61. Conner Galloway, Founder, CEO, and Chief Science Officer; and Alexander Valys, Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Xcimer

Episode 61: Lasers to the rescue! 

Xcimer CEO/co-founder Conner Galloway and co-founder 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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