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2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)

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SMR - What's Next?

I think the overall energy needs over the next few decades and beyond are big enough that there can be many solutions. And I would love to see more progress on fusion. But it is further away than we'd like in that people are hoping, especially if you think about anything close to a scalable solution or something that could be powering an entire power plant. One of the main reasons I'm so excited about SMR is that we actually aren't waiting on any new scientific breakthroughs. These things are getting slated to be built in the near term. We could see these actually producing the energy we need.

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