Fusion

“If you look at the capital cost of the driver, if you look at the capital cost of balance of plan equipment if you look at the fusion game that you need to believe in, there's nothing preventing fusion from being as cheap as anything else out there”

“Every fusion approach out there needs to breed its own tritium to be economical, so make tritium from fusion events using deuterium and lithium.”

“I think the, there are two things that kind of have to be true for a structure like this to make sense. I think one of them is that you have to have Very high conviction in how the market will value this big end thing. Or not end thing, but like this big inter…”

“Fission, fusion, and fracking were all invented in New Mexico.”

“On the nuclear side for that, you know, fusion and that getting properly figured out, I think is going to be the bigger impact for like grid level power.”

“Over the last 5060 years, its progress on its main criteria, like how much energy you get out versus in, has been faster than Moore's Law.”

“For the first time in human history, you achieved net energy gain with a plant out in California, so we'll talk maybe more about that. So it's been proven, like, this can work, and this can work on Earth.”

“I think geologic hydrogen should be mentioned in the same breath”

“It's one of the reasons I invest in fusion, it's one of the reasons I support some people doing some geoengineering”

“That's going to happen with fusion too. It's got better characteristics. It's baseload. We could put it all over but it's going to take a long time to make that cost effective. That's a 20 to 50 year benefit that we should be focused on now, investing research…”

“I think we got a couple credible shots on goal on fusion. And I'm like, that shows up in the 20 thirties.”

“They're not solving any problems this decade, right? That is a 20 thirties and probably a late 20 thirties. Opportunity.”

“I would say fusion is not the solution to the climate crisis right now. But it's an important tool when you go beyond twenty-fifty to 2100 for that, that society.”

“We're going to do quantum computing. We are going to go through the energy transition. I think probably via nuclear and hopefully via fusion. These things are going to happen in your lifetime and my lifetime.”

“I think what's going to happen is I look, I think we'll get fusion to work at some point. There's very smart people working on it. I think they'll get it there. I think the same forces and ideas and people that have prevented the deployment of nuclear fission …”

“I think fission, fusion will become mainstream much faster than we are expecting it to.”

“If you can get the cost of energy in this country to drop by 50 to 75%, and you can increase energy capacity by 10 to 20 fold, then you have a fighting chance, because you can actually grow the economy out of the problem. And that's really where I am optimisti…”

“The thing that we are lacking right now is not actually the generation capability, which is incredibly cheap, but it's really Scalable storage. And once we figured that out, which is actually the real technical bottleneck to abundant zero cost energy, we'll ha…”

“I think there is a point in time. Where private startups can take the last 20 or 30%, but I think about this like the internet, which is you needed DARPA to build V-one, and then it could be handed over to private industry. And I think fusion, when we look bac…”

“I would rather the next ten billion dollars go into energy efficiency HVAC than fusion because a fusion exists and b I think it's gonna happen at an innovative bench scale level by the government and not by a private company.”

“So when you look at that, I think there's only three things that can do it. The first one is indeed nuclear fission. As you just mentioned, it has the scalability and the power density to do it. The second one is fusion, which is what the sun does, but it's st…”

“Just because we achieve fusion does not mean all other energy sources suddenly become superfluous. And conversely, just because we have cheap renewables and storage does not mean fusion would have no role in the market.”

“In fact, we identified, you know, these types of places exactly. Singapore, Japan, you know, highest electricity prices of today. As a good first market for fusion.”

“Quantum computing is like fusion. It's like a technical problem that has attracted people who've had more money than common sense. And it just basically a way to burn an enormous amount of money over 20 or 30 years.”