McCormick: Fuse monetizes pulsed power radiation before reaching fusion energy
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Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring Capital, explains the venture-investable business model of fusion startup Fuse and its founder JC.
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“If you go with this one particular architecture, what you're really doing is selling radiation by building these pulse power generators, and you can use that for Radhart Electronics and nuclear arsenal testing and, like, all these things that can, like, generate money on the same exact path that you need to go to, like, put enough pulse power generators on to actually create fusion power. And so you can build this, like, really big business with a call option on fusion power”
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