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For decades, many have called nuclear fusion the \u201choly grail\u201d of energy sources. The undying hope is that fusion will someday provide very cheap, abundant, zero-carbon electricity to all \u2013 thereby both decisively addressing the climate crisis and powering economic growth across the globe. But despite decades of well-funded research and even recent technological breakthroughs, we still seem to be years away from a commercially viable fusion reactor. \n\nIn this episode, Chad Reed speaks with Jim McNeil, Chief Marketing Officer of\xa0TAE Technologies, which just raised $250 million in venture financing to support the development of Copernicus \u2013 its next-generation hydrogen-boron fusion research reactor. Chad and Jim get into the weeds on the tradeoffs of competing fusion fuels, the longstanding challenge fusion must overcome to reach commercial viability, the role of fusion in our energy future, Star Trek versus Star Wars, and much more.