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February 20, 2024
From fusion to fast charging, it was a pleasure to give California Sen. Catherine Blakespear a tour of TAE’s offices.
TAE is creating the tools our leaders will need to electrify transportation and generate clean, affordable energy.
February 14, 2024
Caring about the environment includes protecting our winters. It’s why TAE is a proud sponsor of Natural Selection Tour and its mission to preserve the beauty of mother nature.
The faster we can achieve a carbon-free future, the better we can conserve the natural world.
Check out Travis Rice and our journey toward a complete clean energy ecosystem:
February 6, 2024
Our work is about investing in the future, and that includes building the next generation of scientific innovators. TAE’s Manager of Program Management Tania Schindler was honored to join the brilliant students in Irvine Unified School District as the keynote speaker on physics careers for this year’s Science Fair Awards Ceremony held at University Lab Partners, which left us inspired about the future talent coming out of our community.
Congratulations to all the participants!
February 1, 2024
We are always updating our research library with new peer-reviewed papers and posters, which have been presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, as well as the 29th Fusion Energy Conference hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Take a look here: Research Library
January 31, 2024
It was a pleasure to host California’s Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis at our Foothill Ranch HQ this week! We had the opportunity to share our progress, provide a tour of our fifth-generation fusion device, and give the Lt. Gov. a sneak peek into the breakthrough technologies for the grid and electric vehicles that we’re building with our TAE Power Solutions team.
Google and Chevron Invest in Nuclear Fusion Startup That’s Raised $1.2 Billion
Google, the search giant owned by parent company Alphabet, has partnered with TAE since 2014, providing the fusion startup with artificial intelligence and computational power. But this marks Google’s first cash investment in TAE.
For a Clean Energy Future, Our Relationship to the Grid Must Change
Our current domestic electrical grids are woefully inept to integrate necessary renewable energy sources. The answer to solving this problem lies within a new approach to energy use: one that focuses on optimizing the way customers and their technologies interact with the grid.
Why TAE is Pursuing Hydrogen-Boron Fusion
Reporting on challenges with tritium fuel for fusion, Science notes TAE Technologies has “decided to simply forgo tritium” to “use plain hydrogen and boron.” TAE’s hydrogen-boron fusion will “require higher temperatures than [deuterium-tritium], but the [company thinks] that’s a price worth paying to avoid tritium hassles” and produce the cleanest, safest fusion reaction.
Working on nuclear fusion is a ‘moral obligation’ for this CEO
Michl Binderbauer has made an audacious promise. Within the next decade, his company, TAE Technologies, will create a nuclear fusion reactor that delivers energy to the power grid.
“It’s not false confidence,” said Binderbauer, the CEO of TAE. “The building blocks we need — they’re coming.”
The promise of fusion
Google-backed TAE Technologies, which has raised $880m (£650m), predicts its reactors will be commercialized within ten years. In experiments, the company has already reached more than 50 million degrees Celsius, and a new prototype will operate at more than 100 million degrees Celsius. “Our livelihoods depend on delivering – or we’re gone,” says Michl Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies, which has operated since 1998.
TAE Technologies and Google Combine Human and Machine Interaction to Further Plasma Science
“Optometrist Algorithm,” First Described Today in the Journal Scientific Reports, Identified Optimal Fusion Conditions
TAE Technologies Achieves First Plasma in World’s Most Advanced Plasma Generator
“Norman” Will Further Validate Company’s Fusion Efforts and Usher In Commercialization Phase.
Former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Joins Board of Directors for Fusion Energy Leader TAE Technologies
Moniz to bring decades of experience in energy technology and policy to strengthen company’s unique approach to clean fusion energy.
TAE Technologies Appoints CTO Michl Binderbauer as Company President
Binderbauer Expands Role as it Speeds to Complete R&D and Commercialize Fusion Energy Technology