Dennis Whyte

Because in the end, if you can parse out the different problems of making that and then make it as separate as possible from extracting the energy and then converting it into electricity, the more separate those are, the better they are because you get parallel paths that basically mitigate risk.

This is not new infusion, by the way, and this is the way that we attack most complex technological, you know, integrated technological challenges.

They're all interesting.

So when people...

I'll pull back.

Maybe a natural question is like, why is it different in fusion?

Like, there's a long history to fusion, right?

It was going on for, like I told you, like stories from the late 1960s.

Like, what's different now, right?

So, I think from the technology point of view, there's two massive things which are different.

So, one of them, you know, I'll be parochial, it's the advent of this new superconducting materials because…

The most mature ways that we understand about how we're going to get to fusion power plants are magnetic fusion.

And by the fact that you've got access to something which like changes the economic equation by an over and order magnitude is just a totally, you know, and that wasn't that long ago.

It was only September of 2021 that we actually demonstrated the technology.

That changes the prospects there.

And the other one is computing.

And it's across the whole spectrum.

It's not just in control of the fusion device.

We actually use machine learning and things like this in the design of the magnet itself.

It's an incredibly complex design space.