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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
I go back decades on this.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Fusion has been a hope and a dream forever.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
How is Donald Trump going to finally get us over this fragile line of successful physics?
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
is this an arms race if you will a fusion race with china we saw what they did with electric vehicles you're conversing in china and ai the nvidia chip debate in that is this like getting out in front of china catching up on nuclear fusion
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Yeah, I noticed Jeff Immelt was a former board member, but with TAE folks, to see Eugene Moniz there, who's just absolutely definitive across all political lines of America.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Dr. Moniz, of course, associated with MIT.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Let's say, Dan, as a statement, TAE has a heavyweight board,
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
But you've got to get something done.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Going back to Lawrence Livermore lab ages ago, it's a lot of theory.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
It's a lot of politics, including the Advance Act, accelerating deployment of versatile advanced nuclear for clean energy.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
It sounds like an episode, Dan Ives, of Get Smart, except you're too young to remember Get Smart.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
But the answer is, is there any indication fusion will work?
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
You know, Paul, this is great.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
I want to thank the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania for getting me up to speed on this.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
They got a chart in here from Sorbonne, 1915, a proposed power plant.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
It looks like the set silo.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Right.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
I mean, that's what I did to land in hydrocarbons.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
The fusion thing looks like the set of silo.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Dan, let us migrate over to technology right now.