Any operation needs communication infrastructure, transportation infrastructure and energy infrastructure. The military needs that, mining companies need that and communities need that. The more you have it, the cheaper it can get, and you can reach some scale and it's better for everybody.
Especially when we're talking about doing more basing and having more operations in the military, even just the NORAD sites themselves can be very energy-intensive if you're trying to capture a lot of data, if that's what you're doing. Obviously, the more data you capture, the more energy you're using and the more data you can capture.
Everyone is looking at ways to increase energy infrastructure, but it's obviously very expensive. As Mr. Boyd said, the more we can leverage each other's energy infrastructure and use it for these multiple uses, the more that everyone can share in the scale.
We're obviously focused on transmission quite a bit, but that can be very expensive in the north because you're looking at very long lengths and maybe long distances from the generating facilities. Another option that mining operations are considering is trucking in LNG. Yukon is moving towards some of that. Diesel is very versatile and very useful, but obviously it is also expensive and quite polluting, so microreactors are looking like a potentially very good medium-term solution.
The American military is moving forward. I think they'll have a test microreactor at the Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Most people think that's probably a very good fit. The extent to which the Department of Defense can advance that and do some testing and some of the first-of-a-kinds for microreactors would be very beneficial and useful for mining companies and communities.