Post by Girish Hukkeri
Founder, i2u.ai Inc. | Building the AI Growth OS for Founders and Startup Ecosystems | Agentic AI, UFM, Founder Intelligence
The crisis precipitated a pivot. Rather than pursuing traditional large-scale approaches like tokamaks or inertial confinement, Kirtley became fascinated with field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma, a more compact, pulsed approach to creating fusion conditions.