Helion: linear fusion breakthrough?
Helion is developing a linear fusion reactor, which has entirely re-thought the technology (like the ‘Tesla of nuclear fusion’). It could have costs of 1-6c/kWh, be deployed at 50-200MWe modular…
General Fusion: magnetized fusion breakthrough?
General Fusion technology review. General Fusion is developing a magnetized target fusion reactor, to fuse heavy isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium). It confines 100MºC plasma within a vortex of liquid…
Nuclear fusion: what are the challenges?
…why it is on page 4. But what are the fourteen nuclear fusion challenges that a reactor will need to overcome? Heating up a nuclear fusion fuel is covered on…
Commonwealth Fusion: nuclear fusion breakthrough?
…funding, which we think is the largest capital raise of any private fusion company to-date. CFS aims to be the “fastest and lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy” by…
Nuclear fusion: what are the challenges?
Nuclear fusion could provide a limitless supply of zero-carbon energy from the 2030s onwards. Thus 30 private companies have raised $4bn to progress new ideas. But the goal of this…
Energy of rotation: angular momentum, inertia and flywheels?
…Joint European Torus Research Facility in Oxford, requiring rapid bursts of energy to test nuclear fusion. It came up in our research note in the frontiers of nuclear fusion. In…
Next-generation nuclear: the cutting edge?
This data-file screens c20 companies at the cutting edge of nuclear technology, to assess whether fission or fusion breakthroughs can realistically be factored into long-run forecasts of energy markets or…
TSE Patent Assessments: a summary?
New technologies for the energy transition range across renewables, next-gen nuclear (fission and fusion), next-gen materials, EV charging, battery designs, CCS technologies, electronics, recycling, vehicles, hydrogen technologies and advanced bio-fuels….
Energy units: life, the universe and everything?
…An amazing fact is that 1 kg of hydrogen releases 3 million times more energy as a fusion fuel than a combustion fuel. We also discuss the first and second…
Energy technologies: the pace of progress?
…combustion, AI-supported concentrated solar, direct lithium extraction and nuclear fusion. The average technology in our screen has only gained 0.12 rungs of the TRL ladder per year, especially mechanical-chemical technologies,…