Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $46 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002809 ) to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants. This funding is from the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA). Realta Fusion Inc.
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2023
But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 13, 2021
It might be time to retire that overused joke about nuclear fusion always being 30 years away. Burnaby, British Columbia-based General Fusion plans to build a large-scale demonstration reactor at the UK's national fusion research laboratory campus in Culham near Oxford. This compresses the plasma and forces a fusion reaction.
Spark Powered
DECEMBER 29, 2022
News of a major breakthrough in fusion technology has recently swept through the media outlets. Not much yet, but most likely it will open the flood gates to additional funding for future fusion research. Ultimately, it shows a way to all-but unlimited clean electricity. This kills that silly argument once and for all.
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2023
Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. At that point, we’ll be one step closer to a new era of carbon-free baseload electricity,” says Sorbom. “We
Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2020
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Earlier post.) —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Yet these fission plants, for all their value, have considerable downsides. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5 percent efficiency.
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