Thanks for moderating the Ripple at The Drop, it was a fun mental exercise to imagine the world with zero-cost energy. From a venture capital perspective, my POV is that nuclear fusion is not a backable enterprise in 2025. I saw a video by Elon Musk (of all people…) where he talked about the adjacent rooms approach. Colonizing Mars is three doors down, you need to start with the first adjacent business door (better rocket launchers), then the second (Starlink network of LEO satellites) to then make interplanetary colonization a viable and credible endeavor. In the case of nuclear fusion, VCs should bet on the adjacent door of this engineering problem rather than backing the space. I guess the million dollar question is: what are the adjacent doors in the Nuclear Fusion journey?
Thanks for moderating the Ripple at The Drop, it was a fun mental exercise to imagine the world with zero-cost energy. From a venture capital perspective, my POV is that nuclear fusion is not a backable enterprise in 2025. I saw a video by Elon Musk (of all people…) where he talked about the adjacent rooms approach. Colonizing Mars is three doors down, you need to start with the first adjacent business door (better rocket launchers), then the second (Starlink network of LEO satellites) to then make interplanetary colonization a viable and credible endeavor. In the case of nuclear fusion, VCs should bet on the adjacent door of this engineering problem rather than backing the space. I guess the million dollar question is: what are the adjacent doors in the Nuclear Fusion journey?
As another guy with a history degree, this was very enlightening!
That subtitle lolll