David Kirtley

Let's go do it.

The world needs it.

There's no physics reason this can't be done.

Now it's a question of how fast can you build it?

And can you engineer it to be as efficient as it needs to be?

And those are...

Engineering and manufacturing are ridiculously hard challenges, so do not short-sell that.

But that's the goal, and that's what we get up every day thinking about.

This is something I was actually just thinking about and talking with some of my team in the last few days.

We certainly have people that say, like, no, this can never be done.

And we had that before.

We had that at the very beginning of, I want to go merge these plasmas together.

And folks said, nope, that can never happen.

And we went off and did it.

And you can't compress an FRC because it's unstable.

In fact, I actually still hear that.

FRCs are unstable.

And I say, yes, I know.

Now let me introduce you to S star over E and 20 years of studies on what we know about that and how we can combat that.

And so we've been able to show through lots of skepticism that we can still build and iterate.