Posted on 12/26/2025 2:49:07 AM PST by House Atreides
TAE Technologies wants to start building a commercial hydrogen boron fusion reactor in 2026.
Trump Media announces merger with fusion firm TAE Technologies
“Friday, 19 December 2025
Trump Media & Technology Group… and US private fusion energy company TAE Technologies have announced an agreement to merge in a transaction valued at more than USD6 billion….
… TAE’s approach to fusion combines advanced accelerator and plasma physics, and uses abundant, non-radioactive hydrogen-boron (p-B11) as a fuel source. The proprietary magnetic beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) technology injects high-energy hydrogen atoms into the plasma to make the system more stable and better confined. This solution is compact and energy efficient, California-based TAE says.”
My problem with TAE’s approach is they are focusing on Hydrogen Boron fusion, which requires ignition temperatures at least 500x hotter than the Deuterium Tritium reaction which mainstream fusion research projects like ITER intend to use in their proof of concept.
The big outstanding problem with nuclear fusion is keeping the plasma hot, without expending more energy than the plasma produces through nuclear fusion. An eighty million degree Deuterium Tritium plasma really wants to shed its heat, so preventing heat from escaping long enough so the plasma produces substantially more energy than it took to warm the plasma up is the biggest unsolved problem. For a practical fusion generator, you would need to either retain enough heat in the plasma to keep the plasma burning, or extract enough energy to power the next cycle if your reactor operates as a series of small explosions.
If keeping an eighty million degree Deuterium Tritium plasma hot enough to fuse is an unsolved problem, how do you describe the problem of keeping a Boron Hydrogen plasma at a temperature in excess of 5 BILLION degrees, for long enough to produce useful fusion energy?
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But perhaps the Trump Media folks know something that I don’t. 2026?… I wish them luck.
High temperature fusion...based on the current state of technology, it’s not scalable, up from proof-of-concept, right?
So are they pursuing LENR, the physics of which are unknown?
Room-temperature fusion? The ultimate in always-beyond-our-grasp.
Fusion power has been 10 years away for the last 50 years. And once we do have it, what will be the cost? It’s already sucking up millions in research without lighting a single room yet.
Men on the moon in less than ten years? You're crazy.
A canal across Central America? Can't be done. Hoover Dam? Defeat Germany AND Japan at the same time....?
“The engineering doesn’t exist now, therefore it never will.” ~ Credo of losers.
The latest progress towards fusion energy:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a68132700/nuclear-donut-fusion-record-unlimited-energy/
We have to get the national debt to hit $40 TRILLION by the end of the year, this should do it!
If the debt was $1 per mile the distance would fly by the nearest star Proxima Centauri on it’s way to Alpha Centauri. Even at the speed of light it would take years.
Anyone watch Ashton Forbes on YouTube? Lot of info on his livestreams regarding B11 aneutronic reverse field fusion research.
The technology being pursued is an experimentally proven hydrogen-boron hot fusion process. My guess is that even if this particular path to hot fusion power does not prevail, the intellectual property generated by the effort will be highly valuable. LENR is another subject.
Ummm - the way I read it, it is one of Trump’s own companies and not taxpayer money being invested...
Billions in research. Billions.
Trump is wrong - we need FAST development of nuclear energy for electric power generation NOW. Small modern modular nuclear fission designs are poised now to do that. Fusion is a generation away at least.
WRONG. Read up on it. This is an incredible move. Fusion is the way to go
Isnt this Trumps money?
Who makes the decisions at Trump Media?
Does that person know something that investors in the general public do not know?
Fusion is the holy grail of energy. It’s is promise huge. It is what powers the sun
Nuclear fusion—the process powering the sun—remains one of the most promising sources of clean, virtually limitless energy, but achieving practical, commercial power generation is still a significant challenge. As of late 2025, we're closer than ever due to rapid progress in both public and private efforts, yet widespread grid-scale deployment is likely 10–20 years away at best.
IMO presidents shouldn’t be investing with more insider info than Pelosi has had.
Certainly. The potential is there, but what will it take to actually achieve it? Hydrogen fusion releases the most energy that is possible using any nuclear process, but it isn’t “free”, so to speak. A certain amount of energy must go into the reaction first. And that’s what is giving our current level of technology such a challenge.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but President Trump has divested himself of Trump Media and Technology. It is currently owned by his family. Some may consider that a difference without a distinction, but technically and legally, it doesn’t belong to him.
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