Company searching for ‘Holy Grail’ of energy in Everett
Gov. Jay Inslee was in attendance Tuesday morning as the fusion clean energy facility broke ground in Everett.
General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories partner to accelerate cleantech in Canada
Funded by a global syndicate of leading energy venture capital firms, industry leaders, and technology pioneers, General Fusion is working with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in a vital project to advance fusion energy technology. Through this collaboration, General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories will develop tritium extraction techniques for use in commercial fusion power plants.
‘Every Little Bit Matters’ Isn’t Enough For Net Zero
This week is Net Zero Awareness week in the U.K. On the 27th June 2019, the U.K. became the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end our contribution to climate change, committing to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments
Nuclear fusion offers the potential for a safe, clean and abundant energy source. This process, which also occurs in the sun, involves plasmas, fluids composed of charged particles, being heated to extremely high temperatures so that the atoms fuse together, releasing abundant energy.
Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusion
Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is summarizing what might be considered a guiding philosophy behind designing and engineering fusion devices at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). Beginning in 1972 with the Alcator A tokamak, through Alcator C (1978) and Alcator C-Mod (1991), the PSFC has used magnets with high fields to confine the hot plasma…
Congressman Beyer Talks Nuclear Fusion Energy at Town Hall
“You heard it here first,” quipped U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church. In a telephone town hall with constituents Monday that covered an amazingly wide range of topics over the course of just an hour, Beyer’s breaking news exclamation was in…
A man-made sun that could power our planet is created by a British start-up in Oxfordshire – racing against Amazon and Lockheed Martin
Hundreds of times every month, a British scientist sitting in a high-tech control room in an industrial park in the Thames Valley near Didcot clicks his computer mouse.
FIA CEO Andrew Holland Writes OPED for Investment in Fusion Energy as an Infrastructure Priority
Fusion Industry Association CEO Andrew Holland published the opinion piece, “US Must Make an Infrastructure Investment in Fusion Energy” in the Washington Examiner on July 13, 2021, pushing for the American government to increase its funding for fusion energy in order to combat the global climate crisis and assert the United States as a leader…
The case for funding fusion
Digital technologies have disrupted the structure of markets with unprecedented breadth and scale. Today, there is yet another wave of innovation emerging, and that is the decarbonization of the global economy.
Potential Early Markets for Fusion Energy
We examine potential early markets for fusion energy and their projected cost targets, based on analysis and synthesis of many relevant, recent studies and reports. Seeking to provide guidance to ambitious fusion developers aspiring to enable commercial deployment before 2040, we examine cost requirements for fusion-generated electricity, process heat, and hydrogen production based on today’s…