Q We, we buy power off the grid in the U.S. for 12 to 15 cents a kilowatt hour. Where do you guys think these systems end up when you kind of think about the, the, the amortization cost and what you're gonna have to charge to build these systems? Once you're at scale, once you're rolling these systems out at scale, what's your end goal for price per kilowatt hour?
A I think that, I think that's exactly the perfect question to lead in, um, that if you're doing a new technology like this and your goal is electricity, it has to be competitive, and it has to be competitive at scale, at large scale. Um, and Fusion has a nice opportunity to do that. Uh, you talk about what's the cost of electricity. It comes from OpEx and CapEx. And OpEx, right, are fuel, uh, for a 50 megawatt system. You can, uh, with a pickup truck worth of fuel, you can actually power that system for a decade. And it's clean, and it's safe, and it's, it's low cost. We don't even include it in the OpEx budget. The fuel cost is so low. Um, and if we can get to a state where we have less of, If a PhD is in the control room, the actual operating cost then becomes pretty negligible for those systems, and so then you're left with the capital, and so I think that's been our focus, um, is how do we minimize the capital of those systems, and so we can get to a, a, a point where we can be really cost competitive, and I'll give you straight answers, is that our goal with these, with our approach to fusion, where we directly recapture the energy, is to get to a cent a kilowatt hour or less, and you, and you can, and you can do that with OPEX.
AI assessment note: “is to get to a cent a kilowatt hour or less”