{"id":2464,"date":"2013-05-23T20:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2013-05-23T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:23:51","slug":"sci-tech-update-on-general-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Update on General Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian based company <a href=\"http:\/\/generalfusion.com\/\" target=\"_d\">General Fusion<\/a>, which has gotten funding from a variety of sources including Jeff Bezos, seems to be making good progress with its <a href=\"http:\/\/generalfusion.com\/generator_design.html\" target=\"_blank\">innovative design<\/a> for a fusion power system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2013\/05\/general-fusion-on-track-for.html\" target=\"_d\">General Fusion on track for Demonstration of Net Gain Equivalent Plasma Compression this year &#8211; nextbigfuture.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fire.pppl.gov\/FPA12_Richardson_GF.pdf\" target=\"blank\">Update on progress by GF Richardson &#8211; General Fusion Annual Meeting &#8211; 2012 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2465\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=2465\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,355\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2465\" alt=\"FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x355-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2466\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=2466\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,373\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2466\" alt=\"FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPA12_Richardson_GF_PlasmaInjector1_500x373-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian based company General Fusion, which has gotten funding from a variety of sources including Jeff Bezos, seems to be making good progress with its innovative design for a fusion power system: General Fusion on track for Demonstration of Net Gain Equivalent Plasma Compression this year &#8211; nextbigfuture.com Update on progress by GF Richardson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Update on General Fusion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","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-DK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5884","url_meta":{"origin":2464,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Update from General Fusion","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NextBigFuture.com\u00a0points to an update from\u00a0General Fusion, the Canadian nuclear fusion venture partially funded by Jeff Bezos\u00a0that is aiming to produce net energy by 2018 from its innovative approach to fusion power: \u00a0General Fusion - CT2013, Kobe, Japan - September 25, 2013 (pdf).","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":7316,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7316","url_meta":{"origin":2464,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: Update on General Fusion","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Canadian\u00a0General Fusion\u00a0project, whose investors include Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, \u00a0is aiming to start building a working prototype of their innovative fusion power system this year: How a Canadian fusion reactor could revolutionize the energy sector - canadianbusiness.com\u00a0- \"For years no one took them seriously. 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