Episode 61: Lasers to the rescue!
Xcimer’s Founder, CEO, and Chief Science Officer Conner Galloway and Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer Alex Valise are building the world’s most powerful gas lasers to ignite fusion energy. With $170MM of capital raised, they are, step-by-step, commercializing scientifically validated concepts to deliver big, beautiful, clean energy.
00:00 Welcome
00:28 Meet Conner, Alex, and Xcimer
12:44 Fusion Basics Explained
18:41 Inside the Fuel Pellet
28:49 Excimer Lasers and Pulse Compression
35:08 Warehouse Scale Facility
41:55 Liquid Wall Target Chamber
49:27 Efficiency and Target Gain
52:04 Roadmap Phoenix to Athena
58:56 Directed Energy Spinoffs
01:00:44 Conclusion
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