group formed. “A couple of young guys in our late twenties and a couple of older fusion guys get the technology together, battle nefarious lawsuits, and raise capital in order to power the world and do it in a way that is effective for the masses.”
ISA’s engineers found a way to sustain low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) in a way that will make power generation more ubiquitous. As Skylar simply states, “you would drop a shipping container outside your building that would provide power. A powerplant retrofitted into a shipping container.” Lysaker brings up the point that “in Arizona, the TSMC plant that is currently being built will use the same amount of power that the rest of the state uses. Who will fill the void if power and utility companies are getting rid of their power generation systems?”
In addition to working on ISA Industries, he is involved with Seeding Mercy, a non-profit that has the mission of teaching the farmers of South Sudan the skills needed to sustain their own agriculture, rather than providing hand-outs.
When Jackson asked Skylar about his thoughts on the AZ Tech scene, Lysaker states that “there are lots of great people and tech here. Money needs to move back into the city and not just be stuck in real estate. There are a lot of problems that need to be solved and a lot of people working on those problems. There are a lot of people working on those problems that have not collected funding and I know people that have real estate projects that collect funding over and over again. For more ecotopian mindsets amongst investors, entrepreneurs need to do a better job of framing. Startups that sell-off need to re-invest back into the valley.”
Check out the full conversation between Skylar and Jackson on our Podcast: Sauna Combat, and for more content that highlights the founders, ideas, and innovations of the AZ tech scene.