This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy

CNBC ^ | Published Fri, Feb 12 202110:13 AM ESTUpdated Fri, Feb 12 20218:21 PM EST | Catherine Clifford

[ClearCase_guy]

“Climate change is a really big problem,” Sorbom says.

Don't give that guy any money. He's an idiot.

[butlerweave]

100 million degrees Celsius

[Larry Lucido]

“which uses magnetic fields to hold a doughnut of plasma safely in a container”

You had me at doughnut.

[EEGator]

So it’s like pizza sauce?

[D_Idaho]

So, they’re going to selflessly donate this breakthrough technology for free to all mankind, right?

[rktman]

Right under our feet according to fat albert of gore.

[Truth29]

Doesn’t matter. You could have limitless free, no pollution energy, and the Marxists would regulate it away to state control. It is always about power and control. No solution that involves freedom and individual autonomy will ever be allowed.

[Trinity5]

“With the present technology, fusion usurps all the energy it creates to sustain the reaction, leaving no “net energy” to power other things.”

This has always been the problem with fusion. But the premise of the story is fusion is the solution to all of our energy and climate change issues. But until this can be addressed it is worthless.

[Da Coyote]

Not to worry. Gates has a lock on all the universe supply of unobtanium.

[rktman]

No, thinking it is is a big problem. Scads of brilliant, dumbass PhDs out there. 😯

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Does he realize anything that mentions "nuclear" the neo-Marxists are against?

Chaaa dude, like totally.

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[traderrob6]

Create sustainable fusion where the net energy produced is greater than the energy required to initiate it and we'll talk.

Until then it's all hypothetical blather.

[EEGator]

I’m pretty sure Elizabeth Shue solved this in 1997.

[FreedomPoster]

> CFS says it expects to be making fusion energy on the grid “in the early 2030s.”

So that’s 10-12 years assuming no hiccups along the way.

I wish these guys great success, and will point out that commercial fusion has been 20 years away for the last 50 years.

[mad_as_he$$]

Fusion has been 15 years away my entire long life.

[posterchild]

It sounds like another startup doing incremental improvements to the tokamak design. It hardly seems worth writing an article about.

[wildcard_redneck]

"100 million degrees Celsius."

That is almost as hot as the cheese in a jalapeño popper!

[throwthebumsout]

More like the cheese inside a microwaved hot pocket.

[pierrem15]

What he really thinks is unknown. What is known is that he knows what to say to get his trough filled.

It would be nice if a private company came up with this first, before the big government projects.