Dennis Whyte

So you use those tools.

The simulation of the plasma itself is actually...

We're at a totally different place than we were because of those things.

So those are the two big drivers that I see actually that make it different.

And it's interesting, both those things self-enforce about what you asked about before, like how do you avoid delays and things.

Well, it's by having smaller teams, right?

that can actually execute on those.

But now you can do this because the new magnets make the devices all smaller.

And computing means your human effectiveness about exploring the optimization space is way better.

It's like, they're all interlinked to each other.

And it's actually, and it's through that learned experience.

I mean-

of the things that I'm the most proud of about what came out.

In fact, the origins of thinking about how we would use the high-temperature superconducting magnets came out of my design class at MIT.

And in the design class, like one of the features that I kept, I mean, it was interesting, I actually learned, I really learned along with the students about this, but like this insistence on the features, like we can't have so many coupled, integrated, hard technology developments.

Like we have to separate these somehow.

Right.

So we worked and worked and worked at this.

And in fact, that's what really, in my opinion, the greatest advantage of the arc design and built into the Commonwealth Fusion System idea is like to parse out the problems.

Like how can we attack these in parallel?