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 nuclear fusion fuel is covered on pages…
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…
Next-generation nuclear companies: future fission and fusion?
This data-file screens c30 next-generation nuclear companies at the cutting edge of fission and fusion technology. The median one employs 100 people, is developing a 150MWe reactor, and could reach commerciality by…
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…
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,…
Omniscience: how will AI reshape the energy transition?
…possible sorbents and membranes (pages 15-16). How will AI reshape lithium-ion batteries, nuclear fusion, green hydrogen value chains or nature-based solutions. We found it harder to de-risk breakthroughs using AI…