Andy

Well, especially when you're playing with fusion, I think there's obviously going to be interrupts to this sort of autonomous pursuit where it has control over the actual power dynamics of a fusion reaction.

So there's going to be gating steps that are human-controlled for a long time, I believe.

But it is exciting to believe that

the AI can actually reliably and accurately assess and direct the next steps in that chain.

So we'll be the brakes on it, but it's going to be able to move forward.

Thinking about that, just visualizing the tokamak and the incredible high energies that are required to push atoms together and cause them to fuse, which is, by the way, what a hydrogen bomb is, right?

And the sun.

That's right, that's right.

That's a hydrogen bomb on a different scale.

Very good.

But there are continued research efforts towards cold fusion, meaning fusing different elements

maybe not hydrogen and creating helium, but maybe there's different elements that could be fused in lower energy environments.

And so we'll look into that.

But the pursuit of fusion as a source of power, which is much better than fission because the outcomes of it aren't radioactive immediately, unless it's an enormous explosion like a hydrogen bomb.

You know, those, if we can arrive at cold fusion, then, you know, you'll get to the point where I remember back to the future, let's touch on science fiction here, back to the future, the Mr. Fusion reactor in the back of the DeLorean, right.

Where he throws some banana peel and, you know, something else in there.

And that's, you know, fusing some of that, you know, raw material and providing the energy necessary for time travel and, and for, you know, local aerial locomotion.

Okay, so here's a quick comment from Perplexity with respect to the viability of high-temperature fusion research as opposed to low temperature.

It says, high-temperature fusion remains the credible near- to mid-term candidate for power generation, while cold fusion should be treated as speculative, high-risk physics research.

Okay.