TAE Fusion

A forever solution for clean, carbon-free energy.

Nature’s preferred source.

Fusion is the same process that powers the sun and stars. It is environmentally friendly, safe, and capable of sustaining the planet for thousands of years. TAE’s proprietary technology will generate and distribute cost-competitive, 24/7 on-demand fusion power to address the growing global need and secure our energy future.

Copernicus-fusion-reactor at TAE Technologies (illustration)

Introducing TAE Fusion Power.

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Get a closer look at Norman.

TAE’s fifth-generation fusion platform is named after fusion energy pioneer and late co-creator of the company’s proprietary technology, Dr. Norman Rostoker. The National Laboratory-scale device combines our proprietary power management technology and advanced accelerator beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) for compact and efficient operations.

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Timeline of
TAE fusion platforms.

The Sewer Pipe

1998 – 2000s

C-2

2009 – 2014

C-2U

2015 – 2016

C-2W aka Norman

2017 – present

Copernicus

2022 and beyond

Da Vinci

Da Vinci

Early 2030s

148,492

experiments conducted since 2015

The next frontier in fusion energy.

A sneak peek at Copernicus.

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The first controlled use of fire dates back at least 1,000,000 years. Wood was the dominant fuel source until it was surpassed by coal.

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Energy breakthroughs
in history

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Coal began to displace wood in the 1700s, and rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s.

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The world demonstrates constant electric light. The first constant electric light was demonstrated in 1835. Thomas Edison patented the incandescent light bulb in 1879.

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Oil was first commercially produced in the 1860s. Roughly a century later in 1950, petroleum became the most consumed fuel in the United States.

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In addition to coal and oil, natural gas is the third main fossil fuel that has dominated energy consumption since 1885. Natural gas is derived through hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

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Water from lakes and dams produces hydropower electricity via turbine. The first U.S. hydroelectric power plant opened in Wisconsin in 1882.

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Passive solar energy was used in Ancient Greece. In the 1830s, a solar oven was used to cook food. The world’s first solar thermal power station was built in Egypt in 1912.

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Nuclear fission – the process of splitting atoms to release a massive amount of energy – was first discovered in Germany in the late 1930s. Today, nuclear fission makes up about 20% of total annual energy generation.

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Wind energy was used in the 11th century for food production in Persia and the Middle East – and soon spread to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. The first windmill was used for electric power in Scotland in 1887. By the 1970s, there was growing interest in renewable energy such as wind power, which continues today.

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Nuclear fusion is the process of combining elements to release massive amounts of energy. Unlike with fission, fusion has the potential to provide unlimited carbon-free energy to all parts of the globe, with no harmful byproducts and no risk of meltdown.

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Source: U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Energy Information Administration

How do you produce electricity from fusion?

Our sun presently fuses predominately hydrogen atoms to give off energetic light. TAE is trying to recreate this same process, adapted for terrestrial conditions. In our future fusion power plant, we will fuse hydrogen and boron to produce an even more energetic light than the sun.