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Chris Wright: “Fusion energy will drive down the price of energy from…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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The AI Race: Why the Future of Power Is at Stake with U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright

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The question is, how good is the engineering to make the machine that harnesses fusion energy cheap? And how is that going to compete with the machines we're building to harness fission Fusion energy will drive down the price of energy from fusion and fission. And generations from now, it's probably the runaway winner in low cost. And what are we going to do with that? Right, we're going to power our world with that. (49:21–49:30)

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