David Kirtley

But a lot of it is thinking about if your goal is to get the product, electricity, out to the world as soon as possible, then you should be looking at everything you do towards that lens.

And so that's thinking about the materials you choose.

You want to, at every turn, choose commonly available materials.

If you have to wait for supply chain for an ultra-rare material, it's going to take you a lot more time.

And so do everything you can to engineer a system that uses simple aluminum alloys, simple copper alloys.

And if you have to use tungsten, and maybe you have to use tungsten in some of your systems, which is a hard-to-find alloy, make sure you're using commonly available thicknesses of tungsten sheet.

You know, those kinds of engineering...

and thought processes at every step.

And that's how we built these systems from IPA to Venti up to Trenta was always looking at how do we build systems that are easy to build and mass produced?

Because this is the other thing that I don't know that early in my career I'd have predicted is that by making a hundred of a thing, you can actually make it faster than if you go make one of a thing.

And that because you're

When you look at our fusion systems, we talked about these big magnets.

And you could build one giant, big, complex, hard-to-make magnet that's heavy and you have to move it around with a crane and requires very complex machining by ultra-rare CNC's.

Or you could then make that out of a composite of 100 smaller magnets.

Each of those magnets now can be made on a simple machine.

Each of these magnets can be picked up by a human.

They're light enough.

They can be made and manufactured and mass produced.

And that's what we did.

And that was our whole design philosophy on these machines is at every turn, how do we go faster?