David Kirtley

Recover every watt you can by recovering electricity directly.

Recover every electricity from the fusion process as efficiently as you can.

And you end up with, just like in space, systems that are smaller or have higher performance and can deliver more, whatever the mission is.

And in our case, the mission is electricity.

it's hard to imagine anything else that right now, what, where does energy in the universe come from?

And it comes from fusion comes from stars.

Um, and, and we, we know that that's the process.

And so whether they're harnessing the star itself, Kardashev type two, or are they bringing fusion along?

Cause they want to go somewhere and they're bringing it with them to go visit.

Um, I think that that's, that that's pretty, um,

That's pretty likely.

You bring up the Fermi paradox.

How come we don't see alien civilizations?

Even if it's infinitesimally small chance that there is life on any one planet, and infinitesimally small that life grows into intelligent life, there are, however, almost infinite planets around infinite stars in our galaxy that have been around for vastly longer than we've been around, but we don't see it.

I think that's a question that many scientists and everyone has wrestled with over the years.

We're good with deadlines.

I think I, as I have gone further and further in building fusion systems that work, I've become more optimistic around the Fermi paradox specifically.

And there's several of them.

I think you're referring to something called the great filter.

something happens that filters out life.