What Does Silicon Valley Have to Do with Fusion Energy?
“The fusion process being pursued by [TAE Technologies] is clean, safe and reliable.”
“The fusion process being pursued by [TAE Technologies] is clean, safe and reliable.”
The focus of research on fusion power has moved from big government programs to startups with novel designs.
Fusion power may have just had the long-awaited breakthrough its backers have been waiting years for. A small secretive company in California called TAE Technologies has been working on fusion power for years.
Tucked in an unmarked industrial building in Foothill Ranch, the physicists at secretive nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies believe they have moved a step closer to achieving viable fusion energy – the holy grail of sustainable energy.
May 2015 | M. Binderbauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Conventional field-reversed configurations (FRCs), high-beta, prolate compact toroids embedded in poloidal magnetic fields, face notable stability and confinement concerns.