Carrie Von Munch
Co-Founder and COO, Pacific Fusion. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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She co-founded Pacific Fusion in 2023, where she leads operations developing pulser-driven inertial fusion systems. Previously, she was an investor at Innovation Endeavors, worked on strategy at Alphabet's X, and served as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
1shows
1appearances
12statements
5resolved
3supported
1contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything Carrie Von Munch said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pacific Fusion on track to achieve net facility gain by 2030
“And a number of companies are saying they'll do that in the next couple years. We're on track to do that by 2030.”
Von Munch: Nothing prevents fusion from being as cheap as any energy source
“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”
Pacific Fusion driver uses 156 container-sized modules delivering over 1 TW each
“For us, that driver consists of a 156 identical modules. Each of those modules produces more than a terawatt of peak power and sits in about the footprint of a shipping container and is made from oil, plastic, metal, and water.”
Von Munch: Inertial fusion plants can improve without building new capital infrastructure
“The interesting thing about inertial technologies, and our technology in particular, is that you can improve the performance and reduce the effective cost of existing facilities just by adding new improved fusion targets. So those fusion targets are going to c…”
Von Munch: Pacific Fusion CTO doubled pulsed-power system efficiency and density
“And our CTO inventing technology that more than doubles the efficiency and power density of systems like Z.”
Von Munch: Milestone-gated financing requires clear terminal value but unpriced intermediate steps
“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…”
Von Munch: Fusion startups will not see exits before reaching net facility gain
“Because I think the thing that's true is that you're not going to see an exit prior to that milestone.”
Von Munch: Practical fusion power plants require 5x net facility gain
“You need to get about five X more out of the machine than was stored in the system to have a practical basis for a power plant.”
Von Munch: Pacific Fusion avoids laser energy losses via direct pulsed current
“So instead of using a capacitor bank to charge a laser and a laser to drive a target, we use a capacitor bank to make a large electrical current. That electric current squishes the target, and that's a whole lot more efficient because you don't have this lossy…”
Von Munch: Best steady-state fusion result remains a 1990s tokamak record
“And the closest experimental result for steady state fusion is from a tokamak from the nineties, a factor of a few from the scientific finish line.”
Von Munch: High-temperature superconductors are not needed for inertial fusion
“Something like high temperature superconductors are a relevant piece of the puzzle for steady state approaches like tokamaks instillerators. They're not relevant for inertial approaches like what we do.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Carrie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 CATALYSTLEDGER | Co-Founder and COO, Pacific Fusion | 1 | 12 | 60% 3/5 | full record on Catalyst → |