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I recently met someone who works here, and I'm extremely skeptical of it. My impression was that it wasn't an outright scam (they have at least a few real emplo
by maxrmk 4y ago
I recently met someone who works here, and I'm extremely skeptical of it. My impression was that it wasn't an outright scam (they have at least a few real employees), but that they were wildly out of their depth.
The founders are ex-blue origin mechanical engineers, and I think they've fallen into the classic engineers trap of thinking that problems out of their areas of domain expertise are "simple". The real kicker for me was that they had only just hired their first physicist after working on the project for several months.
Obviously I'm potentially falling into the same trap -- I don't work on fusion, and it's easy to be a skeptic. But that was my impression.
- blamazon 4y agoI worked at a company like this (chasing novel high efficiency small-scale energy production) for a while and it was a lot of fun. Just my friends and I working very hard to build something impossible with other people's money. Countless hours in the lab failing over and over again, but learning at a tremendous pace and feeling like we were getting closer than anyone else would believe. There was much stress as our nutjob CEO portrayed increasingly fanciful mistruths to a revolving door of investors. I wish the folks at Avalanche Energy the best, even if I think their business proposition is... dubious.
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