Dennis Whyte
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It is.
Yeah.
Well, actually, I feel like one of the reasons on this podcast, and so I don't have an official role in the company.
And one of the reasons for this was also that it's interesting because when you come from like you're running a company, it makes sense that they're promoting their own product and their own vision, which totally makes sense.
But there's also a very important role for academics who have knowledge about what's going on, but are sufficiently distant from it that they're not fully only self-motivated just by their own projects or so forth.
And for me, this is...
I mean, we see particularly the problems of the distrust in technology and then honestly in the scientific community as well too.
It will be one of the greatest tragedies, I would say, that if we go through all of this and almost pull off what looks like a miracle, like technologic and scientific wise, which is to make a fusion power plant and then nobody wants to use it.
because they feel that they don't trust the people who are doing it or the technology.
So we have to get so far out ahead of this.
So I give lots of public lectures or things like this of accessing a larger range of people.
We're not trying to hide anything.
You can come and see, come do tours of our laboratory.
In fact, I want to set those up virtually as well, too.
You might look at our Plasma Science and Fusion Center YouTube channel.
So we are reaching out through those media.
And it's really important that we do those things.
But it's also then realizing, setting up the realistic expectations of what we need to do.
You know, we're not there.
Like, we don't have commercial fusion devices yet.