Richard Dinan: Founder of Pulsar Fusion

Pulsar Fusion strives to be the preeminent force in the European nuclear fusion technology sector, by leveraging scientific advances into commercial innovations across aerospace and energy. The wider societal shifts towards renewable energy and deep space exploration favour the application of nuclear fusion.  Pulsar Fusion intends to capitalise upon these changes by building the infrastructure and systems to enable them. In this episode Ben speaks to the Richard Dinan (the founder of Pulsar) about fusion technology and what he is looking to do in space and why! 00:19 Introduction to episode 31 - Pulsar Fusion and founder Richard Dinan 01:21 Bringing on Richard - was he "Made in Chelsea"? 02:10 Live from the rocket factory! 03:35 Pulsar Fusion origin https://pulsarfusion.com/ 06:30 Richard explains fusion  11:45 Propulsion  15:35 Start-up mentality and investment? 18:33 Importance of patents 19:54 ITER https://www.iter.org/ (building a star) 23:07 Made in Chelsea - why Richard got involved 26:14 Key takeaways from Made in Chelsea 27:50 Reality TV stars turn to science? 28:55 Bens reality TV idea 29:07 Timeline for Pulsar 32:03 Pulsars eureka moment? 39:06 Would Richard go to space? 41:04 Outro and socials Social Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/richarddinan?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richarddinan/?hl=en LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-dinan-808a835a/?originalSubdomain=uk Stay connected with us! Use #Astroben across various social media platforms to engage with us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astrobenpodcast/ Website (coming soon): www.astroben.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gambleonit?lang=en Please subscribe and rate - Ad Astra!