Fission, Batteries, and Scaleups FutureTech Podcast Episode 1

Welcome to FutureTech Podcast with your hosts Jon Irwin and The Startup Coach. We’re your guides to the world of cutting-edge technology, innovation, and business trends.In each episode, we explore the latest tech developments, share expert insights, and discuss how these innovations are shaping the future. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, entrepreneur, or just curious about what’s on the horizon, join us on this exciting journey.In this episode we discuss.Article 1: World’s largest nuclear fusion reactor achieves first plasmaArticle 2: Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage BoundariesArticle 3: EDC Report Says Canada is Struggling to Convert Startups to Scale UpsLinks Mentioned:Startup Investor DrinksMentoring Magic EventTorontoStarts Startup and Entrepreneur CommunityWorkhausWork with The Startup CoachAutomated Transcript of Fission, Batteries, and Scaleups FutureTech Podcast Episode 1Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): Welcome to FutureTech your weekly source for the latest in Tech Innovation and business. I'm the startup coach and as always I'm joined by my host Jon Irwin. How are you doing today? Jon?Jonathan Irwin: Good. Thanks Craig. How are you?Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): I'm doing great. I'm excited to dive into some of these articles that you've been posting. And so let's just jump into some of this cool news. So the first one we're gonna be talking about and for anybody who wants to follow along the links are in the show notes. So take a look there. Japan's worlds largest nuclear fusion reactor achieves first plasma tell us a little bit about this JT 6 Osa reactor that no one can understand the name of What is it?Jonathan Irwin: Yeah. Sure.Startup Coach TorontoStarts (The Startup Coach): And what's the big deal?Jonathan Irwin: Yeah, let me copy of this bike. I am by no means a nuclear expert and by no means an expert in any of this Tech that I'm talking about. I'm just a geek that loves to talk about or learn about new tech and new things that are going on. So this is about nuclear fusion So currently all of the reactors that are out there in the world are nuclear fission, which means they split particles in order to create So fusion is kind of what happens on the sun nuclear fusion holds immense promise as virtually in exhaustible source of clean energy, but achieving controlled Fusion on Earth remains one of science Grand challenges due to the extreme conditions required to fuse Atomic nuclei.Jonathan Irwin: So after over 15 years of construction and testing Japan has made a significant step forward with a successful initiation of plas