Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion joins Neal and Toby to chat his pursuit of fusion energy and how it could power the world. Francesco discusses his company's work on QI stellarators to create the first generation of fusion power plants, and why his company is doing a ton of work with magnets. He also shares what advances he believes will happen in supercomputers and what his favorite part of grad school at MIT was.
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