fusion
5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2021 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →
Everything said about fusion, oldest first
Mar 20, 2021 bearish
Palihapitiya: Quantum computing attracts investors with more money than common sense
“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.”
Dec 16, 2022 bearish
Chamath: Fusion innovation will occur in government labs, not private companies
“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.”
Dec 24, 2022 neutral
Chamath: Early fusion requires government funding before private handoff
“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…”
Feb 11, 2023 bullish
Friedberg argues 10x energy capacity and 50% cost cuts solve US debt
“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…”
Feb 11, 2023 bullish
Chamath: Scalable battery storage will unlock zero-cost energy long before nuclear fusion
“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…”