Jörn "Joe" Menninger
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1,749 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Jörn "Joe" Menninger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Inertial confinement, which is the only approach where net energy gain has been scientifically demonstrated at the National Ignition Facility in California.
The investors here tell you everything.
RWE, Germany's largest utility, as a strategic partner.
Sprint, we talked about them in the past, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, the European Innovation Council Fund, and Primovus Lab from the US as the existing lead.
The money is very interesting because it goes to Biblis.
If that name sounds familiar, it should.
Biblis was the site of one of Germany's largest nuclear power plants, decommissioned after the Fukushima disaster.
RWE owns the site and brings the grid connection, the nuclear licensing expertise, and the physical infrastructure.
Focused Energy is building the wood's first laser fusion power plant there, targeting mid 2030s.
Here's why this matters for our thesis.
The pattern is identical to what we see in defense.
Sprint is sovereign capital.
The government betting on a moonshot.
RWE is the institutional anchor and the industrial partner with the infrastructure.
The ERC fund is European Strategic Capital.
The structure is the same as stock.
Sovereign customer, sovereign capital, deep tech execution.
The difference is the domain.
In defense it is drones and satellites.
In energy it is now fusion, but the capital logic is the same.
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