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US fusion energy tech startup Helion Energy has signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project. Helion said the plant is expected to be online by 2028 and will target power generation of 50 MW or more after a one-year ramp up period. The companies did not disclose financial or timing details of the power purchase agreement, or which Microsoft facilities would get fusion-generated electricity.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshelion-announces-first-fusion-energy-purchase-agreement-with-microsoft-10852833
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-ignition-facility-achieve-fusion-ignition-10439194
The USA's National Ignition Facility has achieved a record fusion yield that it says puts it "at the threshold of fusion ignition". The record laser shot produced 25 times more than the facility's next best experiment.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-fusion-approaches-the-milestone-of-ignition
There is compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) according to one group of scientists. Once called “cold fusion” this process may promise a new source of energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscold-fusion-a-possible-source-of-power