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Stephen ShanklandIs this 1. 3D model of a protein or 2. twisty magnets in a stellarator?Answer: It's the Type One Energy magnets shown in their physics basis papers published today on the Infinity Two power plant: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Stellarator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stellarator</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Physics</a>

TWiT Podcasts⚛️ Is fusion energy finally within reach? <a href="https://mastodon.social/@leo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@leo</a> Laporte and guests react to the French Atomic Energy Commission’s 22-minute plasma breakthrough and what it means for the future of clean energy on TWiT 1024.🌍 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CleanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleanTech</a> 📲 Download and subscribe here: 🔗 <a href="https://buff.ly/uqXMHLc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/uqXMHLc</a> | <a href="https://buff.ly/V9xPAlu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/V9xPAlu</a>

Max Planck Plasmaphysik (IPP)17,7 und 22 Minuten stabile Plasmaentladung: Warum die jüngsten Rekorde in den Fusionsanlagen EAST (China) und WEST (Frankreich) echte Meilensteine sind, erklärt IPP-Direktor Hartmut Zohm in diesem Video. <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Kernfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kernfusion</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/nuclearfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearfusion</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNAu9V0dFas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNAu9V0dFas</a>

Open TechFrance's WEST tokamak reactor set a new record on Feb 12, 2025, sustaining plasma for over 22 minutes. This breakthrough enhances fusion energy research, bringing us closer to stable nuclear fusion power. (cea.fr)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NuclearFusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearFusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Stephen Shankland"Learning curve" actually has a technical meaning about manufacturing expertise — see up Wright's Law. At Commonwealth Fusion Systems we build magnets 30x faster now than when we first started, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom said at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionXInvest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionXInvest</a> this week.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manufacturing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransition</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magnets</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Superconductors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Superconductors</a> <a href="https://blog.cfs.energy/how-cfs-is-building-a-fusion-factory-not-just-a-single-fusion-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.cfs.energy/how-cfs-is-building-a-fusion-factory-not-just-a-single-fusion-machine/</a>

Max Planck Plasmaphysik (IPP)Heute ist Internationaler Tag der Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft. Und hier sind einige unserer Wissenschaftlerinnen, die die Fusionsforschung vorantreiben.<a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/womeninscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninscience</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/nuclearfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearfusion</a>

Stephen ShanklandTime for some light reading. Harvard Business School case study on Commonwealth Fusion Systems is 37 pages long. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a>

AndrocatGeneral reminder that "fusion power" is not an actual thing that can be achieved.Fusion science, that's fine. It's costly, but science usually is.But net power output isn't going to happen.There are many reasons for this, all of which are obvious.The biggest, however, is that whatever you use to build your containment chamber, it's going to turn radioactive and then structurally unsound, when it gets bombarded with neutrons.And it will get bombarded with neutrons, because the containment is based on magnetic fields, and neutrons are uncharged, so they pass right through on creation.The people trying to hype up future applications of fusion power are just as unethical as people hawking bitcoin or LLMs.<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/fusionenergybreakthrough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergybreakthrough</a>

Preston MacDougall<a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheConversationUS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuantumComputing</a> is the new <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a>. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Stephen ShanklandNew PPPL paper uses higher fidelity computer simulation (at NERSC) to evaluate our plan to handle plasma disruption problems in SPARC. TL;dr: the new simulation validates our approach, six injectors that squirt in gas to rapidly cool the plasma.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComputerSimulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerSimulation</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad9ec4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad9ec4</a>

Preston MacDougall<a href="https://mastodon.social/@rightardia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rightardia</a> Did the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuantumComputing</a> money shift to the infinite free <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> potential of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> ? 😂 “A fool and his money are easily separated.”

