Dennis Whyte
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So it's easy.
You take that curve and you go, that's slope and you work backwards and you go, if you don't start in the early 2030s, like it's not going to have a, it's not going to have a significant impact by that time.
So, all of them share this idea.
And in fact, it's not just the companies now.
The U.S.
federal government has a program that was started last year that said, we should be looking to try to get like the first, and what I mean by like, what does it mean to start, that you've got something that's putting electricity on the grid, a pilot, what we call it.
And if that can get started in the early 2030s, the idea of ramping it up makes sense.
That's math, right?
So that's the ambition.
Then the question is โ and actually, this is different because the government program โ and they vary around in this.
So for example, the United Kingdom's government idea was to get the first one on by 2040.
Right.
And China has ambitions probably middle 2030s or maybe a little bit later.
And Europe, continental Europe, it's a little bit โ I'm not exactly sure where it is, but it's like later.
It's like 2050 or 2060 because it's mostly linked to the ITER timeline as well too.
The fusion companies, which makes sense, it's like, of course they've got the most aggressive timelines.
It's like, we're going to map the human genome faster as well, too, right?
So, it's interesting about where we are.
And I think, you know, we're not all the way there, but my intuition tells me we're probably going to have a couple of cracks at it, actually, on that timeline.
Yeah.