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Podcast: Hardware to Save a Planet
Episode: Igniting the Future: Fusion Power and the Road to Clean Energy with Scott Mercer
Description: In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett talks with Scott Mercer, Founder and CEO of Focused Energy, about the future of nuclear fusion. They explore how laser-driven fusion, inspired by breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore Labs, could offer limitless clean power by the 2030s. From physics to commercialization, Mercer shares how Focused Energy plans to bring fusion to the grid—and why this could be a game-changer for climate tech and global energy.What you will learn:How fusion energy worksThe laser-driven process that compresses deuterium-tritium fuelFocused Energy's approach, which builds upon the successful ign...