David Kirtley

So we can tell, is it the hydrogen?

Is it the helium?

Is it the helium-3?

Who's emitting the light?

When are they emitting?

What particles are emitting the light and when?

And so by using those advanced diagnostics, we can now take movies of that.

Though it's not as great as just seeing that flash.

None of this is trivial.

But there are, I think, simple ways, and there's some really interesting engineering ways to do this.

So just from the fundamental basics, as we're doing fusion...

We push back on the magnetic field.

We recharge these capacitors that start where the electricity started from.

And that electricity then sits on a capacitor at high voltage, DC voltage.

That's steady.

At that point, it's reasonably easy to make 60 Hertz power, make traditional AC power the same way as you can take electricity in a battery and use an inverter and just invert that to AC power.

and large-scale grid inverters, we know how to do pretty well.

One of the unique things about a pulsed version of this, because it's pulsed and a repetition rate between one and 10 times a second, we can adjust the power output.

And so as the grid needs more power, we can actually dial it up and down.

And we've been able to demonstrate that with our fusion systems.