David Kirtley

And so we could have had one custom manufacturer or manufacturer, a brand new piece of a custom size, build a new mold and a new machine.

It would have taken, I don't remember anymore now, but probably on the order of usually these are about six to 12 months.

Or I could go to a supplier off the shelf, have that delivered in a week and now machine it with all the bolts in between.

And then in-house have the G10 machine shop that can now machine the bolt holes to actually bolt those pieces together.

And so that took extra engineering and having really clever and brilliant mechanical and structural engineers to figure out how to do that and still meet the needs of the fusion system.

But that's the kinds of teams we try to build at Helion is folks that want to

really get their hands dirty, get hands on, build things, move quickly.

And everywhere you can without sacrificing quality or safety, take shortcuts.

That's the name of the game.

We got to get fusion online as soon as possible.

Yeah, so what we've been able to do is build, rapidly build, every few years, bring a new Fusion system online.

In 2023, we signed a deal with Microsoft to build a power plant for Microsoft, for one of their data centers.

And this is a power plant that is plugged into the grid, generating electricity from Fusion.

And with a very, very tough, ambitious timeline of 2028 for the first electrons from that power plant.

That power plant will be powering the grid that the data center is plugged into.

And we can get into the details of how the power grid works and such.

But yes, so Microsoft will be buying the power from that power plant.

They are.

They are.

And it is daily that we think about that deadline.