David Kirtley

And it's over.

You start it.

You do a lot of fusion.

You recover energy from it.

And then you turn it off before the human eye can really respond even.

So I'm continuously amazed by what the pioneers in Fusion were able to do before the computer existed, because they had to control things at this scale.

But maybe it was pretty hard and why we've been able to take what they did and build on it.

Because now we use modern gigahertz scale computing to be able to do this.

And so even when I started my career, we talked about like megahertz processors.

Megahertz is microseconds.

That's great.

You're kind of at the border of fast enough.

But you can't do computation at that speed if all it can do is respond in one microsecond.

But now gigahertz means I can do a thousand.

operations in that one microsecond so I can do more useful things.

So we use mostly, this is way too fast for any human to respond to.

So we use what's called programmable logic.

So we program in sequences to the fusion system to be able to do this reversal.

We pre-program it and then we run a sequence and then fusion happens.

And so in this sequence programming language, we use a variety of them.