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I had no idea that Commonwealth fusion was already well into their construction of a grid connected plant. Apparently it might finally be happening? I'm not su
by rozap 2y ago
I had no idea that Commonwealth fusion was already well into their construction of a grid connected plant. Apparently it might finally be happening?
I'm not sure how this works, how are they confident enough that they can make it produce net power?
- sebsebmc 2y agoThe location they have that's "well into construction" is SPARC, which is not intended to be a net power production facility. It will host their net gain demonstrator that they intend to have first plasma in next year and target a net gain demonstration in 2027. ARC which they announced siting for and is intended to be their first grid-attached net power provider only just had the location selected so I don't believe its got much construction going on yet. The goal for that plant to be producing power is "early 2030s".
- rozap 2y agoAh, maybe not well into construction. But a friend of mine works with exotic materials and they are purchasing lots of things for ARC. Though I imagine these materials have a long lead time.
- bufferoverflow 2y ago"The company plans to produce its first plasma in 2026" They haven't even gotten to Q>1, let alone building a real power plant.