On October 15, the Department of Energy announced the results of the first competition for awards from the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) public-private partnership program. FIA is proud that, of the 12 grants awarded, 11 went to FIA member companies. These grants, awarded to five different fusion companies, will enable our companies to…
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.
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…
Congress has given strong support to public private partnerships that would give the US “global leadership” in fusion.
After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions.
Nuclear fusion is 30 years away and always will be, physicists have long joked. But its allure has never diminished: the prospect of harnessing the fuel that makes stars shine to produce clean, cheap and perhaps limitless electricity.
Fusion is an inevitable industry. American can win the race to commercial fusion, reap a fortune, and save the world.
IN THIS week’s Babbage, Alok Jha, our science correspondent, investigates a technology that could solve all of the world’s energy problems in a stroke—nuclear fusion. From Iter, the world’s largest collaborative fusion experiment, to private start-ups, he talks to the organisations racing to be first to create fusion power. Could the long-promised dream of nuclear fusion—to…
Applauding the Department of Energy for creating the Public Private Partnership INFUSE program to accelerate private fusion power.
Walking with Michl Binderbauer into his 2-acre laboratory feels a bit like taking a factory tour with Willy Wonka. In one corner Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies, shows off a new machine that blasts cancer tumors with a neutron beam. Engineers huddle in a control room. Beyond their window: Norman.