Hello everyone I had the privilege today to speak with Dr. Dennis White who like me is a

denizen of a small town in Western Canada, a small prairie town.

Be that as it may, he's also one of the world's foremost authorities on nuclear

fission and has been at the spearhead of both technical and commercial projects to make fusion technology a reality and fusion offers the opportunity essentially if it can be mastered of unlimited energy and potentially

at a low cost. So it's the ultimate and transformative technologies. We talked about the fact

too that the fusion revolution, which has been promised, let's say, for decades,

which isn't that long a time frame, all things considered, is now being facilitated by tremendous advances in materials technology and

and computational technology and that like just last year there was one

variant of fusion technology that produced for the first time more energy than it

consumed which is a milestone on the pathway towards true commercial viability and

so we talk a lot about exactly what fusion energy is, how it differs from standard nuclear

energy, where we are in the process to transitioning, let's say, to the kind of future that

would be endless clean energy at an extraordinarily low price, right?

And that really brings with it the possibility of lifting all the remaining poor people in the world

out of poverty if we could just get that right so it's fairly technical

discussion it'll be very appealing to you engineering as science types but for

everybody who's interested in the issue of energy more broadly and the science fiction

reality that the world is about to become, then follow along with us.

So thank you very much Dr. White for agreeing to talk to me today.

We might as well jump right in. I think the thing we could

do for our viewers and listeners that would be most useful to begin with is to tell

them, is for you to tell them what fusion energy is and how that differs from standard nuclear energy.

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