Dennis Whyte
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I have to suspect this because anything that is high tech and is like a really important thing in our economy tends to never find its way as only one manifestation.
Like look at transportation as well too.
We have scooters, Vespas, overland trucks, cars, electric cars.
Of course we have these because they meet different demands in it.
So what's interesting, you know, that I find fascinating now is that we have infusion.
It's going to look like that, that probably there's the, while the near term focuses on electricity production, there might even be different kinds of markets that actually make sense in some places, less than others.
It comes to trade-offs because we haven't really talked about the engineering yet, but engineering really matters like to the, to the operation of the device.
And so it could be that, you know, I suspect what we'll end up with is several different configurations which have different features, which are trade-offs, basically, in the energy market.
Yeah.
So the first one is just the cost of building a single unit.
So Fusion has, and it's actually interesting, you talked about the different models that you have.
So Fusion has, one of its interesting limitations is that it's very hard to
it almost at some point becomes physically impossible to actually make small power units.
Like a kilowatt, a thousand watts, you know, which is like a personal home, like, you know, this is about a thousand watts or your personal use of energy, of electricity is about like a thousand watts.
This is basically impossible for a single, you know, unit to do this.
So like you're not going to have a fusion like power plant
like as your furnace or your electric heater in your home.
And the reason for this comes from the fact that fusion relies on it being, it's not just that it's very hot, it's that the fusion power is the heating source to keep it hot.
So if you go too small, it basically just cannot keep it hot.