Dennis Whyte

It's this, you know, of the... I mean, it was interesting, our own trajectory at the Fusion Center was...

Like we were pushed into this place by necessity as well, too, because I told you we have and we had operated for a long time a token Mac at on the MIT campus achieve these world records like 100 million degree plasma and stuff like, wow, this is fantastic.

But.

You know, somewhat ironically, I have to say is that it was like, oh, but we're not, this isn't the future of fusion anymore.

Like we're not, we're just going to stop with small projects because it's too small, right?

So we should need, we need to really move on to these much bigger projects because that's really the future of fusion.

And so it was defunded, and this basically put at risk, like, we were going to essentially lose MIT in the ecosystem, really, of fusion, both from the research, but also clearly important from the educational part of it.

So we, you know, we pushed back against this.

We got a lifeline.

We were able to go, and it was in this time scale that we basically came up with this idea.

It's like, we should do this.

And in the end, it was...

all of those, the people who were in the C-level of the company were all literally students who got caught in that.

They were PhD students at the time.

So you talk about enabling another generation.

It's like, yeah, there you go, right?

So Spark gave... A lifeline.

But it's way more than that.

It wasn't just about surviving for the sake of surviving.

It was like...