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Posted on 07/17/2025 9:23:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
The codename: Project Solis. The work: nuclear fusion testing. The cost: $1 billion. The site: Albuquerque?
For the past few months, local and state officials have discreetly been talking with Pacific Fusion, a California-based company that could set up a 225,000-square-foot nuclear fusion facility worth $1 billion in Albuquerque’s Mesa del Sol or another site in the city. With the research and development facility could come 200 permanent jobs and hundreds more construction jobs.
The New Mexico Economic Development Department and Pacific Fusion officials announced on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding for the site. Officials had been working on the project behind the scenes for the past few months under the pseudonym Project Solis.
Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the initial goal of achieving what is known as “net facility gain” in fusion by the end of the decade — essentially generating more energy than is consumed. The Mesa del Sol facility, subject to change, would help the company reach that milestone.
Nuclear fusion is the process of combining atomic nuclei to a single, heavier nucleus, which releases large amounts of energy. For example, the sun is powered by fusion. But achieving fusion here on Earth has proven difficult.
The work differs from nuclear fission, which splits nuclei and is already used at nuclear power plants to generate electricity. This project wouldn’t create a power plant.
Fusion has long been considered “the holy grail of energy,” said Pacific Fusion Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Carrie Von Muench. She said nuclear fusion has no carbon emissions, no long-lived radioactive waste and provides on-demand power.
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Fusion and alchemy. Same same.
It was the “Atomic City”.
In the interest of safety, build it a few miles away from the town. You know, like away from populated areas. Then when there is some sort of accident…there will be fewer mutations of plant and animal life during future years.
“The codename: Project Solis. The work: nuclear fusion testing.”
Great idea. Long term play.
In 15 years we’ll be there! Just fund us for 15 more years.
Bugs Bunny is going to have to start taking a different route on his vacations.
“Fusion and alchemy. Same same.”
Well, that’s true. Alchemy is turning one element into another.
Seems a bit premature. Nobody has demonstrated sustained fusion for more than a fraction of a second, as far as I know.
In the semiconductor industry we use transmutation doped silicon for high power applications.
That's an applied alchemy application...
Can u turn lead into gold?
50 years ago a fusion guy from Princton told me that fusion was only 20 years away.
There are already working fusion reactors under contract to be built in Virginia and Washington State within the next five years.
Sleeper cells have new idea?.
How much is New Mexico tax payer ponying up for this fraud? What happens when there is no fusion?
Fusion is the power of the future, and will always be.
Would you settle for mercury to gold?
Or a gold Mercury Comet.
Future as in 500 years from now
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