Dennis Whyte
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And they've got this plethora of approaches.
Like, I haven't even described all the approaches.
I've basically described the mainline approaches.
You know, and they're all at varying degrees of technical and scientific maturity with...
very huge different, you know, balances between them.
But what they share is that because they're going out and finding, getting funding from the private sector is that their stated goals are about getting fusion into place so that both it meets the investor's demands, which are interesting, right?
And the timescales of that, but also it's like, well, there's going to, and why?
It's because it's easy.
There's going to, there's this enormous push between,
driver about getting carbon free energy sources out into the market and whoever figures those out is going to be both very it's going to be very important geopolitically but also economically as well too so it's a different kind of
bet, I guess, or a different kind of gamble that you're taking with Fusion, but it's so disruptive that it's like there's essentially a class of investors and teams that are ready to go after it as well, too.
So what do they share in this?
They typically share getting after Fusion on a timescale so that could it have any relevance towards climate change, battling climate change.
And I would say, this is difficult, but it's fairly easy because it's math.
So what you do is you actually go to some target like 2050 or 2060, something like this, and say, I want to be blank percent of the world's market of electricity or something like that.
And we know historically what it takes to evolve and distribute these kinds of technologies because every technology takes some period of time.
It's so-called S-curve.
It's basically everything follows a logarithmic curve, exponential type curve.
It's a straight line, a log plot.
And, um, like you look at wind, solar, fission, they all follow the same thing.