{"id":9072,"date":"2014-10-20T01:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2014-10-20T01:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:51:42","slug":"sci-tech-more-fusion-power-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9072","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: More fusion power projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9036\" target=\"_d\">Updates on five fusion power projects<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Dynomak, Helion Power, EMC2 Polywell,\u00a0Lockheed-Martin Compact Fusion, and Sandia&#8217;s magnetized fusion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9050\">LPP focus fusion update<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Focus fusion at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brian Wang lists these and two that I left out &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalfusion.com\" target=\"_blank\">General Fusion<\/a>\u00a0(backed by Jeff Bezos and others) and Tri-Alpha Energy (back by Paul Allen and others) :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2014\/10\/updated-prospects-for-commercial.html#more\" target=\"_d\">Updated Prospects for Commercial Nuclear Fusion &#8211; NextBigFuture.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a discussion about the L-M Compact Fusion scheme :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/fusion-podcast\" target=\"_d\">Video: Podcast: Could The Fusion Age Be Upon Us? &#8211;\u00a0Aviation Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8211; Dynomak, Helion Power, EMC2 Polywell,\u00a0Lockheed-Martin Compact Fusion, and Sandia&#8217;s magnetized fusion. LPP focus fusion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: More fusion power projects<\/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-9072","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-2mk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12997,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12997","url_meta":{"origin":9072,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: MIT SPARC project aims to build demo fusion power reactor with private funds","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the years I've posted a number of times about innovative fusion power projects that are underway in various\u00a0places (e.g. see Tri-Alpha Energy,\u00a0General Fusion, Lockheed Compact Fusion,\u00a0EMC2 polywell, Helion Energy,\u00a0and LPP focus fusion) each aims for a much smaller and practical power plant than\u00a0the giant ITER tokomak and NIF laser\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":"iter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iter-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9036,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9036","url_meta":{"origin":9072,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: Updates on five fusion power projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm quite optimistic about progress with LENR energy production, it's great to see progress being made on more conventional fusion approaches as well. 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General Fusion, a Canadian based company that has raised $33M so far from Jeff Bezos and other private sources, is aiming for a\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/zf8QIJ2VgqU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9050,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9050","url_meta":{"origin":9072,"position":3},"title":"Sci-Tech: LPP focus fusion update","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently listed updates on five fusion power projects. There are an number of other such alternative projects underway that stand a good chance of beating the big tokamak and laser fusion programs that eat up all the government fusion funding. (Similar to the way NASA's\u00a0SLS\/Orion boondoggles eat up funding\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":2490,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2490","url_meta":{"origin":9072,"position":4},"title":"Sci-Tech: Review of alternative nuclear fusion power approaches","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Brian Wang reviews the status of several innovative fusion power projects: Nuclear Fusion Summary - Prospects for breakthrough commercial reactors 2018-2025 -NextBigFuture.","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":8109,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8109","url_meta":{"origin":9072,"position":5},"title":"Sci-Tech: More on Polywell fusion + Focus Fusion crowd-funding update","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Alan Boyle gives some additional details about the Navy funded Polywell fusion power project (see post here) that recently published a paper on progress they have made :\u00a0Low-Cost Fusion Project Steps Out of the Shadows and Looks for Money - NBC News.com. 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