He stretched his right arm up to catch the model and held onto it. "VTOL is preferrable, but STOVL will do if can't make that happen." Reed kept out of the way while Johnny familiarized himself with the Fantasticar in its current state-- which was none.
Reed watched the monitors as Johnny flipped through them, "Nuclear could easily experience a full system melt down, given the situations that we usually find ourselves in so it's not a viable power source for this endeavor." Though Reed did love himself some nuclear fission-- harnessing the mechanics and musculature of stars (and our own sun) was right up Reed's alley of things that made him more than a little giddy. "No, it has to be safe, reliable, environmentally friendly- as I'm sure the E.P.A. will love to have a press conference about. This only leaves us with a few options for something that is going to need these amounts of power."
He paused, running these options by Johnny. Though it was rare for Reed to ask for any input about his inventions, when he did he took that expert's opinion to heart. Johnny, in this case, was the expert Reed had called in, so Reed would follow his decision when it comes to their power source options.
"Two options: 1) I ask Tony Stark to let me look at the unit in his chest. It's been hypothesized that it has enough energy to keep stars alive; and it clearly has enough to get something large and heavy off the ground for, seemingly, infinite lengths of time. It could easily power anything we needed or wanted it to do-- and it's light, compact. It wouldn't add to the power-to-weight ratio, which is ideal."
Reed paused and rubbed his chin briefly, "The second option is that I begin experimentation with Zero-Point Energy and perpetual motion. Rather, I bring the previous experiments I've done on the subject back to the forefront and..." Reed managed to stop himself before he started to detail out the minute specifics that would be required for such experimentation to yield a positive result. "... work on that again. Light weight, efficient, infinite (for our purposes at least), green, and presenting no danger to us or society as a whole. The problem with this is that I have no idea if it's even possible. So far, Zero-Point Energy is considered something of a psuedoscience, fringe science, to be pulled out and pondered at parties with desk toys as evidence." Then again, just about everything that Reed had a hand in had been considered fringe science until he had proven it viable.
Reed settled back in his chair, holding up the model to look at it while he lay his chin on his opposite hand, elbow on the armrest of his chair. "Suggestions?"