Friedberg: Terrestrial nucleosynthesis could become an industrial process within 150 years
Dave Friedberg · Anything Is Possible with Dave Friedberg | Where It Happens · Mar 3, 2022 · at 53:44
Dave Friedberg (CEO of The Production Board) outlines his long-term thesis on engineering atomic abundance through fusion energy and nucleosynthesis.
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“When you combine the unleashed energy potential of plasma fusion systems with the theoretical laboratory scale potential of nuclear synthesis that we see in labs today, And you fast forward a 150 years. I think it's theoretically feasible on a first principles basis that we could see nucleosynthesis becoming an industrial process on Earth.”
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