Energy is at the center of everything — including migration

Energy is at the center of everything — including migration

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. TAE’s Jim McNiel dives into deep conversations with experts ranging from scientists to innovators to changemakers about the challenges our current electricity systems face and updates on the race for game-changing, clean ways to power our lives.

On this episode, Jim is joined by Gaia Vince, science journalist and author of Nomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval, to discuss her book and how climate change and energy will play a factor in mass migration to come.

How to modernize America’s power grid

How to modernize America’s power grid

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. TAE’s Jim McNiel dives into deep conversations with experts ranging from scientists to innovators to changemakers about the challenges our current electricity systems face and updates on the race for game-changing, clean ways to power our lives.

On this episode, Jim is joined by Christina Hayes, Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, a coalition working to expand, integrate and modernize the North American high-capacity transmission grid.

Fusion power is coming back into fashion

Fusion power is coming back into fashion

Hoping to ride the green-energy wave to a carbon-free future, energy companies are taking fusion from the lab to the grid—and promise to do so with machines that are far smaller and cheaper than previous iterations, based on the use of technologies and materials not available in the past, and often, on simpler designs.

Former ISS Commander Terry Virts: “The new Apollo needs to be energy”

Former ISS Commander Terry Virts: “The new Apollo needs to be energy”

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. TAE’s Jim McNiel dives into deep conversations with experts ranging from scientists to innovators to changemakers about the challenges our current electricity systems face and updates on the race for game-changing, clean ways to power our lives.

On this episode, Jim is joined by Col. Terry Virts, former NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, to talk about how Virts’ time in space has shifted his perspective and what’s next for space travel.

One step closer to hydrogen-boron fusion energy

One step closer to hydrogen-boron fusion energy

Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. TAE’s Jim McNiel dives into deep conversations with experts ranging from scientists to innovators to changemakers about the challenges our current electricity systems face and updates on the race for game-changing, clean ways to power our lives.

On this episode, Jim is joined by Rich Magee, TAE’s Senior Director of Physics Research and Development, to talk about promising new experiments the company has conducted with Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science.

A look at TAE Chief Science Officer Toshiki Tajima’s life

A look at TAE Chief Science Officer Toshiki Tajima’s life

Long before he became TAE’s Chief Science Officer and an award-winning pioneer in the field of fusion energy, Dr. Toshiki Tajima was a young scientist studying fusion in Tokyo, where his daily walks took him past Shinobazu Pond. 

There, he observed a simple phenomenon: A mother duck paddling through the water and a string of ducklings gliding along behind in her wake. They traveled together at the same speed, despite their difference in size and strength.

First measurements of p11B fusion in a magnetically confined plasma

February 2023 | R. Magee | Nature Communications | Paper

Proton-boron (p11B) fusion is an attractive potential energy source but technically challenging to implement. Developing techniques to realize its potential requires first developing the experimental capability to produce p11B fusion…