Billionaires Chasing Fusion Energy Face a Credibility Test
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Peter Thiel beware. There could be a shakeup on the horizon among the billionaire-backed companies trying to replicate the energy source of the sun and stars.
Why the UK may hold the secret to providing the world with limitless energy
Nick Hawker is standing inches away from a gun that can fire bullets at 33,500mph. “Let’s just say, it wouldn’t end well if somebody got hit,” he laughs. This is the fastest railgun in Europe; a 40ft (12 metre) pulsed-power machine capable of discharging up to 200,000 volts – the equivalent of 500 simultaneous lightning…
Fusion Startups Step In to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream
If Nick Hawker’s computer models are right, the snap of a pistol shrimp’s claw holds the secret to boundless clean energy. Mr. Hawker’s company, First Light Fusion, is one of around two dozen startups chasing the dream of generating electricity by squeezing atoms together.
5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality
Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away…and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first observed deuterium atoms fusing and releasing dollops of energy, it may finally be time to update the punch line.
Tokamak Energy raises £67m from billionaire behind Capri Sun to make Oxford nuclear fusion hub
He built a fortune on the lunchbox favourite Capri Sun and now one Swiss billionaire hopes to harness the power of the sun again, by building a nuclear fusion reactor in rural Oxfordshire
A fusion startup backed by Jeff Bezos just raised another $65 million, signaling that investors are still betting on this ‘Holy Grail’ technology
A fusion energy startup backed by Jeff Bezos just closed a $65 million funding round, led by the massive Singapore-based investment firm, Temasek.
American Scientists Are About to Start Shooting Plasma Guns in a Bid to Achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with “plasma guns” in the hope of achieving controlled nuclear fusion—a source of clean and near limitless energy.
The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality
Technology. After decades of disappointingly slow but steady progress, the race for fusion energy is now fully on, with governments, scientific institutions and private enterprises pouring billions of dollars into this potentially world-altering technology.
Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet From Climate Catastrophe
About two dozen private companies around the world are working to harness a transformative energy technology that could rescue the planet from climate catastrophe. One is using space in an old factory that’s home to a mothballed U.S. Department of Energy-funded research machine in Cambridge, Mass.
Fusion Soon-ish
Nuclear fusion: It’s the ultimate energy source. Fusion powers the Sun and all the other stars. It is what makes the sunshine that powers photosynthesis, the basis of the planet’s entire food chain. Fusion reactions generate zero emissions and minimal radiation. And the hydrogen that fuels them is the most abundant element in nature. “It’s…