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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.
January 3, 2023
Our guest is Ernest Moniz, the former Secretary of Energy under President Obama and CEO of the Future Energy Initiative, a nonprofit working to accelerate the clean energy transition. He joins the show to talk about the need for low-carbon firm power, the promise of fusion, and what will ultimately drive energy policy.
https://tae.com/the-race-for-low-carbon-firm-power/
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.
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