Dennis Whyte

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy · 21 Jan 2023 podcast

Yes.

I'll start with the easiest one, cheap.

It is not cheap yet because it hasn't been made at a commercial scale.

It implies when you're having fun, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

But yes, not yet.

We'll talk about it.

Actually, we'll come back to that because this is cheaper or a more technically correct term that it's economically interesting is really the primary challenge, actually, of fusion at this point.

But I think we can get back to that.

Yeah, of the fuel.

we should separate those two.

The fuel will all, the fuel is already cheap.

It's basically free, right?

What do you mean by basically free?

So if, if we were to be using fusion fuel sources to power your, and it's like, that's all we had was fusion power plants around and we were doing it, the fuel costs per person are something like 10 cents a year.

It's like, it's free.

Okay.

Yeah.

This is why it's hard to, in some ways, I think it's hard to understand fusion because people see this and go, oh, if the fuel is free, this means the energy source is free because we're used to energy sources like this.

So we, you know, we spend resources and drill to get gas or oil or we chop wood or we make coal, we find coal or these things, right?

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