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<p>David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028.<br />
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Helion: <a href="https://www.helionenergy.com/">https://www.helionenergy.com/</a><br />
Helion’s YouTube: <a href="https://youtube.com/HelionEnergy">https://youtube.com/HelionEnergy</a></p>
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(03:00) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections<br />
(11:35) – Nuclear fission vs fusion<br />
(21:35) – Physics of E=mc^2<br />
(26:50) – Is nuclear fusion safe?<br />
(32:11) – Chernobyl<br />
(38:38) – Geopolitics<br />
(40:33) – Extreme scenarios<br />
(47:28) – How nuclear fusion works<br />
(1:20:20) – Extreme temperatures<br />
(1:25:21) – Fusion control and simulation<br />
(1:37:15) – Electricity from fusion<br />
(2:11:20) – First fusion power plant in 2028<br />
(2:18:13) – Energy needs of GPU clusters<br />
(2:28:38) – Kardashev scale<br />
(2:36:33) – Fermi Paradox</p>
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