nuclear fusion

“So I would say going from .7 to one is is not a huge jump but going from one to 10, you, you're, or from, you know, one to a hundred in inertial fusion you're likely to encounter some new physics that, that haven't been studied yet, which makes it riskier.”

“If I were a betting person, I would say yes. I think somebody will achieve scientific break-even this decade, and possibly more than one.”

“In fact, the particular ARPA-E funded study showed that maybe 65% of the LCOE might be coming from capital cost.”

“Yeah, so the example I like to look at is one train car of fusion fuel, and that's like a little over a hundred tons. Imagine a train car of coal, for example, But if it was a train car of deuterium, tritium fuel that would provide enough energy for the U.S.'s…”

“My personal opinion is that wall plug gain It's kind of like the Kitty Hawk moment, right? Or the Wright brothers moment that people like to allude to. Because it really shows it, that this is re it's really an existence proof now, right? That not only can you…”

“There is some waste, but it's short-lived waste, radioactive waste and there's no fissile fuel, which is another concern. But for sure, you also don't need geological storage of the waste.”

“It's not inherently true that it's going to deliver the cheapest electricity. That is available on the market, even if it is fusion. It, that doesn't mean that it's cheap because you still have, you could have very expensive capital costs to build a fusion pla…”

“I continue to fundamentally believe that solar is going to be the bedrock of decarbonization. Put another way, if you ask me what single technology will do the most to mitigate climate change, short of some potential geoengineering or nuclear fusion future, my…”

“Space-based solar power has all of the benefits of fusion, and some, because it can move power from one place to another place that is underneath the satellite essentially instantly over vast geographic regions without any loss, and even, you know, nuclear fus…”

“Peculiarly, space-based solar power is the, Only really promising form of clean energy, potential form of clean energy technology that I would argue the world is not investing in significantly because every other energy source that you can think of, whether it…”

“And so I think this is a very binary thing, that if we can actually hit unit economics that are competitive in fusion, It'll create the largest companies we've ever seen.”

“It may be safe, but like, I don't think local communities are necessarily going to buy into the idea that it is safe. It's going to take a while to get people to Sort of be comfortable in the US and other parts of the world.”

“There are some very interesting initiatives to bring fusion energy about. It is expressly the type of science that we at Kantos do not invest in.”