Pacific Fusion
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:10 am
A new fusion company has revealed their plans and concept. Pacific Fusion has raised 900 MUSD in their first funding round. Their concept is based on a pulsed magnetic path to inertial fusion. See the links below for more information.
A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-p ... ic-lander/.
They have a document Opportunities in Pulsed Magnetic Fusion Energy on arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15206.
Introducing Pacific Fusion Founders' Letter https://www.pacificfusion.com/updates/founders-letter.We build on established science. In 2022, breakthroughs in inertial fusion definitively showed the conditions required for ignition and high gain. The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used lasers to achieve ignition and the highest laboratory fusion performance (Pτ) ever, and the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories used fast-rising current pulses to drive the MagLIF concept to achieve the highest pulsed magnetic fusion Pτ ever, second only to laser-driven concepts. This was the culmination of over a half century of US government support and hard-fought progress by fusion researchers.
A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-p ... ic-lander/.
They have a document Opportunities in Pulsed Magnetic Fusion Energy on arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15206.