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I'm delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the
most promising approach to fusion I've seen.

David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders
(in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building
companies!) I have ever met, and they have done something remarkable.
When I first invested in them back in 2014, I was struck by the
thoughtfulness of their plans about the scientific approach, the
system design, cost optimizations, and the fuel cycle.

And now, with a tiny fraction of the money spent on other fusion
efforts but the culture of a startup, they and their team have built
a generator that produces electricity. Helion has a clear path to net
electricity by 2024, and has a long-term goal of delivering
electricity for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour. (!)

If this all works as we hope, we may have a path out of the climate
crisis. Even though there are a lot of emissions that don't come from
electrical generation, we'd be able to use abundant energy to capture
carbon and other greenhouses gases.

And if we have much cheaper energy than ever before, we can do things
that are difficult to imagine today. The cost of energy is one of the
fundamental inputs in the costs of so much else; dramatically cheaper
energy will lead to dramatically better quality of life for many
people.

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