David Kirtley

And you don't want to just burn up all the fuel and do nothing.

That's not really valuable.

What's really valuable is to stand next to the campfire and get the heat, get what comes off of it.

And then use that in a traditional fusion system to...

boil water to heat the water, and then at 30, 35% efficiency, then convert that through a steam turbine into a cooling tower and cool off the fuel and extract electricity.

And we know steam turbines, coal plants do this, nuclear fission reactors do this.

So we know how to do that.

And that's the traditional way of doing it.

But what I think there's other ways to do it with a pulsed magnetic system.

There's one more thing you get to do because you have this high beta where there's an electric field and electromagnetic force that's now compressing the fusion fuel.

It's increasing in temperature.

It's getting hotter.

It's increasing in density.

Fusion is happening.

New fusion particles are being born.

And those particles are not just stoking the flame.

They're not just holding on the campfire like in the tokamak, but they're doing another thing, which is really powerful, which is they're pushing back on the magnetic field.

They're applying a pressure.

That pressure induces a current.

We can extract that electrical current.