Chris Wright: “Fusion energy on the grid? Yeah, it's 10 years if everything…”

“I think we will have more energy in than out in the next three to five years. I think we'll have hopefully a commercial pathway identified in the next five years. But Fusion energy on the grid? Yeah, it's 10 years if everything goes awesomely well. 10 to 20 years. But it's coming. I went to work on it 40 years ago and, and we thought it was 10 or 20 years away then. So could be wrong. Questionable.” (15:10–15:17)

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