David Kirtley

S star over E is also a measure of temperature.

And it all comes back to temperature.

The hotter you make them,

is the same thing, temperature is kinetic energy, is the faster you're spinning.

So if you take your top and you spin it faster, it's more stable, but you've got to make it hot.

And so here's the trick.

How do you make something hot that's starting cold?

And it has to be hot by definition.

And so that's part of the challenge of what we do day to day is getting to these hot plasmas.

And where other people have tried to make FRCs and not been very successful is because they couldn't get it hot enough fast enough.

Is it fell over, it tilted before it got hot.

And so we spend a lot of our electrical engineering, in some ways Helion is more of an electrical engineering company than a fusion company some days, focusing on how to make the electronics fast enough to be able to get it hot enough soon enough that you can

keep it stable the whole time.

Yeah.

So a couple of key things happen.

So when gas is that hot, we talk about the states of matter.

You have solids where ice, it's cold.

The atoms are now bound in a lattice structure together.

They're held together.

And then liquid, you've broken a lot of that lattice structure.