The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough

""I remember a few people said that the place where Proxima is today was impossible.""

— Francesco Sciortino , Executive

""A stellarator is a thing that is objectively very difficult to design, objectively very difficult to build. But if you do it, it is a dumb machine... just like a microwave oven.""

— Francesco Sciortino , Executive

""Tokamaks have the advantage of a deep experimental foundation built over decades. They have demonstrated plasma performance closer to what's required for a fusion power plant, including operation with fusion fuel.""

— Ryan Ramsey , Executive

""They [tokamaks] benefit from comparatively simpler magnetic geometry, with fewer and more regular coils. That has real implications for manufacturability, maintainability, and cost.""

— Ryan Ramsey , Executive