Dennis Whyte

And you asked, like, what are the challenges?

I'm not going to get into any deep technical questions about what the challenges are, but it is the pathway not just to make fusion work technically, but to make it economically competitive and viable so that it's actually used out in the private sector is a non-trivial task.

And it's because of the newness of it.

Like, we're simultaneously trying to evolve the technology and make it economically viable at the same time.

Those are two difficult couple tasks.

So my own research and my own drive right now is that fantastic Commonwealth Fusion Systems is set up.

We have a commercialization unit of that particular kind, which is going to drive forward a token back.

In fact, I was just...

There's discussions or there's dialogues going on around the world with other kinds of ones like stellarators, which prefer different kinds of challenges and economic advantages.

But what we have to, I know what we have to have.

What we have to have is a new generation of integrated scientists, technologists, and engineers that understand like how, what needs to get done to get all the way to the goal line.

Because we don't have them now.

Yes, yeah.

Well, because most of our discussion that we've had so far is really, like,

A physics discussion, really, so don't neglect physics at the origin of this.

But already we touched on plasma physics and nuclear physics, which are basically two somewhat overlapping independent disciplines.

Then when it comes to the engineering, it's almost everything.

So why is this?

Well, let's build an electromagnet together, okay?

What is this going to take?