{"id":15466,"date":"2018-01-12T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2018-01-12T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:30:29","slug":"scitech-video-commercial-fusion-power-ventures-panel-general-fusion-tri-alpha-energy-lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15466","title":{"rendered":"SciTech video: Commercial fusion power ventures panel &#8211; General Fusion, Tri-Alpha Energy, &#038; Lockheed-Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion for a general public audience about three different commercial approaches to nuclear fusion power systems that could go on line within 10-15 years:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vlab.org\/events\/nuclear-fusion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nuclear Fusion: Reacting To Commercialization &#8211; VLAB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator: Rachel Slaybaugh, APRA-E Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.berkeley.edu\/research-faculty\/nuclear-physics\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michel Laberge, Founder and Chief Scientist,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/generalfusion.com\/\">General Fusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matthew Thompson, Director of Physics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tae.com\/\">Tri Alpha Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tom McGuire,\u00a0Research Engineer and Scientist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/\">Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ray Rothrock, Former General Partner,\u00a0Venrock,\u00a0Chair of\u00a0NVCA, and \u00a0CEO of\u00a0Redseal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HwUVcPlkQsI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=echo&amp;banner=146870N94VDD8MAPHT02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=1a66b7640a95795359e192e9c202c69f&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion for a general public audience about three different commercial approaches to nuclear fusion power systems that could go on line within 10-15 years:\u00a0Nuclear Fusion: Reacting To Commercialization &#8211; VLAB Moderator: Rachel Slaybaugh, APRA-E Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering,\u00a0University of California, Berkeley Michel Laberge, Founder and Chief Scientist,\u00a0General Fusion Matthew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SciTech video: Commercial fusion power ventures panel &#8211; General Fusion, Tri-Alpha Energy, &#038; Lockheed-Martin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-41s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9072,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9072","url_meta":{"origin":15466,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: More fusion power projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently listed some relatively low cost, near(er) term nuclear fusion power projects, \u00a0most of which originated at government labs or from government funded research at universities but are now being pursued by private ventures: Updates on five fusion power projects\u00a0- Dynomak, Helion Power, EMC2 Polywell,\u00a0Lockheed-Martin Compact Fusion, and Sandia's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science and Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13034,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13034","url_meta":{"origin":15466,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: Interview with Nathan Gilliland, CEO of General Fusion","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an interview with\u00a0General Fusion CEO Nathan Gilliland about nuclear fusion power and General Fusion's unique approach to\u00a0\u00a0creating it: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/176400758 I thought it was particularly interesting that GF often interacts with other commercial fusion projects such as Tri-Alpha Energy. 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