David Kirtley

Humans need to be harnessing this and can harness this.

for our society, for the good of society, for the good of technology.

And so that's something that we push towards.

And in fact, it's baked into how we design these machines.

Coils are mass produced, capacitors are mass produced, and we make them all across the board is thinking about not what the next system is going to be, but making sure we're building the manufacturing and the infrastructure to build all of those systems.

So we had a

Cole from the White House a number of years ago for the bold decadal study in fusion of how do we get fusion?

And it was it was Helion and a variety of other companies from the fusion industry.

And it's pretty awesome to be able to say there's a fusion industry now that it's not it's not just a one off thing or there's a fusion experiment or somebody has a prototype.

But like there's an industry.

that Helion has competitors.

And the goal was how do we not just demonstrate fusion in the next decade, but meaningfully deploy it and start to answer questions

We have 4,000 gigawatts of installed fossil fuel capacity.

How do we start replacing that with fusion in a meaningful way?

And how do we get to not just making a generator every few years, but we want a factory, a gigafactory of these fusion generators rolling off the line, one a month, one a week, one a day.

And that's the kind of plans that I task my supply chain team with, like, how do you do this?

How do we actually go build this?

How do we go build a gigafactory so we can have 50 megawatt generators coming off the line, being deployed on a truck, and then driving off the factory every day?

And it's a tough challenge.

I see what others have been able to do in rockets, in electric vehicles, turning on huge factories.