TAE Technologies Board member and Venrock Partner Emeritus Ray Rothrock writes in Issues in Science and Technology about the role of venture capital in start-ups. “The true magnet for venture capital is a great idea by an ambitious person or team.
As a clean energy pioneer, TAE Technologies was notably featured in TIME Magazine’s 2015 cover story.
A secretive start-up claims to have made a breakthrough in creating fusion power, a limitless source of energy.
In an unassuming building in an unassuming industrial park south of Los Angeles, nuclear physicists are smashing together rings of plasma at one million kilometers per hour, producing temperatures on the order of a hundred-million degrees Celsius.
In a suburban industrial park south of Los Angeles, researchers have taken a significant step toward mastering nuclear fusion—a process that could provide abundant, cheap, and clean energy.