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Posted on 07/17/2025 9:19:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
For long-time followers of fusion energy, Tokamak Hall is the high-water mark after decades of ups and downs. From an observation deck on the side, the surgically-clean, hospital-white room feels both like a cathedral and yet somehow too tiny for its lofty purpose. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the company building it, says the room will soon hold a tokamak, the central donut-shaped device necessary for one approach to nuclear fusion. In the tokamak, scientists will heat up deuterium and tritium to 100 million degrees Celsius and fuse them together—producing heat that can be converted to electricity in the process.
But as impressive as Tokamak Hall may be, I left the company’s campus more taken by the factory floor in the building next door. There, employees are hard at work manufacturing the company’s key innovation: giant magnets made of high-temperature, superconducting tape to be used in the tokamak. The magnets keep the superheated fuel in place and stable enough for the fusion process to occur. In the facility, they’re churning out magnets for the pilot project—and, eventually, to build a fleet of fusion power plants. It’s a testament not just to fusion’s technological potential but the commercial possibilities as well.
“The power industry is a very large market, and so you have, inherently, a huge potential for financial return,” Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard told me after my tour in March. “If you built something that can produce 1% of energy, you've built the largest company in the world.”
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Yes yes, only a decade away, get back to me in 2035
AI and quantum computing are the “wheels” that needed to be invented to finally solve the problem of non-stellar energy producing fusion, among many other large time-consuming problems.
Doesn’t look like it will fit on my DeLorean...
Can we sue news outlets for intentionally manipulating markets with false information yet ?
Fund us for another 15 years and we’ll be there.
May
we'll have fusion tomorrow
You're always, a day decade away
I’ve been hearing this....10 years away! since the early 1980s. We’re always 10 years away from having it it seems.
Free Energy tomorrow!....
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