Q I think there's, by my track, roughly six general architectures for fusion technology, and you guys are the experts. Tell me if I'm wrong. How do we know you guys win? Why does Tesla win? Why does Edison win? And isn't it the case that ultimately the price of power is gonna win? And so whatever architecture gets to the lowest price of power is gonna take the whole market.
A Yeah, it's a really good question. Um, first, you have to make it work. Right? Like, there's a lot of architectures, and like, the odds that they all work are low. So, we've taken the tact of like, Find the architectures that you know are going to work. What's the lowest science risk that you can do? Because that price of power, it's not so much architecture dependent, it's learning rate dependent, right? At the end of the day, the amount of stuff in these things is all about the same. And so, the faster you get there, the better your cycles are, the lower you're gonna drive that cost. And there's a time component to that, too. We don't have the time to wait. So, if Fusion was available today, we'd be buying it. Like, we have, you know, no shortage of customer interest. Uh, but the real energy transition is in the next decade, and so we need something that we can get there, like, now, as soon as possible. So it's not so much like that end state. It might be interesting from a futurist standpoint what that end state is. It's the path to get there that's gonna really determine it.
AI assessment note: “price of power, it's not so much architecture dependent, it's learning rate dependent”