by Mike Heumann | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog, Featured
What is Magnetic Confinement Fusion? Perhaps one of the oldest approaches to fusion is magnetic confinement. Magnetic containment utilizes very strong magnetic fields to compress a highly heated hydrogen plasma within a high-vacuum container to reach fusion. While the...
by Frankie Berry | Sep 11, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Newsletter
September 2024 Newsletter Welcome to Our Newsletter! Welcome to the first Ignition Research newsletter! We hope that our newsletter will help you keep track of the latest developments in the areas of fusion energy and related technologies. We also cover many of the...
by Mike Heumann | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Featured
Venturing into Fusion Energy – Investing Billions to Make Trillions During the recent webcast “Fusion Energy – A Trillion Dollar Market?,” the question was asked: Why are billionaires and venture capital firms investing in fusion now? Simply put, “They can...
by Kasey hewitt | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog, Featured
What is Fusion Energy? From an energy generation standpoint, fusion occurs when two light nuclei bind together to form a heavier atom, releasing significant amounts of energy. The most common ingredient in fusion in nature is the fusion of hydrogen nuclei together in...
by Mike Heumann | Aug 12, 2024 | Blog, Featured
What Does It Take to Commercialize Fusion? “What does it take to commercialize fusion?” is really the “trillion-dollar question”, and I don’t utilize the milestone “trillion-dollar” lightly. The forecasts in the upcoming Ignition Research report predicts exactly that...
by Mike Heumann | Aug 5, 2024 | Blog, Featured
How is Fusion Coming Along? Commonwealth Fusion (USA; $2B in funding) TAE Technologies (USA; $1.3B in funding) Helion Energy (USA; $577.8M in funding) General Fusion (Canada; $350.7M in funding) Neo Fusion (China; CN¥1.5B in funding – equivalent to $205M USD) Zap...