Stephen ShanklandI encourage everybody curious to check this post by Chief Science Officer Brandon Sorbom about the difference between SPARC (demonstration machine) and ARC (power plant). There are warm blankets and then there are WARM blankets. Ours will be 600°C. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brandon-sorbom-abb0ba14a_powermoves-activity-7274866632252878851-fN1Y/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brandon-sorbom-abb0ba14a_powermoves-activity-7274866632252878851-fN1Y/</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Engineering</a>

Stephen ShanklandHere's our CEO Bob Mumgaard announcing our fusion commercialization news at a press conference today with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and others. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a>

Stephen ShanklandHonking big day for Commonwealth Fusion Systems: We announced the site for our first fusion power plant, ARC: Chesterfield County, Virginia. 400 megawatts of clean, firm, zero-carbon power coming in the early 2030s. We looked at 100+ sites before picking this one.<a href="https://blog.cfs.energy/cfs-will-build-its-first-arc-fusion-power-plant-in-virginia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.cfs.energy/cfs-will-build-its-first-arc-fusion-power-plant-in-virginia/</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransition</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Virginia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Power</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a>

Stephen ShanklandA profile of Zach Hartwig, who lived through the DOE's shutdown of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT and helped bring CFS into existence a few years ago. He's been a key collaborator in our magnet development. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2024/transforming-fusion-to-clean-energy-zachary-hartwig-1211" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2024/transforming-fusion-to-clean-energy-zachary-hartwig-1211</a>

Max Planck Plasmaphysik (IPP)Tokamak + Stellarator = Hybrid! IPP-Forscher*innen haben ein Modell entwickelt, das die Vorteile beider Konzepte vereint: einfacher Aufbau wie ein Tokamak, kontinuierlicher Betrieb wie ein Stellarator. Noch Grundlagenforschung, aber sehr spannend. Europäische und US-Universitäten sind daran interessiert, den Hybriden zu bauen. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022052" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022052</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/wissenschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wissenschaft</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/physik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physik</a>

Max Planck Plasmaphysik (IPP)So habt Ihr unser Fusionsexperiment ASDEX Upgrade noch nie gesehen:Hier ist unser neuer Erklärfilm über unseren einzigartigen Tokamak und über Kernfusion allgemein. Mit spektakulären Aufnahmen, Drohnensequenzen und tollen Animationen. <a href="https://youtu.be/tGJ7Qwlv4HQ?si=azgw6TMLQCW1csZK" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/tGJ7Qwlv4HQ?si=azgw6TMLQCW1csZK</a> Reinschauen und genießen. Und wenn es euch gefallen hat, hinterlasst einen Like hier und bei YouTube. Danke!<a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/kernfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kernfusion</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/fusionsenergie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionsenergie</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/nuclearfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearfusion</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/wissenschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wissenschaft</a>

Stephen Shankland"In 2027, we'll push a button, we'll power it up, and we'll create a star inside a machine.... With fusion energy, we're not just solving the energy challenges of today. We're making energy unlimited.... It's the last energy source that we will ever need." – my boss Bob Mumgaard.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransition</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/40Mqwo8zQHU?t=2123" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/40Mqwo8zQHU?t=2123</a>

Stephen ShanklandBriefly: Our CSMC electromagnet works like a champ, proving out the second of 2 high-temperature superconducting magnet types needed for fusion: steady state and now pulsed current.It was dramatic watching the testing (at MIT) in real time, like when it hit 50,000 amps current / 5.7 tesla field. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FusionEnergy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magnets</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Superconductivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Superconductivity</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264332707613052932/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264332707613052932/</a>

rexiSad* math. There's just one way to avoid <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlanetEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlanetEarth</a>'s looming <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/massextinctionevent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#massextinctionevent</a>: we need <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> at scales unreachable by any other means.No <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusionenergy</a>=no future<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoFusionNoFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoFusionNoFuture</a>*(sad because the incentive to achieve it is wholly incommensurate with that essential effort heretofore**.)**(beyond our diminishingly small happenstantial survival chance in recognizable form, no other ‘solution’ exists at this time.)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carboncapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carboncapture</a>

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